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Reading Journal By: Tatyanna Boettcher

THE GIVER: November 2nd, 2009: Summary: So far, in the chapters that we have read, chapters 12+13. we learned that Jonas cannot tell people about his training, none none of it at all. He had a weird feeling about an apple, a moment on stage, and about his friend Fiona's hair. He asked the giver what was happening and it turned out that he was learning how to see colors, and today's was the color red. Soon he realized how to see all of the colors, but he only got a quick glimpse of them. He wants everyone to be able to see colors, he wants people to be able to make choices of stuff like a Red or a Blue tunic, instead of plain old fabric. He wishes that he could see it all the time. November 2nd, question: How does the author make the memories that the giver transmits vivid and realistic? Find examples of descriptive words and images. i think that the author makes the memories vivid and realistic by describing words that make you feel like you have had it, or experienced it before. By having it so realistic for Jonas with more describing words, and it was words like burning and sensitive. He also makes it more realistic by giving the excruciating pain, and describing it by/as as if you would have happened to you.

November 18th, 2009: Word attack: Release: Jonas found out what release means in their community. It means that if you were ready to be released, they would kill you. They wouldn't send you to another community or town or country, THEY KILLED YOU. November 18th, question: Philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon said " knowledge is pain" Do you agree? would Jonas? why or why not? i would agree with Francis Bacon, and i think that Jonas would too. I think that knowledge is pain because not everything that you will learn or experience will all be good. i also think that Jonas would agree because everything that he has learned so far has been good, but then when he learned about war and shooting and killing he figured that it wasn't so good anyways.

November 20th 2009: Summarize: During the last three chapters in the book. We learned that Jonas figured out that release is when you kill the person that you are releasing. He also figured out that since Gabriel wasn't sleeping through the night, so he figured out that Gabriel was going to be released. He didn't want Gabe to be released, he loved him. So Jonas decided to run off with his fathers bike, food and Gabriel. When he ran away Gabe was riding in the back of the bike.

THIS BOOK IS NOT GOOD FOR YOU: Pseudonymous Bosch December 16, 2009 Prediction: During the book so far they have figured out that Cass was dropped off at a door step and was taken in by her grandfathers and her so called "mother". They were searching around the Junk store for the box with the tuning fork. The turned on the TV and seen her grandfathers on the show " Antiques Caravan" and figured out that Mrs. Johnson had the tuning fork. I think that they will try to get to the TV studio and get the tuning fork before the midnight sun. Question: What are three questions that you have about your novel? 1. why did he write about chocolate? 2. How is it based on a true story? 3. Why is the title " this book is not good for you"?

January 6, 2010 summary: They crept into their principles backyard and snuck around looking for the Tuning Fork. They realized that their own principle didn't recycle or sort out her garbage. They were sneaking by their principals house they were peeking through the windows. They seen a dog sitting beside her bed, it turns out that it was just a stuffed, life-like looking dog. They crept over to the next window and pressed their noses to the glass. Shockingly they seen their principals face glowing green from the computer screen, a cigarette sitting there filling the room with smoke. She picked up the cigarette and placed it to her mouth, as she took a swig of the disgusting object. Before they could take another step one of the gnomes were spinning in a circle with his eyes glowing red. It turned out that one of the fantasy creatures was a hidden alarm system.

This Book Is Not Good For You Pseudonymous Bosch

January 15,2010

January 18, 2010

Summary: Cass, Yo-Yoji, and Max Ernest snuck into the zoo. To be able to get into the zoo at the doors they snuck into the back of a pickup truck and hid between the hay bails in the back of the truck. They got caught trying to escape and make a run for it. They guy who discovered them let them go. He was a cowboy. They were running into the zoo and hopping over the fences. They began to be tired, they decided for one person to stay awake and keep watch, but instead it turned out that they all fell asleep. Max Ernest woke up to a deep feeling of breathing on the back of his neck. He also had a sharp pain digging into his thy, it turned out to be a rock. When his eyes were fully opened he looked around and seen a giant mouth right in front of his face. It was a lion giving the biggest mouth that he have ever seen. When he got up to walk away when he looked around there was Cass and Yo-Yoji standing as still as stone. They made there way past the lion and into the Rainbow Rainforest.

Sara Nickerson
 * How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found

January 20,2010 Pages 1-17 Predict: I think that the "For Sale- By Owner" sign in the back of their pickup truck is used for putting up their old house for sale. I think that Margaret will figure out what her mother is doing. Margaret and her little sister will most likely figure out why they all of a sudden took a ferry to another island, her mother remembering where the old hardware shop was/is and having a for sale sign in the back of their truck and being to a town where they had never been before, it is all new and unusual. Margaret thinks that she had been their before, her sister Sophie asked if she had ever been there before and her mother shook her head no, when Margaret asked if she had been there her mother turned and never said a word. Their father died when Sophie was born, Margaret was starting to have visuals and remember who her dad was... where they are now, i think that it is where they used to live before their father died. The place that they are not is probably still their house and she is putting it up for sale and trying not to remember the past.

January 20, 2010 Question: What would you say to one of your characters? Explain why you would say this. I would probably ask Margaret, why she was wondering if she looked like her mom or her dad. I know that she wanted to know this but why would you ask someone something that they didn't know or most of all about someone who they never even knew. I would also ask her she didn't remember her dad, like only images and flashbacks and not a whole picture, or a memory about him. **

January 22,2010 pages 17-31 Summary: Lizzie (the mother) told Margaret to take the for sale sign out of the back of the pickup truck. She handed her a permanent-ink marker and told her to write their phone number on the bottom of the sign. Margaret kept asking her mom if this was her house and she never answered her back. When her little sister Sophie was finished running around the yard she ran up to Margaret and was wondering what she was doing and if this was their house or not.

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January 25,2010 pages 31-54 predict: I think that the wild pack of Chihuahuas will actually come and show DJ that they actually do exist. And that the letter will become to be from her father and the reason why her mother never opened it is because it was from her father and she doesn't want any memories coming back that will effect her. I wonder what happened to the for sale by owner sign on the front of the mansion.

question: What are two emotions the main character has felt? what made the main character fell this way?

Please Do Not Touch Judith Gorog February 1, 2010 pages 1-7 Summary: The is a Gallery of Pitu, and weird stuff happens in it. There are doors and windows on Right and Left, and it feels like the wall is closing in. When he looked to his left.

February 3, 2010 pages 7-18 Predict: i think that Jemmy will end up being a ghost for Halloween because when he put on the magicians outfit he went invisible. For halloween i think that he will just end up putting sheets over his body and walk around as a ghost. I also think that Uncle Ned will always be right about people not wanting that house by the highway.



(answer these questions in a paragraph): Describe what is happening in the image below. Why do you think the person in the image is doing what he is doing? What does this tell you about the situation that he may be in? What is your reaction to this image/How does is make you feel?

In Haiti the people have it pretty rough and they take all that they can get. In this picture he is getting juice/water as if he was fighting for his life, he is a survivor. I think that he stole the bag because it is one of his last resources for life. He is probably fighting for his life right now and he is struggling with trying to survive. He is struggling, it is hard to deal with an earthquake

__Please Do Not Touch Judith Gorog__ pages 18-36 February 8, 2010 Visualize: When they go into the pictures in the Gallery and the things that are in the pictures are actually happening i can actually image and see what is happening and its like I'm actually there. I can picture the haunted house, and I can actually hear what's happening on the haunted highway. I can see the ghost of the Old Man saying " You don't want that house". I can picture the Old Man's suspenders and his plaid shirt.
 * Question: In 4-6 sentences, describe several insights you’ve gained from your reading. You may include the book you are currently reading or a book that you have already completed.

How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found Sara Nickerson February 22,2010 pages 34-54 Predict: I think that her and DJ might actually become friends or something. I also think that Margaret will end up being really good at baseball or she might completely suck and do horrible. I also think that DJ might gain respect for Margaret because she defended her project like that and he stopped staring at her and looked down at his hands. I think that he was kinda surprised that she defended her project.

Question Response: Would you be friends with the main character? Why or why not? Support w/ evidence from your reading in a paragraph.

I think that i would be friends with Margaret because she is a nice person and she has weird experiences and they would kind of be fun... but it depends what happens. The encounter with the Blue Canoe was kind of wacky and unexplainable. It would also be a no because she is mad a lot because of her little annoying sister Sophie. Sophie gets on her nerves a lot which makes her mad very often and so she wouldn't be to pleasant to be around all the time and you would get yelled at a lot.

February 26,2010 Quote Response: Lance Armstrong wrote the quote " Giving up was NEVER an option". I choose this one because it is kind of like me because with gymnastics I have to learn the skills and I can't back down. I also choose it because it is a good quote and it is good to follow by because you should never give up, the only thing that should go through your mind is try try again. You should always never give up and especially not on your dream or something that you have worked a long time for.

How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found Sara Nickerson Complete a strategy response.
 * March 3, 2010:**

Question Response: What you are reading is going to be made into a movie. Make a list five characters, what famous actor will play each character and what about the character makes that actor the best choice for the part.

How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found. Sara Nickerson Pages 54-67
 * March 8, 2010:**

Complete a strategy response. Predict: I think that Tina and Margaret will become really good friends and that hitting Tina in the face with the baseball maybe was fate and that Margaret will learn more about fate and that something will happen to her and it will turn out to be fate.

Question Response: What is the author trying to tell you about life in this story?Defend this moral. I think that Sara is trying to tell people about the life of this family and Margaret's life because it can be hard when you don't really know anyone or talk to anybody in your school and not being to physically fit and also have a single parent due to the death of their father. It is also very curious that Margaret and Sophie's mother kept some of the really important stuff a secret, like the house and the canoe moving by itself and the letter. With the letter it was addressed to Margaret's mother and it was never opened and it was from 4 years ago.

Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism Georgia Byng ** Pages 1-6
 * March 10, 2010:

Complete a strategy response. Summary: Molly Moon is an orphan in Hardwick House Orphanage. One day while sitting in her bathtub she closed her eyes and imagined herself flying over top of the Hardwick House Orphanage and the Hardwick House looked like this: It had a grey slate roof and a Bramble-filled garden. Hardwick House was located on the hillside of a town names Briersville, as she kept going higher and higher up she was overlooking the whole country and now even the coastline, as she rocketed upward until she was in space and overlooking the whole earth.

Question Response: Do you think that the title fits the story? Give your opinion with reasons to support.

Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism Georgia Byng Pages 6-20
 * March 15, 2010:**

Complete a strategy response. Word Attack: Notorious: Dictionary meaning: famous or well known, typically for some bad quality or deed. My Own Words: Notorious means that if you were a celebrity or just a person that ALOT of people know and you are known for something bad that you did, or something that was wrong and it was associated with you.

Question response: List at least three problems the characters faced? Which was the most life changing? Explain
 * Molly Moon is always late and ALOT of people pick on her and call her names.
 * When they were sitting on the bus one of the kids on the bus was throwing a water bomb at hazel and she ducked and the water bomb hit Molly.
 * Molly and Rocky missed the assembly because from being soaked from the water bomb they stayed in the girls locker room and dried out Molly and her sweater over the radiator.

The most life changing one would be the one that she is always late and that alot of people pick on her and call her names because she is and Orphan.

Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism Georgia Byng Pages 20-36
 * March 17, 2010:**

Complete a strategy response. Predict: I think that Molly will maybe enter the talent show and preform the hypnotism and maybe she won't succeed the first time but then again she might and when she finally preforms it right she will be able to rule all the people that she wants to. I also think that she will preform it on Hazel and then maybe Hazel will be hypnotized and then she will have to do everything that Molly tells her to do.

Question response: What is the mood of what you’re reading (happy, sad, funny, serious, etc.)? Defend your idea by giving examples from the novel. It can be mostly happy and Sad and Mad. __**Happy:**__ People are happy sometimes because when Molly was given a chocolate cupcake from Mrs. Trinklebury, She was also happy when she found the Hypnotism book. __**Sad****:**__ She was sad because people pick on her a lot and make fun of her, and when she lost her friend Rocky.
 * __Mad:__** She was mad when her friend Rocky was telling her off and telling her whats wrong with her.

Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism Georgia Byng Pages 36-50
 * April 14, 2010:**

Complete a strategy response. Visualize: I can see the story in my mind, i can see her putting the thermometer in the cup and i can see her fake puking into the metal bowl of disgusting. When she is laying in bed and pretending to still sleep and when Hazel throws off the covers i can see it happening.

Question response: Which character do you like least? Why? Remember to respond in a full paragraph.

The character that i like the least would have to be Hazel. Hazel isn't a really nice person, she is kinda rude. She makes fun of Molly all the time and calls her names like Bog eyes and Drono.

Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism Georgia Byng Pages 50-62
 * April 19, 2010:**

Complete a strategy response. Question: I wonder if those steps would actually work and that you could actually hypnotize people and animals with the steps in the book. I also wonder why Miss Adderstone is so mean and disrespectful, and doesn't care for the kids or anyone else but her and her dog Petula.

Question response: Who is the author? What do you know about the author? What do you imagine the author must be like? //**Explain in a paragraph.

The author of this book is Georgia Byng. grew up in England, outside Winchester, near the River Itchen, with her three brothers and a sister. **//Georgia has always enjoyed acting and performing and at 18 she went to the Central School of Speech and Drama. After college she found time to draw, paint and write. She had always written songs and poems, but now she began writing stories.

Her first stories were in comic strip, a medium which she worked with for five years. The Sock Monsters was her first published book in 1995—a comic strip story for 5-7 year olds.

Georgia lives in 'a very messy house in London' with two untidy people—her daughter, Tiger, who loves making things, and her partner Marc Quinn, a conceptual artist. He keeps all sorts of strange things in the fridge—once he had to keep a Canadian frog in there, which was hibernating and had to be kept cold. Their new baby, Lucas, likes painting with his porridge. The whole family loves traveling and reading and Lucas is fond of eating his books too.

**April 21, 2010:** Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism Georgia Byng Pages 62-74

Complete a strategy response. summary: Molly Moon figured out how to hypnotize animals, she hypnotized Miss Adderstone's dog Petula. She listens to Molly all the time and Molly is her favorite person and she taught Petula to not eat cookies and that cookies are bad for you. Molly also learned how to hypnotize the lunch lady cook person named Edna. Molly is now Edna's favorite person and she will do anything for Molly and Molly is the only one that she listens to. She took Molly to a cafe and bought her her favorite breakfast, Tomato ketchup sandwiches, and orange squash juice from concentrate without water added.

Question response: Compare where you live to the setting described in what you are reading. //**Explain in a paragraph. In the book Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism the difference between me and Molly Moon's living settings are far from being the same. I have a mom a dad and 3 sisters. Molly Moon has Miss Adderstone, Edna, and tons of brothers and sisters. I live in a house and she is in a foster home, she's an orphan. Me and Molly have some things in common as well, we are both late for school. There are many differences and similarities that we have that i probably haven't figured out yet. **//

//** //I use then a lot, I use it in most of my classes, it makes it easier to finish and write and work and get it done faster.// //What subjects do you mainly use the laptops for? **I use it for la, social, digital, outdoor and sometimes math.** // **//What sort of programs (software’s) do you use on the laptops?//** //I use PowerPoint presentation, word, imovie, iTunes, safari, photo booth, and sometimes comic life, and sometimes x-moto (when I’m at home)// It makes the work faster and easier done, I have my own property and space, and I can do whatever I want without people buzzing in my business and personal stuff. It gives me more time to play games and finish ALL of my homework with my own laptop. **//Is there anything you don’t like or would change with the laptops?//**
 * April 24, 2010: ** **__ U of L Video Shoot Questions for Reflection __**
 * // How often do you use the laptops at school?
 * What do you like best about having your own laptop?**
 * I don’t like how easy the hard drives crash, and the batteries die, I have gone through 3 batteries and my computer has been in 2 within the 3 years, and most of it was within one. The computer would just shut off on me or it would just automatically shut off, and none of it was my fault. I would change the batteries to something like a lithium battery that last longer then normal batteries. And maybe even make it like a solar powered laptop that runs on solar energy but at night when there is no sun you can use a light or some sort of charger.**

Did you know response. By: Tatyanna Boettcher

I think that their messages that they are trying to get across to people are that technology is becoming one of our major resources. Our universe and world is getting more full and is starting to become over populated. The kids and people in India are getting smarter every day and year and will become one of the highest English speaking countries. Every new technology that they come out with is faster then the older version. Everything is just getting over populated and most of the new technologies aren’t even needed and useless, but then again very interesting. So many kids are born in the world every second, which is really crazy and sometimes those kids aren’t even wanted and somewhere a mistake but I don’t think that kids can be a mistake because they are a gift, no matter what race. The world is getting bigger and bigger and sometimes there wont be enough resources in the world for all of the people, and that would be very bad.

May 3, 2010 - Reading Strategy:
 * Please make a prediction for the novel that we are about to read: __Freak the Mighty__. Read and view the front and back cover, as well as the first page to help you make your prediction.

Part 2:** May 3, 2010 - Question Response:
 * What is a hero? How do writers portray heroes in literature? Give an example of a hero in literature? (or maybe a movie) What makes this person a hero? Respond in a paragraph. Is Max in Freak the Mighty a typical hero?**

May 5, 2010 - Freak the Mighty Response:
 * Complete a strategy response (use a few sentences). Question Response: How has Max's view of Kevin changed since the beginning of the novel? Explain in a paragraph.

Freak the Mighty Rodman Philbrick pages 15-35

Visualize: I can see the whole story in my mind. I think that it's pretty cool and I think that he does a pretty good job at describing the story, setting and everything else. I can see a lot of it.**

May 19, 2010 - Freak the Mighty Response:** Complete a strategy response (use a few sentences). Question Response: Identify the examples of conflict in the story so far. Indicate the type of conflict.

Freak the Mighty Rodman Philbrick Pages 72-93

Predict: I think that Grim might buy a gun because they probably need it, but i also think that he wont be able to use it. I think that Killer Kane is going to sneak into the house and either steal Max or do harm to him. I also think that he was the one that killed Max's mom, Annie. I also think that Loretta and Iggy knew Max because Iggy was probably in jail with Killer Kane, and they did crime/time together.

May 28, 2010- Freak the Mighty Response:** Complete a strategy response (use a few sentences). Question Response: Identify the examples of conflict in the story so far. Indicate the type of conflict.

Freak the Mighty Rodman Philbrick Pages 115-134

Visualize: i can see the whole basement scene. I think that it would be very scary to have something like that happen to me or anyone. When he was little i can she Killer Kane in his black sleeved t-shirt, strangling Max's mother. Seeing Killer Kane strangle Loretta Lee is really creepy and very visual. everything that goes on with Max and Killer Kane and with Freak the Mighty, i can visualize every minute of it, its pretty scary stuff...but some is happy and magical quest moments.

Question Response: Does Max pass the test alone? Is he independent or is it "Freak the Mighty" who passes the test? Use evidence to support your paragraph.

It's Freak the Mighty that passes the test. Max probably would have never got out of that basement alive if Kevin didn't come in through the window and spraying so called " H2S04- Sulfuric Acid" but was actually Water, Vinegar, and Curry Powder. He blasted Killer Kane in the eye with the mixture. Even tho that wasn't their first quest, they have passed a lot more. One of the other quests was when Kevin/ Freak saw Blade and his crew steal some purses and shove them down the sewer drain hole in the ground, they go to the back alley late at night wearing black clothes and they rolled in dirt. They got the wallets out of the sewer thing and brought the wallet back to loretta lee...Another win for Freak the Mighty.