Reading-Brandon+B


 * Nov. 18, 09 The Giver Lois Lowry 139-162**
 * A**. Prediction: I predict that Jonas will get caught when he is trying to escape, I think he will escape though. When he gets outside i think it will be a barren land with no life and will want to come back, but he can't go back. He will be starving until he finds another town and is saved.

I don't agree because not everything knowledgeable is painful. Somethings that you learn is enjoyable not always painful. I think Jonas would agree because he learned lots of painful things and to learn all the memories you have to suffer through pain. He might also agree because knowing the memories gives him pain because only he and the Giver know these things, but people do things that they don't know what it means for example the kids playing war. Because those kids where playing war it caused Jonas to cry because they didn't know what the true pain of war was and they were acting like it was harmless. _
 * B**. Philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon said, "Knowledge is pain." Do you agree? Would Jonas? Why or why not? Explain in a paragraph

A**. Summarize: Jonas left his dwelling in the middle of night and took his fathers bicycle and Gabe. They left the town riding the bike at night and sleeping during the day to hide from planes. It was a barren land but Jonas kept riding. Gabe thought he saw a plane and really scared Jonas, but it was just a bird. Jonas fell off the bike and scraped both of his knees and twisted his ankle, so every know and then he would dip his ankle in a cold river to stop the pain, but Gabe was alright. They started to run out of food so Jonas made a net to catch fish. It started to snow and they were starving so they were very weak. Finally they found a town and it appeared to be Christmas.
 * Nov. 20, 09 The Giver Lois Lowry 163-179

I don't think that The Giver had an optimistic ending. Jonas finds a town in the distance, but u never find out if he survives and gets to the town. He could be remembering the town it could be a memory, I don't know for sure. An optimistic ending, I think, would say if he got to the town or if he survives.
 * B**. Is it an optimistic ending? Does Jonas survive?


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Nov. 26, 09 The Capture** Prediction: Based on the title I think that Kladd and his family will be captured by someone and will haft to try and escape but while doing that uncover a deeper plot behind there capture, or Kladd's family will be captured and he will haft to save them. They could be captured be by humans and be put in a zoo or something like that. Kladd could also find out that his home is under control by an evil force and his parents didn't have the heart to tell him.


 * The Grey King** by **Susan Cooper, Pages 1 to 10, Dec. 2, 09**


 * Strategy Response:** (Prediction) I predict that Will will be looking for clues about what he forgot. Will might also research The Grey King because he thinks that The Grey King is part of something he forgot. Also judging from the legend of The Grey King living on the mountain and from the cover i think that The Grey King really exists and he is sleeping and is awoken by will to protect the world from a dark force. Will will probably find the king but can't awaken him and must find the golden harp in time to save the world.
 * Q: Describe the setting - when and where does your novel take place?** It takes place in modern day Wales, where the air is fresh and the sky is blue.


 * The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien pages, 1-8, Dec 4, 09

Strategy Response:** (Summarize) describes Bilbo's house and where he lives. Bilbo was smoking a pipe after his dinner when some one knocked on his door. It was Gandalf a wizard, they talked for a while until Bilbo said to come tomorrow for tea. The next morning Bilbo had forgotten about tea until he knocked on the door, but it wasn't Gandalf it was another hobbit. He invited him in then there was another knock and it was another hobbit.


 * Q:** Bilbo Baggins is the protagonist. He is a hobbit (half the hight of a human) he has curly hair and furry feet. He is a very indoors person and doesn't like to go outside or go on adventures. He is very organized but has a short attention span.


 * The Road by Cormac McCarthy pages 39-54 Dec. 14, 09**

Strategy: (summarize) The man and his son went swimming in a waterfall. Then they found mushrooms and camped there; then the man woke and there was a forest fire. They found a trailer and there was tons of dead and rotten bodies in the end. Later they saw a guy and followed him till he fell and they inspected him and they found out he was struck by lightning. The man had a flash back that he was with his wife in their house and he was filling the bath.

Q: What connections are there between the novel and your life?


 * The Road by Cormac McCarthy pages** **54-69** **Dec. 16, 09**

Strategy: (prediction) I think that the people on the road with the truck will get it running again and will look for them. The man and his son will get stopped by the people in the truck, then the man will shoot one of the men in the truck and they will all run away. I also think that the mans kid will be scared for along time before he is normal again.

Q: What are three questions that you have about your novel? What is the man's name in the book and what is his sons name? What caused the apocalypse? Why is all the water black?


 * The Secret of the Haunted Mirror by M.V. Carey pages 1-15 Jan. 04

Summarize**: The three boys and there uncle were out collecting old stuff to resell when they heard a cry "stop scoundrel" and they noticed a man running away. One of the boys ran after him and the man punched him in the face and the man got away. The boys and there uncle then started talking to the owner of the house. In the house there were hundreds of mirrors. In the distance they could here cop sirens. The police asked the owner about the house and the robber, eventually they found a crowbar that belonged to the killer


 * The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King pages 1-18 Jan. 8, 10

Visualize:** I imagine a small dirty forest trail with half dead trees with acorn on the ground around the trees. I imagine dead leaves all over the ground and Trisha's signed baseball cap.


 * The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King pages 18-31 Jan. 11, 10

Summarize:** Trisha was talking a pee in the woods but she couldn't tell her mom because she was too busy arguing with her brother. When Trisha was finished she couldn't find the trail again but she could hear their voices so she walked in that direction for a while. Eventually she couldn't hear their voices any more so she started crying and she tripped and she got stabbed in the back by a stick. She fell on her knees and she felt something on her hand and it was a snake and she couldn't think her mind went blank.


 * The** **Girl who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King pages 31-39 Jan. 13, 10

Prediction:** I think that Trisha will start smacking the flies and will forget which way she was walking and will end up going in a circle. She will probably walk into a bear or some wild animal. I predict that she will get too hungry and will eat the twinkies she promised her self not to.


 * The** **Girl who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King pages 39-48 Jan. 15, 10**


 * Summarize:** Trisha almost fell off a cliff and she fainted. When she woke up she was really hungry. She decided to conserve her food and eat just a little bit. She found out she brought her Walkman and she turned on the radio it took her while to find a station. She listened for a while but there was no reports of a missing girl and she had mixed feelings about that.


 * The** **Girl who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King pages 48-64 Jan. 18, 10

Summarize:** Trisha was walking and she started to imagine a nice cabin. Then she found a river and decided to fallow it and she tripped and she scrapped her whole body and landed on a wasp nest. After getting stung all over her body she looked in her bag and all her food was destroyed but her Walkman was unharmed and she listened to the radio and they were talking about a little girl getting lost in the woods.

If i were a character from my book i would be Trisha's brother because he is fine and not lost in the woods like Trisha.
 * Q:** If you were a character from your book, who would you be?


 * The** **Girl who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King pages 64-76 Jan. 20, 10

Word Attack:** Subaudible page 72. I think it means that you've gotten use to something because thats' how they describe it in the book.


 * Q:** What would you say to one of your characters? Why would you say this?

I would ask Trisha what kept her going and to not just give up. I would ask her because i think it would be cool to know what keeps people going. I might also ask her what she feels like because i can't imagine what kind of pain she is in.


 * The** **Girl who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King pages 76-87 Jan. 22, 10**


 * Prediction:** I predict the battery on her Walkman will die and she will be very sad. Tom Gordon might also loose a game her life might start to get way worse.

I think most of this book is very believable. The most unbelievable is when she falls down a river and almost dies and is bleeding all over and her food is destroyed and her gameboy is too but her Walkman is fine. -MARKED---
 * What part of the book seems most believable? Most unbelievable?**
 * The** **Girl who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King pages 87-96 Jan. 25, 10

Q: What are two emotions the main characters has felt? What made the main character feels this?** Trisha is the main character and she felt sadness because she was lost in the woods and listening to the baseball game and the announcer told her that Tom Gordon (her favorite player) was doing his signature move, pointing to the sky


 * The** **Girl who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King pages** **96-105 Feb. 1, 10**


 * Visualize:** I can imagine the dark woods an the midnight moonlight and the tree branches rubbing together and creating shadows. The trees are very scary the way the light shines on them and the shadows making the look like skulls with their empty eye sockets. A creature (black with sharp teeth and long claws) waiting in the darkness for his prey.

My favorite part of the book so far is when she is in the dark woods at night and she hears twigs snapping getting closer and closer and the they stop and she can tell it is just waiting there. I like this because it is full of suspense and is scary, you don't know if she is gonna be attacked or what.
 * Q: What is your favorite part of the book you’re reading? Why?**


 * The** **Girl who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King pages 105-112 Feb. 3, 10**


 * Summary:** Trisha woke up from the horrible night and she couldn't mover her neck because it hurt so much but she was happy because the sun was out. She got up and ate half of her celery sticks. Later she was depressed because she realized she only had half a bottle of pop half a bottle of water and a couple celery sticks, she came by a river and didn't follow it.


 * Q:If you were the author, what would you have happening next?** If i were the author i would have Trisha follow the river because they always floe north instead of her just walking right past it

Viewing Response (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?

He is drinking juice dripping from a bag stolen from someone. He is doing this because he probably has no water left. It tells me that he and lots of other people probably has no home and no food or water. There is probably lots of violence for food and water. It makes me feel sad for them because it would really be horrible, not having a home would be bad enough but they also have to struggle for food and water as well. And you would also have to survive the violence for food there is too. So it would be a really good idea to donate to stop some of the suffering.


 * The** **Girl who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King pages** **112-121 Feb. 8, 10

Predict:** I predict that Trisha will finally find some clean water instead of dirty swamp water.


 * Q: Write 4-6 sentences on what insights you have learned**? I learned that some people start to get desperate when they have little to no food. People can also bag and pray to anything if something bad is going to happen to them. People will depend on one thing that is close to them threw the whole thing.


 * The** **Girl who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King pages 121-132 Feb. 10, 10**


 * Summarize**: Trisha made it threw the bog and survived. She walk for a while and she say a beaver damn and all the beavers ran away into the water and she was scared because she thought she was going to get attacked by one. Then she saw a deer head. Eventually she came to a bush with lots of sweet berries. She ate lots of them then she kept walking and she came to a tree with a claw mark and she started to get paranoid. Then she found the rest of the deer.


 * Select a quote from your reading you liked. Why did you pick it? What made you think about it?

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 * The** **Girl who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King pages 132-139 Feb. 22, 10**


 * Prediction:** I think that Trisha will hurt herself sliding down the rocky sharp hill to water. She was so thirsty she might be hallucinating and there could be no water at all.

I wouldn't be friends with her because she isn't smart. She doesn't fall water or walk away from the tracks of animal the ripped of another animals head.
 * Question Response: Would you be friends with the main character? Why or why not? Support w/ evidence from your reading in a paragraph.**


 * The** **Girl who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King pages 139-151 Feb. 24, 10

Summarize:** Trisha found some nice cold water, drank a bunch till she was full, then went and made a tent out of sticks. A couple hours later she woke up and she felt a horrible stinging pain in her stomach. She ran outside and she puked and puked. Finally she stopped puking and was going to go to bed and then it came back, but she didn't have to puke she needed to poop. She pulled her pants down just in time then pulled up her pants and sat down in her own poop. She was thirsty again so she went to the stream drank some water and she started puking again and she realized it was the water making her sick. Then she started hallucinating about her favorite baseball player Tom Gordon.

Another word was minstrel from the sentence "What she saw on the relatively still water was minstrel show mud girl by midnight" on page 94. I think it could mean prostitute. The third word is inbarned on page 94 in the sentence "She looked dead. Dead and badly inbarned, or whatever they call it" I think it could mean gross, dead or burned.
 * Q:** Some of the new words I found in the book "The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon" was Subaudible. It was on page 146 with the sentence "Don't waste your breath it's no good praying to the Subaudible" I think that it could mean it could be true or it could be false.


 * February 26, 2010:** After viewing the clip below, select the quote that you find most meaningful to you. Write a paragraph that explains why you selected the quote and its importance.

"I'm not the most smartest or most talented person in the world i succeeded because I kept going and going" Sylvester Stallone

I selected this quote because it says that you don't have to be totally perfect to succeed. It is important because it could inspire people to do what they want so they won't be afraid because they aren't perfect.

Word attack:** The word I found was __BIVOUACKED__ on page 168 in the sentence "They bivouacked in the woods much nearer to the road than they would have liked" From the sentences i think it means waited or camped. The actual definition is "A temporary camp without tents or cover"
 * The Road by Cormac McCarthy Pages 154-169 Mar. 8, 10


 * The Road by Cormac McCarthy Pages 169-183 Mar. 10, 10**
 * Summarize:** The man and his found this old man and gave him some food and a fire. After the old man finished eating he just walked away without out thanking them or anything. When the man woke up the boy was gone but then he saw the boy running across a field to him. The boy told him he found a train and then they went to go see it. The train was abandoned but the boy like to play in it. Eventually when they left they found a trail. Later they got to a town but there was nothing left in the stores. They went into one store and found a map to the ocean.

I think that "The Road" really fits this book because it is about a man and his son following this road to try and get to the ocean.
 * Question Response: Do you think that the title fits the story? Give your opinion with reasons to support.**

I think the mood is sad and serious because it is very sad that this kid has no mother or any family except his dad and that he has never seen a normal world only a dying one. It is also sad because you see lots of dead people and there is no plants or fresh food.
 * The Road by Cormac McCarthy Pages 183-192 Mar. 10, 10**
 * Q:** **What is the mood of what you’re reading (happy, sad, funny, serious, etc.)? Defend your idea by giving examples from the novel?**


 * Marked**

207-214 Apr. 14, 10**
 * Road by Cormac McCarthy Pages 20
 * Visualize:** I can see the house in the middle of the field, the field is very big but full of dead yellow grass. The house is two stories, it has a red tile roof and yellowy-white walls. I can see the dusty carpet in the middle of the floor, it has a goldish middle with a black out line, and there is a chandelier above the carpet and fire place on the wall beside it.

I like the man's son the least because he always wants to give people food and thinks that everybody is nice, when there is something they have to do to save them he is scared and won't do it so if his dad wasn't there he would probably die very soon.
 * Question: Which character do you like the least?**

The setting in "The Road" is not at all like where I live because there is an Apocalypse happening and there is no civilization. But it could be like some other refugees from another country trying to find safety.
 * The Road by Cormac McCarthy Pages 222-233 Apr. 21, 10**
 * Prediction:** I think that because they found all the food on the boat they will let it go to their head and they will eat it all very soon instead of saving it
 * Q:** Compare where you live to the setting described in what you are reading?

After viewing the following video clip, respond in a paragraph. What is the message that the person who put this together trying to tell us? Give specific examples from the clip. What the person who made this clip is trying to say is that there is so much new things being invented every year, we are advancing more rapidly and new things become popular faster.
 * Part 1: Viewing 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. Max's view of Kevin has changed in a way that he thinks he is not so fierce but that he is really smart.
 * May 5, 2010 - Freak the Mighty Response:**
 * Prediction**: I predict that they will have another encounter with Blade and Max will have to fight Blade and he will win, then Kevin will be amazed and they will hang out more until one day Kevin or Max will go home and something bad will have happened because of Blade.
 * Question:** How has Max's view of Kevin changed since the beginning of the novel? Explain in a paragraph.

Q: Who is the author? What do you know about the author? What do you imagine the author must be like?** The author is Rodman Philbrick, I don't know anything about him, I imagine he was bullied or teased in school that's why he made this book
 * May 19, 2010-Freak the Mighty Response:


 * May 28, 2010 Freak the Mighty Response:

Q: Does Max pass the test alone? Is it independent or is it "Freak the Mighty" who passed the test?** Max doesn't pass the test alone, Max and Kevin (Freak the Mighty) conquered Max's dad, because it took Kevin's smarts to get the water gun mixture and to trick Max's father and it needed Max to get them out of there. But it was also a little bit more Max because he gained courage to face his father.


 * Prediction:** I think that Freak will finally go to the hospital and get the bionic body, then Killer Kane will escape from jail and want revenge on freak so he will find him almost right after they put him in the bionic body.


 * May 31, 2010 Freak the Mighty Response:**
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