Reading-Jordyn+S


 * Date ** : October 14th,2009
 * Book Title ** : The Giver
 * Author ** : Lois Lowry
 * Pages ** : 40-50
 * Strategy ** : Prediction
 * Explanation ** : I think that he was kept to be the last one called because he has a rare job or a really good job.


 * Date ** : October 21st, 2009
 * Book Title **: The Giver
 * Author ****:** Lois Lowry
 * Pages: ** 65-79
 * Strategy **: Visual
 * Explanation ** : When they were describing how the room had looked. The fabric was much more luxurious and thick. How the doors were locked and how all of the books looked and how many there were.


 * Date ** : October 23rd, 2009
 * Book Title ** : The Giver
 * Author ** : Lois Lowry
 * Pages ** : 80-87
 * Strategy ** : Prediction.
 * explanation ** : I think that they are living in the future because they don't know about sunlight or sunburns and they have climate control.

She uses real life matter. e.g. i apolog-" When she is showing that people talk she doesn't make them talk like they are writing a book she actually makes then talk like they are talking to real people.
 * Date ** : November 2nd, 2009
 * Book Title ** : The Giver
 * Author ** : Lois Lowry
 * Pages **: 88-107
 * Strategy ** : Visual
 * explanation ** : When he would talk about there being no color when he was sledding for the first time you could picture it and feel what it would be like. To be able to see color for the first time, to be able to feel what that would be like was interesting but it was almost like you couldn't imagine it.
 * Questions **: How does the author make the memories that the Giver transmits vivid and realistic.? Find examples of descriptive words/images.

There was now way to describe to his friends what he had experienced there in the Annes room. How could you describe that.
 * Image ** : again and again he slid down the snow covered hill. Always, in the dream. It seemes as if there were a destination: a something he could not grasp what that lay beyond the thickness of the snow brought the sled to a stop.

I think that they chose a sled ride because it was the least terrorizing of them all.
 * Date **: November 4th,2009
 * book ** : The Giver
 * Author ** : Lois Lowry
 * Pages ** : 108-120
 * Strategy ** : Visualization.
 * Explanation ** : When he would describe what the pain felt like you would almost picture it and how it felt like a hatchet was in his leg, you could see it.
 * Question ** : why do you think the author chose snow and a sled ride as the first memory for the giver to transmit?


 * Date ** : November 9th,2009
 * book **: The Giver
 * Author ** : Lois Lowry
 * Pages ** : 121-136
 * Strategy **: prediction
 * Explanation ** : i think that Jonas will get caught for passing the memories to Gabe.
 * Question ** : Do you consider Jonas' world advanced.? Why or why not?
 * Answer ** : I think that it is advanced because their lives are so planned out for them and they have everything set for them. Today in this life, we don't have a future, we have to build our future ourselves because it costs money and some of us don't have enough money and we have to earn everything. I jonas' world he has everything set for him.


 * Date ** : November 18th,2009
 * book **: The giver
 * Autho ** r : Lois Lowry
 * Pages **: 139-162
 * Strategy ** : Prediction
 * Explanation ** : I think that when Jonas tries to leave, that he wont make it. I don't think he will make it because i think that either the giver or someone will stop Jonas and convince him not to go because
 * Question ** : Philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon said " knowledge is pain". Do you agree? Would Jonas? Why or why not? Explain in a paragraph.
 * Response **: Philosopher Francis bacon once said that " Knowledge is Pain". I think that it is true because you learn a lot of things that are out in the world that may or may not hurt you. There are things like getting shot or someone dyeing . It can be painful but we all have to learn it as it is. I think that Jonas would agree, especially being in the position that he is in right now. He has to learn stuff that he would have never experienced if he hadn't got the position of the giver. He has to learn pain, and he cant take medicine when that is all he has know to do when he is in pain. He is also in pain because he has the privilege to lie to anyone including his parents and he wasn't ever allowed to do that before.

Date: November 20th,2009 Book: The Giver Author: Lois Lowry Pages: 163-180 Strategy : Visual Explanation: I could picture where Jonas and Gabe were. Because there was a lot of description. Question: the giver had an optimistic ending? Does Jonas survive? Explain in a paragraph. Answer: It is somewhat optimistic because they describe Jonas and how badly he wants to take care of himself and Gabe and how hard he tried to find the two of them some food and that he brought food to feed mainly the baby and he caught food afterwards. so that they could survive. I don't think that Jonas survived because in the end of the book they say"There was certainty and joy that below, they were waiting for him; and that they were waiting too for the baby. For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him across the distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he hears music too, perhaps it was only and echo". To me that is the description of them ind of saying that they went to heaven because before Jonas decided to run away, they were going to release/kill Gabe and Jonas wanted to prevent that. So when they say that they were waiting for him that they meant he was going to go there before so they were prepared for it.

My Sisters keeper. Date: December 7th,2009 Author: Jodi Picoult Pages: 1-17 Strategy : Visualization. Explanation: In this novel, you can picture what they are doing or the setting around then. i.e. When Anna wants to sell her necklace in the pawn shop, you can visualize it because there are actually pawn shops around. When her sister is screaming and crying because of a television show, and Anna and her mom go in to see what is wrong, she is holding a pillow up to her stomach and they ask Kate what is wrong, and she points at the television. Question : Describe the Conflict(s) so far in your novel. Explain it with details & identify the type of conflict. Answer: In my novel Anna is competing against her sister Kate (person vs. person). She is struggling against her because Kate has had Leukemia when she was little. Anna was born so that if kate needed bone marrow transplants or any type of treatment she could give it to her because she was a perfect match. She struggles because she is in the hospital every time her sister is. She also struggles because she never wondered where babies cam from when she was younger because in her mind she didn't have a real childhood because everyone including her brother Jesse were always looking over their shoulder to take care of their sister Kate. Date : December 9th, 2009 Pages : Pages; 17-29 Strategy: vision Explanation : Anna goes to a lawyer because she wants to sue her parents for the rights of her own body. She wants to do that because her parents have never asked her if she wanted to donate her white blood cells, or if she wanted the bone marrow transplant. The lawyer thinks it will go well because she has a good fight. Also if she stops donating to her sister Kate, Kate will die. The part that I could visual is a young girl going to a lawyers office and asking him to fight for her. I can also picture how it will end and I think that her mom will start paying attention to her. Question : Describe the similarities and differences between the main character and you. Answer: Same · We are both teenage girls. · We don’t necessarily get along with our parents. · My sister/sisters can also be dramatic. · My sister/sisters can also be rude. Different · I don’t have to donate stuff to my sister to keep her alive. · I don’t want to pawn my necklace for money. · I don’t get an allowance. · I have 1 brother 6 sisters. Anna has, one brother Jesse and one sister Kate. · My sibling(s) have kids and are way older than me. She also has a similar attitude as mine but in a way it is different from mine

Date : December 11th,2009 Pages: 29-44 Strategy: Visual Explanation: Sara, the mom, is talking from her point of view. She finds spots on Kate's back ad takes her to the hospital. He says the she has to go to a Hematologist for blood work so they take the blood work and Sara and husband Brian are in the waiting room while the doctor is taking bone marrow, they are waiting for a response to what is wrong with Kate. The doctor comes back and says that it is a rare from of Leukemia. They say that there is treatment. Hopefully they will save her. Question: Answer:

( Walk two moons forgot book at home) Date: January 11th,2010 Pages: 1-15 Strategy: Visual Explanation: When she is moving into her new house with her dad ... there is a girl names Phoebe. She has red hair and when she describes who she is and how weird things happen to her you can picture it yourself. Date: January 13th,2010 Pages :16 - 42 Strategy: Prediction Explanation: In the book walk two moons a young girl Phoebe is telling her friend that she met about her mom and what she remembers of her. She also tells her how she remembers when she found out when her mom was pregnant and memories of her father. I think that Phoebe will be mad at her mom for leaving them but at the same time she will be happy because she gets to be in her life again.