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Blog 5: Night by Elie Wiesel Summary and Genre

The book night is based in 1944, in the village of Sighet, Romania. When Elie Wiesel's family was put into the ghettos then later deported to Auschwitz. At Auschwitz, Elie and his father, Chiomo are put to work while his mother and three sisters are sent to the death camp. After three weeks Elie and Chiomo are marched to a factory in the Auschwitz complex too sort electrical parts. In 1945 the solders evacuate due to enemy solders approaching the camp. The "prisoners" are sent on a long hard journey and Ellie's father gets sick. Will Elie and his father survive?

The book night is an autobiography written by Elie Wiesel. The book talks about is experiences as a kid during the holocaust. This is my first time reading a biography. I don't usually read these type of book. I thought the book was very interesting and it was surprising that many of these events actually happened. I liked how many event and feeling you could relate to in real life but also some were so hard to relate that you could just imagine. I think one day I might read this book again to get a better understanding of it.

Blog 4: Matched - Summary and Signpost

While Cassia was looking over her Match information a picture of another boy flashed. This got her thinking if Xander was really her match. The boy who came up was a boy named Ky he was in Cassia's class. Ky and Cassia were beginning to be good friends. This was completely against the rules and now Ky is in trouble. Who will Cassia pick.

Holocaust Blog Post

The people didn't know what was happening. Hitler took little steps to make the people okay with the thing that were going on. They didn't know. They knew that they were being separated but little people knew that the Jews were being killed. Many people stood by and watched the Holocaust take place because they were scared. People feared there life, they knew they'd be killed if this happened. This doesn't that their were no bystanders. Some were Germans and others were Jews. The Jews that fought back were fighting because they knew they had nothing to risk. The Germans fought back because they knew this wasn't right. If I were in this situation I would have not been an upstander. Why? Because I would have been scared. I wouldn't have known what to do.

Blog 3: Matched - Summary and Plot: ¶ 1-7

So far in the book Matched there are two main characters. This book is in the prospective of Cassia. She had her Match banquet. A match banquet is where you get matched with the perfect girl/boy. Something unusual happened that night. Her match was someone she knew. Usually the girls are matched with guys from all around the country. That is what is happening so far.

The plot in this story is that Cassia was matched with her life-long best friend, Xander. This doesn't usually happen at match banquets. Since they have been friends since they were little the already know everything about each other so they don't really have to study each other. While she opens the little box that was given to her with information about her match the face of another boy who goes to her school pops up briefly. This makes her confused and she wonders if Xander is really her match.

Blog 2: Eggs by Jerry Spinlli Summary and Genre

I have finished the book Eggs by Jerry Spinlli. I found the book very interesting. There were many events that you wouldn't expect. The main character is David. The story starts off at the scene of  a big car accident. Unfortunately David loses his mom in this accident. His dad is never home cause he goes on a lot of business trips. This brings up anger in David's life and he takes it out on his grand parents. Through out the story David meets a girl named Primrose. David and Primrose go on many adventures together. They become great friend and help each other recover from there loses.

This book has a combination of genres. I think that the two main genres are adventurous and fiction. I guess you could call that Adventurous Fiction. It is adventurous because David and Primrose go on many adventures including on to New York. They go by them selves to try and find Primrose's father. This book is fiction well because I don't think that two little kids could go so far all by them selves.

Lit Assessment

I read an article named "Fight for fair treatment of workers: Don't buy Nike". This article is about how the worker who make the shoes are treated. There are many problems in this world. One big problem is workers rights. Are workers treated fairly? At Nike workers are getting paid almost nothing and are being treated unfairly. They have violated the rights of the worker. They have abused the workers both physically and mentally. In the article it claimed that the workers only get paid $1.25 a day. They work in these harsh abusive conditions and only get paid that! The workers can get basic necessities like rent an 8-by-8-foot one-room apartment, obtain drinking water, secure transportation to work and buy two meals of chicken, rice and vegetables. These are good but if the workers need other things like cleaning products or medicine they have to starve in order to afford these things. The workers are also getting shoes thrown at them, kicked, slapped, and workers stand in the hot sun for making mistakes on the job. 

I also read a poem named "The Sweatshop". In this poem the writer argues that while working in the sweatshops she is treated like a machine. She has no feeling, no thought, and no understanding. She expresses how the minute she steps into the factory she is turned into a machine. She is forced to do the same thing over and over. The poem was different then the article because it makes you understand more how the writer felt. The words flow smoothy through your mind. 

Blog 1: Bad Summary and Conflict

I finally finished the book Bad. It was an amazing book. I was about a girl that was caught up doing some bad things. She has this thing for "skating" which are just bad things. When she goes to rehabilitation she meets some new people there. There all trying to get on the right track and are really trying. She is doing a lot better in the rehab and has learned a lot.

The conflict is Man vs Man. It is between Dallas an her father. They don't really get along. She feels like she's not loved by him and he doesn't care. Through out the story Dallas hasn't gotten along with her father for example in the beginning when Dallas's trial started he was offered the option to either send her away or keep her in his custody. He decided to allow Dallas to be sent away and this is why Dallas hates her father and she feels like know body cares. 

Cursive or Nah

While I was flipping through Scholastic Scope. I came across an article named "Is it time for Cursive to Die?". Do you remember writing cursive? Was it necessary? Do you use it? Well most schools have stopped teaching cursive. They say that there are more important things to concentrate on then cursive. I think that we should stop writing in cursive. Although many people do prefer it including my self I feel that children must be brought into the future. Now in day everyone types everything. If you walk into most classrooms now you will hear the sound of kids typing away. Not pencils scribbling away. What do you think should cursive be a thing of the past?

Lemon Brown Blog

It surprised me how although everything that Lemon Brown has gone through he still likes his past. This has a lesson in involved. It is that even though you go through a lot there is still something good. This connects to what weave learned because the man is homeless but there is people who support him making him still what to move on. Greg learned that his father just wanted the best for him and he should listen more.

Bad Summary and POV

I am on page 88 so far In Bad there is a girl that isn't on the right track. She is doing bad things like stealing and stuff. She decides to rob a store with her friends. While her friends get away with it. She get charged with armed robbery. Her father shows know sympathy for her. Since he didn't want to take charge of her anymore the judge sentenced her to 6 month rehabilitation. Her "friends" have abandoned her but she is making new friends  in the rehab.

Dallas is the kid of person that follows people around. She has know self respect. She lets her "friends" push her around getting her in some serious trouble. She still believes that her friends love her even after what happened.

iFunny

iFunny is about a boy Jamie Grimm. Jamie is hilarious and when a comedy contest pops up he is told to try out.  Jamie decided to join the contest in New York. After going to New York he wins the contest. Everything goes well until Stevie his brother starts saying that the only reason he won was because he was in a wheel chair. He decided to join another competition and no surprise he won again.

Jamie is a passionate boy. He wants to finish what he started. Although his entire family died in a car accident he was still motivated to move on. He didn't let the fact that he was in a wheel chair push him back. He finally became successful because he kept going.

The Book Thief Summary

The Book Thief is about a foster girl who lived just outside of Munich. Her foster father, an accordion player showed her how to read. After reading her first book which she got from her brothers burial she found a love for reading. She then began a routine of thievery. She didn't steel what normal thieves steel, she stole books. Liesel or the book thief as they called her shared her books with her friends and neighbors. The family which took care of her was killed in an air raid and miraculously she and Max, a Jews that the family kept hidden was not killed.