Blog 5: Lost Girl - Summary and POV

The main character in Lost Girl is Cheyenne. She's blind and was in the wrong place at the wrong time. When her step mom left Cheyene laying down in there Escalade while she went to buy medicine for Cheyene's cold. A man named Griffin decided to steel the Escalade and didn't realize that someone was in it. So now a blind girl that's the daughter of Nike's President has been kidnapped. Now Griffin and his Dad are trying to figure out what to do with her. They decide there going to give her back but Cheyenne wonders if they will give her back safely.

The point of view in Lost Girl is third person. This is different then most books I read. It is different because the narrator know everything about both characters. I know it is third person because the book doesn't use I. It always uses name or she did this or something like that. I kind've like the idea that the narrator isn't the main character. I feel it gives a better perspective. 

Blog 4: The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die - Summary and Character Analysis

Cady has finally remember everything. She realized that her "Aunt Liz" wasn't really her aunt. She was the Vice President for Z-Biotech (The company the parents worked for and are running for) and she was trying to see what Cady knew. Cady and Ty overpowered her and tied her up. She got in contact with her parents and figured everything out. She had to go back to Z-Biotech to get a vaccine. While there Mark (the CEO of Z-Biotech) showed up and pulled a gun on her and Ty. There was an explosion and all of them ended up in the hospital. They all ended up ok.

Cady is the main character in this story. She is very smart and she loves to act. This love for acting helps her out a lot through out the book. Through out her journey she met a guy named Ty. He was very humble and even though he saw that Cady was in trouble and helping her could get him also killed he decides to help. They work together and figure out whats going on. Those are the two main characters and I guess the other characters could be her parents. They don't really show up until the end. They are very smart and don't allow Z-Biotech to do the things they wanted to do even though it could get them in a lot of trouble with the company.

Blog 3: The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die - Summary and Conflict

In The girl who was supposed to die Cady is getting answers. She found out that she lives in Portland.  Her and Ty travel to Portland to see if it helps her remember anything or find something or someone that can help. They get in touch with an aunt of Cady's. Cady doesn't remember her but she know whats going on. She explains it to Cady and explains that Cady needs to figure out what the men wanted and where it is. This would help her find her parents.

The conflict in The Girl Who was Supposed to Die is that Cady the main character can't remember anything. She is starting to realize who she is but she can't remember the thing she needs to remember most. This conflict is Person vs Self because Cady is fighting with herself to remember the things she needs to remember. Its her only hope to finding and helping her parents and she can't remember.

Native American Analysis Blog Post

American Indians were marginalized by being kicked out of there homes and put in reservations without many resources. The Indian chiefs allowed the children to be sent to boarding schools and be educated. What they didn't know was these schools made for more then just the purpose of educating indians. The schools were setting out to "kill the indian, save the man" This meant that they were making the kids forget there indian traditions while being turing into American. According to the article once the chiefs found out about this and started taking the kids back the government started forcing American Indians to send there children to these schools. This made the indians feeling marginalized and like if they didn't have any control of what happened to there kids.

The purpose of Shanice's Essay was to inform. She wanted to inform people about how she lived and explain that besides being an Indian she still did normal things that we do. In the article Shanice said that she lived in a house with electricity and running water. She also explains that she also wears and does traditional Indian things but only on certain occasions. By saying these things she shoes that she's not different just because she's Indian. She does normal things and tradition things just like other people.

Blog 2: The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die - Summary and POV

In The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die Katie met a boy named Ty. He is helping her figure out what to do and remember her past. She finds out that Katie isn't her real name. It's Candece. There are men looking for her and she know these people aren't good people. She's not sure who she could trust. Her and Ty are trying to answer some of these questions.

The point of view in "The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die" is first person. Candece the main character is telling the story. Through out the story she explains the things that are happening to her. She talks about the things she is doing to answer the questions she has and stay safe. 

Blog 1: The Girl Who Was Supposed To Die - Summary and Genre

Katie is the main character in The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die. She doesn't remember who she is. She only remembers from the point she woke up tied up in a cloest. A man had orders to kill her and he was taking her out into the woods to do just that. Katie overlowered him and got alway, in the process she accede try killed him. She takes his car and gies to a near by security station at a resort. The officer starts to help her when he gets a call with a story that contradicts Katie. She's an escaped mental patent according to the "Docter" that calls.

The genre of the story is Fiction. I think it's fiction because it is highly unlikely for this to happen in real life. The events in this book never happened in real life and the book wasn't based on actual events. That makes it fiction. I am not sure what kind of fiction. I think that maybe The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die could be teen fiction because it is about a teenage girl and the book was written for teens because some of the events and words they use.

Tolorence

Tolerance: The ability or willingness to allow the existence, occurrence or practice of something in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with.

Tolerance to me means to accept others the way they are.  I believe that even though some people believe other things or are different they can still be accepted.

Blog 8: The Saturday Boy - Summary and Plot

Blog 7: The Saturday Boy - Summarry & POV

The point of view in The Saturday Boy is first person. I know this book is first person because it uses "I". It is in Derek's perspective. Derek is one of the main characters. The book is mainly about his life. He talks about his troubles and what happens to him.

Blog 6: The Saturday Boy - Summarry & Genre

Derek's mom made Derek go to Budgie's house because she had somewhere to go. Budgie and Derek had a great time. Budgie even wanted Derek to sleep over. At school Budgie denied them having fun and said he was just pretending. Derek vandalized the school with mean things about Budgie. 

The genre of The Saturday boy is Realistic Fiction. It is Realistic Fiction because the main character goes through many real life difficulties. For example his dad is in the Army and he doesn't get to see him often. The main character lives a normal life as a regular kid would.  The story is not real but I think it is something that it could be based of an actual persons life.

Blog 5: The Saturday Boy - Summarry & Conflict

Derek is an 11 year old boy. Derek for the most part lives a normal life. The biggest difference in Derek's life is that his dad is out at war. He doesn't get to see him often. In school Derek get bothered by this kid named Budgie. Derek is starting to like this new girl that started going to Derek's school. Also in school Derek feels like his teacher picks on him a lot.

The conflict in the story is with this boy named Budgie who keeps bothering Derek and Derek can't stop letting it get to him. Derek keeps getting in trouble because he does things when Budgie gets to him. For example in The Saturday Boy, Derek gets mad and throws a note a Budgie's face when Budgie keeps sending him annoying notes. This is a part where Derek gets in trouble because of Budgie.

Blog 4: One Came Home by Amy Timberlake - Summary and Genre

Once they arrive in Dog Hollow, Billy and Georgie look around and find a clue. The clue leads them them to the Garrow family farm. At the farm they find that a young girl named Darlene Garrow is also missing. She is about the age and has the same color hair as Agatha. She later figures out that this is the girl that was found in Agatha's dress. Agatha sent a letter home saying she was at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying natural science.

The genre One Came Home is Historical Fiction. The book is set in the 1800's and is about how a girl won't accept that her sister is dead and goes out to look for her. These are all fictitious events but since they are set in the 1800's that makes it Historical Fiction. The book also has a little bit of mystery in it because of the whole not know if Agatha is really dead. There's a body but know way to prove it so the sister goes out to look for her.

Blog 3: One Came Home by Amy Timberlake - Summary and POV

Georgie has set out to find Agatha. Billy, Agatha's X-Boyfriend is joining Georgie to help find her. She is on her way to Dog Hollow, Wisconsin which is where her sister was going. She is joining a group of pigeoners and plans to retrace her sister steps. On the way she has many flash backs of the days leading up to her sister running away. This gives her motivation to keep going and find her sister. Some thing inside her keeps telling her that her sister is still out there.

One came home is written in first person. It is obvious that it is in first person because it uses "I". The narrator is one of the main characters. Georgie is the narrator which is the sister of the girl who went missing which is Agatha. Georgie explain the events as they are happening. She also explains them in Flashbacks but most as they are happening.

Blog 2: One Came Home by Amy Timberlake - Summary and Conflict

In the small town of Placid, Wisconsin, in 1871, A girl goes missing. Georgie Burkhardt, the sister is known for her habit of speaking her mind plainly. When she goes to far and tells Agatha, something she shouldn't of Agatha runs of with a pack of pigeoners. The pigeoners are trailing the passenger pigeon migration. When the Sheriff finds a body that resembles Agatha it is assumed that it is her. Georgie doesn't believe it and runs off to find her sister.

The conflict in One Came home is that Georgie doesn't believe the fact that her sister, Agatha is dead. After Agatha goes missing the town Sheriff went out looking for her. When he came back with the body of a girl wearing the a dress. This dress was the dress Agatha was wearing when she went missing. Everybody assumed that it was Agatha but not Georgie, she was still in doubt.

Blog 1: Bomb by Steve Sheinkin - Summary and Genre

The book Bomb is about the creation of the atomic bomb. It goes step by step through every thing that happened in order to create the worlds deadliest weapon. It all started with a German scientist who made an important discovery. He found that when Uranium atoms were placed next to radioactive material they split into too. This discovery sparked a race against three continents to create the "atomic bomb".

The genre of Bomb is Historical Non-Fiction. There are many real events and dates and history. The book allows you to learn a lot about the creation of the atomic bomb. The entire book is "real" and doesn't have any fictitious material. It was a very interesting book and I would recommend it to any one who is interested in learning about WWII events

2015 Goals

My academic goal, for 2015 is to be stop procrastinating. Last year I would wait till the last minute to do every assignment. This added lots of stress to me and caused me to do the work not as good as I could've. For now on I will do my assignments little by little in order to complete them on time and do a better job.

My personal goal is to be more respectful to the people around me. I am very disrespectful to my parents and would like to try and be more respectful. When my parents tell me something I will try not to talk back to them.