Dear Mrs.Zrihen,
I am now reading the book called Real Classy: Silly School Jokes by Rick and Ann Walton. This a humor book because it really tells jokes about things in school and other subjects. The author organized this book with question and answer because it asked a question then answered it with a twist.
I couldn't find a passage because there is only questions and answers for this. Before reading this book I first looked at the front cover to see if this book was actually humor, and it was. Also I looked for text features in the book, for example there are illustrations for some jokes. During reading I actually reread the jokes that I liked the most. Also I asked myself the joke question before reading the answer. After I was done with the book I thought about what were some things that happened in the book AND to recommend it to everyone. I would recommend this book because it is really funny so people can enjoy.
This book is in the angle of second person because the author is talking to the reader. There are no main settings and characters just question and answer. I felt outstanding while reading this book because it made me happy. I think the author felt funny when writing the jokes.
Since this book is question and answer than there is no conflict involved, the author wrote this book to entertain people with the jokes he made. The author's perspective is unknown for it is only question and answer.
I would rate this book 8/10 because some of the jokes weren't that funny.
sincerely, Juan 702
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
Kingdom keepers: Disney after dark RJ 16
Dear Mrs.Zrihen,
Today I finished the book called Kingdom Keepers: Disney after dark by Ridley Pearson. Just so you know this reader's journal might be sort of short because most of the information that needs to be included is in the last one.
Just like before, OUTSTANDING book, it made me go from action/adventure to suspense and mystery. It really made me feel in the case of mystery and a problem coming on. This is a fantasy book because it really is not real in any way except for the certain parts of the real world, for example, light made humans when they got to sleep?! I mean this author really had an expansive imagination. I already told you my before reading strategies, however I decided to use some other ones, for instance to define new vocabulary, which at this moment I haven't remembered any yet. In addition to that is that I revised each chapter with caution just in case I missed anything. In the end I actually told my dad to test me about the book and to give him a summary about it, also to recommend it to the perfect person.
Last time I did a passage on the first page and now the last page, 325. "As they spun in celebration, Wayne returned to the coffee table. There he picked up the black remote. And he pressed the button."
That was it, just that sentence, when I finished, I was asking myself, " why is this happening? It can't finish like this? Did they end like this?" It's like those stories that you want that happy ending that wraps everything up, nevertheless this gave the mystery to want to keep reading the books.
I remember telling you the characters on the last RJ, the conflict again is that the Overtakers are conquering Disney and the DHIs, Disney host interactive and Daylight hologram imaging, have to stop them before it's too late. This story is Man, vs supernatural because the DHIs are kind of ghosts and you see maleficent, the witch from "Sleeping Beauty." This a story that's is used in chronological order, since it has the specific days and chronological words, like next, after, Etc.
Th real main setting in the story is at Disney's Magic kingdom, with the time being mostly night, barely in the day because the kids turn into DHIs when they go to sleep. The moral of the story is to tell your parents about what might be happening that you might think it's strange,hence tell your parents to solve it.
This author did an incredibly, amazing job writing this amusing book to entertain the reader. Based on the book I can infer that the author wrote the book in a one-sided way, biased, because he didn't inflict the Overtakers opinion to this conflict.
In the end just in case you know some of the information you might need is in the last reader's journal. I would give this book a ten out of ten because it was a cliffhanger all the way.
sincerely, Juan 702
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Current event #3 12/10/11
Date:12/10/11
Name:Juan Diaz 702
Current Events Journal
Title: Animal shelter's behavior experts face life and death decisions
Author: John Owens
Source: Miami herald
The topic of the article is animal shelters
The main idea of the article is: (stated)that at the anti-cruelty society shelter in Chicago, where Karen Okura does the Asses-A-Pet method to figure out the dog's behavior.
The author’s purpose for writing this article is to teach the reader how the Asses-A-Pet method works and why some people don't think it's the best idea.
The author’s perspective in this article is unbiased because it gives the cons and pros of the asses-a-pet method.
The pattern of organization of the article is argument and support
The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is to give an argument about the Asses-A-Pet method and support it.
The text features included in the article are:Capitalization helps by letting the author know if that's a specific name, quotation helps by letting the author know a sarcastic way of the action, and the URL helps by givng the website where the info was found.
This article is about (a summary in your own words) Karen Okura, boss of the Anti-Cruelty society in Chicago, explains what the Asses-A-Pet is and how it helps, however some scientists think it is more subjective.
The significance (importance) of this article is to let people know how people at shelters know the kind of dog they receive and to match it with someone else.
What I learned from this article is that the Asses-A-Pet method is a dog being checked by a behavioral scientist.
What I liked about this article is that it gave both the perspective of the cons and pros.
What I did not like about it is nothing.
Who should read this article and why? People who want to know how lost dogs get checked and all of that before the adoption, or even be adoption.
This article reminds me of (text-to-self) a dog that my family lost for leaving the door open and it become a stray, so maybe a shelter found it.
(text-to-text) This reminds me of a book called Pet trouble: runaway retriever by T.T Sutherland.
(text-to-world) In Moscow there are a lot of stray dogs everywhere that they have been cooperating with people on the street.
New vocabulary I learned
Word Context Clues Meaning
1. euthanize " those who pass move on, but those who fail get euthanize" To put to death.
2.condemns "is now a weapons that condemns the average dog" to put in punishment
3.welfare "Okura was paying attention to the advances in animal welfare" health
Name:Juan Diaz 702
Current Events Journal
Title: Animal shelter's behavior experts face life and death decisions
Author: John Owens
Source: Miami herald
The topic of the article is animal shelters
The main idea of the article is: (stated)that at the anti-cruelty society shelter in Chicago, where Karen Okura does the Asses-A-Pet method to figure out the dog's behavior.
The author’s purpose for writing this article is to teach the reader how the Asses-A-Pet method works and why some people don't think it's the best idea.
The author’s perspective in this article is unbiased because it gives the cons and pros of the asses-a-pet method.
The pattern of organization of the article is argument and support
The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is to give an argument about the Asses-A-Pet method and support it.
The text features included in the article are:Capitalization helps by letting the author know if that's a specific name, quotation helps by letting the author know a sarcastic way of the action, and the URL helps by givng the website where the info was found.
This article is about (a summary in your own words) Karen Okura, boss of the Anti-Cruelty society in Chicago, explains what the Asses-A-Pet is and how it helps, however some scientists think it is more subjective.
The significance (importance) of this article is to let people know how people at shelters know the kind of dog they receive and to match it with someone else.
What I learned from this article is that the Asses-A-Pet method is a dog being checked by a behavioral scientist.
What I liked about this article is that it gave both the perspective of the cons and pros.
What I did not like about it is nothing.
Who should read this article and why? People who want to know how lost dogs get checked and all of that before the adoption, or even be adoption.
This article reminds me of (text-to-self) a dog that my family lost for leaving the door open and it become a stray, so maybe a shelter found it.
(text-to-text) This reminds me of a book called Pet trouble: runaway retriever by T.T Sutherland.
(text-to-world) In Moscow there are a lot of stray dogs everywhere that they have been cooperating with people on the street.
New vocabulary I learned
Word Context Clues Meaning
1. euthanize " those who pass move on, but those who fail get euthanize" To put to death.
2.condemns "is now a weapons that condemns the average dog" to put in punishment
3.welfare "Okura was paying attention to the advances in animal welfare" health
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Kingdom keepers: Disney after dark RJ 15
Dear Mrs.Zrihen,
I am reading the book called Kingdom Keepers: Disney after dark by Ridley Pearson. I have read this book over the summer and since I plan to read "kingdom keepers II" I first have to know the plot from the first one to understand the second... well that's what I think I should do.
I am reading the book called Kingdom Keepers: Disney after dark by Ridley Pearson. I have read this book over the summer and since I plan to read "kingdom keepers II" I first have to know the plot from the first one to understand the second... well that's what I think I should do.
I picked this book to read because of the cover and how it was all gloomy yet colors that make stand out, also Eitan recommended it because he had already read this one, the second, and the third, so I asked him if he liked, and he did, he told me some of the parts in the second book and it sounded so interesting. The genre of the book was Fiction and the subgenre was fantasy because in the cover page there’s a castle and I inferred that since it is about Disney, then it is fantasy. The topic of the book is Mystery, and the theme of the story is friendship. A before reading strategy that I used was to preview the text – or skim and scan- for text features such as the title, illustrations, headings, how the writing is made, graphic aids, or anything that can help me understand the story I am reading, in this case I saw the table of contents, and I confirmed that I was going to read a book about things happening in the Disney park after it closes. Another strategy I used before starting to read the book was to identify text features such as print features; organization aids, ETC. what I found were some italic writing, and dialogue between the characters.
The conflict in the story was that the DHI have to protect the Disney Park from the overtakers led by Maleficent. The story is Man vs. supernatural because the DHI have to take on pirates, witches, ETC. when they are in Disney. The main characters in this story are: Finn, Charlene, Maybeck, Philby, and Willa are the protagonists, while the antagonist is Maleficent. The foils in the story are the other over takers, the mom and the dad of Finn, and the people at Disney. The point of view of this story is third person because of the clue words like he, she, they, it, ETC. The pattern of organization is chronological order because you see the clue words of next, later, after. The author’s purpose in writing this book is to entertain because of the genre( which is fiction) and how everything is not real and I enjoyed it. If I was in the character’s shoes I would have to tell my mom and dad about the secret of becoming a hologram every time I go to sleep, so they could help with my problem and solve it out. The author was very descriptive in scenes where the characters are all alone for example Finn Whitman alone near a lamppost near the castle in central Disney, also there were certain scenes where I felt the book come alive.
A strategy I use while I was reading the story was to predict and confirm which is used to make an inference and see if you were correct, I predicted that Maleficent wasn’t going to be defeated because the DHI were new at this I also predicted that Jez was going to be a fake friends and betray the DHIs in the end,. Another strategy I used was to reread for confusing parts in the story.
A strategy I used when I was done with the book was to confirm my predictions while I was reading like the first one; I was correct and the second I was wrong. The next strategy I used was to interpret a text feature that I found at the beginning of each chapter: a brush, which could the author writing the story, maybe.
A passage that really standed out was the first page, I am in chapter 20 page 172, but this one interested me the most:
"He found himself standing next to town square, in the heart of magic kingdom. In his pajamas. How'd he gotten here, he had no idea. His last memory was climbing into bed-- it felt like only minutes earlier."
This passage is important to the reader because it gives the setting and some description of the main character, Finn. I was interested because this was where all the mystery began, when I first read it it hooked me instantly.
I would recommend this book to everyone because of its hook and entertainment. I would rate this book 10/10.
Sincerely, Juan Diaz
Monday, November 28, 2011
A dark brown dog RJ 14
Dear Mrs.Zrihen,
I just finished the story called A dark brown dog by Stephen Crane. This was actually a pretty good story to read and I would actually recommend this book to everyone, and that includes anyone who reads this journal. I found a good paragraph on the last page: "So the dog prospered. He developed a large bark, which came wondrously from such a small rug of a dog. He ceased to howl persistently at night. Sometimes, indeed, in his sleep, he would utter little yells, as from pain, but that occurred, no doubt, when in his dreams he encountered huge flaming dogs who threatened him dire fully."
Before I read this book the cover page took my attention from the start and it was many people crowding around one kid (which was actually holding a dog, as it said in the story,) therefore I inferred that this book would include a kid who must have done a great deed to the town, I was DEAD wrong. I also thought about the title" a dark brown dog" it interested me because it could have been about anything, so it gave the mystery. While I was reading I SO had to reread many parts in the books to actually understand it. I also learned new vocabulary like the word erect which means to stand upright.
After I finished I asked myself questions on what happened in the story AND who to recommend this book to.
I was pretty tired last week, nevertheless I picked a short story, fiction. It's a short story because it only has like two characters and not that many information. There were two main characters the child, which didn't have that much info about him, and the dog, a tiny brown dog. They are the protagonists and the antagonist is the dad who starts kicking the dog. The dog changed throughout the story by changing from a tiny dog to a full grown dog. The king had to live with the dog. This story is Man vs. society because the conflict is about the kid trying to protect the dog from getting stepped on or kicked. The setting is in both time and day, however the place is usually the house. I felt kind of sad to hear that a defenseless dog is getting beat up. The author also felt sad. The moral of the story is to protect the ones you love until they can get back on their feet.
This story is third person for its angle to the characters not the author herself. The story was organized into time order, because of the different time changes of the book. The author wrote the book to entertain because she is talking about a nonliving person, made-up. The author was biased because it didn't give the perspective of both the kid and the dog.
I would rate this book 9/10 for its interesting words.
sincerely, Juan 702
I just finished the story called A dark brown dog by Stephen Crane. This was actually a pretty good story to read and I would actually recommend this book to everyone, and that includes anyone who reads this journal. I found a good paragraph on the last page: "So the dog prospered. He developed a large bark, which came wondrously from such a small rug of a dog. He ceased to howl persistently at night. Sometimes, indeed, in his sleep, he would utter little yells, as from pain, but that occurred, no doubt, when in his dreams he encountered huge flaming dogs who threatened him dire fully."
Before I read this book the cover page took my attention from the start and it was many people crowding around one kid (which was actually holding a dog, as it said in the story,) therefore I inferred that this book would include a kid who must have done a great deed to the town, I was DEAD wrong. I also thought about the title" a dark brown dog" it interested me because it could have been about anything, so it gave the mystery. While I was reading I SO had to reread many parts in the books to actually understand it. I also learned new vocabulary like the word erect which means to stand upright.
After I finished I asked myself questions on what happened in the story AND who to recommend this book to.
I was pretty tired last week, nevertheless I picked a short story, fiction. It's a short story because it only has like two characters and not that many information. There were two main characters the child, which didn't have that much info about him, and the dog, a tiny brown dog. They are the protagonists and the antagonist is the dad who starts kicking the dog. The dog changed throughout the story by changing from a tiny dog to a full grown dog. The king had to live with the dog. This story is Man vs. society because the conflict is about the kid trying to protect the dog from getting stepped on or kicked. The setting is in both time and day, however the place is usually the house. I felt kind of sad to hear that a defenseless dog is getting beat up. The author also felt sad. The moral of the story is to protect the ones you love until they can get back on their feet.
This story is third person for its angle to the characters not the author herself. The story was organized into time order, because of the different time changes of the book. The author wrote the book to entertain because she is talking about a nonliving person, made-up. The author was biased because it didn't give the perspective of both the kid and the dog.
I would rate this book 9/10 for its interesting words.
sincerely, Juan 702
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Richard Peck Anonymously yours RJ # 13
Dear Mrs.Zrihen,
I just finished the book called Richard Peck: anonymously yours by Richard Peck. First of all I would like to begin by explaining that the genre of this book is memoir, I found that out because first this is the author talking about himself and since it's not his whole life, it's memoir; therefore, the point of view is first person. The central point the author is trying to make( main idea) is that Richard Peck is explaining the moment in his life where he began to become an author and he is also explaining the different books he has written. I have also found some ways to support this main idea and most of them are factual, except the last one; he wrote the book called Monster's night at grandma's house, he went to England to the university Depauw. His neighborhood was safer than the ones today. This main idea is implied.
Before I read this I had to look if the book was a memoir in the first place, it was stated at the front of the book so it was easy to find. Also I read the synopsis to see if the book might be interesting to read or just a dull book. When I started the book I saw that some of the words were getting mixed up, therefore I had to reread that part all over again. In addition, I also figured out some new vocabulary, for example the word Chandelier, which is a glass lamp that is on top of a dinner table, fancy. In the end I asked the 5W, so I could know that I understand everything. I would also figure out who to recommend this book to and I think everyone.
This book is compared to my life because first Richard Peck quit teaching to writing books, and when I was a little kid, I wanted to be a soccer player, however now I want to be a doctor. Even though this book is a nonfiction, this reminds me of the book the tale of desperaux by Kate Dicamillo in which Desperaux has to change his normal living mouse life to a savior. Maybe the people in the army didn't want to be a soldier in their later years, but when they saw what could have done, they join to help their country.
The essential message of this book is that if you see that there's a change needed to be in the world try to change it. In the book there were a chain of events that led to another like because Richard saw that novels needed entertaining and the celebration of an individual, he became an author in which books became awarded. The different books that he has written have been on real people in life, but on the other hand they have made up traits. Some text features I found were:
Italics- emphasize on a subject
Quotes- give meaning to the chapter of what it is about.
Dashes- give the meaning of word.
Big spaces- change in time or different subject.
This is a book that is based on a time/memory of a person, so then the way the author should have put this book in is time order. The author wrote the book to share the experiences he had when he became an author. The author was biased because he gave the perspective of himself not other close people that were with him. There was some evidence in this book( validity and accuracy) like the author gave the exact dates for which each event happened. He gave the names of the books he used certain people in. Names of people were given.
I would rate this book 7/10 because it was interesting but on certain parts.
Sincerely, Juan 702
I just finished the book called Richard Peck: anonymously yours by Richard Peck. First of all I would like to begin by explaining that the genre of this book is memoir, I found that out because first this is the author talking about himself and since it's not his whole life, it's memoir; therefore, the point of view is first person. The central point the author is trying to make( main idea) is that Richard Peck is explaining the moment in his life where he began to become an author and he is also explaining the different books he has written. I have also found some ways to support this main idea and most of them are factual, except the last one; he wrote the book called Monster's night at grandma's house, he went to England to the university Depauw. His neighborhood was safer than the ones today. This main idea is implied.
Before I read this I had to look if the book was a memoir in the first place, it was stated at the front of the book so it was easy to find. Also I read the synopsis to see if the book might be interesting to read or just a dull book. When I started the book I saw that some of the words were getting mixed up, therefore I had to reread that part all over again. In addition, I also figured out some new vocabulary, for example the word Chandelier, which is a glass lamp that is on top of a dinner table, fancy. In the end I asked the 5W, so I could know that I understand everything. I would also figure out who to recommend this book to and I think everyone.
This book is compared to my life because first Richard Peck quit teaching to writing books, and when I was a little kid, I wanted to be a soccer player, however now I want to be a doctor. Even though this book is a nonfiction, this reminds me of the book the tale of desperaux by Kate Dicamillo in which Desperaux has to change his normal living mouse life to a savior. Maybe the people in the army didn't want to be a soldier in their later years, but when they saw what could have done, they join to help their country.
The essential message of this book is that if you see that there's a change needed to be in the world try to change it. In the book there were a chain of events that led to another like because Richard saw that novels needed entertaining and the celebration of an individual, he became an author in which books became awarded. The different books that he has written have been on real people in life, but on the other hand they have made up traits. Some text features I found were:
Italics- emphasize on a subject
Quotes- give meaning to the chapter of what it is about.
Dashes- give the meaning of word.
Big spaces- change in time or different subject.
This is a book that is based on a time/memory of a person, so then the way the author should have put this book in is time order. The author wrote the book to share the experiences he had when he became an author. The author was biased because he gave the perspective of himself not other close people that were with him. There was some evidence in this book( validity and accuracy) like the author gave the exact dates for which each event happened. He gave the names of the books he used certain people in. Names of people were given.
I would rate this book 7/10 because it was interesting but on certain parts.
Sincerely, Juan 702
Monday, November 14, 2011
The ender's hotel a memoir Rj #12
Dear Mrs.Zrihen,
I just finished the book called The Ender's Hotel: a memoir by Brandon R. Scherand. I more or less admired this book because it didn't really hook me into the story nor take me in the story. It kind described the hotel in one of the passages in the book, at the beginning. I can declare to you that this was a vulgar book, because it included the awful word translation of a donkey's behind, and the word dam. A passage that I found pretty appealing to me, found on page 20-21 was:
"I tried to shake loose but my mother's nails dug deep into my wrist, puncturing my skin until small crescent blood-moons emerged. Then in one clamorous motion she and I spilled through the cafe and out the doorway onto the sidewalk, straight into the clearest kind of daylight. She secured her grip on my wrist and started dragging me toward the Ender's bar, one door down. I fought and cried, and for the first time in my life, I hit back. The bar was open and I stayed myself in the doorway..."
My interest of this passage was great because it really showed the rough childhood that Brandon had in his early ages. It would significant for the reader because it gave them a taste of what his childhood was like.
I, of course, had to use some strategies or I wouldn't be able to do this reader's journal or even understand the book better. I made a prediction before I read this book, based on the title. I would have seen if this book was awarded by a publisher or a company to see its value. When I began the book I had some troubles during the journey, for example the mixture words that made it seem like something else was happening, so to solve the problem I reread it many times until I got it right. After sometime I used another strategy, which was to find any word that I couldn't understand, so I used context clues. At the moment that I realized that I was done with the book I began asking I questions about the book, the 5W. Then when I was done I started thinking what kind of book this is for anyone, so I could recommend it.
I had to figure out the genre of this book and since at the cover page it said memoir, so it's nonfiction because it happened in real life and it's just one memory of his life. The topic of this book is life problems. The main idea of this book is that when Brandon's grandparents bought the ender's hotel they thought it was going to be a place to have newer lives, but it turned out wrong. This main idea is implied because it is not really giving it right at the beginning. I would give another title to this book which is "Where to fit in?" Some supporting details of this book were that Brandon's childhood was rough, this is sensory. He had to live with his grandparents, this detail is factual. His mother was divorced many times and she was an alcoholic person, factual.
The essential message of this story is to try to find out who you are, so you know what you are. The was a cause and an effect in this story that interested me like that because Brandon's mother was divorced many times and she had problems with her husband, Brandon ended up with his grandparents. I found some text features like the italics to emphasize the word so the reader can notice. Also there are the spaces between paragraphs that represent that a few days were passed or a subject is changed. There's the chapter title which give a conclusion of the chapter. At the end there's other books selected by the award for this book. Finally there are places where readers know other books for this author.
The pattern of organization is time order because it was actually the time between the beginning of the memory and the end. The author wrote this book to share an experience with the reader. The author's perspective is biased because it is giving Brandon's point of view. The angle in which the story was told was in first person for its saying "I, me, and I" and it is talking about himself. I couldn't find any figurative language in this story. The resources I used to know that his information was true were:
I really knew the entire vocab in this story so I can't find that out. This story could be compared to my everyday life because sometimes there are rough times that I go through in my life when I was a kid. I would compare this book to Isaac Newton because he started his life in a hard terrain without a father. This book could be compared to real life because many children don't have the privileges that I have and grow up rough and tough. I would rate this book 2 out of five because it was quite boring most of the time.
Hope this reader's journal fits your needs.
Sincerely, JUAN 702
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