Friday, September 12, 2008

New post for 15-19 September

We should all be reading independent novels by now. Tell me about yours. Be sure to include Your name, Title, Author, and number of pages read this week. Your entry is due by 19 September.

15 comments:

Mr Jarrell said...

Neil
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Finished

This book is about two children who go to ther mean cousin's house and they go into a picture of a boat. They are going on an adventure with their friend from where they were (Narnia) to find seven long lost men and to find the very east.

Ellison Student said...

Haddon Antonucci
Hidden Talents
Complete

This book is about a kid that gets sent to a school for kids that get in trouble a lot. He makes friends there and discovers that his friends and him have special powers. The school is going to be inspected by the state and the kid and his friends do not want the school to close because if the at happens then the really bad kids like Bloodbath will be with normal kids and that would be bad.

Bloodbath and his friends try to make things go wrong but they didn't succeed. The people that were visiting wanted to talk with the kid and his power was how to make people really mad. He used the opposite of his power and kept the school open.

Ellison Student said...

Neil
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Part 2

They first reach a bunch of scattered islands called the Lone Island.They get slowed down with the slave trade, but in the end Caspian (the friend) solved it and they could move on with their adventure. They then reached a very long storm and they didn't find land until two or three weeks had gone by.They finally reached another island in which the mean cousin (Eustace) turned into a dragon. He couldn't turn back into a human until a lion came a few days later and peeled off his skin. He became a good person from that day on. They called this island dragon island and moved on with their adventure. They then got attacked by a sea serpent, but just escaped from its clutxhes and came to another island where there were invisible people and one of the two cousins (Lucy) had to break the spell. They realized that the "people" on the island were really monopods. They then lift this island to reach a dark, dim fog. They found out it was the land of dreams and they quickly came out.

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Ellison Student said...

Jordana
The Mother Daughter Book Club
Pages 215-End

For Emma's Birthday Mrs. Delaney sent her tickets to come to New York with Jess and her other friends.
In New York all the girls besides for Jess has "a dream come true." Megan gets to shows her designs to fashion magazine editor. Cassidy caught a ball at a Red Sox vs. Yankees game. And Emma helped write the Heart Beats script and got her name added to the credits. The won thing Jess wanted was her mother to com home.

Once they returned, there was a book club party at the Alcott house. They got a tour and saw the desk she wrote Little Woman at. When they were playing crocket the dog Sugar started to bark. When jess let him of the leash she went running to the other side of the house. Spice and Mrs. Delaney were there. Jess finally got her happily ever after!

Ellison Student said...

Neil
Part 3

They also found an island that they called deathwater because when you touched the water, you turn into gold. Finally they came to a land with the rest of the long lost men. They were in a deep sleep and to wake them up the people on the boat had to go to the utter east and leave someone there forever. They reached the utter east, and Eustace, Lucy, and the other child (Edmund) went back home.

I think that this book was okay. It didn't meet my expectations. The whole book except the beginning didn't catch my attention. Out of the whole series so far I think the others were better.

Ellison Student said...

Lauren Dwyer
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

(just begun) Chapter 1

As Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts begins, we find him back at his aunt and uncle's house. Valdemort has returned from the dead and Harry is desperate for any news about the situation since he is not getting any news from the owls. Harry is caught listening to a newscast by his uncle and he gets into trouble. Harry leaves and takes a walk and ends up at the playground and runs into his cousin Dudley. Dudley has lost a lot of weight and is now a champion boxer.
Harry and Dudley begin arguing over the fact that Dudley has heard Harry talk in his sleep. Two dementors appear and attack Harry and Dudley. Suddenly Harry thinks of Ron and Hermione (his happy thoughts) and he repels the dementors. Ms. Figg, Harry's neighbor, rushes over to help and notices Harry's wand. However, she is not surprised.

Ellison Student said...

Emily
felicidy learns a lesson
1-24
felicidy is on the roof. she is on the roof because see has to pick apples for apple butter.she allways conplains when she has to stir apple mush.later that night she was teaching her sister how to read the bible and her mother told her she is going to go to lady school the next day.

I think this book is a very good book because it has great detal and I learn what colonial willyoms berg was like back then.

Ellison Student said...

Caleb
Down The Rabbit Hole
85-110 Part 2

Ingrid has left the orthodontist and tried to walk to her soccer practice by herself. She got lost in a poor part of her town. Ingrid also sees a woman who is called kracked up katie by all the people in her school. She goes inside her house. Katie calls a cab for Ingrid. Ingrid is about to put her cleats on when the cab comes. Ingred goes in the cab and the cab brings her to the soccer field. When she gets there no one is there. Her mom pulls up and she brings Ingrid home.

Ellison Student said...

Sounder
willian armstrong

i read like 4 chapters

its about this poor african american family in the racist ages and the father goes hunting with sounder the dog but it horrible and they eat biscuts and gravy for every night and one day they come home and theres a delicious ham they eat it and the police come and say we have proof that they stole it so he goes to jail and sounder chases them and they shoot him and kill him

Ellison Student said...

Kelsee
Ida B.
Almost finished
125-190 something.

After Ida B.'s mother gets diagnosed with breast cancer, she has to go back to her elementary school. She becomes "friends" with a boy named Ronnie; her teacher that she likes alot asked her to teach one of her classmates his times tables, so Ida B. did and she became somewhat close, although she didn't want to call them friends.

Some people bought a ration of Ida B.'s dad's land that told her it was going to be hers one day. The people cut down trees, alot, and started building a house. Ida B. got mad so she put signs up warning those people about diseases, animals that carried poisons and hurtful things that didn't exist in the area.

Thus, a little girl and her brother -that were moving in across the street- went for a walk and went by Ida B.'s named trees. She jumped out of the tree she was sitting and watching them in and yelled at the little kids. The small boy started crying, and the girl revealed herself; it was one of Ida B.'s classmates. They argued and Clair, her classmate, refused to leave. Ida told her to leave, yelled and shouted finally she left.

The next day at school Ida made sure she wouldn't fall for Claire's tricks, or not be paying attention to Clair or what she did. So she was cautious about what she did, where she did it, and every detail. A few days went by, then two weeks, and nothing happened.

One day at school she read a book to and in front of all of kids in her class. She went home and wanted to tell her parents but something was wrong. After telling them about her happiness she figured out all that was wrong, she didn't want to become closer with her dying mother.

Ida didn't want to let her guard down on what could possibly happen.

Ellison Student said...

Kelsee
Going to try to start on:
Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn,
and other of those sequels
this weekend.

Ellison Student said...

Alec
game of marbels
finshed

Henry and James are going to live with there cousin Zeke at Bloor academy. James goes to bed and Henry goes to play marbels his favorite game. Zeke dosnt like Henry so he gets the worlds oldest marbel the time twister. If you look into it you will be sent back in time. So for revange Zeke gives Henry and Henry looks straight into it and gets sent back in time. menwhile James is freezing in his bed but three radom cats a white, a yellow, and a copper one circeled his bed. James was scared. Then they started to meow james got out of bed and followed them down the hall to were herny was playing marbels. james dident understand untill he sawl a note that said "sorry james the marbels"............

Ellison Student said...

Ranger's Apperance

A kid named Will is the weakness one in his group. Will was very scared because tommorow he was going to the king to see if he could make it to battle scholl. Hornce was a bulley to Will because Hornce always said that Will was very weak. They would always get into fites. The people in his group are Hornce, Alss, George, and a girl.

So the next day they went to the castle to see if they could make it to the thing that they wanted to. First it was Hornce and he made it to the Battle school. Next it was Alss and she made it to horse Riding. Next it was George and he made it to Climing. A girl made it to the bakery place. Last it was Will who the master thought was a little to weak and to shy.So the master said

Ellison Student said...

Emily
felicidy learns a lesson
24-finished
Felicidy meets Elizabeth Cole, a girl who moved to Williamasberg, at her lessons she became freinds with her, but her sister,Andbelle,is mead to Felicidy.Felicidy is not scared of anabelle.When Felicidy learnds that Anabelle likes her dads apprentice,Ben Davidson, she uses it againced Anabelle.Felicidy and Elizabeath went to Felicidy's father's store, they hear Felicidy's father is not going to sell tea any more because of the kings unfair taxes.

I think this book was the best book I ever read. This book let me under stand the bosten tea party beter. I learnd a great deal about Williamasberg, 1774.