readers journal #17

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

         I have already started and finished the book “F My Life” by Maxime Vallete, Guillaume Passaglia, and Didier Guedj. The reason I picked out this book was because on the front of it, it had a very funny and catchy title that just made me so curious as to what it is about. A quote that I found and really liked was on the bottom cover of the book where it said, its funny, and it’s true, except when it is happening to you. The reason I like this quote and it is so significance is because it is actually true where everything is funny except when it is happening to you.

     There were six things that I did before, while, and after reading this book (2 for each). First there were two things I did before reading this book. One thing I did before reading this book was I looked at the cover of the book and notices a big “F” over a person, which gave me the clue that this book will have embarrassing scenes in the book. The second thing I did before reading this book is I skim and scanned through the book slowly just to get a clue on what the book will be about. Second I did 2 things while reading this book. One thing I did while reading this book is I pictured everything that was happening in this book in my head as if it were a movie. Another thing I did while reading this book I also notice something about how the author write his books. He puts the funny where if it the paragraph is really funny it will in very hard bold. Where if it weren’t as funny then it wouldn’t be bold. Basically, it shows you how funny it is based on how bold the paragraph is. Third I did 3 things after reading this book one thing I did after reading this book was I tried to compare some of the writing to scenes in my life. Another thing I did after reading this book is I asked myself how I could prevent any of these things happening to me.

         The genre of this book is non-fiction humor. The characteristics of this book being humor is that it shows real life, funny events of other people lives. Once a guy made a website where people would post embarrassing events of their live to express themselves and then the author said that he should make a book on all of these events since there were so much. The main idea of this book is embarrassing events that happened to people in real life and are funny ones to (implied). If I was to give this book another title I would say “Does This Only Happen To Me!” because people who get embarrassed very often are always thinking if this only happens to them. The Only supporting detail found in this book would be the FML at the end of every paragraph because it is paragraphs written by other people. And this is sensory.

The essential message of this book is to notice what happens to other people lives and see if it matches to you and don’t make the same mistake.

A cause and effect in this book would be where a lady fills her cart at the grocery store and the man says look like you are going to have a fun party and the effect would be the lady replying that it is for after my mothers funeral which embarrassed the man.

One thing that would be compared between me and some things in this book would be me and the man trying to be funny and made a fool out of himself. One thing I could contrast between me and some things in this book would be me not making most of these foolish mistakes.

I was able to find only four different text features in this book.

Bolded letters- helps you notice something important

Title- a topic in about 1-6 words on what the book will be about.

Sub- topic- tells you what the rest of the passage will be about.

Illustration- explains what you read in a picture format.

The pattern of organization of this book is cause and effect because it talks about an action, and then says the effects.

The author’s purpose for writing this book is to entertain readers with funny and embarrassing events of other people.

There is no author’s perspective because it is necessarily his writing.

Every word in this book was simple and I understood each and everyone clearly.

(Text-to-self) This book reminds me of some of the mistakes I have went through in my life.

(Text-to-text) this book reminds me of another book called “that’s what she said” which is also humor

(Text-to-world) this book reminds me of the mistakes of other people that I know.

I would recommend this book to people over ages 13 and older as long as they are mature about what they here in this book. If I were in any of the people shoes I would never overcome it and will be very humiliated. If I would rate this book I would rate a 10 out of 10 because all of the information was actually funny and I am really enjoying it.

                           Sincerely,

                                    Ofek Peer

Readers Journal #16

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

         I have already started and almost finished with the book “F My Life” by Maxime Vallete, Guillaume Passaglia, and Didier Guedj. The reason I picked out this book was because on the front of it, it had a very nice and catchy title that just made me so curious as to what it is about. A quote that I found and really liked was on the bottom cover of the book where it said, its funny, and it’s true, except when it is happening to you. The reason I like this quote and it is so significance is because it is actually true where everything is funny except when it is happening to you.

     There were six things that I did before, while, and after reading this book (2 for each). First there were two things I did before reading this book. One thing I did before reading this book was I closely looked at the cover of the book and notice a big “F” over a person, which gave me the clue that this book will have embarrassments in it. The second thing I did before reading this book is I skim and scanned through the whole book slowly just to get a clue on what the book will be about. Second I did 2 things while reading this book. One thing I did while reading this book is I pictured everything that was happening in this book in my head as if it were a movie. Another thing I did while reading this book I also notice something about how the author write his books. He puts the funny where if it the paragraph is really funny it will in very hard bold. Where if it isn’t as funny then it wont be bold. Basically, it shows you how funny it is based on how bold the paragraph is. Third I did 3 things after reading this book. I cannot say what I have done after reading this book since I haven’t finished reading it yet

         The genre of this book is non fiction humor. The characteristics of this book being humor is that it shows real life, funny events of peoples lives. Once a guy made a website where people would post embarrassing events of their live to express themselves and then the author said that he should make a book on all of these events since there were so much. The main idea of this book is embarrassing events that happened to people in real life and are funny ones to (implied). If I was to give this book another title I would say “Does This Only Happen To Me!” because people who get embarrassed very often are always thinking if this only happens to them. The Only supporting detail found in this book would be the FML at the end of every paragraph because it is paragraphs written by other people. And this is sensory.

The essential message of this book is to notice what happens to other people lives and see if it matches to you and don’t make the same mistake.

A cause and effect in this book would be where a lady fills her cart at the grocery store and the man says look like you are going to have a fun party and the effect would be the lady replying that it is for after my mothers funeral which embarrassed the man.

One thing that would be compared between me and some things in this book would be me and the man trying to be funny and made a fool out of himself. One thing I could contrast between me and some things in this book would be me not making most of these foolish mistakes.

I was able to find only four different text features in this book.

Bolded letters- helps you notice something important

Title- a topic in about 1-6 words on what the book will be about.

Sub- topic- tells you what the rest of the passage will be about.

Illustration- explains what you read in a picture format.

The pattern of organization of this book is cause and effect because it talks about an action, and then say the effects.

The authors purpose for writing this book is to entertain readers with funny and embarrassing events of other people.

There is no authors perspective because it is necessarily his writing.

Every word in this book was simple and I understood each and everyone clearly.

(text-to-self) This book reminds me of some of the mistakes I have went through in my life.

(text-to-text) this book reminds me of another book called “that’s what she said” which is also humor

(text-to-world) this book reminds me of the mistakes of other people that I know.

I would recommend this book to people over ages 13 and older as long as they are mature about what they here in this book. If I was in any of the people shoes I would never overcome it and will be very humiliated.

 If I was to rate this book I would rate a 10 out of 10 because all of the information was actually funny and I am really enjoying it.

                           Sincerely,

                                    Ofek Peer

Current Event #3

Title: Animal shelter’s behavior experts face life and death decision for animals

Author: by john Owens

Source: Miami Herald

The topic of the article is Animals behavior

The main idea of the article is: how animals are loosing their lives because of aggression to others

The author’s purpose for writing this article is to inform readers on animals around that are loosing their lives. (Implied)

The pattern of organization of the article is argument and support.

 The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is because it says that they are killing dogs and reason why.

The text features included in the article are: Topic

The topic helps by telling you what the following passage will be about This article is about how animal who aren’t qualified as harmless animals are killed. Mostly for aggression. The story also included that they run animals through a series of behavioral tests, and those who pass can move on to adoption, while those who fail may be euthanized, joining the 7,400 dogs and 11,000 cats put to death at Chicago shelters annually

Current Events Journal The significance (importance) of this article is that animals are loosing lives only because they are not applicable for adoption.

What I learned from this article is that 7,400 dogs and 11,000 cats died.

 What I liked about this article is that all of the information was accurate and all of my questions were easily answered.

What I did not like about it  was that in the middle of reading it was very sad and I just couldn’t believe what was happening.

People over 13 years old should read this article because the information must be taken maturely and they might also read it and think about it a different way.

This article reminds me of (text-to-self) when my friend David when he lost his dog for to much aggression.

(text-to-text) This article reminds me of the book buddy when the dog dies for trying to save his 6 doggies.

(text-to-world) this article reminds me of all the crazy pit bulls in the world who always bite humans.

There were no words in this article that I didn’t understand. 

readers journal #15

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

          I have just finished reading the book "The Single Shard" by on of the most outstanding authors Linda Sue Park. The main reason I picked this passage was because it was the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children like me. The significant of this passage was it started out as a poor kid living under a bridge to that little 12 year old working with a potter then named by the potters dead son (Hung-Up). There were 6 reading strategies I used to read this book. I did 2 things before I read this book. First, I read the synopsis at the back of the book to get a hang of what I am going to be reading. Second, I looked at the picture and noticed the award it got for its ratings. There are 2 things I did while reading this book. First, I imagined everything I was reading in my mind. Second, I stopped at every chapter and thought about what I have read so far in that chapter. There are two things I did after reading this book. First, I put the book down and thought the whole book threw to see if I remember everything. Second, I looked for a full summary to check if I missed anything in the book and to get the information to anything I misunderstood.

          This book is fiction- historical fiction. There are no characteristics that it is fiction except that it is not true but can happen. There are four main characters in this story. The first one is tree ear and he is a very nice boy that always helps is old friend crane man. Tree ear is not selfish at all and always make sure that crane man gets something to eat. The second character in this story is crane man who lives with tree ear. Crane man is an old guy that is able to make sandals for tree ear every time he needs. The third character is Min, who ends up teaching tree ear how to make pots out of clay. Min is a very angry man that is mad because his son died when he was at a very young age.  The fourth character is Amija, mins wife and the one that always gives good care to tree ear. Ajima is a very nice old lady that loves tree ear so much and feeds him every time for lunch and sometimes supper. The protagonists are all of the 4 characters who were just mentioned. There is no antagonist in this story. The foils in this story are the guards. This story took place in Ch’ulp’o, Korea. The time was around the 12th century with summer weather conditions the winter weather condition. (Exposition) Tree ear was a poor orphan that lives under a bridge with is friend crane man who is very old. (Rising action) Everyday he watches a potter make pots and one time he came in without the potter knowing and dropped a pot. The potter who’s name was Min got extremely mad at him and made tree ear work for him for 9 straight days. (Climax) There was another master potter named Kang and want to show the royals his pot as did Min. (falling action) Tree ear goes to mins house and finds the pot that Min has been working on smashed in pieces on the ground. Tree ear at first thought that it was Min who smashed it in frustration but they found out that it was a robber. Mins wife then comes in and tells tree ear to get more clay for Min. The royals come in and says that they want to see mins pot where tree ear was only able to show him a single shard of the smashed pot. Tree ear was very curious as to which pot he would pick and he had picked tree ears saying that he picked the single shard because of the resources used to it and that he had seen Min doing a lot of pots and deserves it. Min got a commission for the royals for 1 and half years. (Resolution) although with all of the happiness tree ear was very unsatisfied hearing that crane man has died from a hard attack, which meant tree ear had to live with Min and his wife. Since tree ear was to live with Min and his wife Amija asked tree for one favor and that favor was to be able to call tree ear Hyung-Gu the name of Min and Amija’s son. Therefore tree ear gladly accepted. The main conflict is internal, man vs. self. The tone of this story is that the author thinks that at the end of the story tree ear didn’t hear what he want to hear at the end of the story when he was told that crane man died. The mood of the story is the tree ear got his favorite dream come true but lost one of his best friends, which makes the reader both sad and happy. The theme of this book is that with one piece you can prove so much. The moral of this story is something will happen when you do not expect it like when tree ear never expected to learn how to make a pot, he learned from master Min. The point of view in this story is first person. The author’s purpose in writing this book is to entertain people about how it was like in the 12th century. The figurative languages in this book are topic, sub-topic, italics, bolded words, and pictures. 

          This book was awarded for a great reason. A good reason it was awarded was because it’s setting was about 8 centuries ago. Historical fiction is on of my favorite sub genres only because it is about what happened a long time ago. Linda Sue Park is an amazing author and I plan on reading more of her books.

          If I were to rate this book on what I personally think of it I would give it a 10 of 10. The reason I would give it a rate of 10 of 10 is because as I said it is historical fiction, which is my favorite sub-genre.  

                                                Sincerely,

                                                       Ofek Peer

Reader’s Journal #14: The Boy In The Striped Pajama’s

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,
          I had just finished reading the book “ The Boy In The Striped Pajamas “ by John Boyne. The reason I picked this passage because I have had some recommendation on it and also heard a lot about it. The significants of this passage is that it is a fable in time of the holocaust. I had done 6 reading strategies before, during, and after reading this book (2 of each). First I did two things before reading this book. The first thing I did was I read the back telling it is a great book and once it is in my hands I wont put it down until I finished plus the synopsis. The second thing I did before reading this book is I noticed the picture on the front of the book which was blue and even lighter blue stripes. There was 2 things I did during reading this book. First I imagined every single thing that was happening in this book. Second thing I did during reading this book is I stopped after every single chapter, I went to the first page, and tried to remember what happen on every single page one bye one. There were 2 things I did after reading this book. First I asked my brother about it after I heard he watched the movie and discussed it. Second I just reminded myself every single thing that happened from chapter 1 to chapter 20.
          This book is a fable. The main characters were Bruno (protagonist), Gretel (protagonist), mother (foil), and father (antagonist). The places were Berlin and Germany. The time was 1942. The weather conditions were sunny and some rainy. (exposition) It started out as Bruno coming up stairs and sees his waitress maria packing is belongings. He did not understand what was happening. He later on found out that he had to move to place for his dads work. (rising action) When Bruno had moved with Gretel (his sister) mother and father. When he got to his room he looked out the window and saw all these people in striped pajamas behind a fence pretty far away from his house. Bruno hated his house all he wanted to do was leave back to his normal home in Berlin with all of his friends, in the house with 5 floors and a banister where he would be able to slide down. (climax) Bruno was the exploring kind of guy, he liked to do a lot of traveling. he would usually explore his old house but, his new house was only 2 floors therefore there is nothing to find. One day Bruno got out of his house and started walking towards a gate and right when he was going to turn back he saw a dot, then the dot became a speck, then the speck became a blob, then the blob became a figure, then the figure became a boy. This boys name was Shmuel and then they started to talk. This boy became Brunos best friend even though he was on the other side of the fence. (falling action) Its been  a year the Bruno and Shmuel has been talking and every time Bruno met him he would bring him some bread and sometimes he would bring some chocolate. Brunos grandma died therefore he had to go back to Berlin for the funeral. They had slept for a night or two in there old 5 floor house although Bruno did not like it much anymore over there. He just wanted to go back to his new house stay there and talk to his best friend. (resolution) Brunos mom was not able to take it at all in there new house and she just wanted to go back to the old house. the final decision was that Bruno, his mom. and sister go back to Berlin in the old house. 2 days before Bruno went to the fence and started talking to Shmuel. He told him that it will be his last day tomorrow. Shmuels grandfather was lost and he need help looking for him. since they both look the same Bruno said to meet him tomorrow at the same time and to bring a set of the striped pajamas to make him look like the rest. As they walked and walked and saw no sign and right when Bruno was going to say goodbye the soldiers came and led every one to some sort of room. The room got dark and no matter what Bruno was still holding Shmuels hand not expecting to let go. People were crowded all over and after that it was the end of Bruno and Shmuel.
          The main problem is that Bruno must leave his new home leaving behind shmuel (external). character vs self. The tone of this story is unpleasant throughout the whole story. The mood is very sad at the end and was just unbelievable. The theme of this story is to appreciate every single thing you get, because you have more then what others do. The moral of this story is when you love something just let it go. The point of view in this book is first person. The POO of this story is cause and effect. The authors purpose of writing this book is to entertain.
          This book took some time for it to get to the main point. I liked it a lot because it gave me a better meaning on what happened in the holocaust. This is the second book I have ever read in my whole life about the holocaust. They are one of my favorite books I have ever read.
          If I was to rate this book out of 10 I would rate it a 9 because the rising action was not so clear until the end.
                                                           sincerely,
                                                                   ofek peer

readers journal #13 When I Was Your Age

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

            I have just finished reading a great book called “when I was your age”. This book was edited Amy Ehrlich. The significance of this book is that it is written by a couple of people from when they were very young. I picked this book because I am curious on how other people lived when they were very young. There were six things I did before, while, and after reading this book. First there were 2 things I did before reading this book. One thing I did before reading this book is that I skimmed and scanned through the whole of the book to see what it will or might look like. Another thing I did before reading this is I focused on the cover page on the front and noticed the list of people written at bottom half part of the book. Second there were two things I did while reading this book. One thing I did while reading this book is I imagined every scene in the book according to what I remember. Another thing I did while reading this book is after each short story I would stop and memorize everything that happened. Third there were two things I did after reading this book. One thing I did after reading this book is went to every story to memorize what had happened. Another thing I did while reading this book is whatever I forgot or didn’t understand I would go through.

            The genre of this book is non-fiction memoir. A summary statement of this book would be “a book about other people when they were very young” and this is stated another title for this book “would be my life as a child.” The rest of this reader’s journal will be based on one of the six stories. On supporting detail is shrimp and this detail is factual. Another supporting detail is small and this is also factual. The third supporting detail was large and this too is factual. The essential message of this book is that size really doesn’t matter. A cause and effect in this story is the size of Paul is the cause and him getting bullied is the effect.one way I can compare Paul to my life is that we are both boys. One way I can contrast

Paul to my life is that he was short for his age and I am tall for my age. There were a total of five text features that I found in this book.

1.     Title- helps and gives the reader what the book will look like

2.     Sub-title- helps tell the reader what the following few paragraphs will be about.

3.     Italics- helps tells the reader and important word.

4.     Photographs- this helps the reader get a picture of what character looks like.

There was no other text feature other then theses that I had found the pattern of organization in this book is flashback. The authors purpose of writing this book is to inform the readers of other peoples lives when they were young.  The author’s perspective is that Paul as a little boy didn’t have a lot of fun. The point of view in this book is first person. There weren’t any vocabulary in this book that I didn’t understand.

            (text-to-self) This book reminds me of other boys in my class that are very short.

            (text-to-text) This book reminds me of the book bullies where it is about a bully who always picks on little kids and not people his own size.

            (text-to-world) This book reminds me of all the people in the world who are very short for example my brother who is 15 and my height.

            I would recommend this book to people who curious about adults when they were little kids. If I was in this authors shoes I would never be able to live.

            If I was to rate this book out of ten I would give it a ten out of ten because of the good idea and the valid information of the people. 

Readers journal #12 When I Was Your Age

(This reader’s journal is based on one out ten short stories from this book)

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

            I have just finished reading the book “When I Was Your Age.” Amy Ehrlich edited this book. The significance of this story Learning To Swim is that it talks about a scene of a person’s life, and then it reflects on her a little bit into the future. The reason I picked this book is because when I look at the title it says when I was your age, which meant it, contain life lessons for people that were my age and already lived through it. There were six things I did before, while and after reading this story. First I did two things before reading this story. One thing I did before reading this story is I skim and scanned for text features. Another thing I did before reading this book is I looked at the picture it showed on the first page and observed it to see what the rest of the story would be like. Second there were two things I did while reading this book. One thing I did while reading this book is I captured every seen as if it were a movie. Another thing I did while reading this book is I thought of how this can relate to my life. Third there were two things I did after reading this book. One thing I did after reading this book is I thought of the whole story and if I would forget something then I would go back and read it again. Another thing I did after reading this book is I asked myself questions like what lesson did I learn from it.

            The genre of this book is short story/ memoir. The reason it is this genre is because it contains memories of people when they were younger. The main idea of this book was that if you love something you must let it go and always face your fears. This statement was implied. Another title for this book would be my mother who taught me bravery. The reason that I would pick this title is because most of this story was kyoko learning how to be brave from her mom. One supporting detail I found in this story was my mom taught me how, and this is factual. Another supporting detail I found in this story was when my mom turned thirty-eight she had became overcome by happiness, which is factual. The last supporting detail I found was she had told me to let go of her, which is too factual. The essential message in this story is always overcome a tragedy or fear in your life. One cause and effect relationship in this story is kyoko went to the beach and the effect is that she learned to swim. One thing that I would have in common with kyoki (comparing) is that we both try hard for something we wish.  There were five text features that I found in this story:

1.     photograph- a picture of what the main characters look like.

2.     Topics- what the whole story will be about

3.     Sub-Topics- a topic of what the following passage will be like.

4.     Italicized- important words.

5.     Bolded- important words.

The pattern of organization of this article is chronological order because it told everything in order.

The authors purpose for writing this book is to explain a issue in her life, and how she overcame it. This story was basically on the others life as a child so there was no authors perspective. The point of view is first person.

(Text-to-self) This story remind me of the time I had to overcome the fear of rollercoasters.

(text-to-text) This book reminds me of the book I read on a boy who had overcome the fear of heights.

(text-to-world) This book reminds me of the time when a couple boys in Israel had drowned in the beach for going to far off the shore.

            I would mainly recommend this book for every one from the age of fifteen and younger. The reason is because this is about life lessons of people when they were about fifteen and younger. If I was in this persons shoes I never would have taken car of it the way she did. I would have died on the beach the way I was especially if I didn’t have the mom with the encouragement. If I was to rate this book out of ten I would give it a ten out of ten. The reason is because it gave accurate information and I couldn’t drop the book for one second.

                                                Sincerely,

                                                            Ofek Peer  

Current Event #2

Date: November 10, 2011

Name: Ofek Peer

Title: A legacy of service: Three generations of pines family have served in military  

Author: Perry Stein

Source: Internet

The main idea of the article is (implied/stated): three generations of pines family have served in the military (stated).

The author’s purpose for writing this article is to inform the readers on what is happening within some of the families who serve in the military

The author’s perspective in this article is biased because he is proud to write about a family who has lived three generations in the military.

The pattern of organization of the article is flashback

The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is because it discusses what happened to Bolivia Perez Rios and a little bit of his life in the military.

The text features included in the article are: photographs. Picturing what author is trying to explain to the reader. Sub-topics help by telling the reader what the next few parts of the article would be about. Captions help by explaining to the readers what is happening in the photograph or picture.

This article is about Bolivar, a soldier who served in the army. It talks about him in 1942 and how he fought in World War II. This article also talks about his family. His family has been living for three generations on after the other each one serving the army.

Current Events Journal

The significance (importance) of this article is that it speaks about how a 92 year old man how served the army for 70 years and how his son, his grandson, and his great grandson are serving the army.

What I learned from this article is who Bolivar Perez was and what he lived and gone though just to serve his country.

What I liked about this article is that it had absolute accurate information and answered every single question I had about it.

What I did not like about it is that there was one part in which it wasn’t accurate on. It didn’t include much information about his kids and how they serve the army.

I think that every person who is not appreciating everything that the military does for them and help them live because then they would probably stat appreciating.

This article reminds of how I always stand up for myself, the book I read about a boys in the military, and how every time I watch the news it talks about the military and what is going on with them

There was no new vocabulary what so ever for me. 

Readers Journal #11 When I Was Your Age

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

         I have just finished reading the book “When I was Your Age” edited by Amy Ehrlich. The reason that I picked this book is because on the front of the book (cover) it says “original stories about growing up”. This meant that this book isn’t just a bunch of whole stories because below there was all sorts of authors. The significance of this book is that most of the book was sort of interviewing. For example the title of one was “interviewing with a shrimp.”

         There were six things that I did before, while and after reading this book. First I did two things before reading this book. One thing I did before reading this book is I looked and stared at this book cover to see what it would probably be about. Another thing I did before reading this book is I flipped though the book and noticed that before every short story it showed a picture of the author when he was young. Second there were two things I did while reading this book. One thing I did while reading this book is I pictured everything that was happening in my mind. Another thing I did while reading this book is I compared what happened to my childhood. Third there were two things I did after reading this book. One thing I did after reading this book is I compared thee possible mistakes in this book and compared it to possible mistakes that can happen to me. Another thing I did after reading this book is I rethought about it and thought of some lessons that can probably be taught. The genre of this book was short story/ memoir. One characteristic of this book being short story/ memoir is that there are whole lot of stories of different authors life when they were young. The main idea of this book is that some famous people had a regular childhood just like any other kid. This statement was implied. If I was to  give this book another title I would say “My Childhood Memory.” The reason I would choose this title is because when a reader sees this title (about 13 perhaps) he would see the rest of the cover and see famous names and their childhood memories. One supporting detail that describes the main idea would be interview. This detail is factual. Another supporting detail is when because this gives you a hint that the book is a memoir. This detail is sensory. The third supporting detail is bus problems. This is sensory. The essential message in this book is that everyone is able to have the same childhood. In one of the short stories there was one easy seeing cause and effect. One cause of Paul Fleischman was that he was very short in his high school years. And the effect was embarrassing things like he said when he is doing a math problem in class sometimes he wasn’t able to reach to the top. Something that I would compare and contrast from this book to me would be me to Norma Fox Mazer is that she had an annoying friend with the nicest mom and dad that she doesn’t want their relationship to drift away. I have an annoying friend who isn’t really my friend. Five different text features in this book were title, sub-tile, some italicized, photographs, and bolded words. There were a lot off stories so pattern of organization for one of them would be cause and effect because the main character had an annoying friend and the effect is that his parents are really nice and she doesn’t want to ruin the relationship with his parents. The author’s purpose for writing this book is to inform readers on different famous peoples life. The point of view of this book is first person. I was familiar with every single word in this book and if there were some that I heard of before I used obvious context clues to understand. If I was to rate this book out of ten I would give it a ten because it had valid and factual information on each person. I would recommend this book to anyone from 5^th grade and up.

                                    Sincerely,

                                             Ofek Peer

Readers Journal #10 Magicball

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

         I have just finished reading a short story called “Magicball” by Shelly Morris.  The reason I picked this passage is because it was about sport and I really enjoy sports. The significances of this passage is that it is about a little boy who had is life as a boy changed around all because of one magical ball. There were six things I did before, while, and after reading this book. First there were two things I did before reading this book. One thing I did before reading this story is I skim and scanned through it for words I wouldn’t understand and a little buzz on what it would be about. Another thing I did before reading this story is I thought of some elements like point of view, mood, tone, etc. Second, there were two things I did while reading this story. One thing I did while reading this story is I pictured everything that was happening in my mind scene by scene as if it were a movie. The second thing I did while reading this story is related to my everyday life. Last, there were two things I did after reading this story. On thing I did after reading this story is thought on what I read and if I liked it or not. Another thing I did while reading this story is I wrote about what it is that I have read.

         The genre of this story is fiction- short story. The reason it is fiction is because there were some unnatural events and it was a short story. The characters were mike, his baseball friends, and his mom. The foils were the lady who worked at the baseball card store. The place in this story was at a baseball field. So was the time and social conditions. The weather conditions were probably sunny because most of the story was outside. The exposition was about mike keep striking out on every throw. The rising action was that mike wasn’t close to any ones level at all in baseball. The climax was mike getting a ball that mike thought would be a magical ball from an old man. The falling action was mike hitting a big homerun against the people who were kept screaming at how bad he was. After this everyone felt embarrassed at what had happened. The resolution was mike going back to the store and noticed that the old man that gave him the magical ball was on a poster as a professional baseball in the mid 1900’s. The main problem was that mike had no experience in baseball while it was his only and best sport. This is internal man vs. self. The tone and mood of this story is very sad with mike and his baseball experience. The theme of this story is never to give up on yourself according to what others think of you. The moral of this story would be just like the theme not to give up on yourself according to what others think of you. The point of view is first person. The pattern of organization of this story is argument and support because the other kids thought that mike was bad and the support was that mike came back and proved them all wrong. The author’s purpose for writing this story was to entertain. I would recommend this story to most kids in elementary school or lower. If I were to rate this story I would give it a ten out of ten. The reason that I would give it a ten out ten is because it had nothing wrong with it. The story had every peace of plot structure needed.    

                                    Sincerely,          

                                             Ofek Peer   

Current Event #1

Date: October 24, 2011

Name: Ofek Peer

Title: Will steve jobs final vendetta haunt google

Author:the author’s purpose for writing this article is to inform the reader on what happened before steve jobs co-founder of apple before he died on october 

Source: Miami herald 

The topic of the article is “Will steve jobs final vendetta haunt google?"

The main idea of the article is steve jobs frustrated about google nearly copying one of apples best products the iphone 5(implied). 

The author’s purpose for writing this article is to inform the reader on what happened before steve jobs co-founder of apple, died on october 

The pattern of organization of the article is cause and effect. 

The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is because this article  was a biography of steve jobs life and that is just how it turned out in his life.

The text features included in the article are sub topics, captions, and bolded words. sub topics helps by letting the reader know about what the following passage will be about, the captions helps by explaining for example what is shown in a picture, and bolded words helps by telling the important words.

This article is about two whole different things. it starts off first with about how steve jobs dying. Then the article starts talking about steve jobs frustrated with how google made a phone very similar to the iphone. 

Current Events Journal

The significance (importance) of this article is to remember all of the great things that steve jobs has gone through before he died just to give people an amazing working phone such as the iphone. 

What I learned from this article is that if you work hard you will definitely will succeed no matter what happens.

What I liked about this article is how it explained everything about the conflict between apple and google so simple and detailed.

What I did not like about it is it did include some facts that were really not important. 

I think that every fan and human that is a fan of the amazing working company apple.

This article reminds me of when i worked so hard and didn’t give up on my home work just to make it better then the rest of the classes, the book i read that was about  PERFECT man and always cares about what happens, and the effort that steve jobs put into his company.

Word: antipathy

Context Clues: toward google

Meaning: a natural or basic repugnance

word: vitriol

context: as he discussed the belief of google stealing

meaning: something highly caustic or severe in effect

word: manifesto

context: conversation

meaning: intentions motives or opinins

Reader’s Journal #9: I, Q

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

         I am very close to finishing the book I, Q by Roland Smith. So far this book is amazing. I have gotten to the falling action part of this book, which means that I am almost finished. This book is 300 pages therefore it took me two weeks. The reason I picked this book is because it contains stuff about secret services and that interests me. Another reason why I picked this book is because I have already read two books by Roland Smith (Zach’s lie and Jack’s run), which are amazing and almost my favorite books. The significances of this book are that it contains realistic fiction content where half is realistic fiction and the other half is mystery.

         I did six things before, while, and after reading this book. First, there were two things I did before reading this book. One thing I did before reading this book is I skim and scanned through some text features. One thing I noticed was that since the book was about someone traveling then every time the main characters ended up in a new place it would show a picture on a map of where they are. Another thing I did before reading this book is read the synopsis in he back, which is the first thing that caught my attention to read this book. Second, there were two things I did while reading this book. One thing did while reading this book is after every detail or action I imagined it in my head as a scene in a real movie. Another thing I did while reading this book is I carefully read and after every chapter I made sure I understood what happened. Third there were two things I did after reading this book. One thing I did after reading this book is I went online looked for a summary and found out if I fully understood the whole story and didn’t miss anything.

         The genre of this book is fiction-mystery. The characteristics of this book being a mystery is that it talks about two kids and one secret agent finding out if another secret agent is still alive. The main characters in this book is Angela which is the protagonist and Q’s step sister, Q Angela’s step brother and is a protagonist, Boney the protagonist who is the secret spy looking for the other secret spy, and the terrorist are the antagonist. There are a multiple amount of settings but the place in which the story starts is Nevada. The weather conditions were N/A. the social conditions were in the future. This book starts of with a couple of musicians getting married. Roger and blaze. Angela was roger’s daughter and Q was blaze’s son. Roger and Blaze are very good musicians where they are so good they are going on a cross-country tour. Q and Angela must go with them and do there school work over the computer. When they get to Nevada they come upon a man named boney. Blaze, Q’s mom, knows him. As Q finds out that Angela’s mom had died from a bomb and then found out that she died from a bomb while being a spy.  After this boney has said that he is too a secret spy. As they find out that Angela’s mother is still alive they find out that someone is trying to kill them. This is where I got up to in this book and hopes to finish.

         The conflict of this book is man verse society and external conflict. The tone of this book would be curious as to how the reader would feel while reading this book. The mood is very curious and just can’t wait until I find out the resolution. The theme of this book cannot yet be found because I haven’t yet finished the book. Although, the theme might be if you love something set it free. The moral of this book is never to put your head down. The point of view is third person objective. The pattern of organization is very hard because the book is very long and I haven’t yet finished it. The author’s purpose for writing this book was to entertain the reader.  If I were to rate this book I would give it a ten out of 10. The reason I gave it a ten out of 10 is because the book contain very good and understandable details. Another reason why I gave this book a ten out of ten is because I got very curious after every other page. This book is probably the best book I have ever read out of all of the other eight books.    

                                    Sincerely,

                                             Ofek Peer

         

Readers Journal #8 IQ

Reader’s Journal #8: IQ

Dear Mrs. Zrhien,

I have just finished reading the book “IQ” by Roland Smith. This book is 300 pages; therefore I did not finish reading it. The reason I picked this book because I have already read two books by Roland Smith, which are Zach’s lie and Jack’s run and those book were amazing so I decided to read another one of his books. The significance of this book is that it doesn’t necessarily sort the book by chapters it sorts the book by main ideas and what the next few pages will be about.

There were six things I did before, during, and after reading this book. First I did two things before reading this book. The first thing I did before reading this book is I flipped a little bit through the pages and saw all of the books written by Roland Smith. The second thing I did before reading this book is I looked to see how many page there were and skim and scanned a little bit through about half of the book and notice how the book was organized.

I then did two things during reading this book. The first thing I did while reading this book is I imagined every single thing that was happening in my mind as if I was watching a movie on TV. The second thing I did while reading this book is I kept asking my self what do I think will happen next.

Last, I did two things after reading part of the book. One thing I did after reading part of this book is I thought of everything that I read and combined all of the information. Another thing I did was after I combine everything I read together I asked my self certain questions like how I think this book would end or what will happen next etc.

The genre of this book is a mystery. The reason that it is a mystery is because it focuses on the reader always being curious. The protagonist in this book        so far from what I read is all of the characters blaze, roger, buddy T, and Angela. So far there are no antagonist unless there are but I just haven’t gotten to that point yet. The foils are the two security guards with buddy T. the setting of this book so far is in San Francisco.

From what I have read so far is mostly the exposition. I read the part of the book where it introduces all of the characters and what they do. Roger has a daughter named and Angela. Quest Munoz but Q for short with his mother Blaze Munoz. Buddy T is Roger’s manager. Roger is a singer. Blaze and Roger are getting married therefore Q and Angela are brother and sister. Q is thirteen and Angela is fifteen and Q really liked Angela but he can now only like her as a sister.

I cannot say the conflict cause I haven’t got there yet. Although, I read the back and saw it said that Angela’s mom has been killed by a terrorist while she was working for the US secret service and the Israeli Mossod. The question I can’t answer yet is who is the good guy and who is the bad guy. The tone of this book would be very confident on how it would turn out. The mood of this book is very curious within the next pages. I haven’t finished the book so I cannot yet tell the them/motif, moral, pattern of organization, author’s purpose, and author’s perspective. The point of view is third person objective.

The main reason I picked this book was because it had the same characters of Zach’s and Jack’s run. Although, another reason I got this book was because when I read the back I saw that it was about a highly rated Israeli service.

If I was to rate this book I would rate it so far a 10 out of 10. The reason is because it gave me the specific place what is happening an how its happening. This made me feel like I was actually in the story.

                                    Sincerely,

                                                Ofek peer