Week 8

Week 1 10.18.10 - 10.22.10It is important for readers to understand what is happening in their books, who the characters are and what the theme is. In your response, outline the following: Plot, Setting, Characters, and Universal Theme. Provide evidence to support your thinking from your book.

           I am reading Houdini by Clinton Cox

           
           The plot of my book is about the life of Harry Houdini and his dream to become famous. When Houdini was a young boy, he wanted to become vary famous, so he decided to learn how to pick locks for food. When he was older he studied how to open hand cuffs and kept getting better at it. Eventually for a job he worked at dime museums performing with his brother, and throughout the years Harry Houdini kept getting bigger. Houdini also extols his mother.

             
             The setting of my book takes place in a lot of places such as the dime museums, Houdini's house and the Mississippi river.These are just a few places that the book takes place at. The book also takes place in countries such as Germany, France, the U.S, the U.K, Turkey, Russia, and some parts of Mexico.

             
              The characters in my book are, Harry Houdini, Mayer Samuel Weiss, Cecilia Steiner Weiss, Bernard Drachman. etc...

              A Universal Theme in my book is, Houdini is one of the most famous magician of his time and he keeps trying more challenging tricks that are "taking a toll on his body". 





           

Week 6

9.27.10 - 10.1.10 Week 6
It is important for readers to understand what is happening in their books, who the characters are and what the theme is. In your response, outline the following: Plot, Setting, Characters, and Universal Theme. Provide evidence to support your thinking from your book.
                                              The book I am reading is Houdini by Clinton Cox.
     
         The characters in my book are magicians who work for money. They are vary loquacious and vary talented. The story takes place in a lot of places including, dime museums and other places.

          The plot is that a young boy named Ehrich later named Harry Houdini.

Week 2

The book I am reading is Storm Thief by Chris Wooding.


The characters in my book are expressing themselves by what they say, it makes me think that the way I express myself is completely different. They express themselves different in the way they move, talk, react to something, etc.
I don't usually say anything at any time except for when I have to. So I have different thoughts about expressing myself and the way I communicate.

Week 3

The connections I can make to my book (Storm thief by Chris Wooding) are that in most countries around the world are in a communist state. Like in the book, on pieces of land like Cuba the people are not allowed to leave their country and in the book they live on a piece of land that they cannot sail out to far. In some countries people live in fear of their government and in the book the people life in fear of the "Protectorate" The party that rules over them. Also in some countries the people will have an uprising and fight for their rights, While in the book the people are having an uprising and secretly trying to get out of the island. Finally the island has ghettos and in America their are ghettos.

Week 6

9.27.10 - 10.1.10 Week 6
It is important for readers to understand what is happening in their books, who the characters are and what the theme is. In your response, outline the following: Plot, Setting, Characters, and Universal Theme. Provide evidence to support your thinking from your book.
                                              The book I am reading is Houdini by Clinton Cox.
      
         The characters in my book are magicians who work for money. They are vary loquacious and vary talented. The story takes place in a lot of places including, dime museums and other places.

          The plot is that a young boy named Ehrich later named Harry Houdini. 

Week 5

9.22.10 - 9.24.10 Week 5In your book, what are some of the ways that your character(s) expresses themselves through their emotions? How do they show love? Anger? Hate? Why is this important to you as a reader?

The book I am done reading is Storm Thief by Chris Wooding.
   
        The characters in my book show love by keeping with that person and always making sure they are by each others side.  They seem never to want to leave that person and when they are missing they do their best to find the person they are with. When a person stops showing love for someone or something else, they usually betray that object or person for another one.

        The characters show hate by going after the person they hate then they try to kill that person. If another person is or has done something that that person dislikes then the other person will be hunted. So in other words, they must always make the other person happy. In the book one of the thieves named Fulmar abandoned his post to let other thieves in. So when one of the other thieves found out, Rail told Fulmar that he would tell the thief-mistress that he did that. In the book it states, "Fulmar didn't deserve the kind of punishment the thief-mistress would deal out". pg #36.
   
        The characters also show anger by ether trowing things, taking it out on someone, "cursing beneath their breath". they aether cry or rebel and don't fallow orders if they are angry.

Moral attitudes are not vary common in this book.

Week 7

Week 1

The book I am reading is Storm Thief By Chris Wooding,the place the characters are at are on an island called "Orokos". The people on the island are told that the island they are on is the only piece of land on earth. The island is built into districts witch have ghettos in them and the people living in the ghettos are not allowed to leave the ghettos. Each person in the ghettos have tattoos so they can't get out of the ghetto they are in. The main character's name in Rail, he must wear a respirator because of a storm called a probability storm, the storm made his lungs not work right. The probability storms are storms that have beams of light that are multi colored and when one touches something or someone that object or person will ether have something random changed or nothing changed at all. Rail also dose not believe there is another piece of land other then Orokos. Moa is Rail's closest Friend and she was born in an underground piece of land.