Quarter 4 - Blog #6

For this blog I decided to blog about the book that we are reading in class. It's called Percepolus (I think that's how you spell it?),I think that it's kind of a weird book though. It's a book about this girl who lives in Iran, but the kind of cool thing is that it the book is written in comic book form. The book is a true story and it written from the perspective of this little girl who is only ten years old. I guess it's kind of cool to see a childs perspective on very controversial issues, but I don't really see the point in reading it, other than the fact that our end-of-the-year project is to do a comic strip. Oh well, I guess that's what school is for. But it is definetley NOT something that I would have picked out for myself.

Quarter 4 - Blog #5

For this blog, I'm going to blog again about the book I'm reading for class, In the Time of the Butterflies. The book is based on a true story, and I only have about 10 pages left. But in the end of the book, the three butterflies are killed. I find this really sad because they were just innocent people who wanted to better the lives of everyone. The girls were driving home from just visiting their husbands in jail, which they often do. They have to drive on a twisty-turvy deserted road. What makes it more sad is that on their way there, Minerva realized that she had a card in her purse and on the back is said "AVOID THE PASS", but it was already too late, as they were on their way. On their way back, Minerva also said that she didn't want to say overnight and wait for the storm to end, and insisted on going home. They were assassinated, a long with the driver about 10 minutes later. This is so sad to me because they were given all of these clues, but chose to ignore them.

Quarter 4 - Blog #4

For this blog I'm going to blog about the book we are reading in class. I am reading the book In The Time of the Butterflies it's a really good book, and based on a true story. It is about an underground movement to overthrow the dictator, Trujillo in the Dominican Republic in the 1950s. There are four sisters who don't like the government and just want what's best for everyone. El Jefe demands that every person hang a picture of him in their home, school, work, etc. If not, they will be jailed. He does things like this, but these end up getting Minerva, the main character in trouble. In the end three of the four sisters are assassinated because they are threatening his power. One sister is still living today and tells the story. There is also a movie base on the book called In The Time of the Butterflies.

Quarter 4 - Blog #3

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

So I have continued to read Eclipse. In the last chapter I read, Bella went to her graduation and was happy to see her dad along with Jacob and his dad there. After the graduation she went out to dinner with her dad to celebrate, and then went to Alice's house for the party. While she was at the party she noticed Alice was acting strange. Jacob also showed up and gave her a handmade charm bracelet, which Bella thought was so cute. She soon found out that the vampire army was headed to Forks, and they were looking for her. The chapter ends, but the Cullen's decided to let Jacob and his werewolf friends join them in taking down the other vampires. Hopefully they'll get along and take out Victoria.

Quarter 4 - Blog #2

For this blog we can blog about the movie we recently watched in class. We watched the movie Duel, directed by Steven Spielberg. The movie was about a guy who gets chased by a semi truck, and it was actually quite scary. The movie had some elements to it that made it eerie such as the old semi that was all dirty, and the camera angles, as was the fact that it was in the middle of no where and there were cliffs. The whole movie I kept picturing myself, if I was ever in that situations, and it was quite terrifying to think about. I mean they had no cell phones so you couldn't call anyone, and even if you did they probably wouldn't believe you. Plus you're in the middle of no where, and you are likely going to get murdered. In the end, the main character David Mann directs the semi off of a cliff. I thought it was a horrible ending, although dramatic because it seemed like they could have done more with it rather than just having him die and thats the end.

Quarter 4 - Blog #1

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer p. 287-318

So here I am, back blogging about Eclipse, yep that's right...I still haven't finished it. So why don't we pick up where we left off. So it's still on Bella's mind that she want's to become a vampire. Her graduation is only one week away, and the day will soon come. But Bella isn't so sure at some times that she's ready for this, which makes Edward happy. He also reminds her that he is not turning her until they get married. Apart from things, there is a man slaughtering of people being killed in Washington, at the Cullen's believe that a vampire is behind it, so they decided to fight them, before the Volturi get involved. So they will be gone for a week, and Edward says that some of them might not make it out alive. Meanwhile, Alice has surprised Bella by telling her that they are planning a huge graduation party for her, but Bella isn't to thrilled.

Research Summary - The Holocaust

Our group has chosen to research The Holocaust for our group research project. The holocaust started around 1940, although there were many events that lead up to it. Causes of the Holocaust include, World War I, Adolf Hitler, natural selection, nationalism, a totalitarian/fascist dictatorship, and many more. Effects of the Holocaust were, Germans isolated, PSTD (post-tramatic stress disorder), 9-11 millions of jews were killed, and many others that were not jews (17 million, to be exact), and the distrust of germans.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust