13 Reasons August/8/2014

Prompt: Summarize about what I read
Pages:0-160

     This book is about a girl who commits suicide her name is Hanna Baker. But before she died she left 13 recordings . The cassettes where of her talking about why she killed herself and the people that had to do with it. So for each recording there was a person so therefore the name 13 reasons. So the day before she died she mailed the full of the recordings to the first person of the first recording.

      Each person has to listen to there story and why caused Hanna to kill her self. After that their are two things the person can do,they can either keep listening and learn about the whole story behind is who els was apart of it. Or they can listen to the next recording just enough to find out who the next person was and send it to them. If they end up not listening to it then there would be a second copy of the recording sent out into public so the whole world find out what they did to Hanna.

     
She narrator of the book was not Hanna or the recordings but a friend of Hannas who was on the tape. Clay was the name of the friend and the story will go on and off between the recordings and Clays experiences throughout the book. When he does get the BOX he is very puzzeld to why he is on the recordings he never did anything he was even her friend. After a hour of listening he learned that he wasent the first to get the box full of the life changing objects.

Out of My Mind August/4/2014

Prompt: Summarize about the characters
Pages 175-295

     The first character I want to talk about is Melody she is the main character. She has a condition call Cerebral Palsy it makes her not capable of walking,writing,and talking. So she is basically incapable of communicating naturally. So all teachers and doctors think that she is not capable of learning which is entirely wrong because she is one of the smartest kids in her graded but is just not capable of showing it. She is a very positive girl even though lots of kids do make fun of her and think she is dump. That is why I think she is one of the more inspiring characters I have read about.

      Rose is going to be my second character I want to talk about. She is the one person who stands up to the bullies that pick on Melody and is Melodies only friend. She is very organized and is also a perfectionist. The one real flau with Rase is that she sometimes goes and hangs out with Molly and Claire (The Two people that bullie Melody the most) and leaves Melody behind. But overall Rose is a very good friend to Melody even some times goes and hangs out with Melody even when she dosent want to just to make Melody feel good.

      The last person I want to talk about is Mrs.Valencia. She is Melodies neighbor and is pretty much  Melodies older best friend. She babysites Melody and her little sister Penny all the time. Mrs.V is one of the most important people to Melody right next to her parents because she is so positive about everything Melody accomplishes and does. Mrs.V is also a very important piece in Melodies learning development.  Mrs.V also has Melodies parents trust 100 persent because of how nice and caring for Melody she is.        

Out of my Mind August/1/2014

Prompt: Summarizing about what I read
Pages:0-175

       This story is about a 11 year old girl that has photographical memory.Yes is easily one of the most brilliant kids in the school but no one knows it because she can't wright can't walk and can't talk! It is terrible because everyone thinks she is dumb. Even her teachers don't think she is capable of learning even though she knows everything an average kid would know. Imagine having to keep all of you emotions inside and not be able to tell anybody out them.

        So instead of going to the regulare class she is stuck in the special ED class. So every day Melody is faced with having to learn the exact same thing every day. The was only one person who really thought that Melody had learning potential and that was her mother she was the one always arguing at the doctors that she is capable of learning and even arguing at the teachers to move her up into the normal classes.

        So one day Melody was given a personal divise that gave her the chance to choose words that she wanted to say but the words were very limited. Finally after years of waiting the school opened up a programe that allowed the special ED kids to go to regulare classes and learn what the average kid would learn. But of course there always has to be a couple of bully's that would make fun of Melody  when she would't be listening. But like always there has to be one nice girl that would defend Melody when they would make fun of her and that girls name is Rose Melody's only friend.

Insurgent May 14

Pages read:290-350
Prompt: Paragraphs and Questions

After the attack the none dauntless traitors decided that it was't safe at the candor compound anymore. So they decided to go back to the dauntless compound because they figured that the traitors would all be at the Erudite compound. Before they went back they had to come up with new leaders to make decisions. So they nominated Tori, Harrison, And Tobias as the leaders they decided to kill Eric the once leader of Dauntless and now a traitor.

Once they killed Eric they move back to the dauntless compound and shot every camera with paintballs so that the erudite could't spy on them. After a couple of nights Catherine wake sup Tris and tells her that there are some people that are being controlled by the simulation but they are not hurting anyone instead they go to the roof of the compound and what for Tris and Catherine their. The three people that were being controlled was a little girl Hector and Marlene. Tris was very good friends with Marlene and Hector so it was very hard to deiced how to save. Christina already saved the little girl so Tris ended up having to save Hector so Marlene.

Some Questions I had:

Why did the author want to put Tris in this position?

Why did the author decide to have Hector and  Marlene be the ones that went under the simulation?

Why did Tris save Hector and not Marlene.

What made them kill Eric was it anger or was it because they were forced to.

40 Book Challenge

          The 40 book challenge has helped me read multiple books like Wonder and The Giver that I would normally not read. I have read about 20 books this year this is a lot more then I have ever read in one year. In 6th grade I probably read about 3-4 books because I would't be able to find a
book that would interest me. But the challenge forced me to read different kinds of books that I actually found to enjoy. Even though I wont be able to complete the challenge I definitely did better then all my other years. So every year am going to work on reading more books then I did the past year.
 
          I did this by setting goals for how much I should read each week. I would read before I go to bed and when I would have free time during school. I am going to able to read more books next year by finding books that interest me because those books I would be able to read the fastest. Over all the 40 book challenge helped me open up to different kinds of book.
   

Insurgent May 1

Prompt:What has happened
Pages Read:140-230


When Tris and Tobias got to the Candor compound they were placed under arrest for being accused of helping the Erudite. But to make sure the candor leader made them take the truth serum so that they would have to take the test even if they did't want to.  The candor leader found out that they were not trying to help the erudite and let them go. The only bad thing about the truth serum was that it made you tell personal things so Tobia found out about some things that Tris did not trust with him. So that night tris and Tobias have a fight about trust and things like that but after a while things got al better.

After a couple of days staying at the compound the erudite attacked but not the same way they thought they would. Instead of guns they came in with somewhat like tranquilizer guns but instead of the knockout stuff it was the simulation serum. It wasent meant to kill anyone but it was meant to find out who was divergent. Tris was able to make escape and call for help. So finally the none traitor dauntless got there and started to fight of the other dauntless.

After the simulation wore of  everyone was back away and back to normall. But tobias found out something that could be very terrible for them. The erudite found a way to make a long lasting simulation serum. The only reason why they got a away the first time was because the simulation whore of and the fact that they destroyed the simulation controls. But now the Erudite will be able to control everyone for a longer time witch could lead to disaster for the none traitors.

Insurgent April 24

Prompt: Settings
Pages Read: 90-140

          The first setting in the book was the Amity compound. The Amity compound was completely self reliant it grow it's own food made it own electricity and needed no help from the other factions. The symbol for Amity is a huge tree so in the middle of their compound Tris described it as enchanting and beautiful. The compound also has a beautiful orchard that has apple trees and other fruits that the Amity grow. The way the  Amity act is like a Democracy but to the next level.  Every little thing is voted for, every person has a role even if is not the most important role they still feel like they are very important.

          The next setting they went to was the factionless compound. It was not sanitary and was not the private at all. Their was garbage everywhere, their was also hundreds of mice and rats running around feeding of the garbage. But the factionless where trying to make the place look nicer by panting and the walls. Everyone sleept on the floor everyone used the same bathroom they did not really have space to move around comfortably . The factionless compound was still the largest faction out of all of them.

          The third Setting was  the Condor compound. The Candor compound had black marble floors that had there symbol in the middle. The compound looked like a dormitory it had small rooms lined up down long hallways. And the biggest room in the compound was the auditorium that is where Tris and Tobias where questions under the truth serum. As you got higher in the building the rooms become somewhat like jail sels this is where the people that would create trouble stay.