Here is a link i forgot to include in the last post. It talks about a summary of the book 11 Birthdays.
11 Birthdays Summary

Intro to plot

In the book I am reading, 11 birthdays, By Wendy Mass it starts off as when the main character Amanda meets another boy while she is being born. Somehow every year faith brings them together to be met again on the day of their birth. Neither of them realized it. I am only 2 chapters into the book so far and I think it’s really good! The author uses lots of sophisticated words as well as lots of details. Like on their 10^th birthday how they both got reunited, during the birthday party coincidentally.   

                A prediction I have for the book is I think that because the books called 11 birthdays, I believe something will happen to the both of them on their 11^th birthday. Since I’m only 2 chapters into the book, right now they just turned 10 years old. I predict something like they will end up having to spend every birthday together from now on, or else maybe get separated and somehow meet each other every year. I think the two of them will end up getting married or something.  And they will be together for the rest of their birthdays. But I think something will end up happening to them by the end of the story. Probably on their birthday.  

Post 1

For my first post of the 2^nd blog, I will discuss how the book I read in the previous trimester called “My life in Pink and Green”. I really enjoyed the book. I would recommend it to teenage girls. It deals with real life situations involving girls. Because of these situations throughout the story, it makes you want to keep reading to find out what happens to the girls in the end. Also the thing that interested me in reading the book was the cover. I really liked the colors!

The setting in this book was in an older part of town located in a small city. The book had a lot of drama which made people want to read it. I would probably rate the book I read a 4.5.  I think the author might of written it from a previous situation that could’ve occurred in her life. Maybe she learned from a lesson.  

 

           

 



English Final Blog Reflections-

 

Part 1 – The blog I think best exemplifies my ability to analyze complex characters ,theme, and cite strong, textual evidence would probably be this blog: http://lexireadingblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/analysis-lucy-desberg-is-12-year-old.html#comment-form

One reason why I believe this is the best is because I gave a really thorough description on throughout the story what I felt the main points were. I included a couple really good quotes throughout when I was reading I really enjoyed them. I felt they really bring out the really exquisite ideas leading to the development towards the theme. I also deeply explained the quotes and how I Intereprated them. Though to me a sentence could mean something different from what someone else thinks. I also included page numbers to point out where I found the text. Proof my blog meets the expectations to the rubric is that in the rubric it says “The student cites strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.” And I feel throughout my example blog post I did everything it was asking me to!

 

Part 2/Choice 1- A goal I have for next trimester in my reading is to complete about 2 more books than I did this tri. I think it would be easier to compare books to each other and say I have read more in that little bit of time. For writing I would like to think about improving my writing skills like maybe learning new vocabulary to sound more sophisticated. An area I want to improve next trimester in reading would be to read more over a smaller amount of time like every night improve the pages or chapters I read. An area I want to improve in my writing is learning to make my papers longer maybe by using words in paragraphs to make them longer.

Choice 2-Something I struggled with in the experience was coming up with so many different subjects to talk about within the one story. Because there’s only so much you can talk about with one subject in the book.  I overcame through the struggle by just looking through the book and finding more evidence I could prove my topic on and explain about it. One strength I had with blogging was talking about the book because I absolutely loved the book and understood it completely.  An example is: http://lexireadingblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/blog-post-6-overview-onmy-book-right.html#comment-form

Because it shows I understood it very well.

A summary for the last chapter in this book is that themayor finally gave Lucy the chance to open her renovated store.They had a bunch of renovations done to the shop and added a lot of very cool food and make up. All the girls came in and thought lucy was very cool. Her family all came together and united and was loving. They alos got a ouse together when her sister came home. The school thought very proud of lucy.

ThemeandSummary

I beleive the theme for this book is that: When pushing for something in life, you should use the best of your ability to compelte the job or acitivty you are trying to do. MAking a difference in that thing you are trying to do can really impact yours or someone esles life. When lucy wanted to helpher family out within the story and the pharmacy, she didnt quit she always kept going and asking for new ways to help people and always on task.