Readers Response # 13

Title of book: To Kill a Mocking Bird

Author of book: Harper Lee

So far in the book To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee I have learned about a girl named Scout that has this brother named Jem and a curious friend named Dill, and there are some other fringe characters that make this book so special to so many people. For instance, there is Atticus, there ia Author "Boo" Radley, there is Nathan Radley(Boo's older brother), there is Mr.Radley(Boo's father), and there are also a bunch of other characters.

After Mr.Radley died Nathan Radley came to watch over the house and Boo. But I think that Nathan only came to watch over things because he doesn't probably didn't trust Boo all alone by himself in the house. I say this becuase he didn't bother to come live in his dad's house before he died and he probably doesn't trust Boo because of what he did when he was younger.

Readers Response # 12

Tilte of book: Fear Street Nights; Darkest Dawn

Author of book: R.L. Stine

Pages read: Page 130- Page 182

At the end of my book Fear Street Nights; Darkest Dawn by R.L.Stine Jamie learns that she has to be careful with who she trusts because now she is in a tight situation in where she is forced to kill all of her five remaining friends.

Now that she is about to kill her last five remaining friends she has a few tricks left up her sleeve.

Listening Passage: Mona Lisa

The article "Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa" offers theories about who the real Mona Lisa was. Based on the information in the article, name one possible identity of the Mona Lisa. Use details from the article to support your answer.

One of the Mona Lisa's possible identities was that the Mona Lisa was a self portrait of Leonardo da Vinci. For example it a scientist named Dr.Schwartz compared the Mona Lisa to a self portrait of Leonardo da Vinci and found out that the pictures matched.

Reader's Response Journal # 11

Tile of Book: Fear Street Nights; Darkest Dawn
Author of Book: R.L. Stine
Pages Read: Page 35- page 130

Blog Questions:

In my book one of the main characters is Jamie. What makes her so important was that she had an accident with a horrible person that was killed named Angelica Fear, and now Jamie was at a flea market with her cousin Dana Fear and she sees this beautiful bracelet and her soon to be boyfriend Lewis stole the bracelet for her and she let him. I disagree with her decision because what is going to happen to her next is going to kill her. If I were in Jamie's situation I would have made Lewis either make him pay for the bracelet or make him go to put it back.

Jamie Richards is a senior for the second time in Shadyside High school. She would have graduated along with her close friend Lewis that they had a situation that they had broken some bones while killing Angelica Fear. In the book Fear Street Nights: The Darkest Dawn R.L. Stine didn't really mention Jamie's physical apperance.

Jamie has changed through out my book because she learned how to be careful in who she trusts.

Character Unit Intro

Question: Do people ever really change?


I think that people do change in some specific categories. But some people change because of a bad thing while others change because of good things. For example, there was this friend that i have (who will be unknown) that he changed because of the things that started to change around him like his sister got married and she moved out, they were really close so it was like he had lost his best friend forever. So he started to behave even better to show his sister that he will always stay and be good (just for her). Then I had another friend (who will be unknown) that her little sister (that will also be unknown) got everything that she wanted and she got tired of it so she started to act so rudely with everyone. Then her grades started dropping and she just stopped coming to school for a while.

Another example for me could be in this book that i read named A Stranger With My Face by Lois Duncan that the main character Laurie Stratton changed by learning that she should be careful with the people that she trusts. For example, she went out with this boy but after a while he started to boss her around more often and told her what to do. And her twin sister was so nice when they first met (through astral projection-which is when you use your "spirit" to contact someone anywhere in the world) and then after a while her sister started to turn on her an tried to ruin her life!!!

Readers Response # 10

Title of book:Fear Street Nights:Darkest Dawn


Author of book: R.L. Stine


Pages Read: Page 3- Page 77





R.L. Stine to me is a genius because he writes so many interesting fictional stories abotu monsters, ghosts, e.c.t. He also wrote the fictional book that I am radeing and am hooked to Fear Street Nights: Darkest Dawn. What makes this book so interesting to me is what I read on the back of the book(the blurb).

When you can't sleep,
there's always NIGHTS.

The Night People are safe at last. After all the ugly pranks and vicious murders, things have finally returned back to normal. The friends who are left hare trying to forget and move on, taking comfort by meeting up late-night at their old hangout, Nights.

It is the ancient spirit of Angelica Fear that caused all the trouble. And now she's been destroyed once and for all. Burned in a fire.

But if it's true that the horror is dead, what did Angelica mean when her voice cried out from the flames?...

" The Evil Lives!"

Readers Response # 9

Tilte of your book: Disney's Princess Collection-Love&Friendship Stories
Author of book: Sarah E. Heller
Pages Read: 17-32

Sleeping Beauty: The Friendship of Fairies

"In amagical kingdom there lived three kind and gentle fairies: Flpra, Fauna, and Merryweather. Together, they worked to bring forth beauty, happiness, and love. Only by the power of their friendship could they defeat the evil power of their rival, Maleficent. One day after Maleficent cursed the infant Princess Aurora with a powerful spell, the three good fairies secertly conspired to protect the innocent baby."

"Maleficent doesn't know anyhthing about love or kindness or the helping others,"Fauna reminded her firends.

Just by reading the first two paragraphs of the book what can you infer about the three good fairies? What can you infer about the three good fairies rival Maleficent?

What I can infer is that the three good fairies really do care about Aurora the infant baby because they eventually start to live the life of four peasents to keep Aurora the infant baby safe and otu of Malefcent's hands reach. To me Maleficent is like the least person in a situation that you would like to see. For example, if your mom gets married with a men and you don't like him in yor situation he can be Maleficent because you might think 'maybe he could snap at any minute. Maybe he starts to get too abusive. Maybe he uses your mom as a three months married package and he leaves her and divorces her for no apparent reason.'

Happy Holidays

I hope that your wishes come true

"Respect Everyone.

Hurt No-One.

Be Someone."

Readers Response # 8

Tilte of book: Disney's Princess Collection_Love&Friendship Stories

Author of book: Sarah E. Heller

Pages read: 1-16

Cinderella-The Mice Save the Day



Cinderella is a classic fairytale about love(s), romance(s), and betrayal of family. I know that this might seem like a book for four and five year olds but there is a couple of thiings that I would like to put the spotlight on in this book. For example, how the author was so descriptive: Cinderella imaged herself dancing at the royal ball as she held her mother's old dress against herself. It might have needed a few alterations, but they wouldn't be difficult, if only she could find the time to alter the dress herself.


But on the other hand their were somethings that I thought could have been a little better. For example, after her animal freinds(her mice friends) made the alterations to Cinderella's dress, she just thanked them. But was there anything that they did while they altered her dress? If so why didn't the author mention them?

The little books are the books that really make you wonder 'Why do people decide to slack off when it comes to writing children's books? Is it because their littlt? Is it because they don't understand? Or is it because of the way that they were told the story(or stories) as they were growing up?'

Election Reflection

Barack Obama the new President of the United States, as a country we(the people old enough to vote) chose him as its first black chief executive and that says it all. What that means is that now anything can happen in America. This election means a lot to me because this election showed that anything can happen and anything is possible if you What I think that made this election so special Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th belive that you can make it happen. This election also means so much to the country because it shows that a black(African-American)man just won the highest role in the U.S of A.(United States of America)and that if we can change the way that we think about people, then people can change the way that they think and feel about life and the way that we treat our environment.


Today I feel that the country will be ran better all with the help of us(the people), and the President of the United Sates(Barack Obama) because if he keeps up with the words that he spoke then I know and belive that America can change. I belive that Barack Obamam will do a wonderful according to the what he said and what we heard.

"Ghost Story: The Tale of Hollywood Rivera"

October 31st, 2008
Happy Halloween


In California late last year a little girl Hollywood Rivera was with her parents when all of a sudden they were on the ground. And 3 months later she was at their funeral reminiscing the good times that they had together. This hurt internally and externally. She went from beauty queen to a gothic queen that hated Mischief Night. She put curses on all of the people that she thought helped kill her parents. People thought that maybe it was a coincidences that bad things happened to them. Until they noticed that everything bad that happened to them Hollywood was there laughing and enjoying their pain. Almost as if she was feeding off of their pain and getting stronger off of their pain. She soon went mute to avoid all of the problems that came to her after the strange "coincidences."


And now Hollywood Rivera was a number one target for all people on Mischief Night.

Hollywood Rivera was a quite and calm little girl whose parents died and left her the deed to the house so that she can have a place to stay and they left her 18 billion dollars so that she could feed and have money for school. She soon strated to watch the towns people closely to make sure that she wasn't next. But she still was and she knew it too. She knew because of all the strange dreams that she strated having about her dieing. She decided to go out for a walk. But poor little Hollywood never saw that bullet coming…



Constance Rivera was a quite and calm little girl whose parents died and left her the deed to the house so that she can have a place to stay and they left her 18 billion dollars so that she could feed and have money for school. She soon started to watch the towns people closely to make sure that she wasn't next. But she still was and she knew it too. She knew because of all the strange dreams that she started having about her dieing. She decided to go out for a walk. But poor little Hollywood never saw that bullet coming… Happy HalloweenBy: Coraima