Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Cabin Fever)

Christmas is one of the most happy time in the year, but to Greg Heffley, there are problem to go with happy. Greg has to try his best to behave so he can get presents from Santa. Also, Greg want to throw a Christmas party but he has no money, so he has to go around the town and shovel snow. One day, there is a big snow storm in the town. Greg, Manny, Rodrick, and Mom is trapped in the house cover with snow. They are cold, hungry and tired from cleaning the melted snow(water).

Setting: A snowy during the winter and shiny during summer or spring. There are bullies in the town and also weird neighbors.
             A school filled with different cliques and people who try to be cool.

I like this graphic novel. It was very funny and interesting because it's talk about winter, the thing that I have never experienced before. I can't really relate anything to the problem they get, but I can feel how they feel from the graphic and the description the author gave.

Q: How does Shel Silverstein use exaggeration(hyperbole) to creat humour?

A: The author use hyperbole to blow humor into the poem and make the reader laugh. For example how far her pile of trash can reach from New York to the Golden Gate(which is in LA). Also, Shel Silverstein describe how the garbage broke Sarah's house. These are things that will never happen to us in real live, it can sound very weird, but it give the poem a sense of humour.

Q: Find three examples of alliteration in the poem?

A: The first example is the name of the main character Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout. They all have the "s" sound. The second one is crust of black burned buttered toast. The last one is prun pits, peach pits, orange peels. The alliteration give the poem a fun beat and also it sound very interesting while reading aloud.

Q: What is the theme of the poem? Do you think Silverstein is serious about this message or having fun? Explain your answer?

A: I think Silverstein wrote this poem for a purpose of entertainment. He make a funny poem with just a little of reminder about being clean. I think that this is a good poem for small children and also a funny reminder about being clean and throwing the trash. The author might have put a little bit of message inside it but mostly for fun and entertain. In conclusion, this is a fun sticky note about throwing away trash.

Life swap

Vicky, a single women who live a peaceful life and spend all her time working and hangout with friends.

Amber, a perfect married lady who lived in a life that everyone wanted.

They both have their one life, but there is a wish upon each person. They want to swap life with each other and enjoy the differents. They experienced a lot of changes and also secret from each other life. They also make changes to people around each other and be able to know more about how is each other friends. Vicky had knew an unexpected news from Richard (Vicky's husband) that he list his job 6 month ago but still lie to Amber.

Madam and The Rent Man

Q: The rent man and Madam seem to disagree throughout the poem. Yet, the last line is “So we agrees!” How can that be?

A: Throughout the poem, Madam and the Rent Man disagree about the rent money. The rent man force Madam to pay the rent money for the old filthy that feel like the house is "dead". At last, after a big disagree fight, they agree the fact that they disagree about ereything.

Q: 2. Infer What do you think is the message of “Madam and the Rent Man”?

A: I infer that the message of "Madam and The Rent Man" is how bad is the black people life quality. They have to pay rent money for a house that is is a big mess. The black are push into a corner by the white people until they are to tired and they have to fight back. The black people have learn how to bounce back to face agaisnt the white.


Q: 3. Analyze How does the author’s use of playful language and dialogue affect the tone of “Madam and the Rent Man”?

A: He give the poem a beat and the poem doesn't sound like a violent argument. It sound like a rap which also stand for the Harlem Renaissance(Where rap come from).

Closed for The Season

I just finished reading the novel"Closed for the Season". This is a wonderful and interesting novel. Is book is filled with mystery and also kind of a spooky breath. Closed for The Season is about two kids trying to discover about the mystery death of the old house owner and also the deep secret within the Magic Forest.Not only these problem, the main character Logan also has to get in the jocks group to survive in his new school.

Will Logan discover the mysteries and also bond in with the jocks kid? Well, it's your turn to discover!!

Do I enjoyed reading Keoko in class?

I really enjoyed reading "When my name was Keoko", and especially with my LA class. We had done a lot of fun activities while reading the novel like visulaizing, questioning, and connecting. Sometime, Ms.Patrice connect an events in the novel with her real life experience and make us laugh, also it help us undestand the stragetries and get a better idea of how to do it. I remembered the time when we studied about questioning in class, Ms.Patrice make a lot questions and she said it out loud. The connection that Ms.Patrice gave are very hilarious, for example the part Keoko fist ty gum. Ms.Patrice connect it with a little boy in Miama who recieved the first gum of his life from Ms.Patrice.:) I enjoyed reading with the whole class, it is very fun and also it help me undestand the lesson better with help from every friends.

Visualize

This week, our LA 7 class is learning about using the stragetry visualize with the novel " When my name was Keoko". I tried to visualize during the whole story, but I can only imagine some of them clearly. I visualize the expression of Tae-yul changed through events. Like how happy and nervous is him when he flew the airplane. Then,how sad he felt when the recieve the news he will be a...kamekazi pilot. Visualizing is a very interesting stragetries to do and it help me to understand the novel a lot better.