book report!

Book Report / Novel Summary
Peretti, Frank. Hangman's Curse. Place of Publication. Company: 2001.

I selected this book because I read House by him and my neighbor recommended this book to me. This book is a mystery, action, spiritual book. At a high school in the United States, in current times 19902 - 2000s.


Plot: There is a family [Nate [dad], Sarah [mom], Elijah [son] and Elisha [daughter]] that investigates. Elijah and Elisha go undercover to invesgiate mysterious occurances at a high school. There was a boy named Abel Frye that supposedly hung himself because of being bullying; and the football team are being to go crazy one by one saying they saw Abel Frye. The kids find out that Abel Frye ghost is being controled by a cult that is made up of people treated like Abel Frye and are using this as revenge. Elisha looks through everyone's lockers that were killed and she finally sees a pattern, straws with sugar crystals things. The family's scientist friend comes and identifies it as a pheromone to attract a poisonous spider combined of the brown recluse and African Spotted wolf spider. The pheromone got onto money too so other people died like a girl from the cult. They finally find out that it was Norman Bloom [the leader]. They clear the school and the scientist makes an antidote.


Character: Elisha. She is very smart and a good detective. She plays an undercover detective in high school trying to figure out what is happening to the students. Because she seemed smart and easy to relate to.


Evaluation: Yes I did like the novel, At first I really did think the ghost was making the kids hallucinate. It kept me reading until I found out what happening. It also made me scared I thought a spider was going to bite me and kill me. I think the main point was revenge isn't the answer. It also thought me that bullying can really influence someone's life. Like House it had Christian morals in it so I don't know if people would want to read it. Like House it shows that bullying and saying things about people affects them a lot more than people realize. It also showed revenge isn't the answer to problems. I liked how the book ended. Everyone learned their lesson and it had good morals.


Author, Context and Trivia: Monster, The Visitation, The Oath, This Present Darkness, Piercing the Darkness. He is a Christian writer that writes mystery and action books. House. I;m not sure which I liked better this one definitely made me cringe thinking about spiders. Yes I do plan to read more of him.




Reader Response
Quote and Comment: Select a quote of interest. Copy it down and record the page number. Comment upon the quote. What does it remind you of? Why is it significant? How is it connected to other things? What difference does it make? What if things had been different? What evidence does it present?Photo Copy Mark Up: Go to copy machine and make copies of ten pages of your reading. Take a highlighter and highlight the important passages. With a pencil or pen make comments in the margins. Ask questions about the text. See the above question for comments you might make in the margins.



Quote and comment: Select an important quote from the text you are reading. Place you selection in quotation marls and provide the page number. Comment upon your selection. Why did you choose it? Why is it important?
Quote and Comment using the Habits of Mind: Who said it? (Perspective) How do we know that it is true? (Evidence) Why is it important? (Significance or Relevance) How is it related to other things? (Connections) How could it be different? (Supposition)

Mini Research Paper: Marquis de Lafayette

Introduction
General Information
- Name
- Birth date & death date
- Parents infoSecond paragraph

Second Paragraph
Why he came to America
- how inspired
- reasons why
His commitment

Third Paragraph
His introduction to George Washingtion
- his relationship with him [the support]
- Benedict arnold [the hanging of Major John André]

Forth Paragraph
- Battle of Brandywine
- Alliance with France and America
- French-American Alliance
- Yorktown

Conclusion
-His death
- ?


I am going to describe all the events Lafayette took part in and then explain why they were important and what life would be without him.


Three to four page mini research paper. What has your individual contributed to our world? What do you imagine we would be like without their existence? (SIGNIFICANCE) Is there someone similar from society today or modern history you can compare this individual to? You must utilize the following source:

Trial Research Site:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/sand07018

Password:

peace

Oppression Photographs with Summaries

oppression n - the exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.



This picture is representing oppression because it is telling people that all of the vehicles must fit in the marked stalls [the parking spaces]. That is oppression because that is unfair to the people who's car is smaller or bigger than the stalls. Where else are they supposed to park? I think the smoking sign is oppression too. I don't support smoking but some people love it and it's unfair to them if they can't do as they would like.

This photograph is representing oppression because it is telling people where they have to swim or surf. They don't have the choice where they get to swim. Why do they have to go to certain areas to swim or surf? It is the same water, same ocean.

MOPA Creative Writing

On Wednesday, we went to the MOPA in Balboa Park where we walked through the exhibit, looked through the pictures and chose a picture we were going to do a creative writing about. I chose this picture Food Chain by Lori Nix because it was so colorful and I thought it was a cool looking picture.

The sky was so blue, there were almost no clouds in the sky. There were swallows flying in the air, it looked so effortless. Annie wished she knew how to fly like them. Annie was an ant, she was a small ant about 1 years old. Even though she had been on the earth for almost a year the world still mesmerized her. She loved the smell of the grass, the smell of the wet concrete, the twinkle of the stars, the taste of dew drops. She loved everything about the world, it was so beautiful, the colors, smells, looks, and tastes. Annie absolutely loved sweets, and today was her lucky day. There was a bright sunshine yellow colored cupcake that had fell from a passerby. She rushed over to the line to have some cupcake with her friends. After waiting for 2 minutes it was finally her turn. She took in the waft of lemon and vanilla flavor. She took a bite, it was so amazing. The flavors were so cohesive, it was a vanilla flavor with a twist of lemon. After eating a few bites of the cupcake her sweet tooth was completely satisfied. Annie walked over to a leaf and got a dew drop, it was so cold and refreshing. Annie was completely exhuasted so she went home and curled up in the moss.

Barder and the Flying Turban - Creative Reflection

They were completely exhuasted, they had been flying through the cold winter day all day and night. How could they be flying? Because little Andrew has an orange turban that uses the energy from the sun and a little bit of fairy dust. They had been flying from Hawaii to India, from India to Africa. They had seen many different people,colors, plants, and places. But Aandrew and Barder's favorite part of the day was landing on the clouds and aking naps, the clouds were so soft and perfect. They were like blankets, pillows, and a mattress rolled in one. The cloud would surround and wrap itself around you, the loud would form as a pillow for your head, the right firmness; Barder preferred firmer pillows. They would use the stars as nightlights if it was in a dark area of the sky. Barder and Aandrew were scared of the dark,they would also use them as flashlights to help them navigate through the vast dark blue sky. Well anyways Barder and Andrew had gone back to earth and fell asleep on the ground because they were too tired to go all the way home. They had brought some stars down with them for some nightlights and Andrew used Barder's fur for warmth and Barder was using Andrew's body heat as his warmth. Andrew and Barder were a good team they benefitted from each other in so many ways. They were both completely happy sleeping together peaceful in the calm of the night.

FBI project

Photograph taken in 1775 --------------Age Enhanced Photograph

MARQUIS de LAFAYETTE

A.K.A.
Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier

Aliases:
- Marie Adrienne Francoise de Noailles, his wife; she is the daughter of one of the richest and most powerful families in France.
- George Washington, met him when promoted to major general in the Continental Army. He was like the father Lafayette never had. During the Battle of Brandywine Marquis leg was injured and Washington told the surgeon to treat him like a son because "I love him as if he were."
- Abbe Fayon - the Jesuit priest that taught him his French, Latin, history, tales and chivalric codes many aristocrats went by. He was Marquis tutor from age five to age fifteen.

DESCRIPTION

Date of Birth: September 6, 1757

Eyes: Brown

Place of Birth: Auvergne, France

Sex: Male

Height: 5'6

Nationality: French

Weight/Size Clothing: 180 pounds/Size 17

Complexion: Light

Race: White

Occupation: Military Leader, Statesman

Hair: Light thin brown, receding hair, ear-length

FAMILY INFORMATION:

Both of his parents came from noble families and military was an honored tradition.
- His father was killed in the Battle of Minden in the Seven Years' War. In 1770 his mother died from an unexpected disease and a little later his grandfather followed.
- He was raised by his grandmother and aunts.
- He got married to a women named Marie Adrienne Francoise de Noailles, when he was only sixteen years of age [April 11^th, 1774].

FINANCIAL STATE:

Lafayette inheirted his family's riches and also his wife brought some more riches so he remained fairly rich for the majority of his life.

GENERAL FACTS ABOUT HIM [Favorites]:

Foods: Oleo, Pigeons, Sirloin of Beef roast, Venison, Chyne of Mutton, Turkey, Snipes, Ducks, Partridges.

Drinks: Tea and Beer
Jewerly preference: His gold watch with his initials engraved in it [MdL].

SCANDALOUS AFFAIRS:

Although he married already like many other men in this time he took part in flirting with other women, and he also had “friendship with muses.”

- Diane de Simiane, she became his mistress in the near the beginning of the 1780’s. His wife knew about his spending time with her and even let him have retreats with her, and persisted that the children called Diane “aunt”.
- In Queen Marie-Antoinette’s diary he was said to be her erotic partner and that she did everything with him.He is featured on the back of fan, with herself and other figures in her life like her son, and her husband King Louis XVI.

IMPORTANT DATES:

August 1775 – he went to a dinner, there the Duke of Gloucester gave empathy for the colonies in America. This inspired Marquis to join the American Rebels. He was committed to this for his whole entire life.

Work Cited:

Naughty facts [women]: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/lafayette/exhibition/english/women/index.html

Favorite Food:
http://www.umich.edu/~ece/student_projects/food/foods.htm

Name, Brief History, Known Contacts:
http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&contentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&prodId=SRC-1&docId=EJ2108101314&source=gale&srcprod=SRCG&userGroupName=sand07018&version=1.0

socratic seminar ethics prompt

Thomson’s Violin
One day, you wake up in hospital. In the nearby bed lies a world famous violinist who is connected to you with various tubes and machines.
To your horror, you discover that you have been kidnapped by the Music Appreciation Society. Aware of the maestro’s impending death, they hooked you up to the violinist.
If you stay in the hospital bed, connected to the violinist, he will be totally cured in nine months. You are unlikely to suffer harm. No one else can save him. Do you have an obligation to stay connected?
Is one life ever worth more than another? Is saving one life worth a terrible inconvenience to someone else - even a random stranger? Are there certain conditions under which you might agree to remain hooked up to the violinist, but not others? What if it weren’t a violinist (how dated is that?), but instead your favorite musician or artist? What if it were me...better yet, what if it were ROSS!?!

I don't think that you have the obligation to stay connected to him, you were taken against your will. Even if he is a famous person that doesn't mean you are obligated. I think it depends on the person if it was a more emotional/sensitive they would probably feel obligated to stay. Unlike more of a apathetic person, they would probably just leave if it wasn't someone they cared about. I think certain lives are worth more but it's different for every person. I don't think there is a single life that everyone would agree on them being worth more than everyone else. I probably would stay connected to him because I would feel bad for having the chance to save him and just leaving him, but during those 9 months I could be saving even more person than just 1; I would probably just stay though. I would agree to stay hooked up for my family and my friends, I also would probably stay hooked up for random people because I don't like deaths and I would probably feel guilty if I just walked away and knew I could have saved them.

book report!

Book Report / Novel Summary
Peretti, Frank & Dekker, Ted. House. Nashville Tennesee. Westbow Press: 2006.
Suspense at a haunted house: I selected this book because my neighbor suggested the book to me and I also really like mysteries and suspenseful stories. The novel is a action/suspenseful/spooky novel it also has twists in the book. An inn located in Alabama? The book doesn't have a specific time, it seemed to be in the present time like 1990s - 2000s.



Plot: A fighting couple is driving to a counseling place because they lost their daughter. They get lost and a police officer tells them to go on a route where their tires are spiked. They see an inn and head over and check themself in, They later see more people there a mother and 2 sons and another couple. Then suddenly the lights go out and Barsidious White [the man everyones afraid of] throws in a can that says the "house rules" Welcome To My House. House Rules: 1. God came into my house and I killed him. 2. I will kill anyone who comes to my house like I killed God. 3. Bring me one dead body and I might let rule #2 slide. After this happens the mother and her 2 sons try to lock up the couples in a freezer but they escape. Then they go into the basement and met a little girl named Susan. They don't listen to her and continue trying to get out when a police officer shows up [the one that led them there]. They soon find out it's Barsidious White. They escape though and Susan saves them by taking a bullet for them. The most interesting part for me was when they have duplicates of themselves and they don't know who is the real person. During this story also tha main point is that they learn about the bad qualities inside themselves.


Character: Susan, she is pale, has brown hair and eyes, shes short. She helps them escape and beat Barsidious White. She knows a lot about the house. Because she was important to them getting saved. She was depicted as an angel type thing. She escaped the house.


Evaluation: I did like the novel, I couldn't stop reading it I'd stay up til like 1 or 2 so i could read more. The main point of the book was about the "evils inside of you and how it changing their lifes. It taught me sometimes you think you're fighting with someone else and you need to fix things with them but sometimes you really need to look into yourself and fix yourself. I don't know if I would, I really liked it and it was a Christian based book with the morals so I don't know if people would want to read that but I thought it was really interesting. I think I would have acted the same way I hope I would realize what was happening to me [inner self] and realize what to change about myself. I liked the ending and wouldn't have changed it.


Author, Context and Trivia: Frank Peretti: Monster, The Visitation, The Oath, This Present Darkness, Piercing the Darkness. Ted Dekker: Showdown, The Martyr's Song, Obsessed, Black, Red, White, Three. Blink, When Heaven Weeps, Thunder of Heaven, Heaven's Wager. I know that they are both Christian writers and they both write mysteries and action. I read part of Monster and Hangman's Curse. I really liked this one the best. Yes I do I want to read Three and The Oath.



Reader Response
Quote and Comment: "Most people are quite dense. They like little white houses with big stained-glassed churches and prefer to do their killing with looks and words behind one another's backs. Welcome to my house. No secrets allowed. Here we all do our killing with guns and axes and knives. It's more bloody than what most people are accustomed to, yes, but it's far less brutal." 312. It's a scary quote but it is true, people do shoot people down with looks and words. People can get bullied to death with words. It reminds me of a story I read where these people were bulling to one guy and he didn't do anything but they kept on bullying him and he ended up commiting suicide. This is important because people need to realize that words affect people more than we think they do.

Photo Copy Mark Up: Go to copy machine and make copies of ten pages of your reading. Take a highlighter and highlight the important passages. With a pencil or pen make comments in the margins. Ask questions about the text. See the above question for comments you might make in the margins.

Quote and Comment using the Habits of Mind: Barsidious White (Perspective) Because it happens in real life. (Evidence) We need to identify this problem first before we can fix it. (Significance or Relevance) Alot of people don't realize how much they are harming someone until someone flat out tells them or something horrible happens. (Connections) If people realized the hamr they were causing they could fix it and stop using words and looks as weapons.(Supposition)

current event

OMAHA, Neb. - Mourners lit eight red candles and five blue ones Thursday for each of those killed or injured one day earlier after a troubled young man opened fire in a department store before taking his own life.
The ceremony was held at St. John’s Church on Creighton University’s campus, where The Rev. Roc O’Connor read the names of the victims aloud, KETV-TV reported.
"We can see the light in the midst of darkness. We can encounter hope in the midst of despair," the Rev. Andy Alexander said.
At least three of those killed and injured were Creighton alumni and had developed deep roots in the area.
"This is something that is going to hit home for everyone who lives here," mourner Robyn Eden told KETV-TV. "Small community — regardless of how many people live here. This is a small town."
President Bush offered sympathy Thursday to the families of the victims.
“I was in Omaha just before the shooting took place, and I know what a difficult day it is for that fine community,” said Bush, who had traveled to the area to attend a Republican fundraiser and was on his way back to Washington when the shootings took place.
“The victims and their loved ones are in the prayers of Americans,” Bush said. “The federal government stands ready to help in any way we can, and the whole nation grieves for the people of Omaha.”
Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey also expressed shock and sadness at the Westroads Mall shooting at a news conference Thursday.
“Today, we are still reeling form the events that few have ever imagined would take place in Omaha,” he said. “We will not accept this evil act to occur in our community.”
Victims rememberedPolice identified the eight murder victims Thursday morning after notifying families. The victims ranged in age from 24 to 66, and were both employees and customers.
The customers killed were Gary Scharf, 48 of Lincoln and John McDonald, 65, of Council Bluffs, Iowa. The employees killed were Angie Schuster, 36, of Omaha; Maggie Webb, 24; Janet Jorgensen, 66 of Omaha; Diane Trent, 53 of Omaha; Gary Joy, 56 of Omaha; and Beverly Flynn, 47, of Omaha, police said.
Scharf’s ex-wife described him as loyal and honorable.

“I called him my Dudley-do-right,” Kim Scharf said, “I’m sure he got in front of other people” and took a bullet that might have hit someone else. “There’s no doubt in my mind, I promise you. That’s who he is, to a fault.”
Trent, a store employee, spent warm evenings tending to the flowers on her porch, drinking tea and chatting with her neighbor, Errol Schlenker.
“A very incredibly sweet person,” Schlenker said. “She was a middle-of-the-road American, a dedicated worker. She was just a decent person who lived a good life here.”
More details revealedPolice also released more details about the attack Thursday, saying the gunman may have smuggled the assault rifle into the mall underneath clothing.
WOWT-TV
Robert Hawkins, 19, shown in a high school yearbook photo, opened fire Wednesday at an Omaha, Neb., department store.
Police Chief Thomas Warren said the young man “appeared to be concealing something balled up in a hooded sweat shirt” he was carrying, according to a surveillance video.
Police believe Hawkins stole the assault rifle, an AK-47, from his stepfather’s home, Warren said.
The teen entered the store Wednesday using an elevator, and moments later, gunfire pierced through the notes of Christmas music at the Westroads Mall’s Von Maur department store. People huddled in dressing rooms and barricaded themselves in offices as 19-year-old Robert A. Hawkins sprayed the floor with bullets.
Six store employees and two customers were killed. When the shooting was over, Hawkins shot himself.
The mall was closed Thursday as authorities continued to investigate what may have motivated the teen to go on the shooting spree. The shooting spree was Nebraska’s deadliest since January 1958, when Charles Starkweather killed 10 people in Nebraska and another in Wyoming.

Hawkins was described by many as having a troubled past. He recently split with his girlfriend and been fired from McDonald’s. He also had a criminal record and had left or been kicked out of his parents’ house.
But the rampage was as troubling as it was puzzling for those who knew him.
“He was depressed, and he had always been depressed. But he looked like he was getting better,” said Debora Maruca-Kovac, a surgical nurse whose family took in Hawkins after her 17- and 19-year-old sons befriended him. “He didn’t cause a lot of trouble. He tried to help out all the time. He was very thankful for everything. He wasn’t a violent person at all.”
The Associated Press’ attempts to reach Hawkins’ biological parents on Thursday were unsuccessful. A man who answered at a phone number listed for Hawkins’ father, Ronald Hawkins, said it was a wrong number. Nobody answered the door at the home of Maribel Rodriguez of Bellevue on Thursday. Court records list her as Hawkins’ mother.
“As far as foster kids go, he was pretty normal,” said Ben Glass, 31, the son of Hawkins’ former foster mother Mary Glass. Hawkins lived with the family for about a year. “He was actually one of the easier ones to get along with.”
'Now I'll be famous'Hawkins dropped out of Papillion-La Vista High School as a senior in March 2006, principal James Glover said Thursday. While he wasn’t a loner, he had a very small group of friends and was not involved in extracurricular activities, Glover said.
Jill Peitzmeier / Lincoln Journal Star via Reuters
Debora Maruca-Kovac, whose family had taken in Robert Hawkins, is seen outside her home in Bellevue, Neb., on Wednesday.
“It was never a situation where he was out of the loop because people were picking on him,” Glover said.
About an hour before the shooting, Hawkins called her and told her he had written a suicide note, Maruca-Kovac said. In the note, which was turned over to authorities, Hawkins wrote that he was “sorry for everything” and would not be a burden on his family anymore. More ominously, he wrote, “Now I’ll be famous.”
“I was fearful that he was going to try to commit suicide but I had no idea that he would involve so many other families,” she told CBS’ “The Early Show,” Thursday.
Records in Sarpy and Washington counties showed Hawkins had a felony drug conviction and several misdemeanor cases filed against him, including an arrest 11 days before the shooting for having alcohol as a minor. He was due in court in two weeks.
'We saw the blood'When the shots began, the store descended into chaos.
Mickey Vickroy, who worked in the store’s third-floor service department, said she heard shots and went with coworkers and customers into a back closet, emerging about a half-hour later when police shouted to come out with their hands up. As police led them to another part of the mall for safety, they saw the victims.
“We saw the bodies and we saw the blood,” she said.
Witness Shawn Vidlak said the shots sounded like a nail gun. At first he thought it was noise from construction work at the mall.
“People started screaming about gunshots,” Vidlak said. “I grabbed my wife and kids. We got out of there as fast as we could.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22131295/

vocab words 4!

1. aggravate - v. to make worse or more severe; to aggravate a grievance; to aggravate an illness. to annoy; irritate; exasperate; I think people can can aggravate very easily on touchy subjects or when they are unhappy or having a bad day just little things can made them really pissed off. Also once I had to kept switching band-aids and the adhesive was irritating my skin and it created a rash. I picked this picture because it shows a person being mad.

2. subtle - adj. thin, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odor; fine or delicate in meaning or intent; difficult to perceive or understand; delicate or faint and mysterious. I chose this picture because the transtitions are subtle, not like red to black or orange to purple. Just like how someone can give a subtle smile, or subtle sexy clothing, like showing a little leg instead of dramatic sexy like very low neck and short short skirt.

3. zealous - adj. full of, characterized by, or due to zeal; ardently active, devoted, or diligent; I think is very important to be zealous towards somethings because it motivates you when you are devoted to something. But somethings being zealous towards things isn't helpful like being zealous towards drugs because they hurt you and spending your life devoted to something that you don't benefit from isn't a good use of your time. I chose this picture because a lot of people are devoted to their religion.

4. blatant - adj. brazenly obvious; flagrant: a blatant error in simple addition; offensively noisy or loud; clamorous: examples: blatant radios. a blatant lie. I chose this picture because it reminds me of when during movies there are obvious product placement. It also reminds me of one of my favorite movies [Wayne's World] when he keeps having product placements on purpose. Also this word can also be used describing non-physical objects like lies, sometimes when people tell you lies it is so obvious that they're lying.


5. discreet

6. factoid

7. flout

8. forte

9. disinterested

10.vehement

11. adverse

12. averse

13. alleged