New Ending to "The Lady or the Tiger"

Her right arm lay on the cushioned parapet before her. She raised her hand, and made a slight, quick movement toward the right. No one but her lover saw her. Every eye but his was fixed on the man in the arena. Without the slightest hesitation, he went to the door on the right, and opened it. Fate shall only decide what was inside that door.

For what he had not known was that once he glanced at the princess and she gave the signal to the right, she disappeared. She had left the arena. Her plan was to switch herself with the lady he was meant to be with. She had told her father that she could not bear to watch this and she left. Her father thought she had left and went to her room, but instead she took the place of the women who was supposed to be the lady in the arena. The princess had paid the woman so that she could take her place. But nor the king or the lover knew that the princess had done this.

Now, the point of the story is this: Did the tiger come out of the door, or did the lady?
Once the lover had opened the door, that decided his fate, there was a large amount of awe among the crowd in the arena. The barbaric king was furious, but this was the fate that the arena had for the princess's lover. Mostly everyone in the arena had imagined a that lover's fate was covered with blood and horror. So I will let you decide which came out the door - the lady, or the tiger?

Blog of 10/27/14

Looking For Alaska

Prompt: Describe the similarities and differences between the main character and you

Pages Read: 48-100


Me and the main character from my book, Look For Alaska, have a lot of differences. First of all the main character in my book is named Miles "Pudge" Halter. Some physical differences are that he is a male, tall, skinny, and he has blonde hair. Some other differences that me and Pudge have is that he likes to smoke, drink alcohol (even though he isn't 18 yet), remember people's last words and poetry. The two first ones are 2 huge differences because I would never try to smoke and also because I have never tried alcohol. Pudge is really good at memorizing famous people's last words but I have a really bad memory. He also likes to read poetry, but I am really bad at writing poetry and sometimes understanding what it means.

Some similarities that me and Pudge have are that we both like to read, over think stuff too much, and we both like to run. Pudge has read tons of books and has memorized tons of famous people/writers last words. That's one thing we have in common, we both like to read a lot. Both me and Pudge over think too much. When we have to make a decision we think about it for too much, instead of just going with the flow. Another thing we have in common is running. Pudge says he has long legs and strong lungs which make running easy and I just the running sport.


These are some of the similarities and differences that me and Miles "Pudge" Halter have. We have more differences than actual similarities. Looking For Alaska is an interesting book for what I have read so far. Most of the book has more direct characterization than indirect characterization. That how I mostly got all of the similarities and differences between me and Pudge.
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1st Quater Reflection

My Reflection....

The 1st quarter of the year went by pretty fast. I think that we made a lost of process during that quarter. During that first quarter I started my 40 book challenge, and so far I have read thirteen out of forty books. I hope that by the end of the 2nd quarter I can double that.

In the 1st quarter I also progressed in annotating. At the beginning of the school year I had no idea what annotating even meant. But now annotating helps me keep all my ideas and thoughts organized. I use annotating every week on my article of the week. At first annotating was kinda hard for me because I didn't really understand what was important and what was not. But now annotating was become really easy for me.

I have increased my vocabulary a lot. All those prefix and vocabulary tests that I had during the first quarter help increase my vocabulary a lot. I have learned a lot of new words that at first I had no idea what they meant. The Greek and Latin root words help me too. It helped me because when I am reading a book and I don't understand a word, I look at it's prefix and it helps me understand the word. The 1st quarter has help me increase my learning by a lot. 

Blog of 10/20/14

Looking For Alaska

Prompt: Why did you choose this to read? Give at least 3 reasons.

Pages Read: 0-48

I chose to read Looking for Alaska because of 3 reasons. The first reason is because Looking for Alaska was written by one of my favorite authors, John Green. John Green became my favorite author because of his book The Fault in Our Stars. Since I read that book I loved John Green. Then I read Paper Towns and now I am reading another book by him. I like how he can describe a place so well. He can put emotions into reading one of his books. I also like his writing format. John Green made me want to read Looking for Alaska. Honestly, I think John Green is an amazing author.

The second reasons that I wanted to read this book was because Looking for Alaska is a banned book. I was wondering why they would challenged one of John Green's books. So I began to read it. This book has been banned in Verona High School (New Jersey), Sumner County (Tennessee), Knox County High Schools (Tennessee), and some schools in Depew (New York). I had been wondering why they would ban this book. Even though I only have read a couple of pages into the book I already understand why it was banned. It was banned because of the use of inappropriate language. But this is a good book and it's getting interesting.

The third and last reason I chose to read this book was because I read the back of the book and I found it interesting. The back of the book said that once he met Alaska nothing would ever be the same. I got really curious since then. I wondered what he meant by "nothing would ever be the same". What did Alaska do to him? So since I read the back I thought it would be a good book to read. These are the 3 reasons why I chose to read Looking for Alaska by John Green.

Paper Towns #2

Paper Towns

Prompt: Direct and Indirect Characterization

Pages Read: 143 - end

In the book Paper Towns by John Green, uses some direct characterization throughout the pages I have read so far. For example on page 159 the book tells "You can argue-indeed, you may argue, if you choose to write about him for your final reaction papers-that Ahab was a fool for being obsessed." Here is an example of direct characterization. This is direct characterization because the book tells you to think that Ahab is a fool for being obsessed. The book is telling what to think of him.

Another example of characterization in the book is on page 170 where the author says "I knew how she smelled, and I knew how she acted in front of me, and I knew how she acted in front of others, and I knew that she liked Mountain Dew and adventure and dramatic gestures, and I knew that she was funny and smart and generally more than the rest of us." This is another example of direct characterization. The author is telling you to think that Margo is a funny and smart. The book is just telling you how to think.

One last example of characterization I found in the book was on page 170 where the text says "I didn't know why she owned thousands of records but never told anyone she even liked music." Here is an example of indirect characterization. The book isn't telling you directly how to think, it is giving you examples of how that character acts and based on that you create your own opinion on that character. In this sentence you can see that this character is a little secretive because she never told anyone she owned thousands of records. This are some examples of direct and indirect characterization in the book Paper Towns.

Paper Towns

Paper Towns

Prompt: Pick out 2-4 words from what you are reading that you had difficulty

understanding. Interpret what you think each word means based on context

clues (other words around that word that might help you interpret what the

author means).

Pages Read: 0 - 143

This book has some big words that are hard to understand sometimes and this prompt could help me with them. The author of Paper Towns, John Green, has a great word choice to use in his books. His word choice makes his book way more interesting to read, than authors who use a regular kind of word choice. Which make the book more boring and easier to read.

The first word I wasn't really understanding was crypt. I figured crypt could be some sort a place. The text said "I would have figured her to be where is the crypt is it to the left immune to that kind of stuff." By using textual evidence it shows that a crypt is a place. I found this on page 108.

The second word I didn't really understand was dismissively. In the book it says "Yeah, I believe that's Shakespeare, I said dismissively" on page 114. By using textual evidence from the book, it appears dismissively is some kind of tone of voice. So I figured out it is a tone of voice.

 The last word that was a little complicated for me was pancreases. In the text it says " Yeah, and a demon who can only be nourished by the pancreases of young boys could also be there." By using the text from the book, pancreases is a part of the boy's body. I figured this out because in the book it says "nourished by the pancreases of young boys" which means it's a part of the boy's body. I found this on page 135.