Book Project 4 Sean Lowe per 4

Book Project #2   Independent Reading Analysis and Response

List the KEY EVENTS in the story and describe their effects on the main character(s). Use a chart for these notes.

Key Events

Effects on Character

1.       Eli and his family enter the Compound. 2.       Eli's family has lived in the compound for six years and his mom is pregnant with her fourth child in 6 years. 3.       Eli's dad Rex shows Eli a machine that could clone people 4.       Eli accesses the internet hoping he can contact his brother 5.       His mom Clea is bleeding and Eli realizes he needs to get his family out of the compound 6.       Eli discovers a series of numbers that were written in invisible ink 7.       Eli's dad wakes up and finds him with the paper and takes the paper. 8.       Eli still wants to get out so he tries the code but since his dad took the paper he only remembered some numbers 9.       he tries to think of birth dates to find the rest of the numbers. 10.   he escapes the compound and has to go to a new one. 11.   He helps his family get out of the compound 12.   Rex was arrested for abducting his family.

1.  Eli is scared of the Compound because he is only nine and his brother did not make it in with them   2.Eli will have a new sibling and that means less food for everyone, which concerns him   3. Eli does not like the idea it would take up more food   4. Eli has hope that he can contact  his lost brother   5. Eli needs to get ready to break out   6. this is a big step to escaping   7. this is bad and will make it hard for Eli to escape   8. this is a set back and needs more numbers   9.  It worked partly but he needs more numbers   10. Him and his family are scared that Rex will catch them   11. His mom needed help since she was pregnant   12. The family did not have to worry about Rex and were safe

 

Study the information you have listed and determine a theme for the work. Write a constructed response in which you state the theme and explain its development through the story. Use some of these suggestions to guide your thinking.

Writing Criteria

• TAG
• A theme is stated
• The author’s development of the theme through events and character portrayals is explained.

 

                Theme

 The Theme of The Compound is when you want to protect something do all you can to protect it.

Constructed response

                 In the story Eli had to protect his family from Rex and from other effects such as bleeding, starving or temperature. Rex is unappealing  and makes sure Eli and his family never leave the compound. Eli tries  to break everyone out and steal the combination to the door. As Eli is steeling the combination Rex wakes up and takes it from him and tells him never to try to escape again. Eli does not give up there, he remembered some numbers from the combo and had to keep guessing till he got it. He guessed birthdays and special days and holidays. Eli did not give up until he got the door opened. He wanted to protect them so bad he would do anything to keep them safe.

Book Project 3 Central Idea Sean Lowe per 4

Sam is a 13 year old boy living in Chicago in the 1960's who learned that when you hold a strong belief you should persevere to achieve your goal no matter what comes at you. This is the central idea of the book "Rock and the River". Sam's father is a civil rights activist that follows Dr. Martin Luther King's non-violent teachings. Many bad things happen to Sam's family and yet they don't give up, but continue to fight for civil rights. Sam's father was reading the news paper and was surprised to see a picture of his two sons Sam and his brother Stick. Stick was coming out of the hospital from getting beaten at a protest and Sam was next to him. Sam goes to a Black Panthers breakfast meeting to realize his brother was in the group. In the group they talk about how to fight for civil rights by peaceful protests. Later Dr. Martin Luther King had been shot and this was very sad for Sam's  father because he knew Martin Luther King. Sam was worried that his father might be attacked too. Sam's father did get hurt at a demonstration by getting stabbed. Sam and his mom were shocked because they thought he might die. They had to get to the hospital, but had trouble finding a form of transportation. Sam's brother Stick dies by getting shot by a Police man. On the day of his funeral one of Sam's friends was going to kill the cop that shot Stick. She was convinced not to because revenge is not the answer. In the story Sam pushed toward his goal to work to fight for civil rights Just as his father and brother before him.

Book Project 2 Sean Lowe per 4

 

Enders Game

Events in the story                    Reactions to the Events

The first major event is when Andrew gets the shot They decide to try the Andrew out to fight aliens  Ender’s even-older brother Peter pretty much beats him up and threatens to kill them both. Peter threatens to kill his little siblings and Valentine threatens to blackmail him with a secret letter saying that Peter killed her  Graff explain that Battle School is like regular school, but with battles in the Battle Room.  Graff explains that the military needs a super-genius to command their fleet to protect humanity from the buggers  Ender reaches Battle school  Graff gives a tour of Battle school  Mick comes over when he sees that Ender is eating alone. Ender learns that he’s been transferred to Salamander Army  Bonzo hates Ender for disobeying orders and helping him  Ender gets attention, become popular, and get invited to write columns for newspapers.  Ender gets his own army  Dragon Army keeps winning  Ender  blows up the enemy planet  Then Ender and Val start planet-hopping, looking for a new place for the buggers to live

It hurt him but it will help him in the long run He wants to fight for the army His older brother hurts them and is tough enough to join the army The siblings are  getting threatens to be killed and that makes Ender scared This makes ender nervous because everyone is so tough. Ender is scared because he will have to do something big He is happy that he made it here but also a bit nervous This also makes him nervous but he is up for the challenge Ender has no friends at battle school so  he makes a new one Ender is sad because he is all settled in now Ender is now hated for disobeying orders so he is scared This makes him feel like a hero and  brave He is now like a strong man  that has an army by his side Ender is frustrated because he does not win Ender is nervous because he pissed of the hive He starts his next voyage

The Theme of Enders Game is: Don’t let others get to you or bully you and if they do just get back up and do something about it

Constructed Response

In the story Ender's Game Ender the main character finds himself getting pushed around and bullied so he decides to go to battle school. He does not want to be the weak one and wants to be able to fight back. In the story the author shows  humans as being good creatures very smart fighting aliens. They are very brave in the story as well. In the story Ender is not under his own control completely. Since he got put in the army he gets commanded and moves areas a lot. He has some control though because he can control his own army.In his society it hurts Ender because he is pushed around until he joins the army.The author tells of how Ender is weak but then grows to a commander of an army.

Little Boy Tim

                                                               Little Boy Tim

Once upon a time there was a Boy named Tim Who lived in New York City. Tim was going to his friends house to give him a cookie since his friend was sick. Tim’s mom had told him to walk because there car had broke down. He had been told not to dotle because it was 5:30 and it would be getting dark soon.

 Once he had started walking Tim looked at all the Christmas decorations that were up in the neighborhood. He was excited that it was final Christmas time. His holiday break had just started for him.

As he ws walking Tim saw a strange man standing on the other side of the street. The man yelled to him “come over here little boy.”

Tim thought “I’m 13 I’m not a little boy”.

Tim crossed the street over to the man. The man asked him where he was going. Tim had told him he was going to his friends house. The man asked “can I come”.

Tim said “sure, he lives on 3249 Helmer st”.

The man told him he would take a detour and meet him there.

Once Tim got to his friends house,he knocked on the door. His friend had not answer.Tim knocked again, his friend still did not answer.Tim wiggled the doorknob.The door had opened so, he went in. Tim walked into his friends room, his friend was in his bed. He looked different. Tim said “wow you grew a lot”.

“You look older too” said Tim.

His Friend said in a deep voice “I had a growth spurt”

“Your voice is deep” said Tim.

Then his friend got out of bed and Tim saw it was the man.

“Where’s is he” yelled Tim.

The man grabbed Tim and ran to a car outside then drove away down the foggy street. Tim was never see again.  

The Pearl Moral

In John Steinbeck's novella The Pearl teaches that Family is more important than other special positions you may have such as Kino's Pearl. In the story after Kino got the pearl from a shell that he fished out of the ocean, he had heard the song of evil and the pearl lead to chaos. Kino lost his house and family because others killed them just so they could get the pearl. In the end Juana through the pearl back into the ocean and everything got better after that.

Constructed Reasponce Sean Lowe per 4

Constructed Response

By Sean Lowe

In the stories “The Day I got lost” and “A Dark brown dog” the tone for both were somewhat funny. In The day I got lost the humor had a lighter side to it. The main character Professor Shimel is very forgetful so he wears old clothes and forgets where his house is and calls a friend. In the text they use forgetful and that explains a lot in the story. The perspective in The day I got lost was first person from the professors perspective, the reason that it is that way is so you can have a better understanding of what the main character is thinking. The part that is harder to understand is what other people are thinking.       

In a Dark Brown dog the humor was a little dark and sad because the dog got hurt. the dog was kicked around and even thrown out the window and then he got splattered.In A dark brown dog the perspective of the story is third person and you can see everyones thoughts. In the story you can see everyones thoughts including the dads thoughts so you know why he hates the dog so much. You can’t see the thoughts in grave detail though for each character A word used a lot in A dark brown do is pray and that is when the dog is praying because he is very desperate and wants somewhere to live so he prays to the child to not leave him behind. “He swung him two or three times hilariously about his head, and then flung him with great accuracy through the window” this quote from a dark brown dog shows that this story has dark humor. This is very gruesome but also sort of funny to think of it......for some reason. Both stories have some humor but are sad and actually funny.