Junior 0.5

Well i am going to have to say that this book is like half of my junior year. It is not going well and it is a really good book. This book is about a girl who moves to a new school is Pheonix where she had to go and live with her father and it was just like me when i had to move from Sulphur Rock to Batesville and i thought that i would not have any friends but i still had one of my best friends with me and i was so excited to move. I was also scared too.

The Crucible

a play based on the actual events that, in 1692, led to the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings before local magistrates to prosecute over 150 people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.The play was written in the early 1950s as a response to McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists. Miller himself was to be questioned by the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities in 1956 and convicted of "contempt of Congress" for failing to identify others present at meetings he had attended. It was first performed at the Martin Beck Theater on Broadway on January 22, 1953. The reviews of the first production, which Miller felt was stylized and too cold, were largely hostile, although the New York Times noted "a powerful play [in a] driving performance". Nonetheless, the production won the 1953 "Best Play" Tony Award. A year later a new production succeeded and the play became a classic. Today it is studied in high schools and universities, because of its status as a revolutionary work of theater and for its allegorical relationship to testimony given before the House Committee On Un-American Activities during the 1950s. It is a central work in the canon of American drama.

3 cups of tea

Well this book was not as good as the other ones that i have read, and the words were too small for me to see. I thought it would have been interesting if i had read it but i didn't read it because i was stuck in another book called the cirque de freak and those are really good books if you read them. I read to the fourth book and i stopped because you told us to read the books that we was supposed to read, so i turned that book back into the library and tried to read the book you gave us but it was too hard to read with all of the small words. Please post me a comment!!!!!

"Three cups of Tea"

The book called "Three Cups of Tea" describes Mortenson's transition from a mountain-climber to a humanitarian committed to reducing poverty and educating girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He did this by co-founding the "Central Asia Institute," which has built over 78 schools in the most remote areas of the countries. This book is about a guy named Mortenson who is a mountain climber. I really didn't like this book because this book's words were too small. Did You Like This Book???

Letter to the next president

Dear Senator McCain:

In anticipation of your winning the election for President of the United States, please let me express my appreciation for the grand example you have set for our nation. Your service is impeccable and undeniably places your opponent at a disadvantage.

First, your military service gives a tremendous insight to the many conflicts our country is currently facing. During the debate on September 25, your knowledge and in-depth understanding of the intricacies concerning the background in each situation was, to say the least, reassuring. Thank you for your service and your commitment to this country through those horrific conditions you endured, conditions in which you never backed down.

Since that time, you have devoted your career and life to further serving our country in the Senate as you have carefully and prayerfully led your peers and foes through many decision-making moments, again illustrating your true leadership abilities.

Why am I writing such a letter? As you have been and will be an example for so many, may I follow in your footsteps as an example for my students as we express our democratic privilege of voicing our opinions in this Letter to the Next President project co-sponsored by the National Writing Project and Google Docs.

Just as you never take being an American for granted, nor do I ever want my students to ever forget the many hard-fought freedoms that we are privileged to every day, every day within our classrooms, within our homes, within our towns, within our states. For without patriots such as yourself, we would not live in such a blessed nation as the great United States of America.

Again, thank you. Thank you, in advance, for your continued service to our nation.

Sincerely,



Taresa Goad

My Pioneer

Well I guess I am going to have to say that my pioneer would be my dad because when my family and I go camping, we make our own fire and we gather wood that has fallen from trees. Once when we went to the lake, I went and ask my dad if me and my sisters could go swimming at the lake swimming area and he said we could by we have to go and collect some wood first and then we would be able to go to the lake and go swimming.

I really think that my dad is my pioneer because we have an old fashion heater down stair in our house and when it gets really cold then he makes sure that there is wood in it at all times. Then one time when all we had was cold water, my dad put a big bucket of cold water on it and it became warm.

Indian captive By: Lois Lenski

Well this book is about a girl named Mary Jemison and she is 12 years old and is captured by the Seneca tribe of the Iroquois of western New York. They came and raided her house. Mary, called Molly, her family, and Betsey Wheelock, and her children, were captured by the Indians. They had to walk for days, with hardly anything to eat. Soon they came to a resting place. The Indian chief, Shagbark, took off Molly's shoes and replaced them with moccasins. Then Davy Wheelock was brought to the chief. He had already been given moccasins to wear. In a low and sad voice, Molly's mother told her that she and Davy would be taken on a long trip. Molly's mother told her to never forget her name or her father's name and certainly not to forget her own name. She also told Molly to pray at all time and to remember to speak in English.

Why I didn’t like this book? This book was not that good because it was just not my type of book that I like to read and it was just really boring and if I had to pick between that book and another book, I would pick the other book.

Characterization- the creation and convincing representation of fictitious characters.