Fantasy League (Summary and Choice)

In the book Fantasy League by Mike Lupica, there is a 12 year old boy named Charlie who is an expert at football. In his area NFL football hasn't been around for 20 years until the recent return of the team. The L.A. Bulldogs, the one and only team L.A. has and they're horrible. Charlie then takes over the team as he is best friends with the owners granddaughter and is just what the team needs. The team then get's back onto track and getting into the hang of things. The team then goes onto press conferences, fame and stardom as the team gets better. Charlie becomes a national star and a lot of curiosity goes around him and how he got so good at the game at the age of 12.

In this book I had seen a conflict starting early in the book. Charlie had been obsessed with Football and he hadn't had a team in his area since 20 years ago. But recently they had gotten a new team, but the team isn't good. Charlie had been proud of football and he wanted to have a good team, but the elder who was the owner wasn't that great at the game anymore and he needed to get some new thinking and ideas. Charlie then senses that they need a new leader and he takes on the spot of owner and pretty much the general manager and he gets the team far and does well.

The Devil's Arithmetic (Summary and Note and Notice)

They story The Devil's Arithmetic is a story about a young girl named Hannah. In the beginning of the story where in the beginning she is going to her family's Passover Seder, which is a Jewish holiday. She wasn't that big on going to it because she never wanted to hear the old stories retold and retold again, until finally when she opens her mind to the stories and ideas and is taken back in tim to the year of 1942 under Nazi rule. She is then very frightened as she is taken out of her home village by Nazi soldiers and Hannah is trying to uncover the mystery of why she is one called Chaya. 

While I had been reading this book I had noticed a memory moment very early and quick in the book. This memory moment was the stories that her family had been telling her which took her back to the past and the horrible memories she can't even start to imagine. She is taken all the way back to the year 1942 by the prophet Elijah, and she is under the horrible rule of the nazi's. I think that this is important because it shows that the story has transferred from this story about  a fun time and celebrating holiday's with family into this deep dark scary story about real events that had happened and horrible things that the Jewish people had went through under the nazi control.

Holocaust Blog

After reading about some of the bystanders as well as the upstanders, explain why you believe many people stood by and watched the Holocaust take place? What inspired others to stand up or resist the Nazis?  What do you think you would have done? Explain your reasoning with details and facts that you have learned throughout our research of the Holocaust. (1 paragraph minimum). 

I believe that people stood by and watched it happen because they were in fear for themselves. Many people wouldn't want to help out the Jewish people due to the danger if they did, most of the time it would be a death sentence if caught. Some people just wouldn't want to take the risk of getting caught and getting killed or sent to work camps. Some people realized that this was a horrible thing and they had decided that it needed to stop so they had helped protect or save Jewish people from being killed by Nazi's. They had heard about all these horrible things and made a change to help the Jewish people, such as Schindler, he had saved eleven hundred Jewish people from being killed by Nazi's, by saying they were working for him. Myself personally, would have done nothing, I would have been a bystander because I would fear for my own life, I wouldn't have wanted to put myself in such danger of Hitler and his army of Nazi's because that could be the end of my own life and the people I was helping as well.

Hope was Here (Summary and Plot)

Hope was Here, by Joan Bauer, is a story about a young, 16 year old waitress named Hope who was abandoned and has been living with her Aunt Addie, her whole life because her mother, who was also a waitress didn't want to have to deal with the responsibility of having a child at the time. Hope also doesn't know her own father, she has never met him during her whole life and she often thinks about how life would be like if she had her father around with her still. Hope had been a waitress, while her aunt Addie was a waitress, so they often had worked together, right before then end of Hope's sophomore year in high school they had decided They decide to move to Mulhoney, Wisconsin to work at a diner called Welcome Stairways, owned by a man by the name of G.T. Stoop who is suffering from the cancer leukemia.

In the story Hope Was Here, the plot was a nice and easy thing to catch on to. The story starts off with her and her Aunt at the diner they worked at in New York, then the rising action starts when Hope has to leave her workplace in New York due to it being closed down. On a wooden board on a window she wrote her message "Hope was here" in small letters. She had then seen a loyal customer who had came in a lot that was a taxi drive. They then had left for Mulhoney, Wisconsin. Hope still had unresolved issues with her mom and dreams of one day meeting her father she never had known.

Summary and Genre. (Shadowcry)

In the book shadow cry a lot of things are going on right now, the character Kate Winters, learns how they can bring things back from the dead and their country is fighting in a war right now. This skill is very important to both sides the allies and the enemies. If the allies keep this power they can have fewer amounts of people fighting against the enemies because they can bring people back, but if they allow the opposing force to get her then the war will get worse and the country of Albion might get taken over. Kate is one of the most chased and searched for people in Albion due to her ability, it is very rare that one can cross the path's of life and death, and she is one of the people who can. She is the only person who can uncover and understand all of the secrets in the ancient book Wintercraft, she has to go to places she's only lost people before to figure out it's knowledge but she is going to if that's what needs to be done to protect her people and the two people she loves the most even if she has to make some horribly bad decisions along the way.


In this book I can tell that it's science fiction. The way I can tell this is that you can't bring people back from the dead and there isn't a country named Albion. A lot of things that happen in the story are unrealistic and impossible to happen in real life, only science could make them possible. In the book the girl Kate raises a bird from the dead, which so far is impossible to do, even with science.

Conflict and Theme blog on Pathfinder.

In the book Pathfinder there are several conflicts inside of the book. The main character Rigg faces the conflict of having a supernatural power and nobody understands why or how he got it. The only person who knows about it is his father. But the problem is that Rigg's father has died and his father was the only one to know anything about how Rigg's life has been.Now Rigg is discovering that his dad had known and kept from him his whole life. Rigg has the ability to see the paths of people's pasts, meaning that he can see what has happened in a persons past live and see how it all happened, but not only that but he can also change the past and alter the future. Rigg is uncertain about what will happen next but he knows it could change everything. Rigg is also conflicted with making a choice about which faction he should join. From his birth he had been required to have to choose a faction in which he would have to join, one who wishes to make him leader, and another one which questions everything that he does.

In the book Pathfinder I think that the theme is to choose your own path in life. I think this because Rigg doesn't let anyone else choose for him. He's a very independent person and he shows that with his charisma and strength. He shows how great of a leader he is and how he can help and be a strong person not just physically but mentally, and emotionally. He makes his own decision of what faction he joins and he doesn't think that anyone should be able to control his life and the choices that he chooses to make. He is as free as a bird, he soars on his own path through the sky.

Assessment for Lit (Article and Poem)

In the article about Nike workers they had said how the workers had been getting about a dollar an hour. The writers believe that these conditions that these people are living in aren't right and they aren't livable, so they need to change and they can't live off of the $1.25. Although this isn't illegal it leaves the person only enough t rent an 8x8 apartment and pay for two meals a day. The people that work for the Nike company in Indonesia can't afford things to keep their body healthy like soap and other stuff to keep themselves clean and get away from germs. If the people buy things like clothes or soap, they have to go starving because they can't afford to purchase the food  These people are also working in factories where if they disobey the owners they'll get hurt or have things thrown at them and they just get poor treatment. Some people will have to stand in front of the hot sun. I think that these conditions and pay makes this practically slavery because this is how slaves were treated, they didn't get health benefits, they didn't get breaks for food and some people couldn't even leave until they had finished what they were doing. I heard how poorly these people were getting treated and I was surprised that there wasn't any labor laws like in America to prevent people from getting injured and having poor treatment. I also think that more countries should have a better law system to prevent this from happening to these people.

In the sweatshop poem the person feels as if they're a machine. They feel as if their life is all about work work work and nothing more that if a person doesn't work in their life they can't do anything. The person in the poem feels as if by doing all this work they literally lose their life as if it's taken straight out of them. They work makes them feel lifeless because of the time they spend doing it and it just transforms them into this machine as if they aren't even a human anymore. In the poem it conveys it's message differently than in the article. In the article they just gave the information out, but in the poem they used words and different was of writing to show that the person doesn't feel as if they're really a person anymore. Using a poem instead of an article can show people information and tell them a message in a different way instead of giving it in a boring article which sometimes can't be as well understood as a poem is.

Call of Duty (Scope Blog)

After having read the Call of Duty scope article I had a lot of thoughts. I think that the veterans who had dogs in wars should be able to get them as soon as possible after the veterans leave war. For a lot of people their dogs brought them comfort which can be helpful to them after the war so they can have help if they have a disorder like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to help comfort them and be with them. I also think that it isn't right for the dogs to be treated as equipment instead of living breathing things. Dogs are an animal and we have all these groups which protect that and the dogs aren't even treated as if they're an actual thing they're treated like a piece of equipment which is replaceable. What I think should happen is, the Government steps in and helps out with veterans adopting dogs so they can have they're dog by their side all the time because they do say dog is mans best friend.

Summary and POV (Pathfinder)

So far in the book a lot of things have happened to people. The main character Rigg is arrested because they think that he's impersonating the prince when he really is the prince but was stole at birth by the man that he calls father. He later then meets his sister and mother for the first time and his sister has a strange ability. She is able to slow down time and she becomes invisible, but if anything passes through her while she is slowing time then she can become gravely injured or possibly killed.  These humans from Earth had went to start a new life and planet which they had called Garden. Some people had even gained unnatural abilities such as being able to slow down time and even go faster through time to see what the future is like.

POV in my book Pathfinder, it is written in the first person. The way I can tell that it is, is that the main character Rigg, is talking a lot and he is saying I, I'm or myself. Often throughout the story Rigg is talking to other people and when he does he is always saying I when referring to himself. I am able to tell that the story is written in first person by sentences in the story. Here's one of the sentences "If I reproduce then my difference might be passed on to my descendants.". There's also "I would have been used to advance the survival of the colonists and their offspring." I like reading books in the first person point of view because you can actually experience it more. You can feel as if you are the main character, it really can make a book come to life in my opinion.

Summary and Character Analysis.

Summary and Character Analysis.

I think that The Fault in Our Stars is a great book for all teens and adults. It shows stories of hardship and losing people. It shows how you can find something good in every situation. Hazel finds a boy Augustus who she falls in love with who was in the same situation with cancer and they're making the best of it. Then there's a boy Isaac who has cancer and he can't even focus on himself.


Character Analysis

Isaac

Isaac is a boy who had cancer that had affected his eyes, and sight. He was one of Augustus best friends. The boy is madly in love with his girlfriend who later breaks up with him in the story. He then loses his eyesight and all he cares about is his girlfriend. I can tell he's a very loyal and caring person. All he could think about was his girlfriend leaving even though he had this eye surgery which made him blind. He was also a caring person, because he would think about others before his own self.

Lemon Brown Blog

The story of Lemon Brown is about a man named Sweet Lemon Brown. This man had a good life until things had started changing for the worse. This story had shown me how things can change within an instant and nothing lasts forever and nothing stays the same. Lemon brown was a good musician in his time and then his life had started going bad. I thought it was interesting that people had wanted to attack Lemon Brown and rob him because he seemed like a really nice guy. Greg had changed because he saw how Lemon Brown's life was and he saw the brighter side of every situation.

TFIOS Blog

Summary so far

In the book so far Isaac had gotten his surgery for his eyes. He now lost his vision completely but all he cares about is his girlfriend breaking up with him. Augustus had been out of school visiting Isaac in the hospital and then Hazel and Augustus were talking on the phone but then Isaacs mom had came so they had stopped talking.