Journal #3

Lieutenant Kotler                                    

• Serious                                                                                                    
• Rude                                                            
• Disrespectful                                   

Gretel

• Mean
• Self-centered
• Annoying 

Pavel

• Quiet
• Old
• Calm   

Grandmother

• Former singer
• Old
• Judgmental

Grandmother and Pavel are the only ones similar age wise. But other than that the rest of these characters are different. They each have their own traits.
 

Journal #2

          I think John Boyne wrote the book from a child's point of view because he wanted us (the readers) to be interested and engage in the book using Bruno's thoughts about what he thinks and how he is feeling about moving to a desolated house in "Out-With" because in my point of view reading detail after detail in a book is very tedious. And also no author wants their readers to be bored and no reader wants to be tired of the book. Coming from my point of view, this was the authors reason.
When Bruno uses words such as "Out-With" and "The Fury" it means he didn't quite get the pronunciation of the words and probably doesn't know what they mean.

Journal #1

          In the novel, The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas, Bruno's family is very different from mine. In Bruno's family, the father acts like he is the man of the house and expects everyone to follow his orders, but in my family both parents are in charge. Bruno and his family has a maid with a butler and a chef living in a big house. My family doesn't have a maid, butler, or a chef. Bruno's father is in the military but none of my family members are in the military.
          Moving into the new house in "Out With" was a big deal for Bruno enough that he contrasts it with his old one. As stated in the story, Bruno's old house was large and had 5 floors with two bathrooms, three bedrooms, a dinning room, kitchen, office, basement, and an attic. However, the new house  is smaller and has only 3 floors with three bedrooms, one small bathroom, an office, attic, and basement where all the servants slept. It is desolated in the middle of nowhere while the old house is in a friendly neighborhood with friendly neighbors sitting around tables in their front yard drinking their soft drinks. And there will be people selling casseroles on the streets.

Journal Entry #5

           Superfudge is one of the books I have chose written by Judy Blume. This is a book sequel to her other book, Fudge ,which is based on a little boy named Farley Drexel Hatcher, otherwise known as Fudge and his older brother, Peter. In this sequel, Fudge plans to be a bird when he grows up. But Peter is concerned Fudge will grow up to be a pain! Dealing with his brother has been hard, and now his parents wants to move to New Jersey for a year. That's not all, Peter's mom is also pregnant with a new baby. Now Peter is worried that the new baby will be a copy of Fudge!

          Judy wrote the book intended for young readers as her audience. This led to the playful tone of her writing. And also her sentence structures include both active and passive sentences. She had complete thoughts with a subject and verb. Intended for young kids, the story was at fast pace which might have been to not bore the readers. In addition, Superfudge is a book for kids to allow them to enjoy what they read.
          

         

Journal Entry #4

       For this author study project, I have chose to study about Judy Blume. Judy is my choice  because she is such an amazing author and writes many books for children my age. And not to mention, Judy Blume's books for children are genuinely funny. Her books that I am reading for the study is Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great and Superfudge. And yes, I have read some of her books prior to this assignment, which are: Fudge and Superfudge. What I know about my author is that she is New York Times best-selling author. Also her novels for children and young adults have exceeded sales of 80 million and have been translated into 31 languages. In addition, Judy is my selected author for the study.

Journal Entry #3

        If I were to trade places with one person for a month, it would be Ariana Grande because she is very talented and gorgeous. If she were to be me, she would view my life as an intelligent 13 year old fashionista with many great friends. And if I were to her I would view her life as an incredible 20 year old actress, singer, songwriter with a great life. She is beautiful and has an amazing voice and is also a fashionista as well.

        My day-to-day routines will be different as her's because I would always be in the studio to record songs and be busy. Her day-to-day routines will be different as mine because she would wake up at 5:30 A.M , get ready for school, and go to the bus stop at 7:00 A.M in the morning every week day to go to school then come back home at 1:30 P.M. Then after school depends on what other places I have to attend.

        In addition, to The Prince and the Pauper, The Parent Trap (movie) will also be one of the examples for this situation.

Journal Entry #1

www.cmgww.com/historic/twain/about/bio.htm

www.marktwainhouse.org/man/biography_main.php

EasyBib (MLA Format)

 

 

Howard, Patrick. "The Official Web Site of Mark Twain." The Official Web Site of Mark Twain. CMG Solutions, 5 June 2006. Web. 15 Jan. 2014

 

"A Life Lived in a Rapidly Changing World." Welcome to the Mark Twain House & Museum. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan. 2014.

 

 

So far I have learned that Mark Twain was an American writer and humorist who was originally named Samuel Clemens. He was born in Florida November 30, 1835 but his family later moved to Hannibal‚ Missouri‚ on the banks of the Mississippi River. There he worked as a printer’s apprentice for a local newspaper. His job was to arrange the type for each of the newspaper’s stories‚ allowing Sam to read the news of the world while completing his work.He later traveled to New York City and Philadelphia where he continued the work as a news paper worker but by 1857, Mark moved back home to work as riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River. Later Samuel became inspired to write. He traveled around as a writer and settled in Hartford, Conneticut and built a life.