reading log #1
Nathalie rios
La period 3-4
09/19/16
Disappearance a premonitions mystery
Each and every story contains main characters in the this book they are Gracie, Zed ,Diego, Marigold ,Andy, Mason and Dylan. Gracie is the main character she is the kind of girl you don't see very often, her role in the book is telling the story from her point of view, she also sees what is going to happen this talent makes her unique. Zed is the type of guy that can have any girl because he is very handsome but he is also the guy that Gracie thought to have had something to do with her friend Emily’s disappearance. According to the text “Last summer, my friend Emily disappeared. I’d had a vision , and it seemed to connect to Zed”.This means that Gracie thought that Zed had something to do with her friend disappearing. On the other hand Diego another character in the story is playing the part of Gracie's cousin. Marigold another character is a very pretty girl that Diego is into. According to the text “ It all begins with a girl called Marigold. She is the inexplicable love object of my cousin Diego”. This shows and proves that Diego is in Marigold. Andy, Mason, and Dylan are the friends of Diego and Marigold, they are disrespectful and goff balls. These three character happen to cause Zed to get angry .
reading log #2
Nathalie Rios
Period 3-4
09/22/16
Disappearance a premonitions mystery
A conflict that happened was Mason's table of friends were being immature at the restaurant and they decided it would be funny to throw snickers at a couple from out of town. They are the friends of mason and they are important because they cause Zed to storm out at them. According to the text it says ”Zed turns, and i see his face darken. He strides over to our table”. What this sentence from the book is trying to say is that Zed gets mad at the friends of Mason because they were discriminating the couple from across the room because they looked like tourist meaning they weren't from there island. According to the text it also says “ “ You want dessert?” Zed asks “There's a great cream parlor across the street. Our pies suck” drops the check on the table and walks away”. This from the text is another sentence that proves they caused Zed to get mad and they met the other side of him. The group of friends in the table act surprised because they didn't expect that from him. This conflict affects everyone because once Zed is mad Zed is mad.
Reading log #3
10/21/16
plot
Disappearance a premonitions mystery
An important scene would be when they identify the drowned body of Hank Hobbs. This happened in the beach. This scene is important because there is a big investigation of it whether he was murdered or if he committed suicide. All the characters react shocked, unhappy, sad, worried, eager to find out what happened to the poor man. It's in explosion because everything just happened out of the nowhere. In the text it states “ Shay goes white. “ Was he murdered?” “ We don't know,” Joe says. “We know he couldn't swim. The Coast Guard found the boat out in the Sound.” In the text it also says “ He was irresponsible, obviously. Maybe not the most truthful person I ever met. But he wouldn't commit cold-blood murder. He couldn't.” In conclusion , who murdered or what really happened to Hank Hobbs.
Reading log #4
GATE Depth & Complexity Icons + Content Imperatives
Disappearance a premonitions mystery
10/21/16
Per 3-4
The unanswered questions icon is a very big deal in this story because there are many things that don't get answered until later in the story. According to the text “ But if he was murdered, how did the killer get away?” It also says “ or the killer could have swam to shore. It's possible. The tides are tricky, but you can do it.”. These are examples of unanswered questions throughout the story.
Nathalie Rios
Ela period 3-4
12/1/16
Reading Log #5
Dracula
The main characters in the story are Jonathan Harker and Count Dracula. Jonathan Harker is a solicitor sent to do businesses with count dracula. According to the book “ Dracula” it states “ Jonathan Harker, a young solicitor who travels to the wilds of Transylvania to advise a client, the mysterious Count Dracula, on the Counts purchase of a decrepit abbey in England and his plans to move into it.” From this quote I think it lets me know that Jonathan Harker was brave to go on the search for Count Dracula. Count Dracula is a noble from Transylvania. According to the text it states “ I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country”. Dracula is a very smart vampire with many respect.
Reading log #6
12/16/16
Dracula
Conflict
Count Dracula had asked Jonathan Harker for his help to get back to his castle. When Harker helps him and they get to his castle Dracula invites him to stay over as he helped him get there, Halker agrees and spends the night there. The next morning Harker tries to leave but Count Dracula won't allow that and he started to get scared and suspicious. He then realizes that Dracula took him there so he could be a prisoner for him. According to the text it states “ when i found that I was a prisoner a sort of wild feeling come over me”. This means that he had felt a fear and eagerness to get out of there. In the text it also states “ I rushed up and down the stairs, trying every door and peering out of every window i could find; but after a little the conviction of my helpless overpowered all of the other feelings”. From this I think that it'll be very hard for hacker to escape.
Reading log #7
12/16/16
Dracula
Gate Depth & complexity icon
This book “ Dracula” relates to the complexity icon big idea because there's a lot of big ideas in this book. According to the text it states “ I have had a long talk with the Count. I asked him a few questions on Transylvania history, and he warmed up to the subject wonderfully”. This shows that a main idea in the book “Dracula” is about the history of Transylvania as he's interested in. In the text it also stated “ The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonourable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.” This shows that blood is a big idea in the book to.