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If you are reading fiction: Introduce us to your story's BASIC SITUATION. Who are the characters? What do they want? What is the conflict of the story so far?
If you are reading non-fiction: Introduce us to the topic you are reading about. Who or what is the book about? What do you expect to learn by reading this book?
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In the fictional tale ZOMBIE HAIKU by Ryan Mecum
ReplyDeleteu r 2 funne omg cuz i dont wanna do this idk nething bout dis book like omg g g g.
i think that this book is about this guy i hope that the book gets really good its rreally really funny so far
The fictional tale, ZOMBIE HAIKU, by Ryan Mecum is about
ReplyDeleteidk whut dis book iz bout yo dawg dont really now 2 much whutz goin on u ur lol
i think this book is about this guy who goes into an airport he is really scared oh no what will happen like really im not too sure cause i just not sure
In the fictional tale ZOMBIE HAIKU by Ryan Mecum,
ReplyDeleteidk wuz gonna happin in ma book. itz sooooooo dumb rite now. lol omggggghg
my book is about this guy who is afraid of the zombies coming because it is the end of the world and im nosture whats gonna happen next its really confusing
My book is called THE LEGEND OF BUDDY BUSH. The character's of my book is Ma, Grandpa, Grandma,Uncle Buddy, BarJean,Patricia, and Coy. But the main character is Patricia. their happy that their uncle Buddy has come to and see them. The confilt is that patricia big sister and brother left them and went to north. So did her uncle Buddy.
ReplyDeleteMy story by Adam Gidwitz is called A Tale Dark And Grimm. The characters are a king, the kings right hand man, and the grandfather. They want the king to find a wife. The conflict is that the king want to marry some one that his right hand dos not wont him to marry. He wont him to marry some one else. The setting of the story is in a kingdom and a very long time ago.
ReplyDeleteThe book Im reading is called MAXIMUM RIDE [ THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT] By: James Patterson. The characters are Max who doesn't want to be killed, Angel who wants to make sure Maxs will be ok, and Dr. Martinez who wants Maxs stay safe. The conflict is to stop the humens from killing the angel and learn to be a good angel.
ReplyDeleteThe book that I am reading is called DEMON GLASS.The characters of the story are:Sophie,the Vandy,Jenna,Cal,Mrs.Casnoff,sophie's mom,and sophie's dad.The basic situation of the story so far is that in the begaining,all the kids in gym class at hex hall are learning a new manuver about how to escape being tied up under water.(conflict)When Sophie was dropped in she untied her self, but coulden't get out because of the curse that was on the lake.The curse that was on the lake prevented any deamon from getting out of the lake, and shes a demon.In the story Sophie wants to get out of the lake.Cal wants to save her.The Vandy wants her to drown because she hates her dad.Jenna wants her to make it out.Her mother and father are worried and want her to be safe.And Mrs.Casnoff dosen't want anyone to get hurt(or dose she).
ReplyDeleteThe Fictonal Book im Reading is Called THE SKIN IM IN . The Basic Situation is That a Women Named Ms. Saunders Who Has Went To McClenton Middle School To Fisnh Her Career To See if She Still wants to be a Teacher. The Students at That School are Kind of Scared To even look at her . She Has A Rare Skin Deases On Her Face . Also there is a Real Dark Skin Girl Named Maleeka Who Attends McClenton Middle School . Kids at her school makes fun of her and treats her terrible , a Boy Named John John who is Constantly Teasing and making Songs about Meleeka. Maleeka thought she had a friend who cared about her named Charlese She did lend maleeka clothes because she Wasn't Dressed normal . Charlese Continussly Starts fights and picks on Maleeka when thats supposed to be her "Friend" The characters are ... Maleeka , Ms. Saunders , John John & Charlese. Right Now a Big fight between a Girl Named Dapahe who Goes with this boy Named worm ; What Maleeka Wants is for Charlese to stand up and tell Dapahne that she was kissing worm not Maleeka but Charlese sits there and laugh's while the fight is going on . The Conflict is ;Now that Maleeka's Mother found out about the fight maleeka gets a Call Home to her mom and She Gets in trouble . Now Ma'Leeka Has to work in her schools office intell her principal and mom and ms . Saunders thinks shes had Enough .
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ReplyDeleteMy book is about how hurricanes form, and how dangerous they really can be.
I can expect to learn by reading this book is how big a huuricane is, and what is a simpson scale.
In the fictional story THE USUAL RULES by Joyce Maynard the characters are Wendy, whose mother died in the 9/11 attacks, Josh wendy's stepfather, amelia wendys best friend, and wendy's real father. after the 9/11 attacks and wendys mother dying, wendys real father comes and takes her back to california with him. wendy doesnt go to school anymore and is still coping with her mothers death.josh and amelia are lost without her and dont know when wendy is coming back.
ReplyDeleteFiction Trisha Porzycki PD.1
ReplyDeletePicture this. You are sitting in the old,small city of Ember and its assignment day. The day when you get to pick your job out of a bag that you will work for the next 4 years. You are Lina Mayfleet, a skinny dark haired girl who lives with her grandma and brother because her parents died a few years ago. The mayor calls you up to the desk to pick your new job. Your forehead is full of sweat as you stick your hand in the bag. Everyone is on the edge of their seats waiting to find out what you got. The worst job in Ember. Pipeworks laboror! But, Doon Harrow draws messenger from the bag and asks you to trade! You are so excited to trade but,dont understand why Doon would want such a horrible job to work with the generator underneath the city that no one know nothing about......
My fictional book, LOOKING FOR ALASKA is about a boy, Miles Halter, who goes to a boarding school for his junior year.This school is called Culver Creek, in Alabama. He is originally from Florida, he is hoping that Alabama will help him find the "great perhaps". Miles meets a few friends when arriving to school. He meets someone who wants to be called the Colonel his real name is Chip, but Colonel is what he prefers. Miles gets a nickname soon enough, which is Pudge, which is ironic because he is about as skinny as people can get. He also eventually falls in love with a crazy yet amazing girl, Alaska Young. Yet the night he expresses his love, she gets upset over something else and is killed instantly in a car accident. And the conflict in the beginning would be him loving Alaska, but since she has a boyfriend, that poses a slight problem. Then when she dies, the conflict would be him and colonel trying to cope with it.
ReplyDeleteIn my book DARK HORSE By: JEAN SLAUGHTER DOTY The Basic Situation is When A girl Named Abbey, Works on a horse farm, Her grades are low. So She really doesn't have the "Time" Put into riding. But then She finds out that Donna (Horse farm Owner) Is a tutor, So she Helps her with her grades and Horses.
ReplyDeleteThe Main Characters are...
Abbey- Horse Client
Russ- Groom
Donna- Horse Ranch Owner
Meg- Groom
I Expect to Learn about how Abbey Becomes a Better rider, And how she Reacts to the different horses in the book.
In the fictional tale MAXIMUM RIDE by James Patterson,
ReplyDeleteMy charicters are all these mutant flying kids and they are escaping "the white coats". The white coats are the scientists who experimented on these kida and turned them into these flying mutants. The kids want to be free and so far the conflict is just escaping the scientists who changed them.
In the fictional tale of the REMNANTS SURVIVAL by K.A Applegate, my book is about this group of people who woke up from a 500 year sleep, after an asteroid hit earth and killed seven billion people. The handful of people who escaped earth are now struggling to survive with little water and no food. This girl named Tate is trying to save her friends, Jobs, Mo'Steel, Billy, and 2Face from being killed by a boy named Yago, who made a deal with Amelia who is trying to take over the ship with her friend Charlie and Duncan.
ReplyDeleteIn my fictional book FEVER 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson, the main character is Mattie. Her mother, grandfather, and Cook Eliza are also main characters. It is set in Philadelphia during the yellow fever epidemic of 1793. Mattie just wants to be treated more as an adult by her overprotective mother. Mattie's mother is trying to move on with her life after her husband died, but still holds some of the bitterness from it and takes it out on Mattie. Her grandfather is very kind and fun and tries to help Mattie out by taking the edge off of her mother. Eliza is Mattie and her mother's coffeehouse cook and is Matties best friend, who also helps out with her mother. The main conflict is that yellow fever has struck the city of Philadelphia and many peopl catch it, including Mattie's mother.
ReplyDeleteMy book is fiction and is called THE LOVELY BONES. The basic situation of my store is susie salmon was munder 12/6/1973 and now telling the store in hevan. On how she want justion for her killer its a thriller of how her family copes with loss and is trying there hardestto find her. But what they dont know is he lives right next to them!
ReplyDeletein the fiction book SPEAK by Laurie halse Anderson, is alright so far. the main characters is Melinda a loser girl who no one talks to because she called the po-pos at a party and got alt of people in trouble. what a snitch. just saying. anyways her only friend is a new girl named heather. shes wayyyyyyy too happy. and annoying. she always wants to help people. goody goody girl much? i think so. the rest of the people are her ex-best friends that hate her (like everyone else) Nicole, Ivy, Jessica, and Rachel. basically nobody likes Melinda. and heather only her friend because she doesn't no about how nobody likes her.
ReplyDeleteIn my fictional book, LEFT BEHIND #24 by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye. There are many characters in this book. For example Judd-is the main leader of his religious group and he wants to get back to America. Lionel-is accompaning Judd in Israel and they are stuck there because of all the disasters predicted in the Bible. Vicki-is also the main leader of the religious grooup, but she is in America talking to everyone about God. Those are the main characters and what they want. The conflict of the story so far is more and more people are dying from the judgements sent from God, so they die because they don't believe, so Vicki, Judd, and Lionel are trying to change that and make alot of people believe in God.
ReplyDeleteIn the fiction novel called THE THIRTEEN REASONS WHY By Jay Asher. The basic situation of my novel is that Clay Jensen just sent out Hannah's pre-suicide tapes explaining the main events that lead her into doing this to herself. All Clay wants is to get Hannah's voice out of his head and let her memories be buried with her. Hannah wants to tell everyone that helpped force herself in to commiting suicide what they did so wrong to cause her to have a sullen life.
ReplyDeleteMy fictional book HEART ON MY SLEEVE,by Ellen Wittlinger,is not like a regular book.The book is told through the characters emailing,instant messaging,and a little bit of sending letters and postcards back and forth.The setting of this story takes place in 2002 in of course the letters being sent.There are many characters but the conflict is between three main people about 18 years of age.Chloe,the main character is going off to college which means leaving her old boyfriend and friends behind.She meets a guy named Julian at the orientation of the college she would like to attend.She likes him the moment she see's him! But can she break up with Eli? The boy who has been her friend/boyfriend from kindergarden to twelth grade?...Many decisions are to be made...
ReplyDeleteThe BASIC SITUATION of this story is that there is a family who's grandfather had passed away and is in heaven.
ReplyDeleteThe characters in this story are Apa the Father,Uhmma the Mother,Halmoni the grandmother and Young Ju the daughter.
What the characters want in this story is Young Ju wants to visit her grandfather Harabugi in heaven.What the others want is to do what is best for Young Ju and send her to a school called Mi Gook.
The conflict of this story so far is that Young Ju doesnt want to go to Mi Gook instead she wants to stay at home with her grandmother.
I'm reading the book Leaving Gees Bend. So Far I learned the main characters Ludelphia Bennett Is blind. Her mom is having a baby . Sister is a helper for the family and her brother is a fisher and the dad Is the provider. The setting of this story is in a town called Gees Bend.
ReplyDeleteThe book I am reading is HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERERS STONE by J.K. Rowling. The main character in this book is Harry Potter. In the story Harry has to live with his only remaining relatives[the Dursley's] because his parents and siblings were killed by an evil man named Voldemort. Harry does not know of this because the Dursley's told Harry that his parents had died in a car crash. So far in the story Harry's problem is that the Dursley's treat Harry miserably. They have no respect for him and act as if he does not exist. For instance, they make Harry sleep in the cupboard underneath the stairs. This is why all Harry wants is a family that cares for him and treats him with respect because his current "family" does not.
ReplyDeleteIn this fictional story IS IT NIGHT OR DAY by Fern Schumer Chapman,
ReplyDeleteThe characters in this story are a little girl and her mother and father. The little girl does not know what she wants. The mother wants the family to stay together when they move. The father wants to move but his mother does not want to move. The conflict in the story so far is the father want to move to keep his family safe but the father’s mother won’t leave the Jewish land.
My book is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. The basic situation of this story is Mr.Willy Wonka is opening his world famous chocolate factory to five lucky children, so far there are four finders.Augustus Gloop (1) how is an enormously fat boy, Veruca Salt (2) how is a spoiled brat, Violet Beauregarde (3) how loves to chew gum and has the fastest jaws around, and finally Mike Teavee how is obsessed with the television. The characters of the this story is Charlie Bucket( who whats so badly to get a golden ticket),Mr.Willy Wonka ( who wants to finally show his factory),and the four finders ( who gotten what they wanted a golden ticket),also Charlies' family ( who feels that charlie is the most deserving kid and should find a golden ticket). Conflict so far of Charlie and the Chocolate factory is Charlie and his family are poor and can only afford very few chocolate bars,and after trying two times Charlie didn't strike a golden ticket .
ReplyDeleteIn my book THE BOY IN STRIPED PAJAMAS BY JOHN BOYNE, there's a boy named Bruno and he is mad since he is moving to Berlin. Also he gets angry at the maid Maria because she is paching his things away. Then he goes there and finds its a nice, big house but theres no people around.
ReplyDeleteMy books title is, HOOT. So far HOOT is about a boy named Roy. Roy is the main character. Roy goes to Trace Middle School and has no friends. He sits alone at lunch and is bullied on the bus by a boy named Dana. Roy is pretty much used to being bullied because his family moves a lot so he goes to many different schools. One day on the bus Roy found that it was good that Dana was bullying him that day because if it werent for Dana squeezing his thumbs into Roy's temple and pushing his head onto the window of the bus, Roy wouldn't of seen the strange boy wearing dirty clothes and no shoes running as if he was running away from something. Roy became really interested in the boy and the next day he saw the boy again running wearing the same exact thing and no shoes, again., so Roy darts off the bus to catch up but the boy is to fast. The conflict is that Roy cant figure out why the boy was running and where he was going. One day Roy went to the woods hoping to find the boy but was captured by someone who had blind folded him and forced him to go home without looking at them. Roy wanders, "Could this be the strange boy?"
ReplyDeleteIn this fictional novel , Inexcusable by Chris Lynch. The main character Keir is trying to convince himself and others that what Gigi Boudokain said about what he did to her is not true. That the accused rape did not occur, that he is a good guy and would never do that. Keir wants everything to be the way it was before that horrible night when he was accuse of something he proclaims "did not happen". The conflict is Keir trying to make sense of his theory (that he didnt do it) on what happened that terrible but wonderful night and what he didn't do to GiGi Boudokain but was accused of.
ReplyDeleteMy independent reading project book is CATCHING FIRE by Suzanne Collins
ReplyDelete1.Characters:
Katniss- she wants her old life back without the cameras and the fame
President Snow- he wants everyone to be under his control and follow his rules
Katniss' mom- she wants to care for prim and Katniss
Peeta- he wants the cameras to be done and over with
Gale- he wants Katniss to live life without him
CONFLICT- Katniss is wanting to go back to her old life but he knows it wont happen and president Snow does not want the districts to rebel so he threatens Katniss to act more in love with Peeta or Gale dies
my book is STAR WARS EPISODE 1: THE PHANTOM MENACE by TERRY BROOKS
ReplyDeleteso far there is a boy named anakin skywiker who wants to win a pod race for once and his enemy(as far as i can tell)cheats at every game and makes anakin lose. anakin is a slave with his mother shmi for their master watto. his mother wants anakin to come out of the races alive she doesn't care much if he wins even though there is a money reward but that's what watto wants for sure. sebulba is an alien an he wants to make sure that he is the only one to win the races even if it means his opponents death.
Jared Foxworth
ReplyDeleteThe fictional story Catching Fire was written by Suzanne Collins. Katniss is back from the Capitol as a victor of district 12. Even though her life is getting Alot better, being rich and famous, she still liked her old life. One thing she missed from that life was her relationship with Gale. Now Gale works in the mines and only gets Sundays off and saves that day for Katniss. Those two families lives are changing alot now because of the games. When everyone gets back to district 12, there is a feast and Haymitch is there to thank for his support in the games and Effie trinket
In the non-fiction story of SILENT DEATH, By Kathlyn Gay, Is about "The Threat of Chemical and Biological Terrorism. So far I have read about a terrorist attack on a football game, but spraying an invisible cloud of Anthrax on a high road about a mile away from the stadium. It was a windy night and the Anthrax cloud blew over and on the stadium. The people that were infected didnt know until about 2-3 days later!
ReplyDeleteI am reading Gym candy by Carl Deuker the characters are Mick Johnson, his mother, and his father.Micks father wants Mick to play football.Micks mother wants him to do anything but football. Mick's father forces him into doing football at the age of four when he makes him try to get into an end zone in the back yard while Micks dad is on his knees trying to tackle him. Micks dad doesn't take it easy on Mick and tackles him over and over again. Finally Mick gets into the end zone and is extremely happy. But micks mother is not as happy about Mick being forced into football by his dad and wants him to do something else. So she complains to Micks father and his dad asks him if he is interested in doing something other than football and Mick says no. The conflict is between Mick and his father wanting him to play football and his mom not wanting him to.
ReplyDeletein the fictional story THE HOUSE OF THE SCORPION,
ReplyDeletethe main character's name is matt. he is 6 years old and lives in a house in the middle of a poppy field. The basic situation-or BS- that matt is some kind of clone of a criminal. his caregiver,ceila, is the only person he has ever come in contact with. he is left alone all day long because ceila has to work. then one day some kids find the house and matt wants to play with them, so matt breaks the glass of the window and jumps out. the only problem it that matt is barefoot so when he jumps onto broke glass- If youve ever seen DIE HARD you know what im talking about.... so the kids take him to their place to get him fixed up, but their parents know he is a clone so they hold him captive.
My book is charlie and The chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, the basic situation of the story is Charlie and his family can't afford much and had to struggle to get an "golden ticket" for him.
ReplyDeleteThe main characters of the story is Charlie,Grandpa Joe,Mr.Willy Wonka,and finally the four finders of the golden ticket( not including Charlie).
All of the characters want a full tour of Mr. Willy Wonka's chocolate factory,and the conflict so far of the story is two kids out of the five had to be escorted by the oompa loompa's from the factory for being disobient .
My book "SCARY STORIES TREASURY".Topic So far in the book So far is book Is about Ghost Zombie Ect . Just Plain Ol'Scary Stuff ingeneral. And the Main Peolpe that get Talk about in all the stories in my Book are Zombies Ghost Monster Etc.Just to let You Know ( my Book has Different Stores In it )And the Conflict in thE part that i'm Reading About is When a Young Couple Was Going to Stay With there Mothers House but Saw a house and stay there for Well little did they Know that in the moring Peolpe said that House Burned Don year Ago Yikees !So thats My Conflict in the Story Soo Far .
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