rj#15

Rj#15
701
 12/14/11

  Dear Ms.Zrihen I told you that I abandoned my book in the last readers journal but then I told my mom and she said I did the wrong choice because she said in the end you will understand every thing. So I decided to give it another try.

 My two before reading strategies were looking for prologue, epilogue, table of contents, pictures ETC.

My two during reading strategies were asking myself questions about the book, and I also Skim and Scanned through the rest of the book.

My last reading strategies will be asking myself more questions about the book and discussing it with another person who also read the book and remembers the book still.

Genera: Fiction

Characters: perry, Jenna, scandia,  Malena, Von Thunberg.

Setting: Palace, street, hot, night, day.

Conflict: Internal, Character vs Character

Tone: Happy- most of the time

Mood: good

Pattern of organization: cause and effect

Point of view: I think this is an OK book so far.

authors purpose: to entertain

Authors perspective:objective bias.

 

 I rate This book a 7 1/2 out of 10 because I decided to give it another try and it was better.

                                  SINCERALY 

Maor Shaltiel.

Current event 3

12/12/11
701
CURRENT EVENT#3

    Title: Animal shelters behavior experts face life and death decisions for animals.

Author: John Owen.

Source: The miami herald.

The topic of this article is: life and death decisions for animals.

The main idea is: Experts face life and death decisions for animals.

The authors purpose of writing this article is to:Inform the readers about how animal shelter owner's specialist try new method's and technique's to learn about animal's behavior and how they talk with them.

The authors perspective of writing this article is objective/subjective ( biased): objective.

The pattern of organization of this article is: Flashback.

The reason the author chose this pattern of organization for the article is: To give examples of when he was a little one.

The text features in this article are: Sources helps by, telling us where it came from, Title helps by giving us a sentence about the story, and Parenthesis helps us by giving us more specific examples about this article.

Significance: We need to know what happend in the animal shelters.

What I learned from this article is: what things happen in animal shelters.

What I liked about this article is: How it talks about animals because i like animals.

What I did not like is: How Yokie went to the animal shelter.

Who should read this article and why: People who once put there there animal in the animal shelter to read about some things they do in the animal shelter.

This article reminds me of: Ms.Zrihens dog shemesh.

Text to text: The book the dog in the animal shelter.

text to world: Animals all around.

 VOCABULARY
1. Dementia: I suggested that the cat here would have a dementia. Test/surgery
2. initate: Lets see if the animal will initate with us. have
3.contraversal: Demanding emotionally job. Hard job


            SINCERLY MAOR SHAALTIEL

The Princess Trap

Rj#15
701
                                                                                                                                                            11/7/11

  

         Dear To whom it may concern: I am currently reading the book The princess Trap By Kirsten Bole.

Personally I thought this would be a good book but as you can tell I did no like it. Some people do I didn't I didn't think it was horrible but it was under my personal rating. I did not like this book because it was getting boring. In the begging of the book I thought it would be good so I keep reading it then it was on off off on like I was getting worse than more interesting. 

  I did not know if I needed to put the literary elements so I did just in case.

 My two before reading strategies were looking for prologue, epilogue, table of contents, pictures ETC.

My two during reading strategies were asking myself questions about the book, and I also Skim and Scanned through the rest of the book.

My last reading strategies will be asking myself more questions about the book and discussing it with another person who also read the book and remembers the book still.

Genera: Fiction

Characters: perry, Jenna, scandia,  Malena, Von Thunberg.

Setting: Palace, street, hot, night, day.

Conflict: Internal, Character vs Character

Tone: Happy- most of the time

Mood: good

Pattern of organization: cause and effect

Point of view: I think this is an OK book so far.

authors purpose: to entertain

Authors perspective:objective bias.

  

       From what I just read I rate this book a 2/10!!!!!

The Princess Trap

11/30/11

1. 701

    Rj#13

 Dear to whom it may concern: I am currently reading the book the princess trap by kirsten boie.

   I picked this book because my classmate read it and she said she liked it so I also decided to read it.

 My two before reading strategies were looking for prologue, epilogue, table of contents, pictures ETC.

My two during reading strategies were asking myself questions about the book, and I also Skim and Scanned through the rest of the book.

My last reading strategies will be asking myself more questions about the book and discussing it with another person who also read the book and remembers the book still.

Genera: Fiction

Characters: perry, Jenna, scandia,  Malena, Von Thunberg.

Setting: Palace, street, hot, night, day.

Conflict: Internal, Character vs Character

Tone: Happy- most of the time

Mood: good

Pattern of organization: cause and effect

Point of view: I think this is an OK book so far.

authors purpose: to entertain

Authors perspective:objective bias

                                                               I rate this book a six out of ten because it is good but to girly for me. 

                        Sincerely Maor Shaaltiel.

tuesday with morrie

11/233/11
   701
rj#13


      Dear Ms. Zrihen I am done reading the book tuesday with morrie By MITCH ALBOM.
I picked this passage because my sister recommended it to me. She also told me that she read it when she was a little kid and she loved it so much.
The two reading strategies I used was that I read the synopsis and I also looked for the table of contents, pictures, dedication. ETC. The two during reading strategies I used was that I Skim an scanned through the rest of the book and I also asked myself questions about the book so far.
The two after reading strategies I used was that I reread important parts of the book and I asked questions about the book
Example: I asked myself if I really liked the book.
Genera: Memoir fiction
Characters: Morrie, charlotte, professior.
Theme: happy
Moral: love each other or die
Conflict: character vs character
tone: happy
mood: good
authors purpose: to entertain
point of view: 3rd person
Pattern of organization: cause and effect

 I rate this this book a 7/10

   Sinceraly Maor Shaaltiel

RJ#12 To whom it may concern: I am currently reading the book Tuesday with morrie By Mitch Albon. I picked this passage because my sister recommended it to me, she also told me it is very good she said when she was younger she also read it and loved it. The two before reading strategies I used was that I read the synopsis and I also look for the table of contents, pictures, dedication, and more. The tow during reading strategies I used was that I asked myself questions about the book so far and I also skim and scanned through the rest of the book. The two after reading strategies I will use when I am done with be book will be to reread important pages and I will ask myself more questions about the book. Genera: memoir fiction. Characters: Morrie, charlotte, professior, Theme: happy Moral: Love each other or die. conflict: Character vs Character Tone: good Mood: I dont know but I think it is called solemn because from the start of the story we know that she dies. Point of view: A good book so far. Authors purpose: To tell a story. Authors perspective: Objective bias. I rate this book a 7 out of 10 so far because it is good but I have read better. From your Classmate Maor Shaaltiel.

11/16/11           

701

                                                                                                                                                         RJ#12

     To whom it may concern: I am currently reading the book Tuesday with morrie By Mitch Albon.

  I picked this passage because my sister recommended it to me, she also told me it is very good she said when she was younger she also read it and loved it.

 The two before reading strategies I used was that I read the synopsis and I also look for the table of contents, pictures, dedication, and more.

 The tow during reading strategies I used was that I asked myself questions about the book so far and I also skim and scanned through the rest of the book.

 The two after reading strategies I will use when I am done with be book will be to reread important pages and I will ask myself more questions about the book.

    Genera: memoir fiction.

Characters: Morrie, charlotte, professior,

Theme: happy

Moral: Love each other or die.

conflict: Character vs Character

Tone: good

Mood: I dont know but I think it is called solemn because from the start of the story we know that she dies.

Point of view: A good book so far.

Authors purpose: To tell a story.

Authors perspective: Objective bias.

                                                    I rate this book a 7 out of 10 so far because it is good but I have read better.

             From your Classmate Maor Shaaltiel.

current event 2

CURRENT EVENT 2.                                                                                  

                                                                                                                    11/14/11

Title: A legacy of service: Three generations of pines family have served in military.

Author: PERRY STEIN.

Source: The miami herald

The topic of this article is: how a family tree is in military.

The main idea of the article is: How the generations follow each other s foot steps in the army.

The authors purpose of writing this article is to: Inform

The authors perspective in this article is: objective, Talks about what they did.

The pattern of organization: Chronological order.

The reason the author chose this pattern for this article is to: To make it in the time events and more neater, also so we know when every thing happened.

The text features included in the article are: Pictures, and a bolded title.

Picture because it helps us showing who he is.

Bolded title by telling that the title is very important to the story.

This article is about: A person who went to the army then hiss son also went an his grandson also did. So they followed in his foot step.

The significane of this article is: How generation happened.

  Ex: He went to the army, then so did his son did, then his grandson also did.

What I learned from this article is: How he went to the army and how he was since a little kid.

What I liked about this article is: That how all his generation was in the army.

What I did not like about it: I liked the whole story it was all interesting.

Who should read this book: people who know about him but have not yet read this story should read this article.

This article reminds me of

text to self: my video games.

text to text: When my brother was in the army

Text to world: When a person follows in their family members foot step.

New vocabulary I learned:

deactivated: I deactivated all the mines except the one that hit me: Shut down

Infantry: 65th infantry combat team. : Strong.

indoctrinated: To love and respect our nation: Raised/tought. 

Maor shaaltiel

The lottery

  Rj#11                                                                                                                             11/9/11

Dear Ms. Zrihen I am done reading the book The Lottery By: .................................. .
    I think significance of this short story is how somebody wins the lottery and what and what he does with it.
     I picked this passage because the title seemed interesting I mean the lottery is like a cool name for title I makes the story seem interesting.
 The two before reading strategies I used before reading the book was that I looked for text features like for pictures bold words etc. I also thought about hat the book would be like. The two during reading strategies I used was that I asked myself questions about the book like does the title have to do anything with the book yet. I also reread important paragraphs. The two after reading strategies I used was that I reread important parts in the book. I also looked back in the short story for more details.
   Genera:Fiction
Characters:Mr.summers, Ms.summers, Ms. hutchinson,Dunbar,Adams Mr. hutchinson. Joe, Allen, Time, Old man warner, MR. Graves.
Setting: neighborhood, sunny,
Tone: Happy
Mood:good
Moral: how to work together
Point of view: good
Pattern of organization: cause and effect
authors purpose: to entertain
Authors perspective:objective bias

        I rate this short story a SIX out of TEN because there were some mistakes that I caught in the Short Story.

            Your student MAOR SHAALTIEL.

Rj #10

 
                                                                                                                                           RJ#10
                                                                                                                                              11/2/11
                                        A DARK BROWN DOG

 Dear Ms. Zrihen, I am done reading the book A DARK BROW DOG BY ...................................... .
(page2) "The child beat his pursuer with a stick he had found". I picked this passage because it looked good to me. The significance of this passage is how a child and a dog meet and the boy beats the dog but then the dog sees that he is sad so the dog goes and talks to him and the dog forgives him and they become best friends.
The two before reading strategies I used was to skim and scan and to look for any context clues.
The two during reading strategies I used was two ask myself questions about what i read so far and I reread difficult pages. 1 of the questions I asked myself was If I was the dog would I forgive the child.
The two after reading strategies I used was that I went back in the story to look for more details and I also I asked myself more questions about the book.
Genera: Fiction
Characters: Child Dog
Setting:neighborhood, sunny
Conflict: man vs man how he beats the dog.
Tone: Happy and sad
Mood: good and bad
Point of view: It is a good story.
Pattern of organization: cause and effect
Authors purpose: To entertain
Authors perspective: bias subjective
figurative language: Proclaiming,Acquirement

        I would rate this short story a 7/10 because it was good but I have already read better short stories in my life.

     Your student/classmate: Maor Shaaltiel

current event #1

Title: Will Steve Jobs final vendetta haunt Google?
Author: Micha
Source: ATP Technology writer
The topic if this article is: How Google and apple had there ups and downs.
The main idea of this article is: Apple and Google
 The Authors purpose of writing this story is to: Inform people about apple and Google.
 The authors perspective of writing this story is to: objective because the author dose not say which one he likes more.
The pattern of organization is: Problem and solution
The reason the author chose this pattern for this story is because: It talked about the problems and solutions with apple and Google.
The text features were: Picture helped showing us who he was. File tells us when the photo was taken.
The article is about: How apple is competing against other phones to become the best. How it started it got a head start and know it is the i phone versus the android.
The significance of this passage is: How apple competes vs other computers phones etc.
What I learned from this article is: How Steve Jobs and apple started.
What I liked about this article is: How he shut down more then 20 Google product services in his first 6 months.
What I did not like was: how he got stressed out.
Who should read this story: Apple lovers.
The article reminds me of:Me when i first got my first laptop. When my friend told me that Steve jobs died. How apple upgraded.
New words I learned:Newton, Hand held device, hand held device.
Antipathy, The depths of jobs antipathy towards Google leaps out, Strugglement.
adequate, They are causing you to turn out adequate products they are adequate but not great, good   

The Cry of The ICE MARK

                                                                                                                                        9/26/11

       rj # 9


                   Dear ms Zrihen, I am currently reading the book The Cry of the ICE MARK by STUART HILL. The significance of this book was to show how a only child a girl that is only 13 must fight to save her home. The two before reading strategies I used was that I skim and scanned through pictures table of contents. I also read the synopsis. The two during reading strategies I used was that I reread important parts in the book, and I look for more clues. I am not done with the book yet but when I will be my two reading strategies are gonna be ask myself questions about the book and to reread important parts.
        Genera is realistic fiction. 
The setting is in a castle and in a small town.
My point of view was that this was a great book but long for me.
The authors purpose of writing this book was to entertain.
The authors perspective was subjective and unbias.
 the mood was exiting.
  the oral was to not be afraid of anything even if you are young.
 rising action was she went to battle.
 the tone was happy.
              I would rate this book a nine out of ten.

            From your student / classmate  Maor Shaaltiel 
          

dawn

  Rj # 7                                                                                                                         10/12/11


         Dear Ms. Zrihen I am currently reading the book Dawn by Elie Wiesel. I picked this book because it won a Nobel peace prize in 1986, and because my sister recommended it to me and because it is about Elie Wiesel's experience  in the holocaust because he was a survivor.
          The passage I chose was on page 40 "God saved me from death, Gideon repeated . " His eyes saved me. I too was arrested and tortured. They pulled my beard, lit matches under my fingernails, and spat on my face, all in order to make me confess that I had taken part in an attempt against the life of the High Commissioner. But in spite of the pain i\I did not talk. More than once I was tempted to cry out, but I kept quiet because I felt that God's eyes were upon me. God is looking at me, I said to myself, and I must not disappoint Him. My tortures never stopped shouting, but I kept my thoughts on God and on His eyes, which are drawn to human pain. For lack of evidence they finally got to set me free. If I had admitted my guilt I should be dead."
         The two before reading strategies I used before reading the book was that I skim and scanned through the book and I asked my self questions like if I ever read a book from Elie Wiesel.The two reading strategies I used during reading the book was that I reread important pages in the book and I brainstormed what would happen next in the story. I am not done with the book yet but I think my two reading strategies will be summarize and discuses the book with somebody else who also read it.
   The genera is biography
  The mood is sad
   the point of view is 3rd person
    the authors purpose is to tell a story
    the authors perspective is objective bias.
 the setting is all day
  the conflict is character vs society.
   I rate this book a 10/10 because it tells you about he holocaust.

                   Sincerely your student /classmate
            Maor Shaaltiel        

Odysseus

    rj#6

    10-5-11

  

       Dear Ms. Zrihen I am not reading the book Odysseus anymore by Gerald McCaughrean.
I abandoned it because first I think it was to challenging for me and I did not understand it. That is why I abandoned it.
      My first reason that I abandoned this book was because it was to challenging for me. One reason why this book was to challenging for me was because the words I did not know if it was a person a place or a thing. For example: Telemachus, bougainvilleas for that word I had no clue at all what it meant.
      Another reason why I abandoned this book was because I did not understand what it meant. This book (Odysseus) was complicated for me. It was complicated for me because there was two stories in 1 book kind of at the same time. Also again the words were very complicated in the book so that was hard to understand in the book.
     That is why I abandoned the book. Again the two reasons that I abandoned the book was because I thought that the book was complicated and because it was to challenging for me. Now that I know that this book was not good in my opinion so I would rate this book a three or four out of a ten.It got bad at about page seventy something I do not quite remember.


                        Sinceraly , your student /classmate
                                  Maor Shaaltiel .         

Odysseus

  RJ#5
9/28/11
               

            Dear Ms. Zrihen, I an currently reading the book Odysseus by Geraldine McCaughrean.
I picked this book because the librarian told me that it was a good folktale. My favorite part so far in this book was on page 1 when he says he has not see his father for 10 years all ready.
 The two reading strategies I used was that before I started to read the book I Skim and Scanned through the pictures, table of contents, and the chart. I also read the synopsis. The two reading strategies I used while I was reading the book was that I reread hard pages and I asked myself questions about the book so far for example:  why would people eat fruit from a lotus tree. I am not there yet but when I am done with the book my two reading strategies are gonna be to go back in the story to look for more details, and to ask myself more questions about the book.
          The genera is: fiction Folktale.
  Characters: All the main Greeks, Queen Penelope, the mother, Odysseus's child.
  Setting:(place: Troy,) (Whether conditions: Hot, Rainy) (Social conditions: war) (Time: night, morning)
  The exposition is that Odysseus did not see his son for 10 years. The rising action was that they went to check who else was on the island. The main problem was the war it was character vs supernatural because the war was vs other beasts they found in the island.
tone: fierce, war, happy
Mood: good
Theme: war
 Point of view: My point of view of this story is that it is great it has a lot of action and I like that.
Authors purpose: To entertain.
 Authors perspective: objective, unbiased.
                     I rate this book a 8 out of 10 so far because it is really good but there are some words I don't understand.

                  From your student/ classmate
                                Maor Shaaltiel.       
.

The Power of Song.

 RJ #4
 9/21/11
 
Dear Ms. Zrihen

      I am currently reading the book, The Power of Song.
I picked the book The Power Of Song, because the librarian recommended it to me. There are a lot of story's in this book favorite story was called The Power of Song. My favorite passage in this book was when on page nine and ten when in so time soon the kings son had to read from the Torah and after a couple weeks of practicing he did not even know the Alef bet.  I picked the passage because a kid who needs to read from the Torah soon he dose not even know the Alef bet.
    The two reading strategies I used before reading the book was that I read the synopsis and I also Skim and Scanned through the story titles,pictures,preface,table of contents, and the acknowledgments. The two reading strategies I used during reading the book was that I asked myself questions about the book so far. I also reread the pages/ chapters that I read and marked already. The two reading strategies I will use when I am done with the book will be ask my self questions about the book to see if I really understood the book. Another after reading will be looking back in the story for more clues.
       The genera is fiction folktale.
  The characters in the story: The Power Of Song are:
   The king. His son. The Sage. The songster.
setting was in a temple,kings palace. 

 The characters for the story: a friend for a king are:
   The king. The Vizier. Sar. Asilha. There kids Ovadia, Salman, Sancho.
 Setting was in the kings palace, kings house.
      Those were my two favorites so far.
    The problem is that the kings son does not know how to read better yet he dose not even know the alef bet and he needs to read from the Torah in some time (soon). The rising action is that he dose not know how to read from the Torah.
 Tone - Imaginative
Mood- happy
authors purpose- To teach a lesson.
authors perspective- objective unbiased.
Figurative language- rejoiced,
 I rate this book a 9 because it has a lot of stories that teach you a lesson in life.

                 Sincerely- Your student/ classmate

                         Maor Shaaltiel 

The Giver.

RJ #3                                                                                                                               9/14/11

Dear Ms. Zrihen, I am currently reading the book The Giver by Lois Lowry.



            I picked the book The Giver because my sister recommended it to me. Also because this book won a award. My favorite passage in the book was:
     "With the chant, Jonas knew, the community was accepting him and his new role, giving him life, the way they had given it to the new child Caleb. His heart swelled with gratitude and pride.
     But at the same time he was filled with fear. he did not know what his selection meant. He did not know what he was to become.
  Or what was to become of him." (page 64)
I picked this passage because I feel that Jonas, someone who lives in a perfect world, can fear something like a college graduate can feel, in an imperfect world, and they both don't know they fear it.
The significance of this passage to the book is because this is the moment in the book where Jonas' life was changed completely, and where I think that the whole book will really begin.

The two reading strategies I used before reading the book was that I Skim and Scanned through the pictures, and I read the synopsis. The two reading strategies I used while I was reading the book was that I asked myself questions about the book so far , for example  My next reading strategy was that went reread the pages/chapters that I marked that I did not understand so well. I did not finish reading the book but my after reading strategies are going to be summarizing the book to someone else and discussing the book with someone who already read it.           

Genre: Realistic Fiction/Science Fiction
Characters: Jonas- Protagonist. He is the main character in the book, the one that will be the next giver.
The Giver-  The most important and respected man in the community. He is the one that teaches Jonas about love, hate, pain, colors, and everything else that no one experiences in their perfect community.
Asher- Jonas' best friend. He will be the assistaint director of creation.
Fiona- Jonas' other best friend. She is given the job of Caretaker of the Old.
Jonas' Parents, Jonas sister Lily.
There is no antagonist in the story.
Everyone else surrounding Jonas is the foil. The setting is in a perfect world in the month of December. Everyone was the exactly the same, everyone was perfect. The plot structure of the story is when Jonas begins to get knowledge that other people in the community don't have and he begins to see life differently. The conflicts in the story is character vs. society, and a little bit of character vs. self. The tone of the story is imaginative, curious, and hopeful. The mood of the story was sometimes happy, but sometimes sad. The book is told from a 3rd person point of view. The authors purpose was to entertain you and inform you about how like could be in a perfect world. The authors perspective was objective. Some different types of figurative language is "flat bellied cargo", "I likes the feeling of love", and "I feel his fright". I rate this book a eight so far because this book is very interesting.

 From: your student/ classmate
                                     Maor Shaaltiel. 

Old Yeller

 Dear Ms. Zrihen
I am currently reading the book Old Yeller by Fred Gipson.
I started to read this book because I like the movie and i am dieing to know which is better the movie or the book. I also heard that this book was good, my sister recommended it to me. The two reading strategies i used before reading the book was that I skim and scanned,and I also read the synopsis. I would skim and scan to look for pictures, publications,dedications and more.  The two reading strategies I have used while I was reading the book was that I asked myself questions about what I have read so far and I looked back in the story for more clues and details. The questions I ask myself for example is why would you want to kill Old Yeller for one mistake he made. Its like if you have a dog or a cat and they rip your pillow will you want to kill him. If you were smart you would know that dog and cats are not smart so they don't know if they did something bad or not. I still don't know what two reading strategies I will use when I am done reading the book but I have half a idea of what I think it will be it will probably be asking myself more questions about the book like the one I have just showed you, and my next one I don't know yet but also probably read the challenging pages I marked again. The genera of this book is fiction. The characters so far are Old Yeller, mama, papa, Arliss, Travis and the neighbors so far. This story takes place in there house in the woods and in there neighbors house also out side. The protagonist is Old Yeller mama papa Arliss but there is still on antagonist yet. The foils are the neighbors. The climax was when he saw Old Yeller fights the bear. The main problem is that the family gets in danger several times and Old Yeller saves them. It is character vs nature. I think the authors purpose to write this story is to entertain. The authors perspective of writing this story is subjective and bias.The tone was good and the mood was exiting. My point of view of this story so far is excellent but still not better than the movie. I would rate this book a eight and a half because the book is interesting but i don't want to rate it a nine or a ten just yet first I want to finish reading the book. So that is what I would rate this book.
   
               Sincerely: your student/ classmate Maor Shaaltiel.