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All the Lovely Bad Ones

Reader’s Journal #16

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,                           12/13/11

      I just finished reading the book All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn.  I just realized this book was about more than one ghost.  Two strategies I used before reading the book were skim and scanning for text features and predicted that the book would be about a ghost because I saw a ghost on the front cover.  Two strategies I used were visualized Corey being a ghost and I skipped a few pages.  Two strategies I used after reading were figure out if my prediction was right, it was, and I wrote a reader’s journal to show you that I understand.

      The quote I picked was “you woke Miss Ada up and she woke us up.  Now you have to put us back to sleep.”  The reason I picked this quote is because it gave me a lot of information.  The significance of this quote is it explains why there were shadows, things pintching people, everything flying in the air and more (because there were ghost that Corey and Travis woke up).

      The characters in the book are Travis, Corey, grandma, mom, Calebs, Mrs. Perkins, Miss Ada, Mrs. Kowalski, Mrs. Brewster, Henry, Seth, Ira, Mrs. Donovan, Tracy, Chester, Mrs. Duval, Mr. Nelson, Tim, Robert, the Jenningses, and Mr. Brewster.  Travis and Corey are antagonist because they caused the ghosts to wake up.  The protagonist is Mrs. Brewster because she caused the ghost to stop doing things they were doing and talk to Corey and Travis.  And the rest of the characters I listed were foils. 

      The genre of this book is Fantasy, Fiction because it has ghosts in it and it’s a ghost story.  The tone of this book is funny and the mood is scary.  What made the book scary was how the ghost were just doing scary things like turning off the light or throwing pebbles at Corey and Travis and then laughing.  I thought this was scary because I pretended I was in Corey’s shoes.  What I learned was to not play tricks on other people.  The message of this book is to not believe everything someone says.  The author’s point of view is first person because the author says I, me, my, etc.  The author’s purpose is to entertain the reader with a ghost story.     The pattern of organization was cause and effect because everything happened because of something.  For example, Corey and Travis went to their grandma’s inn because they weren’t able to go to camp because they wouldn’t accept them.  They acted like ghost because in a book it said people moved away from the inn because there were ghosts and people that go to the inn want to see a ghost. 

       The plot structure is Travis and Corey go to their grandma’s for the summer and they really want to do a trick.  They pretend to be ghosts and wake up the real ghost.  Then the ghost start to do these things like mess up their room, throw pebbles at them and turn on all the radios as high as possible.  Their grandma blames them for everything.  Then Corey and Travis meet the ghosts (Seth, Ira, and Calebs).  Then they become friends and the ghost stay in the inn.

       I would rate this book a ten out of ten because I barely put the book down when I started reading it.

Sincerely,

Erika Alban

curnt event #3

Current Events Journal # 3                                                       12/11/12

Title: Animal shelter’s behavior experts face and death decisions for animals

Author: John Owens

Source: The Miami Herald

The topic of the article is Animal’s Life

The main idea of the article is Animal shelter’s behavior experts face and death decisions for animals

The author’s purpose for writing this article is to inform use about what happens to animals in animal shelters

The author’s perspective in this article is subjective because he says opinions

The pattern of organization of the article is flashback because it starts in present day and then talks about the past

The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is to give examples

The text features included in the article are:

Title: Tells you the main idea,   Dialogue: shows that people are having a conversation, and parenthesis: more specific, for example “She also demonstrated an extreme level of stress…and (was) unable to settle herself when left alone.” 

This article is about animals put to death because they are unsuitable for adoption

The significance of this article is we need to know what happens in animal shelters every year.

 What I learned from this article is to what’s happening in animal shelters.

What I liked about this article is that it talks about animals

What I did not like about it is that lots of animals get put to sleep

I think everyone should read this article

This article reminds me of Mrs. Zrihen’s dog, Shemesh

This article reminds me of the book Dogs

This article reminds me of animals

New vocabulary I learned

Word Context Clues Meaning

Euthanized	They run animals through a series of behavioral tests, and those who pass can move on to adoption, while those who fail may be euthanized, joining the 7,400 dogs and 11,000 cats put to death at Chicago shelters annually.	Put to sleep
Advocacy	"The reason we're here is because we love and respect animals, and we understand the stress that they're under coming to a shelter environment, so they need to have some sort of advocacy,"	The act or process of advocating or supporting a cause or proposal
Condemns	"What was once a tool to flush out aggression in a potentially dangerous dog is now a weapon that condemns the average dog,"	Wrong or evil

All the Lovely Bad Ones

Reader’s Journal # 15

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

      I am almost finished reading All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn.  This book is extremely scary and a cliffhanger.  Two strategies I used before reading the book were skim and scanning for text features and predicted that the book would be about a ghost because I saw a ghost on the front cover.  Two strategies I used were visualized Corey being a ghost and I skipped a few pages.  Two strategies I used after reading were figure out if my prediction was right, it was, and I wrote a reader’s journal to show you that I understand.

      This book is about a girl named Corey (antagonist) and her brother Travis (antagonist) that go to their grandma’s (foil) inn in Vermont for the summer.  The inn is called Fox Hills and in a book it says that there are ghost in Fox Hills so everyone goes to the inn and people (foil) are whining because they don’t see a ghost.  Corey and Travis decide to pretend they are ghost so more people could come.  They lie to the Jenningses (foil) saying that they saw a ghost to look outside at 3:00 AM (Corey is dressed up as a ghost and screams and people look out the window).  They run upstairs and they jump in their bed and their grandma opens the door and asked if they were awake (acting tired).  The next day the Jenningses say they saw a ghost and Tracy says that she wanted to see the ghost up close so she went camping put in the groove.    When Tracy (foil) went camping, Corey and Travis were inside flashing lights.  The next morning, the Jenningses said there’s more than one ghost!  (Man vs. supernatural).

      The tone and mood of this book is scary.  The author’s point of view is first person because it says I me and more.  The genre of this book is fantasy, fiction because it’s a ghost story.  The theme is and moral is don’t believe in something until you seen it.  The pattern of organization is cause and effect because Corey and Travis went to their grandma’s inn because they weren’t able to go to camp because they wouldn’t accept them.  They acted like ghost because in the book it said people moved away from the inn because there were ghost and people that go to the inn want to see ghost. 

      I would rate this book ten out of ten because it was very interesting and it was very detailed.

Sincerely,

Erika