Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter 7) - Book Review

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter 7) - Book Review

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Mockingjay

how to write a novel review

writing a review

some slam poetry

thur nov 24 pd 3 in library

- first priority is find a book and begin reading....isp to be completed before the holidays

- for everyone, read the 6 sonnets and complete the chart for each (only asked to do one yesterday)...due tomorrow

- small group novel assignment - have a look - you can begin planning with your group

-catch up blogs if necessary

- Shakespeare productions...be prepared to go tomorrow

Taylor Swift - Love Story [Official music video]

The Hunger Games Official Trailer 2012

#25 your group novel overall

#24 the fourth fifth

#23 the third fifth

#22 Group Novel: 2nd fifth

#21 Romeo and Juliet : overall thoughts

Nov 1

in lab at back of library....only 20 computers there so will have to share

work on:

1 read group novel - 2nd book club meeting is this Friday
2.blog responses - group novel/romeo and juliet
3.R&J questions -
4.look over grades/vv essay
5.read on

R&J answer these questions on separate page

4.1.

1. What does Paris mean when he says, "For Venus smiles not in a house of tears"?
2. Explain the dramatic irony in the conversation between Paris and Juliet in front of the Friar.
3. What is the Friar's plan to help Juliet be reunited with her true love?
4. How will Romeo hear of this plan?

4.2.

1. A different Juliet presents herself to Capulet. Explain.
2. What does her father then announce?

4.3

1. What does Juliet ask of the Nurse and her mother?
2. What is she afraid of at this point?

4.4.

1. How does Capulet spend the middle of the night before the wedding?

#20 Romeo and Juliet ...3/5s in

so ..the play...thoughts / reactions/ observations

#19 Group Novel ...the first fifth

reactions/thoughts/ideas thus far?

aiming for 10 sentences per entry

Hunger Games - March 23rd

Hunger

Hunger Games - Book one

Plot



The Hunger Games takes place in an unidentified future time period after the destruction of North America, in a nation known as Panem. Panem consists of a wealthy Capitol and twelve surrounding, poorer districts. District 12, where the book begins, is located in the coal-rich region that was formerly Appalachia.[7]

As punishment for a previous rebellion against the Capitol, every year, one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 from each district are selected at random and forced to participate in the Hunger Games, a televised event in which the participants, or "tributes," must fight to the death in a dangerous, outdoor arena, controlled by the Capitol, until only one remains. The story follows fatherless 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, a girl from District 12, who volunteers for the 74th Games in place of her younger sister, Primrose. Also participating from District 12 is Peeta Mellark, a boy whom Katniss knows from school and who once gave her bread when her family was starving.

Katniss and Peeta are taken to the Capitol, where their mentor, Haymitch, a former tribute himself, instructs them to learn about the other tributes. They are then publicly displayed to the Capitol audience. During this time, Peeta reveals on-air his long-time unrequited love for Katniss. Katniss believes this to be a ploy to gain audience support for the Games, which can be crucial for survival, as audience members are encouraged to send gifts like food, medicine, and tools to favored tributes during the Games. The Games begin with eleven of the 24 tributes dying in the first day, while Katniss relies on her well-practiced hunting and outdoor skills to survive. As the games continue, the tribute death toll increases.

Supposedly due to Katniss and Peeta's beloved image in the minds of the audience as "star-crossed lovers," a rule change is announced midway through the games, stating that two tributes from the same district can win the Hunger Games as a pair. Upon hearing this, Katniss searches for Peeta and finds him wounded. She nurses him back to health and acts the part of a young girl falling in love to gain more favor with the audience and, consequently, gifts from her sponsors. When the couple are finally the last two tributes, the Gamemakers suddenly reverse the rule change and try to force them into a dramatic finale, where one must kill the other to win. Instead, they both threaten suicide by means of poisonous berries in hope that the Gamemakers would rather have two winners than none. It works and both Katniss and Peeta are declared winners of the 74th Hunger Games.

Though she survives the ordeal in the arena and is treated to a hero's welcome in the Capitol, Katniss is warned that she has now become a political target after defying her society's authoritarian leaders so publicly. Afterwards, Peeta is heartbroken to learn that their relationship was at least partially a calculated ploy to earn sympathy from the audience, although Katniss remains unsure of her own feelings.

end of Act Three

three choices:

1. A news article (2 paragraphs) w5 in the first paragraph...detailing one of the events of the act.

2. a wanted poster...Romeo...picture and details of his crime and punishment and reward

3. a short (no more than one scene or one minute) role -play of the events of the act. be brave...go for it

Act Three, Scenes 1 and 2

answer the following:

1. Why does Benvolio want the Montagues to get off the streets?
2. How does Mercutio respond to him?
3. What is Benvolio afraid of when Tybalt shows up?
4. How does How does Romeo's response surprise Tybalt?
5. Mercutio's famous last words (what phrase does he utter upon realizing he is dying)?
6. How does Romeo seem to blame Juliet for what has happened?
7. After Romeo kills Tybalt, what does Benvolio urge him to do? why?
8. What does Benvolio emphasize in his explanation of the events to the Prince?
9. What does Lady Capulet want to see happen?
10. What does the Prince rule?

IIIii

1. Describe Juliet's mood at the beginning of the scene.
2. How does she describe Romeo when she receives news of what has happened?
3. According to the Nurse, what does this show?
4. Juliet's attitude changes again. Describe.
5. What does the Nurse offer to do for Juliet?

ACT ONE SCENE FIVE

1. What words does Romeo use to describe his first sight of Juliet?

2. How does Tybalt feel about the Montague visitor?

3. Why does Capulet urge patience and caution?

4. Does Tybalt agree to anything?

5. Rate Romeo's opening lines to Juliet. Explain.

6. What does Romeo say to the news about Juliet's family?

7. What does Juliet say once she is told that Romeo is a Montague?

8. Describe the mood at the end of this scene/act.

Iiii Romeo and Juliet

1. What is meant by a "man of wax"?

2. Describe Juliet

3. Describe her nurse

4. Describe her mother

5. As a young person of the 21st Century, what is your reaction to this pressure being placed on young Juliet?

Iii Romeo and Juliet

1. What does Paris want?

2. What is Capulet's first response?

3. How does Paris respond to this?

4. How do you respond to this?

5. What does Capulet hope will happen at the party?

6. What is Benvolio's hope for the party?

7. Romeo's response?

8. Has Shakespeare created an interesting story so far? Explain.

#18 Act 1 Scene i

answer (in blog /response form):

what do you think is bothering Romeo?

why is he getting up early and then shutting himself in his room?

what kind of friend is Benvolio?

Romeo and Juliet Trailer

#17 the prologue ...14 lines to say a lot..why do you think Shakespeare includes this ? and btw...what exactly do we learn from these lines?

1 Two households, both alike in dignity,
2 In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
3 From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
4 Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
5 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
6 A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
7 Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
8 Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
9 The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
10 And the continuance of their parents' rage,
11 Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
12 Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
13 The which if you with patient ears attend,
14 What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

blogger exemplars....good blog entries...personal...some depth..trying to relate to the literature......easy

I think I'm finally starting to understand Jack's perspective a little more. Although they do need shelters and a signal fire, if they want to stay strong they do need meat. They can't just survive on fruit all the time, but he is going a little overboard by getting everyone to ditch Ralph and Piggy. Ralph did come up with a good alternative to the signal fire on the mountain by building one on the beach. They can avoid the beast and still possibly get passers attention.
When the boys went after the pig and it's babies i felt so sad. I could never do that to a creature and just watch in die while soaking in the amusement of it's death. As important as it is to have food they could have done it in a more civil way, but when Simon was forced to give a sacrafice of the pig head to the "beast" I lost all respect for Jack. It didn't get any better when the head started talking to Simon and I'm not quite sure whether he's gone crazy and imagining all of it or his conscious is actually talking to him.

#12 Gift For Darkness
This was certainly the most disturbing of all the chapters so far, and I think it did a really good job of showing just how far these boys (the hunters) had fallen from sanity. Firstly they brutally killed a mother pig, and it seemed they got some sick, cruel pleasure out of the act. I was not surprised when Jack tried to bribe the other children still with Ralph to joining him with the offer of a magnificent feast. It appears that being on the island is just a big game to him, and he thinks that he will win by gaining the support of everyone and becoming the chief.
I do not think Simon is crazy for talking to the dead pigs head. A little odd, perhaps, but I think he is in fact more sane then the rest. He does not literally mean the pig is the beast with wings and teeth and claws, but that the head on the stick is mere symbol of the beast within them all. The evil and corruptness that all of us are capable of. I believe this is what the author was trying to get across when the pig was saying to Simon "I'm a part of you? You knew that, didn't you?"
Simon always knew there was no monster, just a group of scared and desperate boys in a situation none of them are mature enough to handle.

Entry#14
Chapter ten really showed me who is strong enough to realize they killed a person and who cannot cope with this horrible fact. Jack and Piggy are the ones who cannot cope with what they have done they are denying the fact and avoiding the topic all together. I enjoyed they both believed in the same thing however because it shows they are not that different. All of the other boys realize what they have done but are having a tough time talking about it because there are people around them who do not want to talk about it. I would have liked it if in this chapter they focused more on the death of Simon however, the author talked about what had happened for a short period of time but the more focused on Jack's plans and how he raids the other tribe and steals Piggy glasses. I would have enjoyed the chapter more if they did not talk about stealing Piggy's glasses. I do want to see how the rest of the book plys out after everything that has happened.

#16 Chapter 12 Cry of the Hunters P.203~225
That was some serious man-hunting... It sounded like now that he had seen and killed couple children before, Jack is no longer bothered by the idea of slaughtering another human being. That is very disturbing considering that the kid's not even supposed to be a teenager; imagine what he'll grow up to be. At the end of the book, the sentence "...Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy." displayed the hardship that Ralph went through to be forced into maturity that he may not have reached if not for their drop-off on the island. Until the end, the mood remains dark and miserable, even after the cruise came to rescue them. What Mr. Golding was trying to convey, in my opinion, is that the original nature of humans aren't all civil and gentle as society makes us out to be. It is only under the fences of society that people act like 'proper' men/women. Once they escape the reach, their natural instincts would come out and become as wild as animals; the children in the book were the prime examples for that since they were exposed to the rest of the population for the less amount of time. The children slowly converted into savages that they were made out to be be the author. In the end, even Ralph, the one that resisted till the end, had attacked the others with his spear out of pure self-defence.
This book is very deep and dark. As I read, I thought it was still boring and it lacked humour; our generation needs light laugh to be able to concentrate on one thing, it seems. Though, this whole aspect of fear and human nature was very new to me and was pretty refreshing to me. Although it creeped me out a lot, overall, I'll say it is well written. I would have chosen lighter, more to-the-point type of novel, but this wasn't too bad either...

#16 Cry if the Hunters
I feel really bad for Ralph. He is the last one standing of his kind. All alone on the island with no one to talk to but himself, and all bruised and cut up from Jack and his tribe. I think that Ralph ruining the 'Lord of the Flies' will change things for Jacks tribe, and they will worry and make a huge deal out of it. I think that Sam and Eric really badly want to go back with Ralph and leave Castle Rock, but there scared to, and scared of what could happen to them, and they dont want to chance being tortured again. I feel terrible for Sam and Eric. Them being beaton constantly. I dont understand why they roll the rocks down to the beach. I love the intensity of Ralph when he is running away from the line. His adreniline pumping and everything. Reminds me of playing sports except he is in great danger. I dont really understand how the officer got there. It seemed like he just randomly showed up, unless I didnt read carefully enough. I still dont really understand what happened to Jack or Roger either. I thought the book was veyr hard to follow at times.

Two and a Half Men - Lord of the Flies

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a comparative essay...over to you

A Cry in the Dark
Lord of the Flies by William Golding and M. Knight Shyamalan’s The Village both create a world in which suspense slowly builds in a terrifying way. The novel ends with fire , murder and devastation, while the film turns on a surprise twist which reveals that everything is and was not as it seemed. There are many similarities between the two stories, but what is clear is the importance darkness plays in the development of the drama. In both stories , darkness serves as the environment in which fear and terror are allowed to flourish.

In Golding’s famous novel, darkness on the island brings out many of the plot developments that create the suspense in the story. Very soon after landing on the island, the reader is told about night terrors, bad dreams and mysterious happenings in the night. The littl’uns cry out and tell of mysterious creatures which seem to lurk in the forest. One of the most interesting characters, Simon, walks alone in the forest in the dark. This partially leads to sightings of a mysterious figure in the dark shadows. As the story develops, the darkness continues to play on the fears of the boys. A parachutist seemingly falls from the night sky, terrifing Sam’n’Eric and ,through them, the others. A violent raid in the darkness reveals how far the boys have fallen. Finally a nightime “assembly’ results in the death of Piggy and the desperate fleeing of Ralph. All of these events occurred under cover of darkness and show that this setting was an important element in the development of the story.

In M. Knight Shymalan’s The Village, a group of concerned citizens take their community back over a hundred years to a simpler, more peaceful life out of concern for the future of themselves and their families. Their isolated world is the utopia they had hoped for , however they find that maintaining it is not without difficulty. The village leaders are forced to create an environment in which the rest of the community is absolutely terrified to leave and even question the world outside its borders. In order to do this , they use the natural human unease with the dark to plant the seeds of terror. Guard posts with roaring fires protect the community in the night. Everyone understands that “those they do not speak of” may come in the night to do untold damage. The security of the village is broken when the “beasts” enter the village under the cover of darkness and “warn” the villagers in ever more disturbing ways. The darkness protects these unspeakable beasts and allows them to complete their horrible deeds. Again, it is shown that the dark and darkness serve as a key factor in creating suspense and disturbing the audience in highly effective ways.

The development of suspense and horror is a complicated process which involves carefully chosen elements. One of the most important of these is the use of the dark and darkness. Both William Golding and M. Knight Shymalan carefully use the darkness to set their scene and further the suspense. Golding uses the boys’ natural fears in Lord of the Flies and an unfamiliar landscape to build a psychological effect which consumes them in the end. The Village uses the darkness to heighten the villagers’ fear of the unknown and the monsters which lurk in their forest. Both skilfully create a suspenseful environment which captivates the audience. Thus captivated, the audience cannot fail to observe it was the use of the darkness that served as the foundation for each of these mysterious, suspenseful tales.

#16 the cry of the hunters

and help arrives in the nick of time..

what was that all about?

what was Golding trying to achieve with Lord of the Flies?....and what are your overall thoughts on his work...

#15 castle rock

the end of Piggy and Ralph runs for his life

thoughts as the story nears its completion?

The Village - Theatrical Trailer

the book and the film

topics..and ..fear (ms/bl) dystopia (bc/kd) (didn't make photo)

#14 the shell and the glasses

two tribes go to war....

#13 A view to a death

the end of Simon and things getting much darker

Thursday September 29....what to do...what to do

use the time wisely

here's what needs to be done for Friday:


1. complete the first venn diagram comparing the film and the book.....differences between the book and the film on the outside and what they have in common in the middle...think hard on it and fill the diagram in as much detail as possible

2. Vocabulary: find one word from each of the first eight chapters of the book that you were unfamiliar. write it out....define it (you can look it up)....include the sentence you found it in (and a page reference) and include it in a sentence of your own on a topic of your own

do it on the back of the venn diagram handout and hand in completed page (both sides) tomorrow

3. catch up with blogs

4. read chapter 8

5. complete blog for chapter 8 (as a matter of fact, have all blogs completed and up to date

#12 Gift for the Darkness (136-159)

read.....respond

#11 Shadows and Tall Trees (119-135)

the story is getting darker and now there really is a beast (well a guy in a parachute)....your comment on this chapter

#10 Beast from Air (103 -115)

your thoughts...consider fear, beasts, terror, dreams, the unknown etc. (what did you think of the chapter?)

#9 ch 5 Beast From Water (81-102)

what happened , but, more importantly, what is your take on it? what surprised, interested, puzzled, angered, frustrated, perpelexed you?....etc

wed sept 21

in 239.....catch up with blogs (remember to follow me at: wwww.gr10english.blogspot.com

and, begin reading chapter five.....read form 81 to the bottom of pg 90 for Thursday

see you then.

#8 ch 4 (pp 60-80) Painted Faces and Long Hair

insturctions as per #6

#7 Chapter 3 (pp48-59) Huts on the Beach

instructions as per entry #6

#6 chapter 2 (pp30-47) Fire on the Mountain

for all entries reflecting on the literature (Lord of the Flies), consider the reader response rubric and complete entries of 6-8 sentences each time. Your entries should focus on your response to the section rather than what goes on in the selection. Do not waste time on plot summary...don't talk about happened in the section, deal with your thoughts/reactions/feelings to what you are reading

#5 Why "do good"

back to the question, why do you think people ("you", the people you know etc) do the right thing? what motivates people to treat each other well/ do good works etc?

#4 Bullying

in your opinion, where does it come from?....why does it still happen depsite all of the attention spent fighting it? is there any real difference betweeen male and female bullying?

#3 Lord of the Flies 1-25

the story so far.....your reactions, thoughts, responses to the first part of the book

The Rising : to begin the Inauguration of President Obama

The Rising - Live

#2 your memoir "event"

why did you end up choosing the one you did? explain

#1 gr 9 English

one abiding memory from your Engish class of last year.....please share