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True to the Game 2

True to the Game 2 is one of a series books written by Teri Woods. It is an urban-based novel full of drama about a young African

American lady named Gena. She is just beginning to come out of a very depressed stage that she was in she finds out that her father was

in jail for the murdering her mother. Gena’s drug dealer fiancé also was just kilt in a drive-by by a rival gang. When Gena finds her

fiancé’s stash of money she soon began to encounter other issues involving law enforcement. Gena has to be very careful not to get caught

with all that drug money or she will be persecuted. Along side of that, unknowingly she started dating the person that killed her fiancé.

When she finds out everything goes crashing downhill for her once again, specially when he tries to murder her and take her money. So

Gena fights the man she is having a baby by trying to save her and her baby’s life. And in the end she survives all of the troubles and

comes out on top happy!

I am friendly and funny
I wonder what forever feels like
I hear magical sounds
I see cars flying
I want unlimited cheesecake and pizza
I am friendly and funny

I pretend to be a famous super model
I feel loved
I touch i touch fuzzy birds
I worry about what happens to dead people
I cry when i’m mad
I am friendly and funny

I understand not everybody is gonna like me
I say hard work pays off
I dream of having a perfect life
I try to do well in the things i like
I hope one day a cure for AIDS is found
I am friendly and funny

I’ve got to

wake up in the morning to

start the long day ahead of me,

get in the shower to  get

myself all clean:)

get dressed in my school uniform

grab a bit to eat

as I hurriedly walk

out the door

catch a train

and then a bus so

that i can get to school on time

I’ve gotta swipe my I.D

so that I won’t be marked absent

do my work to earn credits

study for tests so

that I can be promoted

to the next grade level

lastly, go back home to finish up the last of my long day

Voyage that love birds choose to encounter together

Allowing your heart to love

Loving every minute you spend with your special someone

Expressing emotions to one another

Nothing more than to be with each other

Treasure of my life

In love for the rest of your lives

Never ending compassion

Elated in the company of your secret admirer

Tatiyana R.

14/15

Julio and Romiette

Sharon M. Draper

The authors purpose of writing this book was to entertain teens with a modern day version of William Shakespeare’s famous “Romeo and Juliet”.

I think that the intended audience for this book is young teens.

8.

If this book had gone one more chapter, Julio and Romiette would be out of the hospital and back into school. Their parents would be hanging out together and julio and Romeo would probably grow up and get married.

Answer the following from question the text?

Where did the king sit in the arena?

He was sitting in the center of the Arena right next to his beautiful daughter.

Did the tiger come out of the same door every trial?

No, he came out different doors every time there was a different trial.

Did the princess like the lady who had been chosen to her lover’s trial? Give reasons.

No, the princess did not like the women that lay behind the doors. In fact, she hated her because she thought that the women fancied her lover.

How did the princess indicate to her lover the door of her choice ?

The way in which the princess indicated the door in which she wanted her lover to open is by making a slight gesture with her right arm.

What had the princess seen in her dreams?

I don’t know.

Did the princess expect her lover to ask her to indicate which door he should choose?

yes, and she was right.

Do you think women ever committed  crimes in the kingdom? If they did, how do you think they were tried?

I do think that women committed crimes in the kingdom, and as a punishment they would be forced away from whatever family that they had to be put behind one of the doors that will be opened so hen they would have to marry  someone he didn’t want to.

in you own words:

write a description of the king’s arena

the king’s arena was a place of justice in the king’s eyes. it had two doors that contained something in them that could change one’s life forever, wether they liked t or not. The arena was large and empty besides the seats that surrounded the arena itself.

describe the king’s method of administrating justice.

The way the king administrated justice to people is quite simple… he allowed them to choose their own fate.  He sets the person in an arena with two different doors, in one door there is a vicious tiger waiting to feast on someone’s blood. In the other door, there’s a woman waiting to be married. The kings lets the person choose the door he wishes, and whatever happens, is fair.

why did the princess have difficulty which door to indicate her lover?

The reason why the princess had difficulties indicating which door to pick for her lover  is because she didn’t want to see her lover die right in front of her very eyes, however she also didn’t want to see the love of her life be married off to someone she hated from the bottom of her heart.

If you were the princess which option would you have indicated and why?

If I were the princess, I would’ve pointed to the door that had the women in it because although i hated the women the last thing I would want is for my lover’s life to be on my hands.

Write an ending to the story. It may or may not involve opening a door.

The end of my story would be that the princess kills her father and she lives her life with the love of her life happily.

Do you agree with the author that the king’s method of administrating justice was fair?

NO WAY!

Define the meaning of the following words in the context in which hey appear:

• emanated- send forth
  
• retribution- a fair penalty
• showing lack of favoritism
• aesthetic- the appreciation of beauty or good
• moiety- (approximately) equal parts
  

Name: Tatiyana R.

Period: 14/15

month of the book: December

Title of the book: Forged by Fire

Author of the book: Sharon M. Draper

What do you think the author’s purpose was in writing this book?: The purpose of the author writing this book was ENTERTAIN and SHARE  with her readers a wonderful story that tells about real life experiences that could happen to almost anyone.

Who do you think the intended audience is for this book? I think that the things that goes on in this book makes it intended foe anybody, but the dialogue would attract mostly teenagers.

Rate the book from 1 – 10: 9

Describe one major external conflict and one major internal conflict found in this book.: A major external conflict of this book is the conflict of Angel. Gerald’s sister being molested by their stepfather. Angels is a very young girl and she is afraid to tell anyone of the bad things that this man does to her because of threats. A major  internal conflict that is going on in this story is the conflict of Gerald and Angel’s mother. Their mom knows what is going on with her daughter and husband, but she is doubting it because she doesn’t want to believe that her husband, the man she loves would do that to his child.

1. How does Elie describe himself?

Well, before the holocaust started Elie described himself as a religious Jew, who was very dependent and close to his family. He was a very determined and intelligent person. During the holocaust, Elie described himself no longer as a believing Jew. He was weak and wouldn’t have survived of he didn’t have his father there with him.

2. Who is Moshe the Beadle?

Moshe the beadle is described as a poor man who worked at a Hasidic synagogue.  He was very timid and people thought that he was awkward.

3. How did the town respond to Moshe and his stories?

The town thought that all the stories that Moshe the beadle told were all lies, particularly the stories about the holocaust. Some people even felt sympathetic for him because they thought that he had went mad. Nobody believed what he said.

4. Why do you think that Elie begins NIGHT with the story of Moshe the Beadle?

I think that Elie started his story with the story of Moshe the Beadle  because Moshe plays a big role in this story by him being the one person who knew what was going to happen to the Jews. He tried to warn everyone of what was going to happen but they didn’t listen. Less people would have been killed if someone would have believed Moshe the Beadle.

5. Explain how the German soldiers slowly took over Sighet.

German soldiers slowly took over Sighet by taking little steps at a time. They began giving curfews to the Jews and putting a limit on how much money they were allowed to keep in their houses. Later on, Germans evacuated all the Jews out of their homes to move them into Jewish ghettos, where conditions were overcrowded and food was low, and they also forced Jews to wear a star on their clothing for identification purposes. From here, things began to get worst and Germans began to move the Jews out of the ghetto, into concentration camps. Then, they took over Sighet.

6. How was Elie’s family separated?

The way that Elie’s family was seperated was by the seperation of men from women at the concentraion camp they were sent to. Nobody knows if the women were put to work or put to death, but Elie never did see them again.

7. Why do you think the Germans take away the inmates’ personal belongings? Their clothing? Why do you think they cut their hair? Tattoo a number on each person’s arm?

Firstly, I think that the Germans took away the inmates’ personal belongings because some of the things that the Jews had might have been worth money. I think the Germans took the clothes away from the Jews just to humiliate the Jews more and to make them suffer. I think they cut their hair to prevent lice infestation thru out the concentration camps. Germans tattooed numbers on each persons for identification purposes.

8. Elie, in recounting the first night in the concentration camp, says, ” Never shall I forget that night, the first night in the camp, which has turned my life into one long night…” What does it mean for a life to be turned into ” one long night”?

I think when Elie says that his life now feels like one long night he means that this period of trouble in his life is dark and weary, it feels like its going on forever. There is no more good days in his life so therefore there are no more days. Just this ” one long night”.

9.  Please write a personal reaction to the novel so far.

So far as I am reading this book I feel sympathetic for Elie for everything he is being put thru, especially at the young age that he is at. I think that this boy is weak by himself, but he is trying to stay strong for his father’s sake. I see as the story goes on Elie starts to look at his father more as a burden but at the same time he feels that he needs his father to survive. Reading this book flares up a lot of different feelings and emotions within me.

Name: Tatiyana R

Period: 14/15

Month of the book: November

Title of the book: Tears of a tiger

Author of the book: Sharon M. Draper

What do you think was the purpose of the author writing this book?: I think that the author’s purpose of writing this book was to  INFORM  and  ENTERTAIN the reader/ audience. She wanted to inform the reader that drinking and driving isn’t something to play with, and it needs to be taken seriously. Drunk driving could easily lead to death. Moreover, she also wanted entertain the reader by putting this amazing story into a book with a well- thought of plot so that people can read and enjoy this book.

Who do you think the intended audience for this book? : I think that  the intended audience for this book is teenagers and maybe even young adults.

Rate this book from 1-10: 8

Above you rated this book. Explain in detail why you gave this book that score.: Above I rated this book an 8, I did so because I think this book is very well thought of and it contains a good plot. The moral and theme of this book also has a lot of meaning to it. It shows the crime and consequences of drunk driving, and a lot of  books don’t have this.