1) The reader grabs your attention by telling a story about a day in school. She sets the tone of the story by telling about the day when she wanted to be named something common and how she started to dislike her name which will lead to the rest of the story about how she […]
10/24/07
1) Rittenberg hooks the reader by talking about something that is a reality to many parents about their child’s future. In the beginning his parent’s are having an upsetting talk about how their son’s future will turn out and what the parent’s generation has done to their child’s generation.
2) Rittenberg’s examples of the bad things […]
10/22/07
I am reading Death of an Obnoxious Tourist. It is about a woman and her friend going to Italy with a tour group when one of the tour members dies and the tour guide’s friend dies. So far both people have died and the main character, Dotsy, starts finding out what happened to the people. […]
1) The party was awesome.
I had so much exciting fun at the party. My friend got his head smashed into the cream-cheesy frosting of the cake and we went down and ran around on the warm sand of the beach until we ran into the ice-cold, artic-like Puget Sound.
2) I got an A and I […]
10/17/07
1) Bryan was able to get the author to stop “overthinking” by telling him to pay attention to how he was holding his head and not on how he might mess up his throw.
2) Bryan suggested a change-up first because it would be easier on the authors elbow and it helps you with throwing other […]
10/5/07
Anthem and Fahrenheit 451 are similar because they both have societies where the government tries to control the citizens. In Anthem the citizens are all given names and jobs and are not allowed to have any say in their life. They are not allowed to have friends or girlfriends/boyfriends. They cannot invent anything unless it […]
