Blog 2 : Summary , Again & Again

Currently in the book that I am reading that is called "Half A Chance" by Cynthia Lord, Lucy and her family have to constantly keep moving from place to place because her dad is a famous photographer. She also has an interest in photography. So, they move to an old house by a lake in New Hampshire. While they are there Lucy discovers that her dad is judging a photo contest, so she decides to enter anonymously. She wants to find out if her photos are really special through her dad's eyes. As she tries finding subjects about what to take pictures of she finds beauty in a picture she took of Nate's grandmother. Nate; the boy who lives next door. But slowly the picture reveals something to Nate that he doesn't find comfort in seeing about it. His grandmother has dementia, which is a mental disorder and is slowly taking over her. Nate feels uncomfortable from this because Lucy might use it for the photo contest, and it might be Nate's grandmothers last summer.

An again and again moment that is always happening in the book is that Nate is constantly telling Lucy not to use his grandmothers portrait for the photo contest. He really doesn't want Lucy to use the photo because every time that they're talking about it he ignore all the reasons that Lucy is giving him, about why she should be able to use the picture. Nate doesn't want Lucy to use the photo because his grandmother has a mental illness. He sees that her illness is visible through the photo, and since she's already getting old also it might be her last summer and he doesn't like the thought of that. I think that probably he thinks people will also judge his grandmother because she has an illness.

Blog 1 : Summary , Character Analysis

The book that I am currently reading is called "Half A Chance". The book is about a girl, Lucy, moving to a lake house because her father is a photographer. She enters a photo contest anonymously that her father is judging. She decided to enter a picture of Nate's grandmother, they're the neighbors. But in the picture Nate doesn't like it because his grandmother has a mental disorder and he doesn't like people to see her like that. In the book Lilah; Nate's grandmother, Nate, and Lucy fall in love with loons that have settled in the lake really close to their house. They would all go visit the loons everyday right after Nate and Lucy got back from school. The reason that Lucy wants to enter that picture of Lilah in the contest, is because she wants to earn the money for her so they can get a boat and go into the middle of the lake and look at the loons. At the end of the book they all planned that they would want to see the loons fly off together, but only Lucy got to see them leave. The loons aren't coming until next summer, so they'll just have to wait.

So far in the book that I am reading called "Half A Chance" written by Cynthia Lord, I have met a couple characters. But so far I think that the main character is Lucy. She is very loving and caring for everything. She is always trying to make everything good for everyone. I think that Lucy is also very independent because she is always doing things on her own and it seems like she knows what she's doing. An example of when I think she was independent is when she was entering her father's photography contest. She was independent, she knew what she was doing, she had a plan for everything, and everything went alright. She ended up using Nate's name to enter the contest! I also think that she is strong because her father is never around, he is always going somewhere since he is a famous photographer. She never gets his attention when she tries showing him some of the pictures she takes. She said in the book that every time she takes a picture it's like she could hear her father's voice in her head saying that it's a horrible picture. But she never complains or is mean to her father. So from those examples, I think that that would make her strong.

3rd Quarter Goals

At the end of this quarter, the goal I have planned is that I will try to get on the honor roll. To be on the honor roll I need to get only A's and B's. I will try getting those grades only. I need to start doing my work, and turning them on time, because I haven't been doing that very well. What I also need to do is to start asking a lot more questions. Also paying more attention to what the teachers are saying.

A personal goal I would want to accomplish is to keep my room clean. Since I have to share a room with my sister, she is always the one that starts making the mess and it just keeps accumulating after that. We can only keep it clean for about 3 days, and then the mess will start. In order to accomplish this goal I have to not let her start any mess. Whenever I see my sister leaving something on the floor I should tell her to pick it up. If she doesn't listen to me I should tell my parents to tell her to do something about it.

The Diary Of Anne Frank Assign. 4

       A summary of my whole book is about a Jewish girl named Anne Frank. Anne had to live during a date in history called the Holocaust. The Holocaust was created by a German named Hitler. Hitler didn't really like the Jews so he made groups called Nazis. The Nazis went around killing Jews everywhere. There were some Germans that didn't like the idea of killing the Jews, so some of them tried finding some ways to help them. Anne and her family, and other families were helped by hiding in German houses. She and her family lived in an attic with other families joined with them so they can get help also. Anne had a diary that she got on her birthday, and she wrote in their almost everyday. She always wrote about her feeling and how she felt about everything, because it's a diary and in diaries most of the times you write about what you feel. So Anne wrote, and she thought what would be so interesting about a 13 year old girl. She never knew that it would get read all over the world. But it is good that she did write, so we could know more about the experiences about the Holocaust.

While I was reading the book "The Diary Of Anne Frank" I noticed a signpost. The signpost that I noticed is the Again & Again. This signpost means that a character in the book has been saying something repeatedly during the book. There were a couple of moments where Anne kept repeating things. Two examples that she really kept repeating, and that really stuck to my mind are that she wanted to be a grown woman already and that she wanted to be famous. When she said that she wanted to be a grown woman she meant that she wanted to get her period like her sister and that she wanted breasts. She didn't want to be seen as a little girl anymore, she didn't like that. Throughout her diaries she kept talking about her wanted to grow up already. The again and again moment that I remember is that she also kept saying that she wanted to be famous. She said that she wanted to be a movie star, popular, famous, and be known everywhere. She hated being in that attic that she had to be stuck in. She never liked it there, because she had to be living with other people and she also said that it was to crowding.

Anne Frank Assignment 5: Conflict

The Diary Of Anne Frank is about how her life was going during the Holocaust. She has to live in an attic that a German family let them live in. So they could hide away from the Nazi guards. Because the Nazi guards were starting to appear everywhere getting rid of the Jews. Since Hitler was taking everything step by step, that was on of the steps he had in mind and now making it happen. I think that the plan was to send every Jew to a concentration camp. Where supposably everything was great over in the camps, but it actually wasn't.

The conflict in my book is man vs. society. I think that The Diary Of Anne Frank is man vs. society because it's Hitler taking over and killing every Jew. Since there are more people on Hitler's side, it's like a group or society that want to discriminate Jews. So, it's like all the Jews and the Nazis are against each other because Nazis don't like them.

Anne Frank Assignment 3: Plot

In the book that I am currently reading, which is the Diary of Anne Frank, the Holocaust is happening. Anne Frank and her family are living in an attic because they are hiding from the Nazis. Some Germans think that what Hitler is doing is wrong, so some of them let Jews hide in their houses so they don't get discovered by the Nazi and get killed. But doing that is a huge risk for the Germans. Anne wrote in her diary from June 12, 1942-August 1, 1944. During that time when she was writing in her diary, Hitler and the Nazis kind of ruled. So, since Hitler wanted to kill and get ride of Jews, and since she and her family were Jews, she was writing in her diary about how life was going and what had to happen during that time so they won't get killed.

Lately, Anne and her mother had been having some arguments. Also, something shocking and surprising that had happened to Anne, was that she kissed her crush, Peter. What's been happening in my book is that one of Anne's fathers co-workers has been suspicious about him. So the guy went inside the house where Anne's family was hiding in, to find out things about what he was suspicious about. While the guy was inside the house, he managed to steal things. Those things weren't even Anne's families things, they were things from the Germans that let Anne and her family stay there. So that was unfair. But maybe as I keep reading more into the book more interesting things might happen to Anne and her family.

Holocaust Blog

After reading about the bystanders and upstanders during the Holocaust, I believe that there were reasons why people weren't standing up and supporting what they truly believe in what was right. I think that people just stood by and didn't do anything because they were afraid that they might get hurt or killed just like how the Jews were. Also, since Adolf Hitler was taking small steps to achieve what he did, people didn't realize what was happening slowly and slowly. Probably, they also thought that Hitler was just making a little bit of changes and so they really didn't care much at the time because they would've thought it was still going to be the same. I think that some people, that weren't Jews, thought that what Hitler was doing, was wrong. So some of those people tried helping some of the Jews. Some helped by hiding them, like how Anne Frank was hidden. Honestly, I think that I wouldn't have done anything. I wouldn't do anything because the process of how everything went was going slowly and slowly so I wouldn't be noticing it at all. And also probably, since it wouldn't have been bothering me at the time, I wouldn't really care much about it.