11-10-14
A Thunderous Whisper
Pages Read: 102-244
Prompt:1) Analyze The Impact Word Choice has on the meaning or tone of the Text
2) Analyze How Dialogue or specific incidents reveal information about characters. Make Sure To Include Textual Evidence.
Word choice can definitely impact the meaning or tone of the text. For example in the book the author stated "There has to be something we can do, C'mon, think!" I commanded as Mathias and I walked along the narrow street, each holding one side of the large basket of sardines." By the word choice the author used, I could tell that the character in the story is desperate and wants to get something done quickly. I could tell that something is happening and the characters feel like they need to do something. Therefore depending on what word choice they choose, it could express what the characters feel. Especially when they use good word choice it expresses it more clearly and more understandable.
Dialogue and specific incidents reveal information about characters. I know this because dialogue tells what the character feels or does, and with that you can tell their personality. Also with specific incidents it could reveal some different traits about the character that don't come out unless something happens. For example in the first part of the book Ani was a very shy and not a very strong person. Then when her Mother died, Ani became a young and strong person. The author stated " How about if I tell a story?" Ani instead of being a weak and shy person like she used to be, she was taking care of all the other children that had lost their parents. She realized that being sad and weak would not help her or anyone else. As could when she lost her mom Ani became a more strong and helpful person.
Not only did the incident reveal something about Ani, but it also revealed something about Mathias. At first Mathias was an outgoing guy, who never gave up. After the incident he still had the never giving up but he became more mature. He lost both of his parents, at first he was sad and thought that he should go and kill Adolf himself, but with a little help from his uncle he turned into a full grown man who makes decisions when he knows the what could happen and into a mature young man. The author stated " Mathias nodded, but said, "Life isn't always fair." I wasn't sure if I liked this more mature version of my friend." As you could see Mathias has accepted what has been going on and if he did not get more mature, if he stayed the same he would have dealt with the situation a lot differently. When you pass through an incident or something happens in your life, you could easily change. This could affect the way you act, think, and do stuff.
Friday, November 14, 2014
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Weekly Blog for Week 11-17-14 "A Thunderous Whisper"
November 17, 2014
A Thunderous Whisper
Pages Read: 244- 293
Prompt: In few paragraphs, summarize what you read today.
Warning: There are 2 spoiler alerts in here! One is in the second paragraph and the other in the third!!!!
One big event that happened in these pages that I read was that Adolf Hitler attacked the poor little town of Guernica. Guernica is Ani's home town, and where Mathias was living for now. Ani and Mathias ran to a hole to cover for safety when they saw the planes were about to attack. I think that it would be super scary especially for them because they were by themselves. Mathias was worried about his parents and so was Ani. They stayed in the hole until it was all over.
As soon as it was all over Ani ran to find her mom, and Mathias ran the opposite direction to find his parents. As Ani was walking she saw dead bodies everywhere. Along with dead bodies there was smoke, and buildings on fire. For this was the most horrible day in Guernica. She knew that her mom was in the market when the attacking had began. So she went to where she knew the market was. At the market location there was dead bodies scattered everywhere. For she feared that her mother had died. As she fell down to her knees crying and scared, wondering where her mother was, Padre Inaki found her and told her exactly what happened to the market. For it was the first targeted spot.
SPOILER ALERT!!!!
She had found out that her mother had died in the attack. At first she did not want to believe it, but then she started realizing the truth and she faced it.
Then as she ran to find Mathias, she was crying so hard. Then she saw his makila and at that instant she knew it must be him. She went toward him and found him just like she was on his knees.
SPOILER ALERT!!!!
He found his parents dead and burned on the ground. For all Mathias wanted to do was kill Adolf Hitler. He was furious but at the same time devastated. Mathias finally got relaxed and they decided to go with Garza. When they got there they found a lot more kids who had also lost their parents. Mr. Garza and Mrs. Garza had been taking in children who lost their parents, or they were lost, or their parents were injured.
They stayed there for and practically lived there now. Ani was worried for her papa because he was fighting in the front line in the war. Mathias wanted to go to Germany to be a solider and fight the Natzis. Then a couple days later they announced that the surviving front line solders were coming to Guernica to see their loved ones for only a couple of hours. When Ani heard she ran straight to Guernica to look for her papa. It took her a while, but she finally found him. Her father hugged her and then told her the news. He told her that she had to move to England so he could be safe. She wanted Mathias to come, but Mathias was going to Germany so Mathias turned down the offer. She was sad to leave her home town.
A Thunderous Whisper
Pages Read: 244- 293
Prompt: In few paragraphs, summarize what you read today.
Warning: There are 2 spoiler alerts in here! One is in the second paragraph and the other in the third!!!!
One big event that happened in these pages that I read was that Adolf Hitler attacked the poor little town of Guernica. Guernica is Ani's home town, and where Mathias was living for now. Ani and Mathias ran to a hole to cover for safety when they saw the planes were about to attack. I think that it would be super scary especially for them because they were by themselves. Mathias was worried about his parents and so was Ani. They stayed in the hole until it was all over.
As soon as it was all over Ani ran to find her mom, and Mathias ran the opposite direction to find his parents. As Ani was walking she saw dead bodies everywhere. Along with dead bodies there was smoke, and buildings on fire. For this was the most horrible day in Guernica. She knew that her mom was in the market when the attacking had began. So she went to where she knew the market was. At the market location there was dead bodies scattered everywhere. For she feared that her mother had died. As she fell down to her knees crying and scared, wondering where her mother was, Padre Inaki found her and told her exactly what happened to the market. For it was the first targeted spot.
SPOILER ALERT!!!!
She had found out that her mother had died in the attack. At first she did not want to believe it, but then she started realizing the truth and she faced it.
Then as she ran to find Mathias, she was crying so hard. Then she saw his makila and at that instant she knew it must be him. She went toward him and found him just like she was on his knees.
SPOILER ALERT!!!!
He found his parents dead and burned on the ground. For all Mathias wanted to do was kill Adolf Hitler. He was furious but at the same time devastated. Mathias finally got relaxed and they decided to go with Garza. When they got there they found a lot more kids who had also lost their parents. Mr. Garza and Mrs. Garza had been taking in children who lost their parents, or they were lost, or their parents were injured.
They stayed there for and practically lived there now. Ani was worried for her papa because he was fighting in the front line in the war. Mathias wanted to go to Germany to be a solider and fight the Natzis. Then a couple days later they announced that the surviving front line solders were coming to Guernica to see their loved ones for only a couple of hours. When Ani heard she ran straight to Guernica to look for her papa. It took her a while, but she finally found him. Her father hugged her and then told her the news. He told her that she had to move to England so he could be safe. She wanted Mathias to come, but Mathias was going to Germany so Mathias turned down the offer. She was sad to leave her home town.
Friday, November 7, 2014
Edgar Allan Poe Reflection Blog
Before researching about Poe and his life, I did not know much about him. Before I came to middle school, I didn't know who he was. Then in 6th grade we started to read one of his poems, and we were getting to understand his writing. We read "The Raven", and from that short story we had to memorize the first paragraph I believe. We did not research anything about his life and what he was going through. So really before, I came to 7th grade all I really knew about Poe is one of his poems. I am very glad that I got the chance to learn about Poe's life, and to get to know him a lot better now.
These are just some general facts that I learned about Poe while I was doing my research. My first fact is that he was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston. A sad thing that I found out was that both his parents died when he was just 3 years old. His family was split after that, and he got adopted by John Allan, and Francis Valentine Allan. With his new family he moved to Richmond, Virginia. He published his first book at age 18 and the book was called "Tamerlane". When his foster parents died, he was broke and left with no will. At age 27, he married a not yet 13 year old girl named Virginia Clemm. In january 1845, he published "The Raven" and that short story earned him his house name. Edgar Allan Poe died in 1849.
I think that what I found most intriguing in my research was how no one really knows how Edgar Allan Poe died. They have so many possibilities, but they don't know exactly which one was the cause of his death. For example here are just 5 of why they thought Poe had died, one reason is because of the heart. The rest are murder, Alcohol dehydrogenase, diabetes, and the last because of carbon monoxide poisoning. I one I think could be the more realistic is from the heart, like a heart attack. I believe this because he wasn't young when he died, he was already a bit old. The heart stops functioning right after it is super old, and I thought this could have very possibly happened to him. A lot of old people die from a heart attack or just because the heart stops functioning right.
I believe that the reason for why Poe's writing is really scary and dark could have been because he lost his parents and his siblings. I believe that loosing your parents at a very young age could have left a scar on him.
He could have been thinking about that when he might have been writing which could have led to bad memories and he might be only thinking about the bad things that happened and he was not focusing on the good things that happened to him. He had been probably mad at the fact that his parents were not living anymore and that he would probably never see his siblings agin because they were separated. That could have left him to think only about scary stuff because he did not have the best life he wanted. Therefore he got these really dark ideas and maybe some he based it on his actual real life.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Week November 3 Blog "A Thunderous Whisper"
November 5, 2014
"A Thunderous Whisper" by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
Pages Read 40-102
Prompt: Draw 4 objects that represent your reading. Write a sentence for each, telling
My 4 objects I picked to represent my reading is guns, an oak tree, sardines, and letters. I chose guns because this book takes place in the civil war. Guns represent the civil war because many guns, bombs, and machine guns were used in the civil war. The two main characters which is Mathias, and Ani, they find out that Mathias' dad is working in the civil war to stop Hitler and the Nazi Germans. When they found out his father was not so happy with them knowing. Then his companions helping him decided that they Ani, and Mathias should help. At first Ani, was not so sure about this, but Mathias on the contrary was excited about this. As it turns out Ani is officially convinced and is happy. She is as excited as Mathias is.
I picked an oak tree to represent my reading because Ani, one of the main characters loves visiting her oak tree in her town. She has been going there since she was a little girl. She goes there every day on her free time to rest and think peacefully. This is also when she first met Mathias. Before she met Mathias she was very shy, and did not have much friends. Lately she has not been going to the oak tree so often because she is too busy delivering the letter and sardines, as she promised Mathias and Mathias' dad. This introduces my 3rd object to represent my reading as the letters. In order to help out Mathias' dad decided that with their help and them delivering letter to Mathias' dad's companions would help them plan out what to do next without anyone finding out. Mathias and Ani had to deliver the letters every Monday and Friday.
My 4th object I picked was sardines because this is what Ani's mother sells, to be able to keep them living. Also now that Ani and Mathias deliver the letters, they are paying her to sell sardines to the "costumers". Mathias' father agreed that if she delivered the letters, they had to come up with something, so they decided that pretending to sell them sardines was the best way to hide the truth that they are delivering letters. Ani told her mother that she had costumers that are going to be buying her sardines, this way her mother would let her. As Mathias' father agreed to this, he also agreed that they would also be paying Ani a little extra money, to help her and her mother buy food for Ani and her.
"A Thunderous Whisper" by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
Pages Read 40-102
Prompt: Draw 4 objects that represent your reading. Write a sentence for each, telling
what each item says about what you’ve been reading.
My 4 objects I picked to represent my reading is guns, an oak tree, sardines, and letters. I chose guns because this book takes place in the civil war. Guns represent the civil war because many guns, bombs, and machine guns were used in the civil war. The two main characters which is Mathias, and Ani, they find out that Mathias' dad is working in the civil war to stop Hitler and the Nazi Germans. When they found out his father was not so happy with them knowing. Then his companions helping him decided that they Ani, and Mathias should help. At first Ani, was not so sure about this, but Mathias on the contrary was excited about this. As it turns out Ani is officially convinced and is happy. She is as excited as Mathias is.
I picked an oak tree to represent my reading because Ani, one of the main characters loves visiting her oak tree in her town. She has been going there since she was a little girl. She goes there every day on her free time to rest and think peacefully. This is also when she first met Mathias. Before she met Mathias she was very shy, and did not have much friends. Lately she has not been going to the oak tree so often because she is too busy delivering the letter and sardines, as she promised Mathias and Mathias' dad. This introduces my 3rd object to represent my reading as the letters. In order to help out Mathias' dad decided that with their help and them delivering letter to Mathias' dad's companions would help them plan out what to do next without anyone finding out. Mathias and Ani had to deliver the letters every Monday and Friday.
My 4th object I picked was sardines because this is what Ani's mother sells, to be able to keep them living. Also now that Ani and Mathias deliver the letters, they are paying her to sell sardines to the "costumers". Mathias' father agreed that if she delivered the letters, they had to come up with something, so they decided that pretending to sell them sardines was the best way to hide the truth that they are delivering letters. Ani told her mother that she had costumers that are going to be buying her sardines, this way her mother would let her. As Mathias' father agreed to this, he also agreed that they would also be paying Ani a little extra money, to help her and her mother buy food for Ani and her.
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