Reading Response #1

Book: Mockingjay
Author:Suzanne Collins
Start Page: 3
End Page: 152
Total Pages: 149
Time: 120 Mins

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins is a really good book. The Hunger Games and Catching Fire were both great as well. Her books keep me engaged the whole time, and that isn't very easy to do for me. Personally, I don't like to read. Wait no, let me rephrase that. I don't like having to be forced to read. That just makes me not like the book and just procrastinate the whole time. I hope that I can find books like hers though... I particularly like love stories.

So far what I have read was how Katniss ran away from The Games and went home. When she arrived home, she came back to it in ashes. Katniss accepts being the "Mockingjay" or leader figure. Before even being the Mockingjay, she gets a makeover form her stylists. Rumor has it that Katniss is pregnant. Katniss gets mad at Gale fro not telling her about the propo of Peeta. 

Reading Response #2

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Fade by Lisa Mcmann

So I dropped Mockingjay because my friend Meghan spoiled the whole book for me, so I was just like you know what forget this. So then I started to look through my nook library, and I saw that I had Fade unopened. I clicked on it because I liked Lisa's other book Wake. For the first time I finished a whole book in one single weekend. *claps*

It starts off how Janie gets sucked into her mom's dream, and she thinks the man is her father who has passed away. Basically this book just carries off from where it ended in Wake. Janie is working with the police with a suspicion that teachers are having intimate relationships. She attends this party like a normal looking teenager, but she isn't there to party. She's there to investigate. Janie never left her drink unattended nor did she take anything from somebody. (The students had drugged the drinks and food) At the end all of the teachers get caught and suspended from school . 

Story Time

Just a few weeks ago, I remember us starting a new year again and seeing each other for the first time since we got out. I remember how you could feel the love in the air with all of the hugging and screaming and smiles all over the campus. I remember that it was hot and we would walk as fast as we can into the air-conditioned classrooms and buildings to cool off. Meeting all of our teachers was a nice experience as well. I remember how we all complained that we were so hungry and were about to die because we weren't used to the schedule yet and how high school had another class right before that. I remember getting home and just passing out on my bed because I was so exhausted from the day. 

What a good day that was...

Free Post #2

Episcopal  volleyball has a jamboree next week. I'm kind of nervous to play our first game... well "practice" game. I'm scared that if I mess up, my whole team would get mad at me. Knowing that they wouldn't, I still am kind of nervous to let them down or my coaches down. I think we play Dunham... I hope we do. I would like to see all my friends who go there, and kind of get revenge for them beating our 8th grade team last year in the championship. 

Our team is full of talented young girls. Everybody has different roles on and for the team. I think the JV team will have a lot of potential this year. i think that we will win a lot more games against the other schools... Especially against U-High and St. Josephs. Those games in my opinion, are the games that we prove ourselves to everyone. St. Josephs think that they'll beat us again this year and so does U-High, but nooooooo. Not this year. 

Free Post #1

Well hello viewers.

This is my first free post and I'm still learning how to use this thing.Its just a little confusing but I think I'm getting the hang of this. Wow... The thought of me being a 9th grader is still sinking in. I know that I have to rise up and take the wheel of being a responsible young adult and I am far from that. It's a good thing I like challenges though. So far the teachers are great and nice. Hopefully they stay that way... The new students are kind of shy though, it won't take much for me to break that. 

In my opinion, I think of myself as a funny, out-going kind of person. People generally just like me when they first meet me. I guess I just have that kind of effect on people ha. I'm one of those athletic type of students. I participate in basketball and volleyball. I see myself good at them both. People tell me that they see me going places with my sports. That really pushes me and makes me strive to be a better player than I can be and push myself to do great... I mean because I want to make it in life, and I see myself making it with sports. 

Reading Response to Divergent.

Reading Response to Divergent.

For my summer reading book I read Divergent by Veronica Roth. When I was reading Divergent, I noticed that Veronica Roth kept the reader engaged to the book the whole entire time. Not once that I remember me say “Oh this book is boring, I hate it.”, instead I had a positive attitude the whole time… which is kind of rare for me. I would recommend Divergent to any reader that likes books that are based on a romance.

In Divergent, Tris [Beatrice] chose to go and live in another faction… The Dauntless. She grew up and was raised in the faction Abnegation with her parents and her brother. Tris woke up to a rude awakening when changing to The Dauntless. She had to go through tough, rigorous training sections and was forced to do her best or she could be faction less. This is where she meets her trainer Four. Tris and Four start to have a thing and Tris doesn’t know what to do because she’s never really had a relationship. To speed things up, Tris has to fight against an army of Dauntless citizens who have been brainwashed to save her original faction Abnegation. She ends up doing so and witnesses both of her parents sacrificing themselves for her to be safe.