NR #4 : The Wednesday Wars [Choice 1]

The rose that grew from concrete - Answers

1. What is concrete? Explain, using imagery, what it looks, feels, smells, tastes and sounds like.
- A concrete is something that people use to put on houses to make it solid. But it is very disgusting and people walk on it and spit on it. It shows no beauty on it.
2. What is a rose? Using imagery to explain it.
- A rose is a kind of flower that use to represent love and beauty. It has a wonderful smell and people usually use it to decorate their houses or put them in vases.
3. What is the tone of this poem?
- It sounds kind of making people think that even though we are not as beautiful as others, but we will still try to be equal to them.
4. What is the message of the poem?
- The message of the poem is even though they view ourselves as something that really disgusting like a concrete, but we will still try to be better and making our beauty gains up. Nothing can stop us from believing in ourselves like the rose in the poem.
5. What figurative language does the poet use?
- Tupac uses the figurative language called "metaphor" and "imagination" because he viewed the rose as someone who is very beautiful and the concrete as someone who is very ugly. He uses both of these objects to represent the saying that even though we are ugly but we will still have a chance to keep moving forward.

Stronger - Kelly Clarkson (What Doesn't Kill You)

I chose this song because it told me everything. I think that this song told me that we need to stand up on everything, even though that we tried and it couldn't help. However, we still need to try again to make it perfect because life isn't about giving up on something that we think that we can't be able to handle on. Being stronger won't kill you but it would make you be more confident and to face what you need to face.

[Quarter3] N R #2 - Ginger Pye

I've finished a book called "Ginger Pye". It was a very interesting book if you love dogs. I love how the author told the story. It hooked me in many parts of the story. The book was about a puppy named Ginger Pye. He was a friendly and smart puppy, however, he was kind of hyperous sometimes. Unfortunately, at the late of Thanksgiving, Ginger was suddenly missing. It was quite a big shock for Jerry Pye, the closest owner of Ginger Pye. Jerry and his family took the entire night searching and looking for him. They asked all of the neighbors that they know, but the answer is no. After a few days, they found out that there is a guy named Wally Bullwinkle who had kidnapped their puppy. Well, Ginger wasn't a puppy anymore but he is now a fabulous Ginger Pye, a grown man. I really love this story! Borrow it if you like because I returned this book.

[Quarter3] N R #1 - Along for the ride

The Awakening

Chloe Saunders awakens after her foiled escape attempt to find herself once again in the clutches of the Edison Group – betrayed by her supposedly loving Aunt, Chloe, Rae and Tori are subject to the whims of their mysterious doctor captives. Derek and Simon are still at large, however, and Chloe takes solace in the fact that at least two of her friends are beyond the reach of the nefarious group. In a new facility, Dr. Davidoff attempts to rehabilitate the remaining adolescents, telling Chloe that her fears and mistrust of himself and the other doctors is misplaced – that they are only there to help Chloe and the others get better. However, Chloe isn’t buying, and with the ghostly help of Liz. She makes a horrifying discovery about the group, their experiments, and what exactly it is that they want from Chloe and her friends. When Dr. Davidoff appeals to Chloe for help finding Derek and Simon (under the guise that Simon is a diabetic who forgot his daily insulin and could be in dire straits), she seizes the opportunity to run…with only a small complication. Rae, pyromancer and supposedly Chloe’s friend, decides that she likes the Edison Group and eats up the stories they tell her. What’s worse, the jealous cheerleader type Tori tags along with Chloe for their daring runaway. On the road, Chloe and Tori finally are reunited with Derek and Simon, but it is a constant struggle to stay a step ahead of the Edison goons and to stay alive. Together they make a stab for help from Derek and Simon’s family friend, but face a multitude of obstacles on the way to safety. And, all the while, each of their powers – especially Chloe’s necromancy skills – are growing in strength. It was the first awesomest book that I've ever read in this quarter. It has a really perspective description about the plot and the characters. I really did enjoyed reading this :D

Don't call me Ishmael : Novel Reflection :D

Ishmael Sydrome was the name that Ishamael's parents named him from the first day that he was born. He was a fourteen years old boy. At the first day of school, he got bullied by a bully named Barry because of his name. Barry teased him everytime at school however, Ishmael tried to avoid Barry and acted invisible but swears to stand up to Barry in Year Nine. His Year Nine teacher, Miss Tarango, tells the whole class about the name Ishmael coming from Moby-Dick, which gives Barry and his friends more names to tease Ishmael with. One day, Ishmael saw Barry and other boys were bullying a new boy named James Scoobie because of his appearance. However, James stood up on them and told the entire class community that that he is fearless because he had a brain tumour that damaged the part of his brain that feels fear. Barry is the only person that does not believe James. About a week later Barry puts a lot of insects and spiders in James's desk, but James is not frightened. During a rugby match James's fearlessness changes the course of the game. Sooner, James and Ishmael became close friends :) This story was really interesting and awesome to be read. It helped me to learn a really immortal moral: When we get bullying, we should always stand up and fight against them.