Jessie J: Nice to Meet You!

This week I started reading a new biography. It is about Jessie J and her journey to success. I really like this book because it reflect upon her life before camera's and fame. She recalls how it was living with her family and doing stuff she now does not do. I am on page 20. I have not come upon any new word that I don't understand. Hopeful in the next few pages I will find a new vocabulary word.

My Life With the Chimpanzees

My Life With the Chimpanzees

By: Jane Goodall

This week I have been reading My Life With the Chimpanzees, by Jane Goodall. I have read 136 of the novel. I chose to write about this book because it is interesting and I am reading it along with my class. An unknown word I have discovered in the novel My Life With the Chimpanzees,  is insecticide. I have found the word insecticide, on the page 114. The definition of the word insecticide is a substance used for killing insects.

Gangsta Granny

I am reading the book called Gangsta Granny written by David Williams, and I am on page #170 out of 297
This book is about a boy called Ben, and his grandma. Every Friday Ben's parents drop him of at his grandmas, because every Friday they watch "Dancing with the Stars" life. Ben hates his grandma because she is remarkably boring and she smells like cabbage. Everything she makes is made out of cabbage, even her chocolate surprise meal is called "chocolate surprise" because the surprise is actually that the meal is made out of 100% cabbage. One Friday evening when Ben was eating *Cabbage* his granny went to the bathroom and he through his cabbage through the window and took the cookie jar *his granny gives him one cookie for his birthday each year* occasionally he takes the cookies him self. This time the cookie jar was remarkably heavy and when Ben opened it he saw diamonds, gold necklaces and diamond tiaras. He was surprised and confused and he was determined to find out why? Why did his grandma have diamonds in her house, diamonds that are worth millions!!!! After some time he found out that his grandma is a criminal, who steels diamonds! Ben's Granny told him many stories how she stool diamonds, from the Russian queen and she first stool a diamond ring when she was twelve. Then Ben and his Granny started making a plan to steel  diamonds from THE ENGLISH QUEEN!

I chose to read this book because, the title and blurb was very interesting and it seemed like an awesome book! A word that I found  that was unfamiliar is startled, which means cause to feel sudden shock or alarm. 

 

De Zevensprong - Tonke Dragt

Haii!
So this week, I've been reading a strange book, in Dutch though. De Zevensprong. Literally I can only translate this into a round-a-bout containing seven roads. It is about a teacher that confuses himself with the mysterious round-a-bout's name, when seeming to have only six roads! After, he joins a conspiracy, which is about saving a young boy, Geert-Jan, from the claws of his uncle. Long ago, in an interesting story, it was said that a treasure was buried, which is an even bigger secret. Together, (yes, they are associated) they form the conspiracy of a lifetime, and the teacher, was suddenly chosen to be the governor of Geert-Jan. Not only to teach him, but to help him escape as well, (with the treasure of course).

I chose it, (not really) last time my mom visited The Netherlands and picked up a book for me, to improve my current Dutch reading. She thought it would be an amazing opportunity for me. And I do not think there were any negative effects from that.

(I LOVE THE BOOK)

I didn't know a complicated word: Pedagogisch, (Pedagogical) Pg. 118
It means a kind of education to children, teaching them.
I read the entire book in one night, (491 Pages)
And the book was written and illustrated by: Tonke Dragt. (Like the best Dutch writer ever!)




CK, Cosmo xD

MY LIFE WITH THE CHIMPANZEES!

AUTHOR: Jane Goodall
Number of Pages: 135/156 pages

Hello dear readers, as all of you this time know, the whole 6th grade is reading my book! Well, I will give my perspective towards this book, which is not so good. I personally give this book a 6/10 due to its theme, and its point of view. Why assault this book immediately you are asking? Well, first of all, I think that the theme itself is not very exciting. Jane Goodall works in the forests of Tanzania for a "mere" 20+ years, only at that moment. The theme of the book could be exciting if she were to spend a little bit less time in the jungle, but I personally think that at one point, the book looses its charm. Same like Robinson Cruso, who spends 14 years on a deserted island somewhere, these types of books loose there excitement. On the other hand, there was one small sentence that completely changed my view towards this story.

I will ask you reader, do you find humans more important than animals? Well I personally do, because I am a human, after all. In Jane Goodall's writings, something that is done for the well-being of man kind, turns out to be a very bad thing. As she mentions, she finds testing new vaccines on animals a very cruel thing to do! Well, I cannot say it is not, but here is a fact that supports my statement: In 2012 around 660,000 thousand people died from a preventable form of Malaria! And she is stating that she does not care! 660,000 people is the population of a large city! So, Chimps, which there are "only" 250,000 is more important than these 660,000 people. After this, we ask ourselves a little bit about Jane Goodall. But please, do not mistake me. Jane is an intellectual, because she is after all an ambassador of the United Nations. But we do think about her as a person. In what environment was she raised in? Does she value human attributes such as Honesty, Forgiveness or others.

I will not only criticize the book, because there are some interesting things in all books, including this one. The book is emotional, and at certain points, a very interesting one. My favourite part, is when she talks about her early life. She appears to be very curious as a child and a very intelligent person.

My mystery word is Anthropologist: The study of human races, origins, societies and cultures.
Thank you for reading my post!  

My life with Chimpanzees

The title of the book is My life with Cimapnzees. THese book is written by Jane Goodall. I read 135 pages out of 156 pages. I didn't choose this reading because my whole class is reading the book. One of the words that did not know was Anthropologist. An anthropologist someone who deals with origins, physical and culutural development.

Wonder

Wonder
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Written by R.J. Palacio
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142/315 # of pages
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Review by Shelly Ness

Hey guys!

As some of you know I am reading a really awesome book called wonder.  So August the main character which has some issues with his face was narrating the story. I really love Auggie (August's nickname). I love him. It's just I feel really bad for him,, and he goes through hard issues (which I can connect to) and people don't like him and they were bribed to be his friend. I would be his friend though. I don't care what his face looks like but he is so fun and amazing and his family treats him like a baby because they care so much and I just can't. 

I chose this reading at the February break. I found out about this book because Ashley told me it is a good book so at a bookstore at the airport in London, I got really bored so I got that book and it was really interesting! So i am doing a blog post about it!

Talking about friends and family, Via, his sister was narrating the story and she talked about how she sees august and protects him and loves him. He has been home schooled for all his life and suddenly his parents and him decided to send him to school. He was doing pretty well until Halloween. His best friend told a group of boys that he doesn't like August and that August just wouldn't leave him alone! August was there, and he was in a costume so they didn't know it was him. August felt bad, he threw up and went home. Halloween was his favorite holiday and he didn't want to enjoy it. Via loved and cared for him and she knew something was up so she went to check and he just said he has problems. In the end she persuaded him to go to the parade with her and have fun.

Then Summer, the girl who sat with him for lunch at the first day of school because she felt sad for him narrated the book. Summer was really pretty and nice and was asked why she is hanging out with the "freak"! she said because he was nice and awesome and fun, unlike them who don't want to play any games because now they are in middle school.Summer and August were planning to go to the Halloween parade together as a unicorn and Boba Fett which is a character from star wars. August wanted that costume but his mom didn't find it in his size so she bought another costume and worked hard to make it like Boba Fett, and in the end August didn't wear it to school. This made me so sad, like, i was crying.

That night they both kind of broke their promises or changed plans because August felt bad, but went with his sister anyway. But Summer. She was invited to this girl's Halloween party, and was told to come without a costume. This girl is called Savanna and she is the most popular girl in school. Summer came to the party and she saw that there was all couples. She had no couple. Then Savanna asked her were her boyfriend was, and she was referring to August. Summer said that they aren't boyfriend and girlfriend and then Savanna was trying to set her up with this cute boy who likes her, and Savanna and her boyfriend told her that everyone likes her and thinks she is pretty and nice so Summer said okay and Savanna was just about to get Julian, the boy. Julian is really mean to August, by the way. But then she said she needs to go to the toilet. She went, called her mom to pick her up, and without any questions her mom came. She hid in the toilet and then sneaked out. The next day Savanna asked her what happened, and she said that she felt sick and Savanna believed her and she told Savanna she didn't like Julian, and she liked someone else so that Julian would leave her alone. Then at the parade no unicorn was seen.

 Jack Will started narrating the story, and August was ignoring him because he was the best friend whose aid mean things. That is how much i read. An unknown word was Flabbergasted, page 116. It means to surprise (someone) greatly; astonish. A sentence (from the book) was "Double-Stunned. Stung. Flabbergasted. No words formed in my mouth." this was said by Via when August told her that Miranda, her friend missed her and loved August and always will as a brother.

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