Even though, I read the Great Gatsby as a summer reading book there were some parts, I wanted to go over. The "Great Gatsby takes place in the rough early 1920's, when alchol was banned to be manufactured, Millionaires started to smuggle beer and wine into the U.S. Nick Carraway is the main character of the book. He was a graduate from Yale University and also fought in the war. Well he rents a house near the Gatsby mansion, Nick wants to start a career and get a job to make money.These two characters meet up when Nick is incvited to one of Mr.Gatsby's elaborate house parties. The rest goes on from there.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Responding to responses
1). I felt that Perzya did a really great one by examinig her character Virginia closley,noticing all the details about her, like complications and accomplishments.i know how some over weight people feel and the way she describes the book like the preview of a new movie is oustanding. The character's issue is clearly labeled so you dont have to guees or search. The lesson of her book would be everyone isn't perfect ,but the way of how we deal with it is up to us. and girls are mostly the ones that are concern on how they look and attract and weight is a huge problem in America.
2).I also liked Lydia's reader's response, because its straight forward and gets to the point and I felt like I was reading the book twice . She mentioned the dreams and hopes of LaVaughn wanting to achieve big goals in life and then she gets this job where she has to take care of children that have to work their way from the bottom to the top. she did a nice job with making sure she got a lot of the components to making a great response.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Make Lemonade
Make Lemonade, by: Virginia Euwer Wolff
The book I read over the summer was the Great Gatsby, Relic Master and Make lemonade. I choose this
one because it was like a high schooler life and I'm going to high school so I was really engaged in the
book. A brief summary about the book would be, Jolly can't take care of her little kids with missing fathers.
She also dosen't have much of a job either. so she puts up a post for " babysitter needed bad ! ". Then soon
Verna La Vaughn, a young girl with big dreams comes along and helps Jolly out with Jilly and Jeremy. La
Vaughn has a high goal of going to college and her mother says she really dosen't have that kind of money,
but will try hard to work so it could happen.
Verna, wants to be very successful in whatever she is doing. Whether its school work or taking care of kids.
She is like a perfectionist. I think every child should go to college becuase it gives extra education and the
chance to get a really good job. Since her mother is trying to work hard to make money and when she gets
a check she puts it into a seperate account just for La Vaughn's college fund., if La Vaughn goes to college
she would be the first one to go out of all the people in her apartment. Jolly is a young mother with a whole
lots of struggles and worries. She is a single mother with both of the husbands gone. She isn't so clear when
speaking english.so when La Vaughn comes she helps Jolly turn the "lemons in her life to lemonade, which is
sweet. I like how the author came up with such a story full with teamwork and , everyone tries to get their
work done.
As the story goes on Jolly finds her life becoming better As she takes an evening shift and La Vaughn
comes from school and watches the kids til' late in the evening. La Vaughn describes the children as filthy,
no good food and no learning in the household. La Vaughn becomes to be very good friends with Jolly and
starts to love the kids. She plays with them, cleans them and teaches them. Jolly feared that if she had
accepted the welfare handouts that she would lose custody of the kids. La Vaughn was getting Jolly's life
how she didn't have any family to fall back on, didn't really go to school, but after a while it gets better. I
think everyone in the story gets something positive out of it. La Vaughn is on her path to college, Jolly gets
her life together and the mother gets to see her baby go to college. so everone's lemons turn into lemonade.
The book I read over the summer was the Great Gatsby, Relic Master and Make lemonade. I choose this
one because it was like a high schooler life and I'm going to high school so I was really engaged in the
book. A brief summary about the book would be, Jolly can't take care of her little kids with missing fathers.
She also dosen't have much of a job either. so she puts up a post for " babysitter needed bad ! ". Then soon
Verna La Vaughn, a young girl with big dreams comes along and helps Jolly out with Jilly and Jeremy. La
Vaughn has a high goal of going to college and her mother says she really dosen't have that kind of money,
but will try hard to work so it could happen.
Verna, wants to be very successful in whatever she is doing. Whether its school work or taking care of kids.
She is like a perfectionist. I think every child should go to college becuase it gives extra education and the
chance to get a really good job. Since her mother is trying to work hard to make money and when she gets
a check she puts it into a seperate account just for La Vaughn's college fund., if La Vaughn goes to college
she would be the first one to go out of all the people in her apartment. Jolly is a young mother with a whole
lots of struggles and worries. She is a single mother with both of the husbands gone. She isn't so clear when
speaking english.so when La Vaughn comes she helps Jolly turn the "lemons in her life to lemonade, which is
sweet. I like how the author came up with such a story full with teamwork and , everyone tries to get their
work done.
As the story goes on Jolly finds her life becoming better As she takes an evening shift and La Vaughn
comes from school and watches the kids til' late in the evening. La Vaughn describes the children as filthy,
no good food and no learning in the household. La Vaughn becomes to be very good friends with Jolly and
starts to love the kids. She plays with them, cleans them and teaches them. Jolly feared that if she had
accepted the welfare handouts that she would lose custody of the kids. La Vaughn was getting Jolly's life
how she didn't have any family to fall back on, didn't really go to school, but after a while it gets better. I
think everyone in the story gets something positive out of it. La Vaughn is on her path to college, Jolly gets
her life together and the mother gets to see her baby go to college. so everone's lemons turn into lemonade.
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