Book Blog: Blood Of Olympus Oct.29

Prompt: Pretend what you are reading is nominated for a national award. Explain why

you think it should or should not receive an award.

The first thing that comes to mind of why this book should receive an award, is because the story is very original, creative, and fun to read.  The story is creative, so you have never ready anything like it, unless you have read the previous books, but other than that, pretty original.  It is original because, there is nothing you can read that is like this.  It's pretty creative, you have these half gods running around completing strange quests to save the world and their home/camp, and they fight other half gods, or even monsters to get through with their quests.

The book also has a way of making you imagine exactly what the setting is.  This really helps me read the book because, my vision of the setting always stays the same, I won't forget, then have to re imagine a different thing.  The author just does a amazing job describing things, but he is not to verbose when he does it.  He spends about a page or half a page describing one thing, or the setting, and a clear image of what the thing he is describing looks like.

The third thing I would say that would give this book an award, are the characters.  They are just so unique, and don't really change personalities.  Of course, they change their ways a bit as the story progresses, but it is nothing huge.  We also know their backstories, so we know how those

 have shaped them to be the way that they are presently in the book.

My Passion Project

     What I want to do for my passion project is to show people the effects of pollution of cars, and of the people, like throwing trash around where it's not supposed to be, as well as how much air pollution that we add to the atmosphere each year.  This will look like  keynote with interactive text, as well as video and audio to best present and prove my main points.  I think this will take at least 4 weeks to gather all information, videos, and compile them into an effective presentation.

     I want to do this for my project because, if we continue the path we are on, more gas will be trapped in the atmosphere, raising temperatures, causing disasters on a global scale.  I do not want the future generations to be living in a wasteland.  I am looking to achieve people not burning fuels, or things that are not meant to be burned, as well as cutting back on driving places that are in biking or walking distance.

Police Questioning

Carl: WHERE WERE YOU THIS NIGHT 50 YEARS AGO?!

Dan: Easy, easy Carl. Montresor, do you know why you are here today?

Montresor: No I can’t say I do…

Dan: Well, I am sure you can recall, that this night 50 years ago, your friend Fortunato disappeared.  New evidence recent brought into light has told us that he was seen with you, leaving the party.

Carl:  We though that you might have some answers to some the of the questions that we have.  

Dan: Such as, what were you doing with him on that night?

Montresor: Well, I had some Amontillado that I though he would like to have, so I let him have as much as he pleased.  He later passed out, so I let him spend the night.

Carl: Our witness said that they never saw Fortunato after that.

Montresor: Well, thats because I took him home later that night, and was to hungover to go anywhere for a few days.

Dan: But didn’t you just say thaw he spent the night?

Montresor:  Well… yes but ah…I took him home early in the morning.

Dan: But many of our witnesses say that you never left the house, you or Fortunato.

Montresor: Unbelievable!  I am being accused of my own friends murder!

Carl: We never said it was a murder, just a disappearance.

Dan: Yes, why do you think it was a murder?

Montresor: because…because..I…that night…

Dan: What is it?

Carl: ANSWER THE QUESTION!

Dan: Calm down.  What happened did you kill him?

Montresor: SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP!  YES I KILLED HIM ALRIGHT!?!? 

Carl knocks out Montresor

Carl: That pain must be KILLING you!

Dan: Carl!

Blood Of Olympus 10/22/14

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Prompt: Describe a character that you would like to meet (which doesn’t mean that you

think you would like the character, but that you think the character would be

interesting). List 4 questions that you would ask.

The person that I would like to question about the quest that he is going on is Percy Jackson.  The reasons I would like to question him are because he is the REAL leader of the group, he is the son of Poseidon which means that he has awesome water abilities, and he's just amazing with the sword.  Since he has all of these qualities, I would like to interview him because, I think he is my favorite book character of all time.

The first question that I would ask him would have to be "What's it like, being able to go under water as deep and as ling as you want?"  I have always wanted to be able to just go into a body of water, and not have to come up for air, or if the water pressure is too much for me.  He can actually do that, so I would ask him what it's like to be able to have a gift that big.  The second question would have to be "What do you feel like cutting down enemy after enemy with Riptide?"  He has always just been able to keep going and going no matter how many enemies there are, so I always wonder, what he is thinking, o how his body feels.  Does he feel weightless?  Since he is able to kill so many monsters in a little amount of time,  he must.

The third question I would ask him would have to be "Does it get tiring every time you have to control the water?"  He seems to be able to control it at ease, and at one point he even made his own personal hurricane.  He never really shows that he is tiring, but I guess that he can't afford to.  if he does, then that will affect how his comrades will fight.  They might lose morale.  The monster might gain morale if they see him tiring.  The final question I would ask him would be"Could you fight Tarturus if you had to?"  In the previous book, when they were trapped in Tarturus, they were about to escape, when the spirit of which they were trapped appeared.  Percy stood there frozen, scared for his life.  I predict that in this book, he will have to fight him, in order to keep the balance of Olympus, and Tarturus, since he is the worst villain that he has ever faced.

Time Travel

Q: Where would you go?
A: I would go back to the day the President Lincoln was assassinated.

Q:To which year or period would you travel?
A: I would travel back to April 14, 1865

Q: Who would you want to meet or what event would you want to witness?
A:I would like to meet Lincoln or John Wilkes Booth so I could stop the shooting.

Q: Where would you find this person or see this event?
A:I would find them in the Ford's theatre.

Q: Why would you want to meet this person or witness this event?
A:  I would want to meet this person so I could prevent the death of President Lincoln.

Q: How might YOU change history?
A:  I would stop the assassination of one of the greatest presidents of the Unites States.

Character Reflection Blog

Based on your reading for your 40 Book Challenge, your blog post will be centered on direct and indirect characterization. Your focus question should be on how elements of a story interact with one another. For example, how does setting affect character or how does conflict drive character development.

I have noticed that the setting affects how Bilbo Baggins acts and talks.  In his peaceful environment of his home, he speaks very politely, and kindly.  He wishes Gandalf "Good Morning!" and invites him over, a stranger over for tea.  Later in the story, we see his language change, when he is in the goblin caves, we see that he tends to not be as so polite and proper.  He even start to make like "Ha! In your face!"  comments.  An example of this, is just after he finds the ring, and makes it out of the cave invisible.  When he hears the dwarves saying that he is for sure dead and there is no way he could have made it he says "And Here's the burglar!"  He hears them talking about how they accidentally dropped him and that it wasn't their fault that they did, and thats when he shouts that.

Earlier I mentioned that Bilbo was nice a cheery when he was in the setting of his nice, quiet, little hobbit hole.  In the book it says "... if you have a pipe about you, then sit down and have a fill of mine!  There's no hurry, we have the whole day about us!"  As you see, he is very relaxed, and cheery.  This reflects the mood of the setting.  Earlier the book describes the hobbits and the lace they live in as having no magic, or very little at that.  It also says that the hobbits do not like going on adventures.  Seeing that they do not like going on adventures, this must mean that they are a laid back bunch, again, reflecting the mood of the setting.

A bit later in the story, he has an encounter with trolls.  The trolls are threatening to cook and eat him but he then says. "Yes, lots."  said Bilbo, before he remembered not to give his friends away. No, none at all, not one. he said immediately after"  Here we see that he starts to learn loyalty to his friends.  Since he has never had to go on giant expeditions or big quests, he has never felt this, and him being on a quest, starts to learn this.

1st Quarter Reflection Blog

Where are you in your 40 Book Challenge? How have your blogs been progressing since August? What strategies have benefited you? What have you learned about the world? How have your research skills improved?

     Over the span of the first quarter I have improved on various things.  One of which is how I conduct my research.  I have seen that I now find more useful facts about what I am researching, which helps me in other classes like science, and social studies.  I now see that I am putting more of my research in general into my projects, as well as more accurate facts.  You can see that my research skill has improved because of the quantity and quality in all of my research projects this year, compared to the ones I did last year.  

     Throughout the span of the first quarter I have learned much more on the threat of Ebola.  One of the things that I would not have heard about if I were not in this class, was about how Ebola had spread to Ohio.  I enjoy hearing about these things because I find what the Government's choices on how to contain the disease, or more about the disease interesting to learn about.  I would also not have known about the threat of ISIS in the U.S.  The flag in front of the White House, or the ISIS tweets, I wouldn't have known about.  I find i interesting because, I like learning about the government and about global pandemics.

Reflective Blog

Prompt: Reflect on your writing currently to your blog writing from this time last year. What are you noticing? What has progressed? What can you learn from your writing?

One thing I noticed when looking back at my blog's from last year was that, I was less descriptive in writing my posts.  When I looked back, I saw that I might not have described things as best I could have.  Now, I see that I am a bit more descriptive when writing things like summaries, interpreting things, or writing what the setting or character is like.  The thing that has progressed a bit is how clear I am about things.  I used to not be as clear as to what I was writing about.  I also see that I am better identifying what the thing is that I am talking about now.

The Hobbit

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The first writing style I identified was mood.  Here is one thing that affected how I felt, ""What has it got in it;s pocketses?'  The sound came hissing louder and sharper, and as he looked towards it, to his alarm, Bilbo now saw two small points of light.  Peering at him as suspicion grew in Gollum's mind,"  I think the mood affected me because of a memory I have.  I remember when I was younger and I stole something from my brother, and he was growing suspicious and eventually enraged, I got scared he was gonna kill me (figuratively of course).  I know that Bilbo felt the same except Gollum would have killed him for real.  That helped my understand the situation a bit more.

Another thing I identified was the tone the author had against Gandalf.  The author said "Gandalf! If you have heard only a quarter of what I have heard about him, and I have only heard very little of all there is to hear, you would be prepared for any sort of remarkable tale."  This tells s that the author has high regards for Gandalf.  We know this because he says that if we only know little, we would be ready for the best of stories.

Another thing I noticed was point of view.  The quote I used in the previous paragraph is the one that I noticed to have point of view.  The author is using his high regard for Gandalf, to build up the character.  Since he has done this, we now have a positive feeling about Gandalf.   The way he described him, made us feel positively about him.