Reading+Logs

Amaris Bellord, Per: 3/4 Reading log week 1: 2/4-2/8

Monday Monkey Girl by Edward Humes pg:1 to 71

//**Q:**// ' "I was afraid Dover would never be the same", she said after court. "And I was right" '

//**R:**// What does she mean? I guess I have to keep reading to find out...

Tuesday " " by " " pg:72 to 108

//**Q:**// ' Kitzmiller was a naturally shy person but that didn't matter. She felt it was her job, and her job alone, to discuss religious and spiritual matters with her children, not Buckingham's or the school district's. '

//**R:**// She's right!! What if there are people with other religions going to that school? It would be very rude and unamerican.

Wednesday " " by " " pg: 108 to 144

//**Q:**// ' Darwin had won the first battle but not the war '

//**R:**// This is a war, definitely, and he did win but this just turned into a war and by judging how thick this book is it is **not** going to be over soon.

Thursday " " by " " pg:145 to 187

//**Q**// ' Michael Behe's scientific critique had sparked the skirmishes across the nation, and what looked like a looming, all-out war on the practice of science itself.'

//**R**// ' I think this is going to get very, very interesting!!

Friday The Theif by Megan Whalen Turner pg:1 to 158


 * //Q ://** ' I stared in horror at leather strap which once held Hiamiathe's Gift. '

//**R:**// I can't believe the magus lost the Gift!!!!!!

Reading Log week 2 2/11-2/15

Monday The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner pg:159 to 219

//**Q:**// ' Above the queen's extended palm I held Hiamiathe's Gift.'

//**R:**// The rat, I can't beleive he stole the Gift **twice**!!!!!!

Tuesday A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama by Laura Amy Schlitz pg:1 to 96

//**Q:**// ' "We'll adopt her", anounced Hyacinth,"Won't we, Judith?"

//**R:**// Yea!! Maud gets to be adopted!

Wednesday " " by " " pg: 97 to 191

//**Q:**// ' I envisioned Caroline: she had been spoiled, wearing nice clothes while dabbling her feet in the water, she had ridden the merry-go-round...'

//**R:**// Yes, but she had a fight with her mom then drowned while wading into the water!

Thursday " " by " " pg: 192 to 300

//**Q:**// ' Maud had been afraid //the// would be her Waterloo. She was suprised to find that she had no idea what //the// meant. ' //Note: she is teaching the deaf housekeeper how to read and she wants to know what "the" means//

//**R:**// what does //the// mean? Maud is right, it is a stupid word just used for the flow of the sentence (Ahhh!! I used "the" in that sentence!)

Friday " " by " " pg:301 to 389

//**Q:**// ' Maud cursed them with a look of hatred and disdain. What did they know about fires? They'd probably leave thier own mothers to burn. ' //Note: "They" are a few kids making fun of the housekeeper who tried getting into the burning house because she thought Maud was inside.//

//**R:**// I can't beleive that they would think such mean things about "Muffet" (her real name is Anna. she is terribly afraid of spiders so they called her Muffet.). What Maud did was justified.

Book Summary 2/19-2/22 //Howl's Moving Castle//- whole book (324 pages)

In //Howl's Moving Castle// Sophie is the eldest of three girls and she is destined to have quite a boring life while the other sisters go seek their fortunes. She lives in Ingary, which is a magical land where "anything can happen and usualy does". She goes to visit one of her sisters on May Day and most of the men are drunk and trying to catch dates, then a man walks up to her and she runs away. While she is in charge of her stepmother's hat shop(a few weeks later) the Wicked Witch of the Waste curses her and turns her into an old woman. Sophie can't tell anyone she is under a spell so she goes to Wizard Howl hoping he will notice that she is cursed. He doesn't and asked her why she was there and she said that she was his cleaning lady. Many strange things happen including a swap of poem and spell, a strange hopping scarecrow that is very scary, and a deal with a fire demon. Near the end there is a suprising twist and a romantic ending.