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Ender's Game scene: Joining the military

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Ender's Game scene: Joining the military

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In Ender's Game, Ender was being picked on by Stilson and his gang. Stilson tries to attack Ender, but Ender fights back. Ender wins the fight by kicking Stilson on the groin, and then when Stilson was still down, he kicked him in the face and stomach multiple times. This shows that Ender is cold hearted and shows no mercy to his enemies. When he got home, he was visited by an officer named Colonel Hyrum Graff. Graff told his family about the incident and that Ender has been cleared by the I.F. selective service, and that the military owns Ender because the parents gave consent from birth, because he was a third child and because of overpopulation parents aren't allowed to have three children. "So you see, having a Third, even under the government's direct instructions, undoes everything they've been trying to do." (p.22 Scott card) This means that even though the government allowed Ender to be born, he is still owned by the government. In Ender's Game, something I learned was that Ender isn't very good at connecting with others.

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In Ender's Game, Dink tells Ender that he was promoted two times, but refused both of them. The reason why Dink refused was because anyone who was commander, were insane. Dink says the teachers are the enemies because they make the other armies hate each other and fight each other. The teachers discover the soldiers weak points and decide whats good enough or not. "They decided I was right for the program, but nobody ever asked me if the program was right for me."

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In Ender's Game, Peter, Ender's brother, tortures animals and little kids. He skins squirrels alive and watch them die, and manipulates his friends and family to think that he is a loving child. From this I learned that people who look loving and friendly outside, can be evil.

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Minutes: 35
Pages: 30

How I felt reading today: I feel like the book is really growing on me.

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In Ender's game, Ender was assigned to the Salamander Army and had to be transported. Since he was being transported somewhere else he wouldn't be able to see his friend, Alai, again. I can relate to this because a good friend of mine I knew for a long time, had to move away. Ender and Alai were also really upset about this, and so was I. The only difference is that Ender just met Alai and I knew my friend for a long time.

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In Ender's Game, Ender finds out that he was assigned to the Salamander Army. This was strange because nobody ever got promoted before they were the age of 8, and ender was 6. "Nobody ever got promoted before they were eight years old. Ender wasn't even seven yet." When Alai found out he started crying, because if Ender was promoted that means Ender would be transferred. It was unfair for Ender because he just made a friend and now he is being transferred and won't be able to be with Alai. Ender was changed by this because he finally made a friend that was equal to his family for him, but now that he is being transferred he needs to start all over.

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Ender's Game scene: Befriending the enemy

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Ender's Game scene: Befriending the enemy

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In the Battle School, the soldiers had to go and train with space suits and freeze guns in zero gravity. Everyone there wasn't used to it but got the hang of moving around. Ender finds himself to be alone again, even though he made some friends. So when it was time to fight, the soldiers had to shoot each other with freeze guns. Ender saw Alai, Bernard's best friend. Ender jumped towards him so he can punch him on the face, but he was about to fall so Alai instead caught him and saved Ender. Ender and Alai later started messing around and had a race while everyone else was shooting each other. Alai and Ender get to know each other more and eventually become best friends. "I the sweetest friend you got!" Ender laughed. "I'll set up a system for you."

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In battle school, there is a mind video game that Ender plays, that involves a tiny man and a giant. In on of the parts he needs to choose the correct drink but every time he chooses he dies in some horrible way. Ender gets frustrated and decides to try something else. When he chooses a different option, his character goes up into the giants face, and then digs into its eye. The giant starts screaming in pain and then the character kills the giant. Ender is shocked because he didn't mean to do it. And Ender is only a 6 year old. Ender feels ashamed because he starts to think that he is like his older brother, Peter, who he calls a murder. We still don't know why Ender calls Peter a murder. "I'm a murder, even when I play. Peter would be proud of me."

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Minutes:30
Pages: 20
How I felt reading today: I felt like I read well but should read more

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In Ender's Game, when Ender was on a ship heading to the Battle School, he wasn't able to connect with the other kids, because they were making jokes that he couldn't understand. Later on Ender gets bullied by Bernard and his group of friends, because Ender in the past broke Bernard's arm. Ender deals with this by making fake emails of Bernard and pretending to be Bernard and saying embarrassing and inappropriate things. The kids thought that it was actually Bernard and started making fun of Bernard. Bernard knew it was Ender who made the emails. The other kids find out, and instead of being on Bernard's side, they ask Ender how he did it and start hanging out with Ender more. "Bernard's attempt to be ruler of the room was broken only a few stayed with him now. But they were the most vicious." Ender changed by becoming more social and making new friends.

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In Ender's game, Ender was forced to join the military and was not allowed to see his family again. He and his family were devastated when they heard about this. This is new to me because I was always with my family. If I was forced to go somewhere and never see my family again, I would rather be dead.

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Minutes:30
Pages: 20
How I felt reading today: I felt more invested into the book and read more than usual.

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Minutes: 30
pages 11
How I felt reading today: I can read more next time

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I realized I had less scenes then usual so I want more.

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Minutes:30
pages:12
How I felt reading today: I was tired again so I didn't read much.

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How does Ender and his family feel about being invited to the military? What will happen if he joins?

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Minutes: 25
pages: 12
How I felt reading today: I was very tired today so I didn't read much, so I will try to read more next time.

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In the book, Esperanza's aunt passed away. She dealt with it pretty well, but if I lost a loved one I wouldn't deal with it very well.

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I will eat healthy and exercise

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I will have a job and be safe with my money

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I will study more and try to pay attention in class. This was inspired by me getting bad grades and wanting to do better.

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I will become a musician by practicing and studying music theory. I want to do this because this will help me get better at the clarinet and music in general.

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I will become a professional clarinetist by practicing more and being more efficient with my time. I was inspired by my mom and clarinet teacher.

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In Ender's Game, something I learned was that Ender isn't very good at connecting with others. In page 28, the kids who were recruited to the military were being transported to the Battle school on a ship. On the ship, the rest of the other kids were messing around making jokes and laughing, except for Ender. Ender wanted to make a joke but couldn't think of one, so he was unable to make new friends on the ship. The topic of this is that people aren't very social have a hard time connecting with others. This idea throughout the story affects Ender by forcing himself to make new friends and talking to others more.

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"Don't talk to them, says Cathy. Can't you see they smell like a broom." (Mango Street p.14)

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"Don't talk to them, says Cathy. Can't you see they smell like a broom." (Mango Street p.14)

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Simile because she says "smell like a broom" and is comparing the smell of the person to a broom.

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"Don't talk to them, says Cathy. Can't you see they smell like a broom." (Mango Street p.14)

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"Don't talk to them, says Cathy. Can't you see they smell like a broom." (Mango Street p.14)

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Denotation: They smell bad
Connotation: Cathy thinks that people who look bad, smell bad, are bad people. She is very judgmental to others.
The mood for this is negative, because Cathy is being rude to the person.

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Is the name ­calling serious, meant to hurt each other's feelings, or is it just joking? Explain your opinion and use evidence. 

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Is the name ­calling serious, meant to hurt each other's feelings, or is it just joking? Explain your opinion and use evidence. 

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Name calling can be as a joke or nick names. But when you use an offensive name to someone it can be serious.

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The witch lady sees jealousy and sorrow in Esperanza’s cards. Why do you think these showed up for Esperanza fortune? 

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The witch lady sees jealousy and sorrow in Esperanza’s cards. Why do you think these showed up for Esperanza fortune? 

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Esperanza is jealous about everyone having good lives, like having good homes. She is also jealous about the kids in the canteen, and Nenny's nickname. This is why jealousy came up in her fortunes.

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FORMT-"Sentence from the story" (Mango Street p. #)

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FORMT-"Sentence from the story" (Mango Street p. #)

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What mood or feeling is shown in this phrase? POsitive? Negative?
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As if she were a fancy chandelier (Mango Street p. 11)

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As if she were a fancy chandelier (Mango Street p. 11)

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Denotation: a decorative hanging light with branches for several light bulbs or candles.
Conotation: valuable, elegant, delicate, expensive, desirable
Using the word chandelier adds a positive and sophisticated mood to this section of the story.
The author used the phrase fancy chandelier so we can learn how Esperanza's great-grandfather views her great-grandmother. We learn that he loved her and really wanted to marry her. He values her and sees her as a delicate, elegant, desirable woman. The message would have been significantly different if the author said, “As if she were a sack of potatoes.”

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In the book, Ender got into a fight with a bully named Stilson. Ender won the fight by kicking him in the groin, and then when Stilson was still down kicked him in the face and stomach multiple times. When he got home, he was visited by a officer named Colonel Hyrum Graff. Graff told his family about the incident and that Ender has been cleared by the I.F. selective service, and that the military owns Ender because the parents gave consent from birth, because he was a third child and because of overpopulation parents aren't allowed to have three children. "So you see, having a Third, even under government's direct instructions, undoes everything they've been trying to do." When Ender joins the military, he is unable to see his family again, and his entire childhood ends. I predict that later on, Ender will forget about his family since he has been so invested in the military.

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In "House On Mango Street", Esperanza's family all have different hairs, and my family does too. My dads hair is thin and short, my moms is more thick and soft, and mine is kind of soft.

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In "House On Mango Street", Esperanza and her family want to move to a new house because it looked like it was a good house. But when they moved there it wasn't so good because the house was small, and the bricks were crumbling in places, and they sleep in the same room. This is relatable because one time I bought a toy off amazon when I was little, but when I got the toy it was a low quality Chinese knock off.

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In "Halo The Fall Of Reach", while Master Chief was on a mission to save any survivors on Sigma Octanus IV, he finds a new covenant species. The alien took apart human technology, like guns and vehicles and rebuilt them very fast. The alien apparently gave the covenant information about human technology and how to use them, its shown by a jackal using a human assault rifle.

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In "Halo The Fall Of Reach", Master Chief, or John, finds a new covenant species that takes apart human technology and rebuilds them very fast. This is unfamiliar to me because I never found a new species.

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One of the things the author did very well in the book were the fights and battles. He really makes you feel like your in the war or the fight. He created suspense in the book by making it feel like there is no hope for Reach, which is obvious by the title. He does it by making it feel like that the humans have a fighting chance against the covenant, but are eventually overwhelmed. They foreshadowed the fall of Reach by showing the covenant were far more powerful than the humans, and the title literally tells us so.

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My review might be a little bias because I love Halo, but it actually is a really good read, and what I love about it is tat it tells the story of each different character and how they are dealing with the covenant invasion. There is nothing I dislike about this book, and I recommend this book to Halo fans and non Halo fans.

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The narrator is in third person, and tells how each character feels and what they are saying exactly. The narrator is reliable because if its third person it tells us exactly what the characters are doing.Throughout the story there are more windows because this is sci-fi, and there are many things that are unfamiliar to me.

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Minutes: 40 minutes
Pages: 50 pages
How I felt reading today: I read for a long time today and read a lot and feel good about it.

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In “Halo The Fall OF Reach”, Cochran was dying and I never had someone dying.

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In “Halo The Fall Of Reach”, Harland and his squad are driving Cochran to a base so he can get healed and stay alive. This is kind of relatable because my mom got her arm broken when she fell off the stairs, and my dad rushed her to the hospital.

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Corporal Harland, Fincher, Walker are trying to drive Cochran to FIrebase Bravo because he was seriously injured. But when they arrived they found out the whole entire base was glassed  by the covenant and everyone there was dead. They instead decide to head back to their HQ, but then a banshee, a covenant ship, attacks them from above. They try outrunning it with their vehicle but the banshee is too fast and is firing at them. Cochran eventually shoots the Banshee with a rocket launcher and destroys the banshee, and drive to the HQ.

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Goal 2-Read at least 40 pages in 30 minutes

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Goal 2-Read at least 40 pages in 30 minutes

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My average for reading for 30 minutes is about 30 pages, so now I will try to read 40 or more pages in 30 minutes.

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Minutes: 30 minutes
Pages: 38 pages
How I felt reading today: I read more pages today and am proud about it.

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In “Halo The Fall Of Reach”, Sam sacrificed himself to destroy the covenant ship, and I never had someone sacrifice something for me. I learned that there are people willing to sacrifice things for you.

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In the book, John, Sam, and Kelly board a covenant ship to try and destroy it. While they were invading Sam was shot by one of the covenant, and was seriously injured. Even though he was in bad condition, he kept on fighting. Once they were done, They were ready to leave the ship. But Sam decided to stay and blow up the ship with himself in it. Even if he left with them he would still die because of decompression, and would waste their time. John and Kelly didn’t want to leave Sam, but they had to. Sam’s death showed John that the covenant weren’t invincible, and humanity still had a fighting chance.

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In "Halo The Fall Of Reach", a UNSC ship was attacked by a covenant ship. The problem is that Dr Halsey is also in the ship, and she had to be protected at all cost. And the covenant had more advanced technology so they were in even more danger.

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In "Halo The Fall Of Reach", the UNSC made contact with the covenant, an alien group that wants to destroy humans for religious reasons. This is unfamiliar to me because no one ever hated me because of their religious beliefs.

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In the book, "Halo The Fall Of Reach", there is one main conflict. One of the conflicts are that the humans made first contact with aliens, and wanted to make peace, but that didn't turn out too well because they were attacked. The aliens call themselves the covenant and want to destroy humans for religious reasons.

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Minutes: 27 minutes
Pages: 29
How I felt about reading today: I read in the library today and it was more easy t concentrate but I got distracted because the seats were sometimes uncomfortable in the library. I am going to try to read more than 30 pages in 30 minutes next time.

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Currently in the story, John was promoted to spartan and squad leader for surviving the drugs that were injected into him and leading his squad. I predict that John will become stronger now and will become a better leader, and for a special bond with his squad mates.

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Minutes:30
Pages:31
How I felt reading today: The new book I am reading is so much better and interesting. I read a lot more and I didn't get distracted. I stayed focused for the whole time.

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In the book John didn't know what he would be when he grew up, in the book it says, "Before, he never knew what he would be when he grew up. He never really thought about anything other than watching vids and playing-nothing had been a challenge. Now every day was a challenge and a new adventure." This relates to me because before I made it to CYSO I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, now that I'm in CYSO playing the clarinet is more fun and challenging and now I want to become a musician.

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Paul was the son of the emperor so has royal heritage and I don't have royal heritage.

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Paul was going to intense pain because of poison and I never went through that much pain. He described it to be burning. The poison wouldn't kill him and it was for a test.

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Using my reading data I realized that I get distracted because the book I'm reading is boring. When I switch my book today I will read it for 20 minutes without getting distracted.

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Minutes: 30
Pages: 15
How I felt reading today: I might switch today I do not like this book. I'm going to probably read Halo the Fall of Reach instead

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Minutes: 26
Pages 12
How I felt reading today: When I was reading I was really tired, I wasn't very invested so I might switch books if I can. Also it might be because I woke up 10 times when I was sleeping.

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Little Brother X by Cory Doctorow

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Ender's Game By Orson Scott Card

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* Favorite Author: Jason Reynolds
* Favorite Books:
-As Brave As You
-Sunny
-Scythe
-Chainsaw Man
*Favorite Genre
-Realistic Fiction
-Science fiction
-Fiction
-Historical fiction
*Topics/Character
-Round Character

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In "Halo The Fall Of Reach", John and his squad had to escape the forest for training. Last time he trained with his teammates, he didn;t cooperate with them. But now he learned form last tiem and doesn’t want to leave a single squadmate behind. Each of his teammates, Fhajd, James, Linda, Sam, and Kelly, worked together. At one point they come across guards, and they have to get rid of them. So Kelly distracts them by pretending to be hungry, but the guards don’t care, and chase after her. She's too fast and outruns them and John and the rest of the squad chuck rocks at them and knock them out, and they eventually escape. Chief Mendez scolds them for attacking the guards. He asks what they should do with them to Dr Halsey, and she replies with, “Do?  She pushed her glasses higher on her nose and examined John. “I think that’s obvious, Chief. Make him a Squad Leader.”

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In "Halo The Fall Of Reach" Dr Halsey felt bad for John because she was about to take his innocence, and envied his innocence because hers was gone. She is abut to make John go through pain and suffering for the better of humanity. In the book it says, "For a moment she envied the boy's innocence; hers was long dead. Life or death, lucky or not, she was condemning this boy to a great deal of pain and suffering. But it had to be done."