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Adam goes through a lot of pain and responsibilities and almost gets killed

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The author always kept me on the edge of my seat and added a lot of action and cool factors to it.

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Adam goes through most of the power outage without his dad and this make him extremely worried.

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All of this is going on Adam's head as he is running to Herb's house desperately to see if he can save Herb only to find him unharmed and alright. “Before he could say anything more, I staggered forward, burst into tears, and collapsed into his arms.” This also shows he is so concerned about Herb. Another scene that happens is when Herb gives Adam dating advice for his girlfriend. This is a very small event but this goes to show how much Adam and Herb go to each other for help and how Adam learns tips everyday from Herb.

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Adam gets attacked and his attackers say that Herb is dead and in this time both characters are extremely close and Herb is like Adams father figure so it really gets him distressed that his father figure is dead and it also gives him a scare of that if he is dead he will have to take a Herb like role and do a lot of leadership and Adam is not ready for that kind of stuff. He also has learned so much from Herb and loves their friendship. Then I pictured Herb in his bed, bleeding from the assassins’ shots. While he held me hostage out on the street, Brett had sent two men into Herb’s house to kill him, and they’d run out saying they’d shot him while he slept.”-pg 8

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Adam is a reliable person and is quite honest but still has a lot to learn and I can relate because I am still a young teen.

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I am currently reading House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisnero

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I am currently reading House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisnero

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Date Started: October 15
Date finished:

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Adam is a really nice guy and he wants to look for everyone's best interests. I am like this and I would rather help others before myself

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In this scene Adam is extremely mad at Herb because herb said that people that are useless have to go unless they can have an important job that helps and that anyone who cant do anything will just bring them down and that is not and idea that Adam likes.

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In this scene we see one of the most biggest moments in the entire book there is an attack on a neighboring town and what they realize that there is a big bridge so they have to something to stop them from attacking their neighborhood, so they blow it up . It creates a crater in the ground and a bunch of debris and bodies from the people who attacked the allies of Herb from Old Burham. Herb asks the others to take weapons and supplies of the dead bodies so that they can get their supplies and have an idea of just how many are dead and this really angers Adam because he thinks it is inhuman and disgusting that they do this

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In this scene Herb takes Adam to a pool store to get chlorine for the water. When they go back to the car after buying a bunch of chlorine they have to go back to the car what they don't know is that people were trying to steal from them they have bats and other weapons. So Herb takes out a gun and this shocks Adam and it gets Adam extremely concerned. This event will be the fist crack in their relationship.

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Minutes: 30
Pgs: 20
How do I feel about reading today? Happy
Did I reach my goal? Yes

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I predict that Herb will die because of an attack. I think the Adams dad will come back and he will be a big help and it will be there biggest change and biggest hope. But it turns out that his dad was working for the guys who attacked Old Burham.

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He has to use a gun and he is actually pretty good at it and has used it a few times, I personally think that at times carrying firearms is for self defence but I still never want to use it on a human being.

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Adam knows that Herb is a retired spy which makes Adam a little queasy about working with him. He slowly starts to trust him the moment ey really start working together and talking to each other. Adam realizes that herb is very wise and experienced and Herb is good at old tech ince Herb is older yet Herb has a lot of knowledge about using weapons and using recourse and Adam wants to take this into account.

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Adam wants to help people and he doesn't want to hurt anyone or make anyone feel bad. I realize that Adam and I have the same ideas of being selfless and wanting to help others in their best interest.

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His dad is a pilot and can teach him how to fly a plane. In the book he owns a ultralight which is a small plane and he uses that plane for air support and unlike him I don't even know how to drive let alone fly a plan

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I rate this book so far 4.5 out of 5 it is extremely fast pace and super interesting about how they survive and how lucky they are. One person I don't really like is Herb, he really is too controlling but that does bring some character development on how Adam might act.

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I can see that Adam has a lot of weight on his shoulders and he still just a teen.

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The main conflict is that they have to survive though a big power outage and turn from a city to a protected area. They now have to search for resources

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So far my narrator is reliable you can see he is a really good guy an wants to do great things for people and be a good person and do whatever he can to help. There are a lot more windows than mirrors.

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Minutes: 30
Pgs: 25
How do I feel reading today: On the edge of my seat
Did I reach my goal? Yes

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Minutes: 30
Pages: 47
How do I feel reading today: Excited
Did I reach my goal today? No

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

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

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Denotation:
Connotation:
What mood or feeling is shown in this phrase? Positive? Negative?
Why did the author use this phrase or word? What did it add to the story? What do we learn?

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Try to understand what I was reading

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

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

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What type of figurative language is the author using? Explain?
Why is it effective? Why did the author include this piece of figurative language? What does it help you picture of understand?

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Windows so small you'd think they are holding their breath" (Mango Street p.4)

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Windows so small you'd think they are holding their breath" (Mango Street p.4)

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These piece of figurative language is personification because the author is giving human qualities (holding their breath) to an object(windows). It is effective because it helps the reader understand how small the windows are by using something everyone can relate to. We all know what it looks like when someone is holding their or sucking the air. It makes the vignette more effective

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“As if she were a fancy chandelier” (p. 11) 

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“As if she were a fancy chandelier” (p. 11) 

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Denotation- a decorative hanging light with branches for several light bulbs or candles.

Connotation- 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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She says that she hates her names and doesn't really feel connected to her name, me on the other hand I love my name and pride everything about it and I love how easy it is to say.

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He also has to live with a killer and that makes Alex a the more in trouble and near peering eyes and gives him no room for errors.  I live in a perfectly fine house with a stable family.

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The main conflict of the story is how will Alex survive and how will he face the bad guys and attempt at a normal life even though that is quite hard. He has to constantly be under pressure since the world is in his hands but in the end he is just a kid.

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Alex’s parents are dead and so is his uncle s now he has to take care of himself which is not great for him and now a russian general who has a nuc can use it and cause a WWlll. Both my parents are alive so I never had to go through grief like that.

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Alex was now in trouble he landed himself in a bad situation he woke up only to find himself in some sort of warehouse with a gun pointed to him and there he saw a horribly injured man. This man's name was Conrad and he was working for the general. Conrad was interrogating Alex and was asking what he was here for and who he was and Alex was saying that he is innocent so, a machine started and Alex found out he was in a sugar factory and so there was a machine that was trying to kill Alex. Finally Alex cracked but Conrad still tried to kill him but was knocked out by someone and that someone is the Russian general. He tells Alex his true intentions and about his so and then Sarov told Alex he wanted to adopt him.

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Mins: 30
Pgs: 34
Did I reach my goal: yes
How do I feel? excited

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I would rate this book 4.5 out of 5 because I find it really nice and its like reading a James Bond or Jason Borne series and I am really into spies and things like that, the book always keeps me on the edge of my seat wondering what Alex would do in that situation of how it would be to be a teenage spy . I would recommend this series to people who like books about spies.

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His fake parents (who are CIA agents)  and him go on a scuba dive but in reality they are trying find a nuc that the Russian General had. In the base there is the devils chimney wich is the only way to get in and you have go in a cave. When Carver and Troy went in and never came out. So he has to go and almost gets killed by a great white shark.

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He has to find a nuclear bomb and go diving and almost dies and that I never had to go trough that

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He has to go on vacation with his family. can relate to te is because my family and I also go on vacations like he does as well.

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Minutes: 35
Pages: 37
Did I reach my goal: Yes
How do I feel: Great and engrossed

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Alex comes face to face with a guy who tries to kill him and he is very badly injured and the person he was versing was a way better fighter than him but Alex too new some experience how to fight and knocked the man out cold and put his body in a freezer full of strawberries, it said he couldn't help but smile because strawberries and cream were the Wimbledon's tradition and so he put the man who had tried to kill him in there.

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He is constantly facing life and death situations and he can never have a normal life. He now has to work with CIA to find out about a Russian General. He also has no one to confide to and he lives with no one except his caretaker. I have no experience with this and I am a normal 8th grader, and I live with my family.

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In my book I think their plan wont work and the two agents will be killed and they might get ambushed while trying to get there.

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Minutes:28
Pages: 25
How do I feel? Comfortable
Met goal: yes

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The scene is how Alex has to go back to working for M16 (Military Intelligence Six)

a British spy organization and he is the first and only teenage spy. I am not a spy (but boy do I wish I was) so I have no experience of this event. I earned that he has an extremely life or death experience.

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I finish about 10 pgs in 5 mins and that is way too fast and I will later go to the restroom to waste time and I will sometimes look ahead of the book.

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Minutes: 22
Pages: 28
How do I feel about reading today: Excited and cheerful

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Minutes: 22
Pages: 20
How do I feel about reading today: Excited

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Historical fiction
Mythology
Spies
Survival
Dystopia/ Sci-Fi
Comics and Graphic Novels
Romance (only a little bit)

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Alan Gratz (Prisoner B-3087 and Refuge)
George O'Connor (Olympians: Hermes, Tales of the Trickster)
Neal Shusterman (Arc of the Scythe)

Anthony Horowitz (Stormbreaker)
Sandy Hall (Been hear all along)
Eric Walters (RULE OF THRE3)