Room 227’s Blog

I am reading a book called Hatchet. I think it shows how things can change in a blink of a eye. Hatchet is about a boy who is forced to fight for survival after his plane crash lands in the Canadian wilderness. The pilot of the plane has a heart attack. If I was in Brian’s shoes I would also have a heart attack from fright. I think he is very brave to keep trying to live. After the tornado I thought how can Brian come back now?

I think the social Issue in Hatchet is death because a Brian is near death and his pilot is dead already dead. In Hatchet I wondered if Brian would die and never be rescued or will he be saved and live to tell the story.

As the food slithers down my throat the sudden taste bursed in my mouth I lunge for my drink and splash it on my tounge. I walk down the stairs to the rusty van to see the water puppets the water puppets were amazing the water puppets dance and swim in water and the people controling the puppets were in the water wet and I am back from it back in bangkok

I liked the book Barn by Avi because it was a very interesting book. The book was very sad at the end. All the hard work on the barn was just blown away. I felt very sad for Ben the boy who communicated with the father who had the disease called palsy which by reading on I think it must be a sickness that is when you cannot move. Ben and the father talked by using eyes. At the end I wondered what will happen to the barn: will they keep making it or will they stop? The book really made me think and I must have known that Ben was a very smart boy.

I think Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes was a good book because it was descriptive and showed how it was back in that time. I was very fascinated by the storyline. It really made for good discussion in my family. I did not know which people to trust– the Japanese or the other countries. I wondered what the bomb must have felt like being in it.

Harry and I (Kentaro) were reading book called The Scrimshaw Ring by William Jaspersohn. By looking at the cover we thought that it was about 300 hundred years ago because there was an old ship behind the boy. Throughout the story, we were using the strategy of building the world of the story in our minds by looking at all the details of how the story is different from our own lives.

We read the blurb on the front jacket of the book and we found out that it was from 1710 and it was from the East coast in Newport Rhode Island. On pages 5 and 6, the family of  William was wearing old clothes that we don’t wear right now.

On page 7and 6 the picture showed us that there was a difference between now and long time ago. We now don’t have a buggy but in the olden days there was a buggy. We can call horse and a carriage. We also know by the picture of page 11 and 12 that mutiny was when the crew went against the captain.

The crew stole all the food and animals maybe because they did not have many things to eat in the ship. We also think the pirate did not hurt Will because William was special, instead he did give William the ring.

We thought the story was old because of the clothes and transport the ship.