Book Talk Blog, Michael Hoover

Book Talk By: Michael Hoover
Book: Ice Fall

Author: Matthew J. Kirby

      The book for this book talk is "Ice Fall" by Matthew Kirby. The genre of this book is mystery and suspense fantasy. The setting of this book is in a huge ravine with only one way out which was through the frozen fjord which was the ocean pass that was frozen for the winter. This story took place a very long time ago when there were dragons, kings, queens, and castles and you had to live off the land such as harvesting crops because there was no Walmart. The main character in this book is solveig. She is the second daughter of the king she might not be beautiful like her sister but she is really smart and resourceful she has light gray hair like a leaf in autumn and a pale face. The struggle that she had to go through was that she had to find what she was which is in total what her part in life would be. She wanted to be a skald, a skald is a worker for the king that tells magnificent stories to him and his men. The challenge about this was that she was of royal blood so she did not know if her father would approve of her being a skald. The reason that she wanted this job because she was good at it and she made every body happy when she told her stories. What I think the mood through out the book was suspicion. I think this because there was a mole that had infiltrated them but they do not know or have any idea who it was all they know was that he, her, or they wanted them dead. I think that the theme of the story was that you can be whatever that you want to be. I think that this was the theme because through out the book the second daughter which was the main character wanted to be a skald so bad but she was royal blood but even though that was in her way she still decided that she wanted to be a skald. 

Aow Gallery walk for 1/30

Prompt: what impressions are you left with after out gallery walk? Please reflect with at least two well written paragraphs using evidence from your graphic organizer. For this week we got to choose the article that we learned about, but it had to be school appropriate and had something to do with the world. Out of all of the articles that I read I thought that Emily's was the most intriguing because it was about drones invading peoples privacy. For example there was one man that was in his bedroom and he hears a buzzing so he looks outside his window and there is a drone hovering just outside his window. That's not even the creepy part it turns out that the drone could take videos and pictures and they could be live streamed which mens that somebody can watch through the video camera while it is taking videos from their phone.

  

Another Article/Aow that I thought was interesting was Sam T's. His Aow talked about how people were trying to convert sunlight into fuel for cars using solar panels on the tops of their cars and he said that they were currently doing tests to figure out what they needed to fix to make it work better. I thought that this was good because with regular cars when people use the fossil fuels they make this toxic gas that flies out into the air and hurts the earths atmosphere. When the car uses solar panels on the top of it there is nothing to burn because it is pretty much electric and this would not release any toxic chemicals into the air.

Blog for 1/26/15

Book: Icefall
Prompt:• Who is the most important character to you? Why?
Author: Matthew J. Kirby

      Through out reading the book Icefall the most important character to me is solveing. Solveing is the main character in the book she is the second daughter of the king and she shares a bedroom with here sister she is skinny and pale and has dull brown hair. She is the most important character because the whole story revolves around her and she really gives you that feeling that you want to read. For example when her goat died it really dragged you into the moment of reading because she gave a whole bunch of reasons why she liked it and she was trying to figure out who killed her goat for meat.

Prompt 2: What is your favorite part of the book you’re reading? Why?

In the book Icefall my favorite part of the book that I have read was when the goat died. This was my favorite part of the book because it gives you that anticipation of what will happen to the person that slaughtered the goat because the main character liked the goat a lot as a friend even thought the goat did not provide any milk for them and was dry. Another reason that was my favorite part was because when you read it its like you really want to know who killed the goat so the anticipation is really high and a lot of the characters in the book are really suspicious.

  Another one of my favorite parts in the book icefall is the part were she feels like she is being watched when she is walking through the woods looking at an old ruin. This was one of my favorite parts because when she was being watched or thought that she was being watched it really makes you think that what if someone pops out of a bush and kidnaps her. There are a lot of people that would want her because she is a princess and she is living in a safe house which is really a safe castle. Another reason that this is my favorite part is because what if it was one of her servants that she works with that was lurking around the woods alone.



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Blog for the week of January 21

Blog for the week of january 21
Book: Alabama Moon
Author: Watt Key
Prompt: Tell me about the main character. What kind of person is he/she?

       The main character Blake Moon also known as Alabama Moon. Moon is a ten year old boy that lives out in the forest with his father they live of the land with little supplies from town which is six miles away from their hidden camp. Moon wears a deer skin shirt, hat, pants, and shoes that he made on his own from scratch. He is sensitive when it comes to words because you can make him angry by saying the littlest thing or just making a joke that he could find offensive.

   Prompt 2:What does this book remind you of?

  The book that Alabama Moon reminds me of is The Hatchet. Alabama Moon reminds me of The Hatchet because they are both young boys that live out in the forest on their own but they still some how manage to survive event though there are a lot of challenges in their path. For example some of the challenges in The Hatchet is that Brian has a bear that is always ruining his campsite looking around for food and in Alabama Moon, Moon has the crazy constable Sanders that is trying to track him down because of the accident that happened out in the forrest between the two.


       Another reason that the book Alabama Moon reminds me of The Hatchet. Another reason is because in both of the stories there are animals that are friends with the main characters but both of the animals are not like regular house pets. In the story The Hatchet while Brian is out working on his little fish pond he turns around to find that a skunk had crawled into his shelter. He decided that he was going to kill it but then chose not to because it saved his life from a bear so he kept and know feeds it meat every night.And in the book Alabama Moon, Moon grabs a stick and prepares for the worst when he hears sanders dogs in pursuit of him. Then he found out that the one that was chasing him was nice and did not hurt him but helped him out by keeping him warm at night along with his friends that were with him.

             

The First Time Ever Blog

 

The first time I did something complete new was I went to a trampoline park with my dad and my sister  over winter break in Rogers, Arkansas. It was a huge place and there were trampolines lining the floor and the whole place was brightly lit and there were loads of activities that you could participate in. One thing that we did to together was try to reach the punching bag by jumping on the same square which would make one person go really high and even though we could not reach it we still had a blast going pretty high into the air.

My favorite part about going to the trampoline park was jumping off this high platform and falling it to a brightly colored foam pit. The first time that I went up it was pretty scary because that feel in your stomach as you fall just makes you feel sick but it was fun and pretty hard to get out of the foam pit because I would keep sinking in if I put my foot into the wrong place. My sisters favorite part was just jumping in the main court and she was having a lot of fun because you can go pretty high and when you did jump in the main court you don't want to fall onto the matted part because it is like jumping onto bare floor and it will hurt.

Overall me and my sister had a blast and it was our last day in Arkansas so we were pretty beat from all of the packing and saying by to our close friends and family before leaving to the High rise trampoline park. When we first got their that was the first time that me and my sister had tried something completely new and it was a little weird at first being on a whole bunch of trampolines that were close together so that they were like tiny segments. You could just run around on them and me and my sister both learned that it is great to try new things whenever you get the chance. 

          

Blog for the week of december 9, 2014

The Scorch Trials
By James Dashner
Prompt: Write about how one character feels. Write about a time you felt that way




                 The main character Thomas felt a lot of anxiety when the walls of the maze were coming down because there were so many people in the maze ranging from babies to old men and women and he thought that it would be all of his fault if all of the people in the glade died. He thought that it was his fault because he was the one that escaped wicked so they were finding new test subjects to work on and they gathered this many people to pick out a select few.

            One time that I felt a lot of anxiety was when my dad grabbed me of the couch and said that he heard a single shot from a gun go off. we live in the country in the middle of nowhere so we keep the front and back door unlocked I mean who is going to drive 20 minutes out of town to rob somebody. So we ran up into the attic and it has a window but we were in such a frantic hurry we did not lock the door that leads up to the attic oh and just to top that off me and my dad left the phone down stairs.

We sat there and I guess we talked pretty much all night long until we both just fell sound asleep. The time that I felt the most anxiety was when my dad walked because it sounded like there was someone down stairs walking towards the attic door. but we made it through the night and it's a pretty cool experience to tell to my friends.

Blog for the week of December 1, 2014

The Scorch Trials
By: James Dashner
Prompt: How has the view of the character changed throughout the story



     The view of the character has changed throughout my book because in the beginning of my book the main character Thomas did not trust anyone because he was to paranoid and afraid of being lied to again so he was always really high on alert. He showed that he was paranoid because when they were in the city they met a man that could help them on their quest but Thomas said that he did not trust the man and then Thomas said in is mind "How do I know that this is just not another one of WICKEDS variables."


       Now by the end of the story he is way more trust worthy that he was before. He shows that he is trust worthy by putting his life in the hands of a girl that he knows and she used to work for wicked but he was not for sure at first but then she gives him an explanation of why he should trust her which was that she and him were put into the scorch and everything they did was real and not fake and that she bonded to him more that she could have imagined.



          Prompt 2: What do you think will happen in the future of the book.

    What I think will happen in the future of the book is that Thomas is going to get tricked by wicked when he goes in and tries to break all of their guns. I think this because when Thomas met his old friend  his fried said not to trust anyone because they were being mine controlled so they did not know if they were being made to go and break into wicked because it could be a trap and he is suppost to break all of their guns.