Michael Hoover theme blog
Book: The Hatchet
Author: Gary Paulsen
Spoiler Alert!
I think that the theme of the book "The Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen is that you have to do anything to survive in the wild. The reason that I think that the theme of the book is that you have to do anything to survive in the wild is because when the protagonist Brien is stranded in the woods after the plane that he was in crashed, he was forced to make extremely hard decisions, for example when he got out of the lake that the plane that he was in had crashed in he had to think of weather to run and panic into the forest or be calm and collected and work on getting fire and water.
Another reason that I think that the theme of the book is that you have to do anything to survive in the wild is because Brien found a maggot hole and he had a choice of weather to wait to see if he could catch a bird or animal for meat and take the chance of starving or he could eat the maggots and get the nutrition and be sure to live for a while longer. This shows that you have to do anything to survive in the wild because in normal day life you would not have to make a decision that could make or break weather you live or not.
Another theme in the book "The Hatchet" could be that nothing is more important than family.
I think this because in the book before Brien got on the plane he did not want to go to see his father because his father cheated on his mom and then he got stranded in the middle of know where and then he really realized how important his parents are and how much that they cared about him.
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Friday, October 30, 2015
1st quater reflection blog
Michael Hoover
1st quarter reflection blog
The fist quarter is already gone with the second one to come with more learning and achievements. During the first quarter I think that I improved the most in writing, in the fashion of making sentences more readable with the lesson that we did last week about putting the action before the noun and it makes everything sound and flow better together.
Some thing that I think that I need to improve on for second quarter is revising because I usually get grammar mistakes in my blogs because I do not read over them carefully enough and then I don't get as good as a grade for them that I would have if I fixed all of those mistakes. Another thing that I think that I need to work on is studying more for the tests because I usually don't study long enough and don't get the best grade I can get, but I know that I will fix that in second quarter.
In the forty book challenge I am only on my seventh book when I should probably be on my tenth book because of the forty book challenge and then we have four quarters. For next quarter I aim to get to my twentieth book read because I am three books behind where I should be for first quarter. This quarter has shown me a lot because I know that I have to work harder next quarter.
1st quarter reflection blog
The fist quarter is already gone with the second one to come with more learning and achievements. During the first quarter I think that I improved the most in writing, in the fashion of making sentences more readable with the lesson that we did last week about putting the action before the noun and it makes everything sound and flow better together.
Some thing that I think that I need to improve on for second quarter is revising because I usually get grammar mistakes in my blogs because I do not read over them carefully enough and then I don't get as good as a grade for them that I would have if I fixed all of those mistakes. Another thing that I think that I need to work on is studying more for the tests because I usually don't study long enough and don't get the best grade I can get, but I know that I will fix that in second quarter.
In the forty book challenge I am only on my seventh book when I should probably be on my tenth book because of the forty book challenge and then we have four quarters. For next quarter I aim to get to my twentieth book read because I am three books behind where I should be for first quarter. This quarter has shown me a lot because I know that I have to work harder next quarter.
Friday, October 16, 2015
Michael Hoover Blog "The Nazi Hunters"
Book: "The Nazi Hunters"
Author: Neal Bascomb
Prompt: List three questions down that you have about anything in the book and explain your reasoning.
The first question that I have about the book "The Nazi Hunters" written by Neal Bascomb the question that I was wondering is were are the rest of the characters because I am already on page twenty and there has only been one character that has been introduced and his name is Zeeve Sapir. The reason that I was wondering this is because in a lot of the other books that I have read the main characters usually gets introduced in the first five pages. I think that they are kind of explaining what happened to each of them in the span of a few chapters in stead of them meeting and all having their stories at once.
Another question that I was wondering about the book "The Nazi Hunters" was why did Zeeve Sapir not try to run away when he got the chance because he could have, run in the forest to hide or go home. The reason that I asked this question was because he got the chance for sure at least once in the book maybe even more and he did not take that chance. I think that the reason that he did not take the chance was because he was afraid of being caught and killed or tortured, maybe he was just to weak to run because they barley got any food in these concentration camps and the food that they did get were usually old frozen and raw potatoes.
The third and last question that I had about the book was why did they not try to fight against the nazis they knew that they were going to die some time or another so why did they not just fight. The reason that I was thinking about this was because there were more Jews then there were nazis in the concentration camp. I think that maybe one of the reasons that they did not fight back was because they were afraid that everybody else had no courage to fight back because they might feel like God might hate them.
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Life lines from mawi
Life Lines from Mawi Michael Hoover Poem
Turn and look at your friends
They are your true family
When you live in exile
You have survived many dangers
Famines,diseases,war homesickness and more
Who knows what your future will bring
For even the worst memories
You have they are still yours
Tewolde never talked to management
He never graduated high school
A drunk driver killed him
People always mistreated Angels
My father said because
They were disguised
This angel did not have much
In fact it looked like
He had absolutely nothing
Know everyone as an angel
Not a beetle
Thursday, September 24, 2015
OBAA Connection WIth Aow "U.S Will Accept More Refugees as Crisis Grows"
Blog Number 1#
OBAA
Connections with Aow
The first connection that I found Between the book "Of Beetles And Angels" written by Selamawi Asgedom and in the article "U.S Will Accept More Refugees as Crisis Grows" By Michael R. Gordan was that when Mawis family came to "Amerkia" they got help from a church and were able to stay in a motel room for a little bit till they could find someplace permanent to live and work "World relief had met us at the airport and paid for our motel room." And in the article it states that "They were taken to hotels and motels to stay for the night or longer." That was one of the similarities between the book "Of Beetles And Angels" written by Selamawi Asgedom and in the article "U.S Will Accept More Refugees as Crisis Grows" By Michael R. Gordan.
The second similarity that I found between both the book and the article that we read this week was that both Mawi's family and the people in the article that came was that they both were welcomed and not like treated differently than anybody else in the book "of beetles and angels" it states "It was tow of our people: habesha women. And they came bearing gifts; injera bread and sebhi stew." This show that they were welcomed and that people wanted to help them. In the article it states "I believe, it is in keeping with the best tradition of America as a land of second chances and a beacon of hope." This shows that in the article that the americans welcomed the refugees by saying that they are getting a second chance.
The way that war affects individuals and societies in the book of beetles and angels and also that article is that it can make them scared and want a safer place for their family's to escape from the wars and all of the violence from their home country. In the book it states " We were driven away by the advancing Ethiopian army." This shows that they were afraid of the violence from the army and that they were trying to get away. In the article it states "Resettlement from people who continue to flee turmoil in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries." This also shows why they are leaving their home country's because of all of the war and violence.
OBAA
Connections with Aow
The first connection that I found Between the book "Of Beetles And Angels" written by Selamawi Asgedom and in the article "U.S Will Accept More Refugees as Crisis Grows" By Michael R. Gordan was that when Mawis family came to "Amerkia" they got help from a church and were able to stay in a motel room for a little bit till they could find someplace permanent to live and work "World relief had met us at the airport and paid for our motel room." And in the article it states that "They were taken to hotels and motels to stay for the night or longer." That was one of the similarities between the book "Of Beetles And Angels" written by Selamawi Asgedom and in the article "U.S Will Accept More Refugees as Crisis Grows" By Michael R. Gordan.
The second similarity that I found between both the book and the article that we read this week was that both Mawi's family and the people in the article that came was that they both were welcomed and not like treated differently than anybody else in the book "of beetles and angels" it states "It was tow of our people: habesha women. And they came bearing gifts; injera bread and sebhi stew." This show that they were welcomed and that people wanted to help them. In the article it states "I believe, it is in keeping with the best tradition of America as a land of second chances and a beacon of hope." This shows that in the article that the americans welcomed the refugees by saying that they are getting a second chance.
The way that war affects individuals and societies in the book of beetles and angels and also that article is that it can make them scared and want a safer place for their family's to escape from the wars and all of the violence from their home country. In the book it states " We were driven away by the advancing Ethiopian army." This shows that they were afraid of the violence from the army and that they were trying to get away. In the article it states "Resettlement from people who continue to flee turmoil in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries." This also shows why they are leaving their home country's because of all of the war and violence.
Sunday, August 23, 2015
Michael Hoover Summer Blog #4
Michael Hoover
Summer blog
Book: The Scorch Trials
Author: James Dashner
Prompt: How have your feelings changed throughout the book? why do you think they changed
Prompt #2:What was the best part of the book and why?
My feeling in the beginning of the book were excited mostly for the reason that I knew that big things in the series were going to happen and also they were finally out of the maze. Then by the middle and end of the book I got kind of board and not wanting to read it anymore. I think that I felt this way because the same thing kept happening over and over again, all that was really happening was that they were running through the desert getting chased by cranks and getting struck by lightning a lot.
Another reason that I think that I got board and tired of the book by the end was because all of the guys kept getting trapped by the girls that were hiding in the trees even though there was only a little patch of trees which did not make a lot of sense so it was like you already knew that they were about to get ambushed.
I believe that the best part of the book The Scorch Trials was when Theresa tricked Thomas into following he into the cave because he thought that she was good and then the other boy was there and Thomas was thrown into a gas chamber to die. This was my favorite part of the book because it was a huge curveball that I am pretty sure that nobody noticed.
Summer blog
Book: The Scorch Trials
Author: James Dashner
Prompt: How have your feelings changed throughout the book? why do you think they changed
Prompt #2:What was the best part of the book and why?
My feeling in the beginning of the book were excited mostly for the reason that I knew that big things in the series were going to happen and also they were finally out of the maze. Then by the middle and end of the book I got kind of board and not wanting to read it anymore. I think that I felt this way because the same thing kept happening over and over again, all that was really happening was that they were running through the desert getting chased by cranks and getting struck by lightning a lot.
Another reason that I think that I got board and tired of the book by the end was because all of the guys kept getting trapped by the girls that were hiding in the trees even though there was only a little patch of trees which did not make a lot of sense so it was like you already knew that they were about to get ambushed.
I believe that the best part of the book The Scorch Trials was when Theresa tricked Thomas into following he into the cave because he thought that she was good and then the other boy was there and Thomas was thrown into a gas chamber to die. This was my favorite part of the book because it was a huge curveball that I am pretty sure that nobody noticed.
Michael Hoover summer blog #4
Michael Hoover
Summer blog
Book: Scorch Trials
Author: James Dashner
Prompt: What is the main characters objective in the book? And why is this?
Prompt #2: Where does this book take place? Why do you think they chose this?
The main character Thomas's objective in the book The Scorch Trails is to get across the scorch,
the scorch is like a dessert but before it was a dessert it was a city that had been burned down by heat and radiation from the sun and know there are wild creatures that used to be humans but got infected and are now cranks cranks are creatures and they are hungry for flesh. So that's what will make it really hard for Thomas to get across.
I think that this is the main characters goal in the book because he just wants to be free and away from wicked the creators of the virus and every thing that has happened to the world. Another reason that I think that this is the main objective is because Thomas wants to save Theresa because they have a bond mentally because they can talk to each other through their heads and he just wants it all to be over.
The place that the book The Scorch Trials takes place is in the hot desert. The reason that I think that they did this is because there is more room to make things happen like really big fights and then the characters wont get separated like they would have if they were in as jungle or a forest environment. Another reason I think they made the book happen in mostly a desert environment is because you are most likely to die there and they could kill some characters off that they did not want.
Summer blog
Book: Scorch Trials
Author: James Dashner
Prompt: What is the main characters objective in the book? And why is this?
Prompt #2: Where does this book take place? Why do you think they chose this?
The main character Thomas's objective in the book The Scorch Trails is to get across the scorch,
the scorch is like a dessert but before it was a dessert it was a city that had been burned down by heat and radiation from the sun and know there are wild creatures that used to be humans but got infected and are now cranks cranks are creatures and they are hungry for flesh. So that's what will make it really hard for Thomas to get across.
I think that this is the main characters goal in the book because he just wants to be free and away from wicked the creators of the virus and every thing that has happened to the world. Another reason that I think that this is the main objective is because Thomas wants to save Theresa because they have a bond mentally because they can talk to each other through their heads and he just wants it all to be over.
The place that the book The Scorch Trials takes place is in the hot desert. The reason that I think that they did this is because there is more room to make things happen like really big fights and then the characters wont get separated like they would have if they were in as jungle or a forest environment. Another reason I think they made the book happen in mostly a desert environment is because you are most likely to die there and they could kill some characters off that they did not want.
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