HEY Sarah! I think it's so cool that we are reading the same book this quarter! I haven't read very far but I'm really really enjoying it! I agreee with your "blog" thoughts; that you enjoy it more than writing a paper. I don't really know what to critique you on because I think that your blog is really good except that there is a sentence in the last paragraph that is messed up. I look forward to reading your thoughts about the book and comparing them. :) love you
Hey Nina! I totally agree with you on the doing a blog rather than an essay! I also agree with you about the netbooks; they just make me angry sometimes! Haha. I love following you last quarter and seeing how your book turned out! I look forward to following you even more! It sounds like you know what you need to improve on and I'm sure that this quarter your blog will be even better! Can't wait to see more of your posts!
Hey Melinda! I would just like to say that I agree with you, I loved your animoto and I enjoy following your blog. :) You make the books you read sound interesting and make me want to check them out, even though I'm not a fan of reading. I find blogging to be better than writing a long paper and I think blogs are a little more interesting to read than an essay. I hope you enjoy blogging more this quarter because it sounds like you know what you need to work on and hopefully the outcome of that is a better grade! :) I can't wait to read more about this quarters blog!
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Looking Back
I'm back! :) Missed me much? We just got our grades back from last quarters blog. Over all I did well. There are always things that we could improve on, some big, some not so big. I'll start from the begining and what I did well on.
On the first blog entry, "Who am I? what are we doing? And how are we doing it? :)", I did very well. I explained the book and who I am. Then explaing why we were doing the project. On the next blog post, "Pictures speak 1000 words", I think I did well because there are no notes to look at. I searched and found twenty pictures explaining my book and I described the connection they had with the book. The next post I'll reflect on is "Why this book and not another?". I did very well on this. It was more free and creative for us. We just had to tell why we like or dislike the book we chose. Last came the movie trailer. I took pictures that had more to do with the setting of the book and what the boy went through. The song I chose is a Christian song but it goes well with the theme of the book because the boy is Morman.
Now, onto the not so great parts of my blog. Again, I will start from the begining. The first two blogs were great. There were no notes of thing I could have fixed. The third post, "The song of the holocaust" was not so great. We needed to type two paragraphs describing the song we chose and I only typed one. I know that I was going to get points taken off and it was an easy fix but I didn't change it. "Blog comments" is next and I just needed to make my comments longer and give them more information on how to fix it. The last thing I could fix was "Twenty sites that offer and amazing book!". I need to explain the connections from the websites to the book better.
This quarter, I'm reading "What happened to Goodbye?" bye Sarah Dessen. I'm only about two-thirds through the book but so far, I love it! It's about this girl, Mclean, who lives with her father after her parents went through a bad divorce. Her dad moves around a lot so she is never in one town for more than a couple months. Her dad is a chef and was just transferred to Luna Blu. Luna Blu is just one of the restaurants that her dad is going to fix up. She changes her identity so no one really knows what happened in her past. She ends up making friends on her first day of school and of course, in a book about a teenage girl, there is always bound to be drama. I would really encourage you to read it! I love Sarah Dessen and in my opinion, this is one of her best!
On the first blog entry, "Who am I? what are we doing? And how are we doing it? :)", I did very well. I explained the book and who I am. Then explaing why we were doing the project. On the next blog post, "Pictures speak 1000 words", I think I did well because there are no notes to look at. I searched and found twenty pictures explaining my book and I described the connection they had with the book. The next post I'll reflect on is "Why this book and not another?". I did very well on this. It was more free and creative for us. We just had to tell why we like or dislike the book we chose. Last came the movie trailer. I took pictures that had more to do with the setting of the book and what the boy went through. The song I chose is a Christian song but it goes well with the theme of the book because the boy is Morman.
Now, onto the not so great parts of my blog. Again, I will start from the begining. The first two blogs were great. There were no notes of thing I could have fixed. The third post, "The song of the holocaust" was not so great. We needed to type two paragraphs describing the song we chose and I only typed one. I know that I was going to get points taken off and it was an easy fix but I didn't change it. "Blog comments" is next and I just needed to make my comments longer and give them more information on how to fix it. The last thing I could fix was "Twenty sites that offer and amazing book!". I need to explain the connections from the websites to the book better.
This quarter, I'm reading "What happened to Goodbye?" bye Sarah Dessen. I'm only about two-thirds through the book but so far, I love it! It's about this girl, Mclean, who lives with her father after her parents went through a bad divorce. Her dad moves around a lot so she is never in one town for more than a couple months. Her dad is a chef and was just transferred to Luna Blu. Luna Blu is just one of the restaurants that her dad is going to fix up. She changes her identity so no one really knows what happened in her past. She ends up making friends on her first day of school and of course, in a book about a teenage girl, there is always bound to be drama. I would really encourage you to read it! I love Sarah Dessen and in my opinion, this is one of her best!
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Twenty sites that offer an amazing book!
http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/ Who survied the Holocaust and why? This site will give you names of Jews who surviveded the this devastation. It gives pictures, stories and much more.
http://www.ush.mm.org/ This is a website for the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. This gives actual pictures of people in the holocaust, the concetration camps, and more. It gives real life information about people who might have gone through the same thing Helmuth went through.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/concentration+camps This site gives the definition of concentration camps. It will give you as a reader more information about what Helmuth went through. In the book, Helmuth goes forward in time to the his life in the concentration camp and what he had to go through there.\
http://isurvived.org/AUSCHWITZ_TheCamp.html These are pictures of the trains that people were packed into so they could go to the concentration camps. Helmuth was packed on one train and although he doesn't give much detail about that in the book, it will help understand what he had to go through behind the scenes.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/53935.Susan_Campbell_Bartoletti Susan is the author of The Boy Who Dared. This site gives information about her and the book. It will help you better understand her thought process when writing the book.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/hitler_youth.htm Helmuth was a Hitler Youth student. This site will give ideas on what Hitler Youth did. It also has the leaders pictures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth_H%C3%BCbener Helmuth is the main character in the story. His picture and stuff about his life is on this site. One of the pictures is of him and his two friends, they play a small role in the story.
http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/08/the-boy-who-dared-by-susan-campbell-bartoletti/ This site is from another reader who read the book. This will help see their point of views and thoughts about the story.
http://www.gdw-berlin.de/bio/ausgabe_mit-e.php?id=334 This is a biography for Helmuth. It will give you background information on him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Heinz_Schnibbe This is a biography about Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, Helmuths friend. Schnibbe was one of Helmuths friends that helped in trying to uncover the secrets to the Gestapo.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Gestapo.html The Gestapo play a major role in The Boy Who Dared. They are police who work for Hitler. This will help you understand what they have to do.
http://lds.org/topic/mormon/ Helmuth and his family were Mormons. Mormon is a type of Christianity. This is what Helmuth believes.
http://yiddishradioproject.org/exhibits/reunion/reunion.php3?pg=2 Helmuth had an illegal radio that let him listen to other streems of raido besides the German radio station. This site explains why the Germans did what they did and how they stopped the rebels who had illegal radios.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/secretary Helmuth was a secretary to the Chairman of the Mormon community. This will explain what he had to do at work.
http://www.ownersdirect.co.uk/germany-hamburg.htm This is where Helmuth was born, Hamburg, Germany. This is a map of the city.
http://www.xing.com/profile/Gerhard_Duewer This is a picture of Helmuth's brother Gerhard. He survived the holocaust and is apart of the book.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Wehrmacht+ This is the definition of wehrmacht. This is was Gerhard was in training for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany This is a website describing the Nazi. These are people who worked for Hilter. They did Hitler's "dirty work".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pl%C3%B6tzensee_Prison This is where Helmuth was killed after his death sentence. It has a picture of what it is used for now and describes how it was used during the Holocaust.
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/TEXTLINE.HTM This is a time line for the holocaust. It explains the events that happen and the years they happened then. This will help explain how long and every major event that happened.
http://www.ush.mm.org/ This is a website for the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. This gives actual pictures of people in the holocaust, the concetration camps, and more. It gives real life information about people who might have gone through the same thing Helmuth went through.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/concentration+camps This site gives the definition of concentration camps. It will give you as a reader more information about what Helmuth went through. In the book, Helmuth goes forward in time to the his life in the concentration camp and what he had to go through there.\
http://isurvived.org/AUSCHWITZ_TheCamp.html These are pictures of the trains that people were packed into so they could go to the concentration camps. Helmuth was packed on one train and although he doesn't give much detail about that in the book, it will help understand what he had to go through behind the scenes.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/53935.Susan_Campbell_Bartoletti Susan is the author of The Boy Who Dared. This site gives information about her and the book. It will help you better understand her thought process when writing the book.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/hitler_youth.htm Helmuth was a Hitler Youth student. This site will give ideas on what Hitler Youth did. It also has the leaders pictures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmuth_H%C3%BCbener Helmuth is the main character in the story. His picture and stuff about his life is on this site. One of the pictures is of him and his two friends, they play a small role in the story.
http://blog.mawbooks.com/2008/05/08/the-boy-who-dared-by-susan-campbell-bartoletti/ This site is from another reader who read the book. This will help see their point of views and thoughts about the story.
http://www.gdw-berlin.de/bio/ausgabe_mit-e.php?id=334 This is a biography for Helmuth. It will give you background information on him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Heinz_Schnibbe This is a biography about Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, Helmuths friend. Schnibbe was one of Helmuths friends that helped in trying to uncover the secrets to the Gestapo.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Gestapo.html The Gestapo play a major role in The Boy Who Dared. They are police who work for Hitler. This will help you understand what they have to do.
http://lds.org/topic/mormon/ Helmuth and his family were Mormons. Mormon is a type of Christianity. This is what Helmuth believes.
http://yiddishradioproject.org/exhibits/reunion/reunion.php3?pg=2 Helmuth had an illegal radio that let him listen to other streems of raido besides the German radio station. This site explains why the Germans did what they did and how they stopped the rebels who had illegal radios.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/secretary Helmuth was a secretary to the Chairman of the Mormon community. This will explain what he had to do at work.
http://www.ownersdirect.co.uk/germany-hamburg.htm This is where Helmuth was born, Hamburg, Germany. This is a map of the city.
http://www.xing.com/profile/Gerhard_Duewer This is a picture of Helmuth's brother Gerhard. He survived the holocaust and is apart of the book.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Wehrmacht+ This is the definition of wehrmacht. This is was Gerhard was in training for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany This is a website describing the Nazi. These are people who worked for Hilter. They did Hitler's "dirty work".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pl%C3%B6tzensee_Prison This is where Helmuth was killed after his death sentence. It has a picture of what it is used for now and describes how it was used during the Holocaust.
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/TEXTLINE.HTM This is a time line for the holocaust. It explains the events that happen and the years they happened then. This will help explain how long and every major event that happened.
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