"My friend Walter" by Michelle Mopurgo

After finishing the amazing story "Hoot" I decided to read a book called "My friend Walter". It's extraordinary story of a girl who finds out that she is related to a famous man that got executed for being a traitor. But she never expected to meet his ghost and get told the real story, or let him live with her. Although this might seem very easy to you and your probably saying to your self "so, it's a ghost, they're invisible you can't see them it'd be easy to smuggle him into your house and keep him a secret from everyone." Well your wrong ghost can very difficult almost impossible actually to keep a secret even she finds it very difficult. What does she (Bess) do when Walter breaks her brothers fishing rood or steals her dads horse.you'll half to see in the book.

Sir Walter Raleigh by Tara

Ok folks, a reminder of the homework (due Tuesday 2nd November):



You are going to create a poster that illustrates the two worlds separated by the River Styx.


1.Choose 3 examples from Earth and 3 examples from The Underworld.
2.Explain the image created for each example in as much detail as you can in your books (this is your draft and will be checked by a partner).
3.Copy your examples and explanations neatly onto your poster.
4.Illustrate each of the images you have described


Make sure they look wonderful for me please- I have wall space available!

Made You Look by Diane Roberts

Made You Look is about a boy called Jason who is willing to do just about anything to be a maniac - a contestant on the planet's ultimate trivia game show, Masquerade Mania. But when his parents surprise him with a vacation in Los Angeles, where the show is filmed, he's really excited.Until he learns the awful truth: Airline travel isn't part of the Percy family itinerary. Instead of flying , they'll be trekking cross-country in a camper that looks like a giant sardine tin. Jason must survive annoying car games with his annoying diva-in-training sister and her younger, diaper-wearing counterpart before arriving at the big moment. 

Overall I figured the book wasn't that bad but the ending was fantastic! This book isn't in the school's library but I have so you can borrow it if you like.

About the illustration

How whould we illustrate it? like the thing then the simile? And I don't have the story, can you post it online? to Mr.Pollicut

''Benjamin Wong

My sister the VAMPIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (fangtastic)no.2

Olivia is a vegetarian.ivy is a vampire.And they're twins?!?
Ever since Olivia discovered that her long-lost twin sister,Ivy, is a vampire,she's been soaking up everything Ivy will tell hew about Franklin Grove's vampire community.it's all top secret,and Olivia sworn that she'll never tell another soul.But now,nosy tabloid reporter Serena Star is snooping around. as she gets closer to the truth,it's up to Ivy and Olivia to throw her off track.

On Comics and Literature

To answer Mr. Pollicutt's question on Nadia's post about Beano, I think it's probably how their writing can make us laugh easily, and that the comics can portray a 'picture' of what's going to happen without using tons of words.

That's what makes comics so interesting to me! (and the drawings too, if it's manga!)

Manga Books

Can we write about manga books too? Nadia wrote about the comic:'beano' but I don't know if are allowed to review manga... P.S: I can't post comments!!!!

Hello 7B, I am writing this whilst looking at all of your lovely faces in class.

Here are your homework questions to do in your books if you do not finish them in class.

HW due in on Thursday

Toodle- pip

Mr Pollicutt


•Summarise the story in 10 short lines, draw a flowchart of the plot.
•What did Prometheus make?
•What gift did he give it?
•Why did Zeus get angry?
•Why did Zeus create Pandora?
•How is Pandora persuaded to open the box?
•What evidence is there that Pandora tries to obey Zeus by not opening the box?
•Look at the paragraph on p. 5 starting ‘The lid flew back..’ How does the writer make the writing dramatic and interesting?
•Can you find any examples of similes? Choose one and illustrate it.
•Why do you think the Ancient Greeks told this story?

Goosebumps: Welcome to Dead House by R.L.Stine

I really enjoy horror stories and Goosebumps types are one of my favourites! It's interesting, exciting and catches the reader's attention in EVERY chapter! It's like at the end of one chapter the author always creats something unexpected for example(this is from the story):

"We stayed quite in this sort of place where I have no clue where it is. Everything was quite and dead still. I started to stroll carefully across the grass. Suddenly I tripped over something solid, franticly stood up and tried to recognized what the object was. There were some words that were carved on the object and as i scrolled my torch across it, I frozed...It said Jim Marrold the person who I just met this morning. "

Thta made me want to read more and MORE...until the end. I read this book when I was in year 5 so I cannot memorized it all though. But what I do know is that this family moved in to a huge, old house where the children hate. There they met new friends but new friends act very weird but one night the children discovered that everybody in the town was......DEAD!!! Read more so you can know. But bad news is that I'm pretty sure there are alot of Goosebumps in our library but I got this book in Tu Xoung BIS school they have like MILIONS of Goosebump. It was so AWESOME!!! But, I manages to find some other Goosebumps in our library hope u like it :D

Warning: these books are not really cool if you do not like ghost or horror stories :P

Here are some of my other favourite ones:

the mysterious benidect society

this is pretty okayish, it may seem a little very strange at some points but on a whole its readable good book when you cant sleep ya know?

its about theese kids who are all geniusses in their own way, they take theese tests and become a secret team trying to infiltrate the lair of the mr. curtain they go in disguised as students and what they discover is very strange indeed, they are comunicating with the dudes they work for by morse code. they are led by the mysterious mr. bennidect who is twins with the evil mr curtain but didnt know it!

its complicated and weird but in the end one of the kids gets addopted one is reunited with their father another returns home after running away and mr. bennidect addopts annother. this all makes a little more sense when you read the book its still hard to understand and explain though.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days Plot (Spoilers Alert!)

Highlight Purple space to read on.

The book describes this as Greg's "worst summer ever." The book begins with Greg saying how he, Rowley, and Trista, a girl which he and Rowley met at the end of the third book, went to Rowley's vacation country club. Trista meets a life guard at the club and never is mentioned again throughout the entire book. Then Rowley tells Greg that he can't invite him to the country club anymore. So then Greg, Greg's mother, and Manny his younger brother go to the town pool. Greg gets grossed out as he goes through the men's locker room. Also, the family hasn't made enough money to go the beach. Also Greg goes to the salon that his mother goes to and becomes hooked to soap operas and drama's he learned about from the ladies at the salon. Rowley and Greg watch a horror movie about a muddy hand that kills people and scare themselves from watching it. Rowley and Greg get too scared to go sleep down stairs and end up sleeping in the bathroom. Greg's dad ends up finding them sleeping in the bathroom and asks Greg why, and Greg tells them they watched a scary movie. Susan(Greg's mother) finds out from the father and makes a reading club for all boys in the neighborhood. The club drops down to one person being Greg. Someone knocks on the door while Greg is reading from a book. It turns out to be Rowley's father and he doesn't look happy and it turns out that there's eighty-three dollars total on fruit smoothies Rowley and Greg had at the country club. So Rowley and Greg make V.I.P. Lawn Service company which was an epic fail. Rowley bails out on Greg leaving Greg to figure out how to bring the money. About a day or two later, Greg goes to the salon and his stylist tells him that Rowley is heartbroken because Greg didn't 't invite him to his birthday party. Greg has a birthday party with just his family and receives many checks. His mom takes all the checks from him and gives them to Rowley's father. Greg receives clothe and other things. He also receives a lady bug cell phone and his cake is eaten by his uncle's dog Killer. Greg's mom takes Manny, Rodrick, and Greg to the pet store and Greg buys a fish and Rodrick buys a fish that's aggressive. Two days later, Greg's mom is taking them on a "surprise trip." Greg believes its the beach because his mom has bathing suits, sun screen, towels, and more beach stuff. Greg finds out its really a slip n slide park. It begins to rain when they are there and they go home. When Greg goes home, he finds out his fish is gone because Rodrick's fish was placed in the same bowl. The next day is father's day and someone asked Greg why hes sad, and he says its cause of his fish because it died. Then his dad tells the story of how his dog ran away to a butterfly farm. Greg's father's father, says he has a confession to make that he really ran over the dog. Greg's father is so angry he leaves his father with the bill. He drops the family off at home and returns with a cardboard box that has a puppy in it. They name is sweet-heart, sweetie for short. Much to Greg's surprise, the dog is annoying and rather hard to take care of. Also, the dog is always on Greg's bed. On the fourth of July, the family goes to the town pool to celebrate fireworks weren't working at the town pool but, everyone ended up watching them coming from leisure's hotel. In a picture of Manny, Greg ends up noticing that Heather Hills is the life guard there and tries to impress her but ends up giving up. One day, Greg's mom tells Greg he has to take Manny with him through the men's locker room because Manny is getting too old. Manny had never been in a men's locker room so he was curious about everything. The next day at the market, Greg runs into Rowley and his family at the super market, and Rowley's mom asked if Greg wanted to come with them to the beach. Greg's mom said yes. Greg ended up going but it turned out to be boring and quiet. Finally, they go to the board walk and play arcade games and play a dollar trick. Rowley's dad came looking angry complaining he had been looking for them for an hour. They got sent to bed extra-early. Greg also gets to ride the cranium shaker a ride in which Rodrick says,'Your not a man until you ride it.' One night, Greg gives Rowley a static electricity shock and shocks him and Rowley does the same to him. At night, when Rowley is in bed, Greg gets him with a rubber band snapping it hardly making Rowley scream. His parents saw what Greg did and sent him home early. The dog ended up being given away to Greg's grandma. The book ends with the photo album of his "best summer ever".

I think everybody knows about Frankenstein but have u read the book carefully seeing every details? It's GREAT!!! Victor Frankenstein had been obsessed with science. He had hope, dreams and a happy family. But there was just one problem that ruined it........forever DUH!! DUH!!! DUH!!! It's is a miserable sotry where people die and you feel sorry for them but it also included Victor suffering for his ownself. He had done a terrible mistake-creating a monster who was friendly but turned hatred to the world for his looks.

The monster hunted Victor's family killing his brother, best friend and wife. But I also felt sorry for the monster, he used to loved the world as his home and life but people seemed to hated him of how he look. He had save a little girl but his gift is a shot in his arm. But he learned about nature and the world. But he was bitter when he read the book of Victor's thought about how he could turn a human back to life.

It's an amazing book. Hope you find it in the library :D

Warning don't get crazy like Victor, it's dangerous!!!!!

comics

i have decided to open this blog to the world of comics i will start with a personal favourite of mine beano, its a british comic that rocks they created such charecters as denis the menis, roger the dodger and so on.

this is a totally aw2some comic that i will lend some people who dont have one it is the highlight of my summer, you know not including themeparks weddings and seeing family oh and easons an irish book store.

Small Steps by Louis Sachar

This book is almost like a second book of Holes. Although Stanley Yelnats isnt metioned (as far as i have read) X-Ray still appears as quite an important character, though the main character is Armpit. It tells you about Armpit's life after he

has been released from Camp Green Lake and how his personalilty has different from Holes.

the b.f.g

this is about a giant! with super giant ears! and jars so many jars!! theese are some of my favourite things in book so i find it especially pleasing that there are giant ears giants and jars! how can you not love those things in a book!

anyway its not just abopt those things the giant is a dream castcher he catches bad dreams! then one night the little girl sees him and he takes her with him and they become good freinds. she calls him the bfg which stands for big freindly giant. plus its by rhoal dahl so you know its going to be awsome! i totally loved it and anyone who hasnt read must and if you have read it read it again man!

BOOKS///

Alex Rider Series.
Nothing much, just lots of cool spyware, gadgets and guns with wierd villians.
Coming to a libary near you!
(It actually is going to our secondary libary)
I've only done point blanc. but there are more! Grapic Novels

urgam the axe man

urgam the axe man is awsome so many pictures man, its about a barbarian and some gods.

oh ya and some tax men, that makes more sense if you read the book trust me.

i dont think the libray has it though....

im kinda mumbling now so about the book, you should definately read it and thogh it may seem childish to like a book for its pictures its a pretty thick book and its awsome!!!!!!!!!!!

Stanley and zero

HOLES

Stanley is 23years old. His real name is shia labeof.

people say that he didn't change that much but I think he changed a lot more than before.I think he was better when he was young, shooting movie HOLES.

Furthermore Zero is 19 years old. His real name is Khleo Thomas. People say that he changed a lot too, got more handsome or something..but I don't think so!I wish he was younger when he shot the movie HOLES..!

HOLES

We all finished the wonderful book 'HOLES' and we are making some stories using all the various techniques in HOLES. I think it is really a wonderful idea. Plus, I love making stories!
This are the stories we heard from these people:

1)Mina....................a story about a sad girl in a scary house.But it's nice on spring.
2)Benjamin.................a story about people discovering a strange new planet.
3)Lottie.......................a family in a disgusting house.(My favourite!!!!!!!!!)
4)Sam......................a story about a famous person of murder.
5)So Hyun................a story about a mean, snob girl.
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did we have more?????????

HOLES

Why is Holes so popular? It is cool but are there any cool films as well? Pls Leave a comment as a film you recommend I should watch - I like Star Trek ( MOVIE ) actually? You guys should try watch it... Waiting for a response

Matilda

The book matilda was written by Roald Dahl.Its a children novel. after the book was published the movie came out.The parents of five-year-old Matilda Wormwood have no interest in their daughter. Although she exhibits strong signs of being a child prodigy, they pressure her to watch television instead of her preferred activity of reading. At one point, she asks her father for a book. Her father merely points out that they already have a television and tells her that asking for a book will make her spoiled. Matilda, undaunted, goes to the library and, under the watchful eyes of the librarian, Mrs. Phelps, reads every single children's book in the library.Ms Honey matilda teacher thinks matilda is a special gifted child. So matilda spent a lot of time with ms honey, ms honey live in small cottage.She is accused of cheating, and then decides to get back at her father. She puts super-glue into his hat and then sits back and allows everything else to be taken care of. Matilda also di some other really funny thing (but in a way its horrible to her parents) in the book to her parents.Matilda has powers when she's angry.

the film version was directed by Danny Devito.

Well Hears The Film Matilda:

Matilda part 1

Matilda part 2

Matilda part 3

Matilda part 4

Matilda part 5

Matilda part 6

Matilda part 7

Matilda part 8

Matilda part 9

Matilda part 10

Matilda part 11

Matilda part 12

Matilda part 13

Sorry I didn't post the video on, I ran out of time!!!!!!!!!

Missing Abby by Lee Weatherly

I really enjoy this book,i can keep on reading it again and again and never get bored of it,There is quite a lot of series e.g Breakfast at Sadies and Child X. Child X is also good but i prefer Missing Abby because it's the first book out of all the series and it's an EXCELLENT book :)

When 13-year-old Emma bumps into her old friend Abby on the bus one Saturday afternoon, she later realises that she was the last person to see Abby before her mysterious disappearance. Amidst the media frenzy and everyone's struggle to come to terms with the possibility of Abby's death.What will Emma do next?

The Enemy by Desmond Bagley.

On a beautiful, warm summer evening in the quiet town of Marlow, a young woman was walking home from church. She passed a man who was looking at the engine of his car. He turned round, smiled at her...and threw acid in to her face.

Then her father, the scientist George Ashton dissapeared. And her sister, Penny, discovered that her husband-to-be, Malcolm, is a government agent. Why had Ashton disappeared? Who is he anyway??.........................And who is the enemy ebhind these event?

You can find this mysterious book in Fahasa. I get nervous all the time when I read this book. But it's wonderfull. Imagine being thrown deadly, strong, concerntrated acids in your face! That got to hurt!!

Holes

This is an very interesting book that I've read in class and I've chosen this book because it is very a unique book compare to all the book I've read so far. Holes, written by the excellent author, Louis Sachar, is an adventure and mystery book with a humorous touch. The story takes place mainly at the hot and humid Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility where there is no lake, and no happy campers. In place of what used to be "the largest lake in Texas" is now a dry, flat, sunburned wasteland. It hasn't rained there for over a hundred years. Stanley Yelnats had a choice if he would like to go to jail or spend his time at Camp Green Lake,course no one would want to go to jail so he decided to go to CGL.But there's a curse in the family but Stanley doesn't believe in this curse, so whenever things goes wrong Stanley's grandfather would say this is because of your "No-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather'. But can the curse be broke?. The only living plants there were two large trees and a hammock stretched out between the trees. Of course, no one was allowed to lay on it except for the Warden or else they'd get in a lot of trouble. A log cabin was behind the trees and that's where the Warden spent most of her time.The story takes place in the present time but contains flashbacks of over one hundred years ago to explain how the whole plot started. There were five large tents at the camp. A, B, C, D, and E were for the campers and tent F was where the counselors slept.

Artemis Fowl

One day in the Fowl manor the famous criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl the second had thought up a plan wich could result in a cross spieces war, at the time he was 12 years old...

This Great book by the literature mastermind is a combination of action adventure and big bodyguards.

If you continue reading this post it will result in a visit from my lawyers and ultimatly a visit from my bodyguard -butler, but not if you read the amazing 501 pages of this book