rj#22

Siraj Romdhane

RJ#22

1/31/12

Dear Ms. Zrihen,

I am reading the book called “Resilience” by Alonzo Mourning, a famous basketball player.  The genre is an autobiography. The topic is about a basketball player who suffered from kidney failure. The main idea is that even if you are rich you still can have sickness that causes you to do poorly on the job. The author’s purpose is to inform you because it tells you about his life. The point of view is first person. A quote from the book is “Brian got a hot dog”. This was on page 5. The reason why I picked this was because before he didn’t eat and now he wants to eat.

 When Alonzo was young, his father saw that his son didn’t eat.  So he kept on going to the doctors. The doctors did a lot of operations on him. He had tubes coming out of his mouth. On one Valentine’s Day, he had a donor give him a kidney. His mom and dad were divorced so he asked to go to foster care. There he met his foster mother. When he grew up he became a Miami heat basket ball player. He had a lot of money. Now he has 2 children of his own. Alonzo was raised in Virginia but born in Ohio. He suffers from a kidney failure. Unfortunately, because he suffers with kidney failure, he will not be able to continue playing basketball for that amount of time.

The essential detail is that even if you’re rich you still can have a medical conditions. The text feature is picture, sub title, and title.  The pattern of organization is details. Some figurative language  is a simile and metaphor. Some words that I had with trouble were courtesy, lingering, biopsy, and fulfill. 

rj#22

Siraj Romdhane

RJ#22

1/31/12

Dear, Ms.Zrihen

I am reading the book called “Resilience” by Alonzo Mourning. The genre is an autobiography. The topic is about a basketball player who suffered from kidney failure. The main idea is that even if you are rich you can have kidney failure. The author’s purpose is to inform you because it tells you about his life. The point of view is first person.

 When Alonzo was young his farther absorbed that his son didn’t eat.  So he kept on going to the doctors. The doctors did a lot of operations on him. He went to a lot operation that he had tubes coming out of his mouth. On one Valentine’s Day he had a donor give him a kidney. Their mom and dad were divorced so he asked to go in foster care the He met his foster mother. When he grew up he became a Miami heat basket ball player. He had a lot of money. Now he has 2 children of his own. Alonzo was raised in Virginia but born in Ohio. He suffers from a kidney failure.

By: siraj romdhane

rj#22

Siraj Romdhane

RJ#22

1/31/12

Dear, Ms.Zrihen

I am reading the book called “Resilience” by Alonzo Mourning. The genre is an autobiography. The topic is about a basketball player who suffered from kidney failure. The main idea is that even if you are rich you can have kidney failure. The author’s purpose is to inform you because it tells you about his life. The point of view is first person.

 When Alonzo was young his farther absorbed that his son didn’t eat.  So he kept on going to the doctors. The doctors did a lot of operations on him. He went to a lot operation that he had tubes coming out of his mouth. On one Valentine’s Day he had a donor give him a kidney. He had a foster mother. When he grew up he became a Miami heat basket ball player. He had a lot of money. Now he has 2 children of his own. Alonzo was born in ohio.

By: siraj romdhane

rj21

1/24/12

701

I am reading the book “1000 facts on sharks “. There is no author. The genre is informational. The topic is about sharks. The main idea is that sharks are cool animals and we should protect it. What I learned from this story is that the largest shark is called a whale shark it can reach a maximum size of 60 ft. I never knew that sharks have everything that we have inside as a human but inside of lungs they have gills never knew that “shark skin is so rough that in the past it was used to make a type of sand paper called shagreen”. Another interesting fact is “sharks brains aren’t round like ours they are long and narrow”.

A interesting fact is a” basking sharks have huge livers that weigh up to 4,500lb”.another fact is “that there are 9 species of hammerheads. Another interesting fact about sharks are” a reindeer was found inside a dead Greenland sharks stomach. A fact is “some sailors used to think sawfish sawed holes in boats in order to eat the passengers, but ther was no evidence.

By :siraj  

rj#20

Siraj romdhane

701

1/17/12

Dear.zrihen

I’m reading the book called across the universe by Beth revis. The genre is sci-fi. The characters Amy, elder, eldest, doc. The setting takes place on a ship going to a new earth. The conflict was that Amy was supposed to be unfrozen for 300 years but she was unfrozen at 250. The theme is treat people the way they treat you. The point of view is third person. The authors’ purpose is to entertain. The author perspective is meanthe tone is harsh. The mood is harsh.

After they talk the doc says to Amy that he going to be gone for a while and he says that this your room until we get to the new earth. so she takes a shower and when she gets out she finds clothing in the drawer. Then he hears a ding and it a oven so Amy looks inside and finds a meat cake ans so she eats it then when she put on her cloth she went outside and ran and found a city that has the same people. The people on the street asked a lot of questions and so an old lady said to carry on and told Amy that she needs to go Back to where she came from  when she did a guy helped her  clean up because she was dirty.

rj#19

Rj #19

By: siraj romdhane 

 1/10/12

Dear ms zrihen 

       I am reading a book called “across the universe” by Beth Revis. The characters are Elder, Eldest, Doc,and Amy. The genre is science fiction. The setting takes place on a ship called godspeed. The conflict is man vs society. The tone is harsh because what if you were getting yelled at for not being normal to the other people. The mood is harsh.

The theme is just because your different doesn't mean you should get crisized. The moral is don't be harsh. The point of view is first person. The author’s purpose is to entertain. The author’s perspective is mean. 

The story begins in a science lab and their freezing amy’s parents and her because they found another earth. The other one became polluted so they have to put a wire down her throat so that the inside is frozen. Then she is placed in a freezing place so that she can be frozen and ready to go to the other earth. The trip takes 300 years to get to the new planet. So she is thinking about everything. 250 years past and someone had disconnected room 42. So amy woke up from the freezing coffin.when she wakes up she tries to pullout the tubes inside her so she gets help from the doctor and elder. They get the tubes out and they go to the doctors office so that they can talk.

rj#18

Dear MS. Zrihen

I finished the book the giver. It was a great book. I really liked it. The genre is fantasy. The characters are Jonas, the giver, his mom, his dad, Asher, and his sister. The author’s purpose is to entertain. The point of view is third person. The conflict is characters vs. society. The rating I would give the book is 5 out of 5. The tone is slaved. The mood is scared because what if one person chooses your job for the rest of your life.  The theme is having your own mind so that you could be whatever you want. The author’s perspective is bias. The quote I would choose was “I thought there were only us”. I choose this because Johan doesn’t know that there is whole another world outside of his society. The setting takes place on an island in the Greek peninsula and it is in the future.

So Jonas is about to turn 12. It takes place every year but this is the day that Jonas is been looking forward to because he doesn’t know what job he is going to be. Until the very end of the ceremony he gets to be the new giver. The old giver is going to retire. The giver is teaching him. While he was teaching him he taught him colors, snow, and hot days. Then the giver teaches him about pain. There is no pain in this kingdom. He took him to secret books that had a lot of pain in them.

By:siraj

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