1. Academic Word List Vocabulary Development #3 + News Journal #3 (if you go to the website, click on "news").
2. Extensive Reading Response #1 (about your personal reading book)
Please post a response below to the following questions:
a. What were your expectations for this book? In other words, how did you think it would be? What did you think it would be about? Based on what you've read so far, has this book met your expectations? Please explain with specific details.
b. What is one aspect of the book that you really like? You could discuss a specific character, the setting, the pace of the story (if it's a fast read, for example), vocabulary, historical information that you're learning from the book, etc.
Just a reminder: Our first extensive reading book project will be due at the end of week 6 (approximately the end of June). I will give you informatino about this project next Tuesday. Happy reading!
Saleh Alghowinem
ReplyDeleteMy expectations for this book "River run through it" was uncertain before I read it but for now it is quite high since it touch my interest. Most of what I have read although incounter defficulties in vaucablary I founded it quite interested to me to know the culture and sittings of Montana and Missoula in particular, hence it met my expections eventually.
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This novel has consecutively Unexpected events. For example, I couldn’t imagine that Edward who was an important hero would leave Bella who was his lover. Furthermore, I didn’t think that she will Surrender in this situation, and leave him to go suddenly, silently and easily. On the other hand, this book has met my expectation at one way which shows the unlimited sacrifices in love when Bella tried to change to be a vampire and in some cases she became desperate, but she tried and struggled a lot of time to reach Edward.
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I am interested in Bella’s character which shows her reckless acts to keep her love. She did many dangerous methods to see Edward even he picture was unreal. In addition, I can imagine the setting of the story because the author has a soft writing, so she explained everything clearly. I can feel how Bella’s feeling was, how Edward’s was strength, how Edward’s house was fancy, how Bella’s car was old, and how she was confused between Edward and Jakop. For more information about this story, It is a fiction novel which talks about three groups or families the first were humans , the other were vampires ,and the last one were wolves. Booth of vampires and wolves were fighting , and Bella was in love with a vampire whom was Edward .I think that This book is a page turner, so I can’t put it down , but I need free time to read without any interruption.
My expectations for "River Run Trough It" is the better expectation. I'm liking read this book, it so interesting and always fixed my mind when I'm reading. This book go away than my expectation, first I Thought that the book will be so boring, but when i started to read i change my opinion about this great novel. I like the character Paul, because he is rough at the same he is a lovely and symphatic person.
ReplyDeletea) I finished reading a book, so I had already known everything. However, before finished, I had thought Anna Martins who is a main character in this book and came a village with Stephen,her husband, as a vacation would be a couple with Tristan who lives in the village and met her there, while Stephen went back London. In fact, she didn't choose Tristan and to live the village permanently.
ReplyDeleteb) That I like aspect in my personal book is the last part. Its situation is the time when she is in London and Stephen is in the village and she got a call from him.
When she was in the village without him, she made love with Tristan, and they had told their heart each other. Then, they promised to keep secret what happened between them.
Therefore, as she got a call from Stephan, she was upset, and her heart froze because he said to her "Anna, I've just seen Tristan. He's just told me something. We've got to talk.' His words implied that he got some information about Anna and Tristan.
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ReplyDeletea. My personal reading book is " THE ALCHEMIST." Before I began to read this book, I thought this book's main character is an alchemist but actually he is not because he does not have power to make philosopher's stone. Also, I thought that this story would be process of being alchemist, but it was not.
b. I like this book because there is many good words of wisdom. That most I like good word of wisdom is "Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else." This word makes me think much time. I am still thinking. I think, this book can improve my concept that is why I really like this book.
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I read some parts of the "Men in the fire" by the same author of "River run through .." . Although this book is not a novel , it descibe in details a trajdic story not in Montana alone but for the US at large.
ReplyDeleteIn 1949 10th a huge fire started an area of Montana and extended to the neigbouring state where 13 men burned to death from the firefighter groups who flow over the hell of this fire by an airplane. What is the story of these mens and why they died in such a way and furthermore what is the role of FFS.? These questions will be answered by the author.
As a montanies man Norman continoue to descibe the life in Montana as a culture, natural sittings,and in top of that the professions especially at the FFS where he was working.
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The Richest Man in Babylon
ReplyDeleteby George Samuel Clason 1926
If you are looking for a plan that would drive your life or members of family or even more your closest friends to invest in their living time then this is your remedy!.This book is talking about an ancient city mentioned in the Bible and other holly books as the one city of it's time. A city that was rich and full with wisdom in managing revenues and other sort of knoweldge.Therefore one would ask himself why and how Babylon arrived to this station of wisdom and wonder !? What were the secrets behind that ?!
Babylon means Gateway of the God.'The earliest source to mention Babylon may be a dated tablet of the reign of Sargon of Akkad 24th century BC. The so-called "Weidner Chronicle" states that it was Sargon himself who built Babylon "in front of Akkad". Another chronicle likewise states that Sargon "dug up the dirt of the pit of Babylon, and made a counterpart of Babylon next to Agade". More recently, some researchers have stated that those sources may refer to Sargon II of the Neo-Assyrian Empire rather than Sargon of Akkad.'(1). In any event the remains of Babylon nowadays is located in Alhella center of Iraq.
The story began with a debate between two friends , Bansir who was a simple Babylonian chariot builder and his friend Kobbi,the musician.This debate started by Kobbi who asked Bansir if he could lend him two shekels, a demand that stimulated the two friend to discuss
their dreams to be wealthy and furthermore what were the secrets of gaining gold and become rich !?
Therefore the two friends Bansir and Kobbi decided to meet their friend Arkad, the richest man in Babylon asking for advice.Arkad however was a man who love his family and spend some of his earnings in charity . he was not relectuant when ashed by Bansir and Kobbi to draw this fact ;"if they were not wealthy, it was because they had failed to learn the laws of wealth building"(1), so what was those laws any way?
It followed that Babylon thereafter a encountered a drawback in economy and the most richest wealthy men left the rest of the population in poverty.Meanwhile the king Sargon heared from his chansoller about the situation and in responce he asked him to bring Archad in front of him for explanation.! Archad explain fully the secrets which made the king happy in the way that made him asked Archad to teach one hundred man his Seven Cures for a Lean Purse.
The rest of this chapter explained closely those seven cures one by one and went further the forthcoming chapter to add more rules and explanations from other characters in the story.
This book desirve reading because it has a road map for wealth building and I will be unrelectunte to say it should be taught for primary schools especially when student begin to learn the value of work and collecting money.However the story is wonderful because it integrate sosioeconomic values with fragrant ancient history.
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(1): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon