What did you enjoy about Yr 8 English?

My favorite part about year 8 english was probabley when we spent time writting short stories. I also liked using our english blogs to publish our work on.

What did you dislike?

Something that I disliked was the poetry section of the year as i did not find that very interesting. I aslo extremly disliked the sucessful english!!!!

What were you good at in terms of assessments?

My favorite peices of assesment were the short story test we did and the persuisive oral on female heroines that we did.

Challenges?

One of the challenges that I came across this year was the sucessful english pages as I dint not like them at all so I found them hard to get through.

What were the areas that you need to improve on?

One area that i need to improve on is my vocabulary as many of my peices of assesment said that i neede t oextend my vocabulary.




Goals for improvement for next year?

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What did you learn this year?





What things do you remember?

To Be Continued..............

New Moon

New Moon

I cannot wait for the premier of New Moon on thursday 19th of November.It is going to be a great film with somany great actors such as Robert Patterson (hot) Taylor Lautner (hotter) and so many other (hot) actors!!!!!!

It is going to be a very romantic and sad movie that will be probably one of the most seen movies all over the world.

I know quite alot about what is going to happen in this movie as I have read all of the books.

I cant wait!!!!!!!!!!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FROSTBITE

TITLE: Frostbite
AUTHOR:Richelle Mead
GENRE: Romance/Mystery/Action (a bit of everything)

SYNOPSIS:
Rose Hathaway's got serious guy trouble. Her gorgeous tutor Demitri has his eye on someone else, her friend Mason has a huge crush on her, and she keeps getting stuck in her best friends Lissa's head while she's making out with her boyfriend,Christian.

Then a massive strigori attack puts St. Vladmir's on high alert, and the academy crawls with guardians- including the legendary Janine Hathaway.... Roses dreadfull, long-absent mother. the strigoiare closing in, and the Academy's not taking any risks. This year, St Vladmirs holiday ski trip is Madatory.

But the glittering winter landscape and the posh Idaho resort only provide the illusion of safety. When three students run away to strike back against the deadly strigoi, Rose must join forces with christian to rescue them. Only this time Rose is in more danger than she could have ever imagened.
(Frost Bite, Backcover)

SERIES: Frost bite is one of four books in the vampire academy series. The books are:
1. Vampire Academy
2. Frostbite
3. Shadow kiss
4. Blood Promise

This is an amazing series and i would recommend all teens to read it! I give it a
9/10

My Female Heroine

Anna Fitzgerald

For my speech i did the female heroine Anna Fitzgerald from the book my sisters keeper.

Three points that describe Anna:
- She always puts others before her self no matter what will happen to her!
- She is able to be independent even at the hardest of times!
- From a very young age she has been able to stand up for herself and do what others need!

One Quote that best describes Anna:

"I dont want her to die, but I know she doesnt want to live like this, and I'm the one who can give her what she wants." ...... "I've always been the one who can give her what she wants."
(My Sisters Keeper, Page 389)

Chinese Foot Binding

In the 10th century foot binding began and was not stopped until the 20th century. It was a tradition that all young girls would have their feet bound around the age of four or five.
Foot binding is were a girls foot would be tightly bound with bandages so that her toes would be tucked under her feet and her feet would stop growing. The reason for this was so that women could feet into elegant little shoes and this was believed to be attractive.

The Four Concerned

The Man
He lies forgotten ‘neath the watching skies,
The blood upon his bayonet scarlet bright;
The red moon shining in his glazed eyes,
The ‘Last Post’ crying, crying in the night.

The Woman

She proudly sits within her home of gloom,
And reads and reads his line with wistful smile,
Then, eyes aglisten, seeks the empty room.
(And he within his bloody grave the while.)

The Child

His wooden war-horse stands beside his bed.
His tiny pillow holds a head of gold.
He dreams of all the things his father said,
He dreams of all the tales his father told.

The Mum

She sits on the couch staring at his baby pictures.
Time passing by waiting for his return.
She has spent years dreaming up his futures.
Not knowing he would never get his turn.
Leon Gellert
Mad-Day

My Wide Reading Novel

I have recently finished the book My Sisters Keeper.

My sister’s keeper is one of the best books I have ever read. It is filled with drama, excitement, tragedy and sometimes even comedy.

It is a story of two sisters of which one of them has acute promyelocytic leukemia.
Anna the youngest sister is brought into this world to be a donor for Kate and to give what ever she can to make Kate well.
When Anna reaches the age of 13 she is asked to donate a kidney. Anna is sick of having to under go surgery and go through so much pain for no benefit to herself what so ever and so she hires a lawyer t fight for her against her family for the right to her on body.
I will stop there because I don’t want to ruin the ending (which is nothing like the movie).
I would recommend this book to anyone. I think it is amazing and wish it never ended.

Peeling the Onion Review

Peeling the Onion Review

In my opinion Peeling the Onion was not a great book. I found that it was quite boring as there weren’t very many twists and it was very straight forward.

Because it was such a short book there was not great attention to detail in the characters which would have helped make the story more interesting.

In this story you could almost guess the ending. there were no unexpected twists or thrilling side tracks. It was just a classic story with no spin.


My role in Literature Circles was the Literary Luminary.
Although I did not enjoy the book very much I found some very powerful and emotional paragraphs that were amazingly written.

I rate this book 3/10 :(