Here's the website you need to read tonight!

This is a website with some information on American culture. Please read the sections entitled Work Ethic, Pets, Education System, and Customs.

http://www.internationalstudents.org/culture.php


Mike

Here's the verb tense website link:

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html

Hope it helps!

Mike

HATCHET

The book`s name is HATCHET.It is written by GARY PAULSEN.I have read it from page1 to page 24.
Summary:
The story is about a boy .His name is Brian.Because his parents were divorced,he only stayed with his mother.so long time no see his father,so he miss his father.So one day,he wants to take a plane to see his father.When he leave his mother,hhia mother give his some tools include hatchet.May this can help him when he get the trouble.In this way,ha take the plane.Who knows!Some bad things happen to him.It is about air-crash,he is very nevour.So some terrible thing happen to him on the palne.The pilot is dead.The plane run out of the gas.Who knows that next step will happen waht?.........
Response:I think brian is a very good boy!He miss his father.Then he take a plane to see him. I am so glad abou this thing.So some bsd thing happened to him,he meet the air-crash.If I were him,I would be dying.I am no able to meet this event.But brian is also a huaman.So he is nevours during the plane time. But I think he has a good spirit,fanally he drive a plane.He need to learn how to drive it! He is very good about this thing.I belive he will meet more chanllenges! We need to learn about him.I hope next step will happen what....

The Absolutely true diary of a Part-Time Indian.

Pages 1-28
The story is about a little Indian boy. His name is Junior. He is 14 years old. He was born with too much brain grease inside his skull. So he had many problems that are caused by his brain damage. Those problems were about his teeth, hands, feet, and head. They were different from other people. He also has had a stuter and lisp for a long time. He can't talk normally, so he loves drawing cartoons. It helps him to explain his mind. His family is poor. For him, there are many bad things about being poor: he lose his sick dog, his parent lose their dreams and sometimes, they miss their meals. Beside his family, he also has a best friend, Rowdy. Junior said that he and Rowdy are inseparable.

MY RESPONSE: I'm really surprised that a 14-year-old boy can can be brave like that. If i were him, i couldn't be strong like that. He can stand all the hurts from the brain damage and from other people. He can smile and make me laugh a lot. I really like this story, because it is more special than other stories about young people who were unlucky in their lifetime. This is not a sad story. Junior only used funny words and made people see his problems by laughing and compassion. Do you think he will have a good result for his brain damage and he will be a typically people? I hope so.

first summary...

My book title is “Blueberry Muffin Murder”. The book is about a woman named Hannah Swensen. She lives with her cat, Moishe. She lives in Lake Eden, Minnesota and is running a cookie shop and bakery, “The Cookie Jar”. These days she’s been busy because she’d contracted to provide all the cookies for the Lake Eden Winter Carnival. Soon there will be a carnival in her town. Lake Eden was a popular tourist spot in the summer month, when the town was crowded with visitors. However, when the summer season was over, the tourists left town so Mayor Bascomb decided to have Lake Eden’s first winter carnival in the third week of February.




When I read the book, I was worry for my reading skill. There are difficult words in the book. After I read chapter one, I forgot the content so I felt the book is difficult. Also, the part to read the book introduced background for the book. Recipe in the book was interesting. When I chose the book, the letter was very small so I couldn’t see it well. The book is mystery so I think I will be interesting

The first few pages the book told me about how Donald Trump become richer and richer. He worked very hard, he love to connecting people, helping them, and educating them. he never word just for money, from Trump brand he gets more than $1.5 million per speech, but he donates much of the money to charity. People always ask him," How did you get rich?" And he just answer like action, persistence, passion, and his attitudes. Next he gives us a quiz to see our profile, for example:How much money do you want to have in five years?,Which best describes your reaction when someone tells you that you can't do something?, or What is your attitude toward work, etc. After that he explans those questions for us to see what we need to do to become more success and richer. End of this chapter, Bill Zanker told about how his life has changed when he met Donald Trump. Zanker's company is just a small company, the company just earning $5.5 million, but the company has grown over 400 percent and the profit of last year is $102 million. Donald Trump has completely changed the way he thinks. And he said, thinking bog is a way of life for Donald Trump, and that is his secret.
I have been reading this book for a week and i am very interested in this book. I like the business books, and marketing books, that is the reason why i choise this book for this quarter. In my opinion, the first fee pages are going good, it is not hard to read, easy to understand. I found some interesting tthings in this book, such as Trump's quiz, and his explans. This is a good book, if you have time, you should check it out.