Entry 4- Michael Kopaygorodsky

Looking for Alaska drew me in because the first thing that came to my mind was who or what was looking for Alaska and who or what Alaska was. Another reason I chose this novel was because a lot of people recommended it to me. A connection that I made was I am very shy when I first meet someone and so is Miles. I would recommend this model to anyone but the people that would most enjoy reading it is people who like drama books/movies.

Entry 3- Michael Kopaygorodsky

"The week before I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party. To say that I had low expectations would be to underestimate the matter dramatically." (Page 1, John Green) This text from the novel Looking for Alaska were the very first couple sentences on the first page. I think this selection entices the reader because if they read it they would want to know what happens later in the book when he goes to his boarding school in Alabama. Another reason the reader would want to read on is to know why he left his family in the first place to go a boarding school.

Entry 2: Summer Reading: Looking for Alaska
Michael Kopaygorodsky

The main character of this novel (Miles) is a strange character I haven't really figured him out yet but he is very shy and doesn't have a lot of friends. What Miles wants is just a friend he can talk to and not be shy around. Some themes that are starting to appear in this novel is Miles is more of an inside kid he hates to be outside in the heat and every time he is outside he dreads it and wants to go somewhere where there's AC. My book has been dragging so far but I'm sure the pace will pick up soon because he is just moving into his dorm into the new boarding school and he is talking about how he doesn't have friends and how he hates to be outside in the heat.

Entry 1: Summer Reading: Looking For Alaska
Michael Kopaygorodsky

I have started Looking For Alaska the main character so far in the novel is Miles. He is going to a boarding school in Alabama. He left his school in Florida to go there. He doesn't have a lot of friends and his parents threw him a going away party and no one really came because he doesn't have a lot of friends. I have no gone any further then that but some things I was wondering is if he will make any friends at his new boarding school and if he will make a difference at his new school. Some predictions I have is I think Miles will do something that will change his whole personality and look on everything and will become more social with people and make new friends.

Final Blogging Assessment

In my connection and understanding post I show my best demonstration of my own writing voice. I show good writing voice in this post becasue I tell you about my own connection and understanding to the certain book which is Catching Fire. These words and phrases showcase my personality as a writer by showing the way I look at the book and how I connect and understand it so im puting it in my own words. Which shows my writing voice since it's my voice no one else's.

In my connection and understanding post I had formal diction. An example of formal diction that I had was " Also with similar problems as the first one." this sentence shows that I had simple word choice but formal at the same time.All my sentence lengths were small to medium for example "You can connect Catching Fire to Hunger Games because they are two books in the same series."this shows that some of my sentences were medium size. This sentence shows that some were shorter "With the same characters." All of my punctuations were periods. The periods slowed the reading down so people could understand it better. The punctuation and sentence length show the syntax I had in my writing and how it affected my writing voice.

I have discovered that I actually do like to read somewhat. I like to read now more then I did at the beggining of the trimester. I still feel drawn to sports biographies I think that genre will always be my favorite genre. Action books also draw me in, before the end of the school year I want to read at least one action book, because I've always liked action movies so Im sure I would like a good action book. At the beggining of the trimester I felt like I didn't concentrate when I read so if i read 20 pages in a book back then I wouldn't know what would be going on in those 20 pages. But now I feel like I concentrate more so I understand what happening in the book. This is one of the reasons I enjoy reading more now that Im concentrating on whats going on in the book.

I just finished the book Moneyball it was a great Underdog story about baseball. Billy Beane was the GM of the Oakland A's, he was given the smallest budget of all MLB teams and he still made it work. The year before he lost his 3 best players in the trade market. This story just shows that you don't have to have the best to be the best.

I just started to read Moneyball and I like it alot. I like it a lot because its a true story and I love sports. The setting varies in the book from onto the baseball field, to the office, clubhouse, etc. I like that the setting varies because I can visualize these places very easily. I saw the movie and now im reading the book and so far the movie to book has been a good adaptation and there is no major differences in them. Which I like so I dont get confused on which one I mthink is true. There are a lot of characters in the book which is confusing at sometimes because I forget who is who but I know the main character which is Billy Beane.-