Thursday, June 4, 2009
Class Website
Yahoo has decided to shut down Geocities, which I use for our class website, at the end of this summer. I guess giving away websites for free didn't end up making them too much money. If you use the links on our class website you might want to bookmark them. Hopefully I will have something newer and better up and running sometime over the summer.
Mr. Malmstrom
Mr. Malmstrom
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
End of the Year
Thank you all for the great year. Continue to check your school e-mail accounts- I plan on sending out promotion pictures soon. Remember you can still use this blog to communicate with everyone.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
1. The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom is an excellent novel. It takes place during WWII, when the holocaust was occurring. The main character (Corrie Ten Boom) and her sister and father risk their own lives and the lives of others to attempt to save as many Jewish souls as possible when the Germans invade their own country. Unfortunately for them, they are caught (but the Nazis never find the hidden room with five Jews in it), and sent to a prison. Corrie is separated from her family, and is deeply worried about heir health, along with her own. Then, her prison is emptied, and she is forced to live in a work labor camp. She struggles to survive the harsh conditions, and keeps her soul alive.
2. I Have Live a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson is a great story about a Jewish survivor of the holocaust. In this story, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl is forced to give up everything she has because of her religion. When she enters Auschwitz concentration camp, she is separated from her father and brother, and is forced to choose between her aunt and mother to stay alive with her in the camp. Together they keep each other strong and sane.
3. The Devil’s Arithmetic is a book I have recently read by Jane Yolen. It is about a present day Jewish girl who gets very bored of hearing her relatives talk about their experiences in the holocaust. During a special ceremonial task, she is somehow taken back to the past. She is forced to work against her will in a concentration camp, and now understands her relatives’ agony. Now all she needs to do is somehow find her way home.
4. Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy is the first poetic book I’ve read, and it was spectacular. It takes place in the city of Lodz, Poland, 1939, when the Germans invaded it and forced the entire Jewish population into a small part of the city called the ghetto. At the beginning of the war, 270,000 people lived there. At the end of the war, only 800 survived. Of those 800, only 12 were children; this is the story of on of those children named Syvia Perlmutter.
5. Deep and Dark and Dangerous is a bone-chilling novel by Mary Downing Hahn. This book is an eerie and suspenseful book that keeps you wanting more. In this book, thirteen-year-old Ali finds an old photograph of her mom, aunt, and someone else she doesn’t recognize. When she asks her mom who the person is, she trembles in fear and rips it up immediately. When Ali learns she is spending the summer in the same house her aunt and mom grew up in, she decides she will try to learn who the mystery person is. Then she meets a very bratty girl named Sissy who she despises. Little does she know Sissy holds the secret behind the picture.
6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a great novel that can teach a great life lesson. It takes place in the Maycomb, Alabama. It takes place when racial tension is at an all time high. When a black man is accused of doing something, the town is divided. Not many people take the man’s side, for they think of him as a minority. The lawyer who’s defending the man has two children that don’t really know the meaning of equality. With the court case nearing, the children learn a life lesson about where equality can get you.
2. I Have Live a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson is a great story about a Jewish survivor of the holocaust. In this story, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl is forced to give up everything she has because of her religion. When she enters Auschwitz concentration camp, she is separated from her father and brother, and is forced to choose between her aunt and mother to stay alive with her in the camp. Together they keep each other strong and sane.
3. The Devil’s Arithmetic is a book I have recently read by Jane Yolen. It is about a present day Jewish girl who gets very bored of hearing her relatives talk about their experiences in the holocaust. During a special ceremonial task, she is somehow taken back to the past. She is forced to work against her will in a concentration camp, and now understands her relatives’ agony. Now all she needs to do is somehow find her way home.
4. Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy is the first poetic book I’ve read, and it was spectacular. It takes place in the city of Lodz, Poland, 1939, when the Germans invaded it and forced the entire Jewish population into a small part of the city called the ghetto. At the beginning of the war, 270,000 people lived there. At the end of the war, only 800 survived. Of those 800, only 12 were children; this is the story of on of those children named Syvia Perlmutter.
5. Deep and Dark and Dangerous is a bone-chilling novel by Mary Downing Hahn. This book is an eerie and suspenseful book that keeps you wanting more. In this book, thirteen-year-old Ali finds an old photograph of her mom, aunt, and someone else she doesn’t recognize. When she asks her mom who the person is, she trembles in fear and rips it up immediately. When Ali learns she is spending the summer in the same house her aunt and mom grew up in, she decides she will try to learn who the mystery person is. Then she meets a very bratty girl named Sissy who she despises. Little does she know Sissy holds the secret behind the picture.
6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a great novel that can teach a great life lesson. It takes place in the Maycomb, Alabama. It takes place when racial tension is at an all time high. When a black man is accused of doing something, the town is divided. Not many people take the man’s side, for they think of him as a minority. The lawyer who’s defending the man has two children that don’t really know the meaning of equality. With the court case nearing, the children learn a life lesson about where equality can get you.
Book list. By: Bradlea Brown
Twilight: Stephanie Meyer Twilight is a great book, most of the people who read it are teenage girls. Bella Swan and Edward Cullen are the main characters in this book. Bella moves to Forks, Washington to live with her dad Charlie. She sees this boy at school (Edward) and it’s and instant connection, but what Bella doesn’t know is that Edward and his family are vampires (Edward and Alice have powers- Edward can read minds and Alice can see the future). Bella figures out that they are vampires and she doesn’t care. She loves him for who he is and she is not afraid of him or his family. Edward and his family are what they call “vegetarians”. They only drink the blood of animals. But there are bad vampires out to get Bella and so Edwards’s brother (Jasper) and sister (Alice) has to take her to Phoenix, Arizona but James (the bad vampire) finds them there and does some bad stuff to them.
New Moon: Stephanie Meyer. New Moon is the sequel to Twilight in this book Edward tells Bella that he is leaving (FOR GOOD) and she is depressed. Jacob comes along and he and Bella start to hang out, and then one day he ups and doesn’t want to hang out with her anymore. She is confused, one minute Jacob is her best friend and the next he is not talking to her. Then she finds out what the problem was. Bella’s dad (Charlie) gets told that his friend has just passed away and Jacob and Bella are friends again (after he told her what the problem was) and he was at Bella’s house and the phone rang and it was Alice and she asked where Charlie was and Jacob said they are at the funeral. Alice seen Bella jump off a cliff (she was really trying to have fun) and she thinks Bella is dead and she tells Edward and Edward does something stupid.
Eclipse: Stephanie Meyer
Eclipse is the sequel to New moon, in this book Edward and Bella are reunited and they are happy. Jacob isn’t so happy because of what he is and Vampires are mortal enemies so he and Bella can’t hang out anymore unless she goes over to his house. Edward and Jacob get into a few fights (not fist fights or anything like that) but then they start to like each other but can’t be friends, they are doing it for Bella’s sake.
Breaking Dawn: Stephanie Meyer Breaking Dawn is the sequel to Eclipse . In this book Bella and Edward get married. They go on a honey moon on Isle Esme (Edwards Father bought it for Edwards mother) And they get a surprise. They rush home and ask Carlisle (Edwards’s dad) what to do. They go through rough times and then the Vulturi are going to come so all the (What Jacob is) and The Vampires form a team and they have to fight off the Volturi and they win.
Little House on the Prairie : Laura Ingalls Wilder Most of my family has read this book and the reason I chose it was because I wanted to know what it was like to live in the old days. Laura and her Sisters Mary and Carrie have a house in the big woods. Their pa tells them that they have to move to the Indian territory. They move there and they see Indians there and also the Indians come and take things from them. The Indians complain about them and they have to move off of the Indian territory.
Twilight: Stephanie Meyer Twilight is a great book, most of the people who read it are teenage girls. Bella Swan and Edward Cullen are the main characters in this book. Bella moves to Forks, Washington to live with her dad Charlie. She sees this boy at school (Edward) and it’s and instant connection, but what Bella doesn’t know is that Edward and his family are vampires (Edward and Alice have powers- Edward can read minds and Alice can see the future). Bella figures out that they are vampires and she doesn’t care. She loves him for who he is and she is not afraid of him or his family. Edward and his family are what they call “vegetarians”. They only drink the blood of animals. But there are bad vampires out to get Bella and so Edwards’s brother (Jasper) and sister (Alice) has to take her to Phoenix, Arizona but James (the bad vampire) finds them there and does some bad stuff to them.
New Moon: Stephanie Meyer. New Moon is the sequel to Twilight in this book Edward tells Bella that he is leaving (FOR GOOD) and she is depressed. Jacob comes along and he and Bella start to hang out, and then one day he ups and doesn’t want to hang out with her anymore. She is confused, one minute Jacob is her best friend and the next he is not talking to her. Then she finds out what the problem was. Bella’s dad (Charlie) gets told that his friend has just passed away and Jacob and Bella are friends again (after he told her what the problem was) and he was at Bella’s house and the phone rang and it was Alice and she asked where Charlie was and Jacob said they are at the funeral. Alice seen Bella jump off a cliff (she was really trying to have fun) and she thinks Bella is dead and she tells Edward and Edward does something stupid.
Eclipse: Stephanie Meyer
Eclipse is the sequel to New moon, in this book Edward and Bella are reunited and they are happy. Jacob isn’t so happy because of what he is and Vampires are mortal enemies so he and Bella can’t hang out anymore unless she goes over to his house. Edward and Jacob get into a few fights (not fist fights or anything like that) but then they start to like each other but can’t be friends, they are doing it for Bella’s sake.
Breaking Dawn: Stephanie Meyer Breaking Dawn is the sequel to Eclipse . In this book Bella and Edward get married. They go on a honey moon on Isle Esme (Edwards Father bought it for Edwards mother) And they get a surprise. They rush home and ask Carlisle (Edwards’s dad) what to do. They go through rough times and then the Vulturi are going to come so all the (What Jacob is) and The Vampires form a team and they have to fight off the Volturi and they win.
Little House on the Prairie : Laura Ingalls Wilder Most of my family has read this book and the reason I chose it was because I wanted to know what it was like to live in the old days. Laura and her Sisters Mary and Carrie have a house in the big woods. Their pa tells them that they have to move to the Indian territory. They move there and they see Indians there and also the Indians come and take things from them. The Indians complain about them and they have to move off of the Indian territory.
Favorite Book List
Kaitlyn W.
5-21-09
8 Green
“Favorite Books”
6. Two Girls of Gettysburg by Lisa Klein
Rosanna came to stay with her widowed sister and is best friends with her cousin Lizzie, but when the Civil War breaks out Rosanna, a true supporter of the south at the time, is swept up in the emotion and her love for a confederate officer. She leaves to go back to the south and along with her, Lizzie’s older brother and father leave to fight for the union cause. It will take one of the bloodiest battles ever fought to bring them back together again.
5. Deep, Dark, and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn
While spending the summer with her Aunt Dulcie and her cousin in Maine Ali and her cousin are met by a girl or should I say ghost named Sissy who claims that their mothers are the reason she is dead.
4. The Ear. The Eye, the Arm by Nancy Farmer
After General Matsika’s children are kidnapped Ear, Eye, and Arm are hired to find them. The children are put in many hands from the She Elephant to the Masks, with whom the children’s only fate would most likely be death or becoming a Mask themselves. Will Ear, Eye, and Arm be able to save them or will they be too late?
3. I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton- Jackson
This is an autobiographical story of Elli l. Friedmann telling the story of her family’s, a Jewish family living in Nazi-occupied Hungary, horrible account in the Holocaust and how they survived. Though treated cruelly and separated from her family Elli, her mother, and older brother, Bubi, manage to come out of the Holocaust alive, which unfortunately many Jews were unable to do.
2. Uglies (series) by Scott Westerfeld
Living in a world where everyone is pretty at one point may sound great, but it really isn’t. Especially when Tally Youngblood, who has had her surgery to become ‘pretty’ put on delay, finds out that during the surgery your body is not only is your body tampered with, but so is your brain.
1.13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Shortly after his crush, Hannah Baker, commits suicide Clay Jensen receives a box containing 13 cassette tapes. On the tapes is Hannah telling the 13 reasons why she decided to end her life and here’s the catch- Everyone who receives the tapes has a part in her story and reasoning and will have to listen in order to be able to pass it on to the next person in line. If they don’t somebody has a second supply of the tapes and will release them to the public. This book, though fictional, shows the horrible things that bullying, horrible accidents, and unforgettable mistakes can drive someone to do.
*Honorable Mentions- To Kill a Mockingbird and Number the Stars
5-21-09
8 Green
“Favorite Books”
6. Two Girls of Gettysburg by Lisa Klein
Rosanna came to stay with her widowed sister and is best friends with her cousin Lizzie, but when the Civil War breaks out Rosanna, a true supporter of the south at the time, is swept up in the emotion and her love for a confederate officer. She leaves to go back to the south and along with her, Lizzie’s older brother and father leave to fight for the union cause. It will take one of the bloodiest battles ever fought to bring them back together again.
5. Deep, Dark, and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn
While spending the summer with her Aunt Dulcie and her cousin in Maine Ali and her cousin are met by a girl or should I say ghost named Sissy who claims that their mothers are the reason she is dead.
4. The Ear. The Eye, the Arm by Nancy Farmer
After General Matsika’s children are kidnapped Ear, Eye, and Arm are hired to find them. The children are put in many hands from the She Elephant to the Masks, with whom the children’s only fate would most likely be death or becoming a Mask themselves. Will Ear, Eye, and Arm be able to save them or will they be too late?
3. I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton- Jackson
This is an autobiographical story of Elli l. Friedmann telling the story of her family’s, a Jewish family living in Nazi-occupied Hungary, horrible account in the Holocaust and how they survived. Though treated cruelly and separated from her family Elli, her mother, and older brother, Bubi, manage to come out of the Holocaust alive, which unfortunately many Jews were unable to do.
2. Uglies (series) by Scott Westerfeld
Living in a world where everyone is pretty at one point may sound great, but it really isn’t. Especially when Tally Youngblood, who has had her surgery to become ‘pretty’ put on delay, finds out that during the surgery your body is not only is your body tampered with, but so is your brain.
1.13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Shortly after his crush, Hannah Baker, commits suicide Clay Jensen receives a box containing 13 cassette tapes. On the tapes is Hannah telling the 13 reasons why she decided to end her life and here’s the catch- Everyone who receives the tapes has a part in her story and reasoning and will have to listen in order to be able to pass it on to the next person in line. If they don’t somebody has a second supply of the tapes and will release them to the public. This book, though fictional, shows the horrible things that bullying, horrible accidents, and unforgettable mistakes can drive someone to do.
*Honorable Mentions- To Kill a Mockingbird and Number the Stars
top 5 books of all time
Top 5 Books of All Time
1) Twilight Series – Stephenie Meyer
This series is about a forbidden love that just won’t go away, a human that falls in love with a vampire and vise versa. All of these four books follow Bella’s love for Edward and the hardships and the challenges that they both face. Their love is truly never-ending. “And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…”
2) The Host – Stephenie Meyer
The spirit wanderer gets stuck on earth with a host that just won’t go away. Melanie is fighting to stay inside her own body so she won’t wither away into non existence. The Host is a book about Melanie and wanderer’s journey together and the two loves that they both share. Both want each other out. What will happen to them both? Well find out!
3) Uglies series – Scott Westerfeld
Tally can’t wait to turn 16 so she can turn pretty and get to the New Pretty Town. There is a challenge though, Special Circumstances wants to have Tally track down her new best friend that ran away to the smoke and betray her. This series goes with Tally through the ups and downs and her life trying to figure things out. I can honestly say it is the best series I have ever read!
4) Harry Potter Series – J.K. Rowling
This series almost everyone’s heard of or read or seen the movies. Although I must say that the books are way better! But anyway as everyone knows the books take us through Harry potter’s life coming into his powers as a wizard and going to wizard school and trying to over the evil wizard who killed his parents and who is trying to kill him. That is a lot to handle.
5) Torn Thread – Anne Isaacs
Eva has had a pretty good life until the Nazis came. Her mother had just died and her sister Rachel is very sick. Her father sends Eva to a Nazi work came to be with her sister and for a better chance at safety. The girls have to overcome so many challenges. Can Eve keep herself and her sister alive and get out?
1) Twilight Series – Stephenie Meyer
This series is about a forbidden love that just won’t go away, a human that falls in love with a vampire and vise versa. All of these four books follow Bella’s love for Edward and the hardships and the challenges that they both face. Their love is truly never-ending. “And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…”
2) The Host – Stephenie Meyer
The spirit wanderer gets stuck on earth with a host that just won’t go away. Melanie is fighting to stay inside her own body so she won’t wither away into non existence. The Host is a book about Melanie and wanderer’s journey together and the two loves that they both share. Both want each other out. What will happen to them both? Well find out!
3) Uglies series – Scott Westerfeld
Tally can’t wait to turn 16 so she can turn pretty and get to the New Pretty Town. There is a challenge though, Special Circumstances wants to have Tally track down her new best friend that ran away to the smoke and betray her. This series goes with Tally through the ups and downs and her life trying to figure things out. I can honestly say it is the best series I have ever read!
4) Harry Potter Series – J.K. Rowling
This series almost everyone’s heard of or read or seen the movies. Although I must say that the books are way better! But anyway as everyone knows the books take us through Harry potter’s life coming into his powers as a wizard and going to wizard school and trying to over the evil wizard who killed his parents and who is trying to kill him. That is a lot to handle.
5) Torn Thread – Anne Isaacs
Eva has had a pretty good life until the Nazis came. Her mother had just died and her sister Rachel is very sick. Her father sends Eva to a Nazi work came to be with her sister and for a better chance at safety. The girls have to overcome so many challenges. Can Eve keep herself and her sister alive and get out?
The Giver- Lois Lowry
People that live in a town where the council chooses everything for them examples: there jobs, who they marry, and what child they get. Woman can’t have babies only the women that were chosen to have that job. It takes maybe about four chapters to get into it. But once you get in to it you don’t want to leave it.
The Ear, The Eye, The Arm-Nancy Farmer
It’s about the future in Zimbabwe. A rich general has kids and he never lets them out of the property unless they are with there parents. The kids are always bored. Tendai is in the boy scouts and he want to get a badge but he has to travel far but his parents wont let him so a mellower sabotages his parents. He his brother and sister get kidnapped. It’s a different book but it is really good.
Call of the Wild-Jack London
A dog gets taken from his owner and is taken up to Alaska. He gets put in with a pack of dogs that pull sleds. It is a very good book.
Twilight- Stephanie Meyer
A girl is moving form Arizona to Washington to live with her dad. She goes to a school where a family is really weird. It is a really good book.
Nothing but the Truth-Avi
A kid who hums the national anthem and gets suspended. It brings up a lot of attention. It is a good book
People that live in a town where the council chooses everything for them examples: there jobs, who they marry, and what child they get. Woman can’t have babies only the women that were chosen to have that job. It takes maybe about four chapters to get into it. But once you get in to it you don’t want to leave it.
The Ear, The Eye, The Arm-Nancy Farmer
It’s about the future in Zimbabwe. A rich general has kids and he never lets them out of the property unless they are with there parents. The kids are always bored. Tendai is in the boy scouts and he want to get a badge but he has to travel far but his parents wont let him so a mellower sabotages his parents. He his brother and sister get kidnapped. It’s a different book but it is really good.
Call of the Wild-Jack London
A dog gets taken from his owner and is taken up to Alaska. He gets put in with a pack of dogs that pull sleds. It is a very good book.
Twilight- Stephanie Meyer
A girl is moving form Arizona to Washington to live with her dad. She goes to a school where a family is really weird. It is a really good book.
Nothing but the Truth-Avi
A kid who hums the national anthem and gets suspended. It brings up a lot of attention. It is a good book
Favorite Books. May 21.
The Face on the Milk Carton.-Caroline B. Cooney.
There are four books to this series. This book I find the most interesting because it tells how Janie, then main character, finds the milk carton that will change her life forever. It basically set’s the plot, telling the conflict but not resolving it until the last book.---------- Whatever Happened to Janie?-Caroline B. Cooney.
This is the second book, and I think this one is the most exciting. Janie finds out her parents big secret. Janie decides she wants to see if it’s true or not, so she and her boyfriend go to where she will find out if this secret is true or fake. There she learns that it is true and is faced with the biggest decision of her life.---------- The Voice on the Radio.-Caroline B. Cooney.
This is the third book to the series, and honestly I find it the slowest one. Janie’s boyfriend goes to college and starts working for the college radio. On his first day he choked up and didn’t know what to say, so he decided to talk about Janie’s secret. At first he thought it was fine, then he started thinking knowing that Janie would be very upset. But, Janie wasn’t there, so she couldn’t hear what he was saying unless she came to Boston to visit him, and when Janie shows up mysteriously with her sister and brother, Janie’s boyfriend will be in for it.---------- What Janie Found.-Caroline B. Cooney.
This is the last book and it is by far the best. Janie has to go through bills while her father is in the hospital, while going through some she finds something that she will loose her mind over.---------- The Shunning.-Beverly Lewis.There are three books to this series, I haven’t read the second and third ones, but I think I will since this one is so good. Katie is omish, so everything in her life is plain. Except for her love Dan who dies’s on his ninetieth birthday in a boating accident. Katie finds a satin baby gown and grows attached to it, she asks her mother why the name on there say’s Katherine Mayfield. Katie then discovers why she is so different from everyone else. Will this secret cost her nothing but pain?
There are four books to this series. This book I find the most interesting because it tells how Janie, then main character, finds the milk carton that will change her life forever. It basically set’s the plot, telling the conflict but not resolving it until the last book.
This is the second book, and I think this one is the most exciting. Janie finds out her parents big secret. Janie decides she wants to see if it’s true or not, so she and her boyfriend go to where she will find out if this secret is true or fake. There she learns that it is true and is faced with the biggest decision of her life.
This is the third book to the series, and honestly I find it the slowest one. Janie’s boyfriend goes to college and starts working for the college radio. On his first day he choked up and didn’t know what to say, so he decided to talk about Janie’s secret. At first he thought it was fine, then he started thinking knowing that Janie would be very upset. But, Janie wasn’t there, so she couldn’t hear what he was saying unless she came to Boston to visit him, and when Janie shows up mysteriously with her sister and brother, Janie’s boyfriend will be in for it.
This is the last book and it is by far the best. Janie has to go through bills while her father is in the hospital, while going through some she finds something that she will loose her mind over.
Monday, May 11, 2009
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