Independent Reading Post #2

Title: Money Hungry
Author: Sharon G. Flake
Pgs. 62-165

Summary: So far a lot of bad things happen in my book. Raspberry money is gone, she living in the steerts, and maybe she is getting pay back. Raspberry mother throw all of her money out the window. She did that because Raspberry leaded Mia some money. Mia took some money from her grandfather and she had to get it back. So Mia got the money from Raspberry. Now this is the part that makes the story hot. Mia grandfather read Mia diary and miss understand what was in. Mia grandfather called Raspberry mother and told her that hen took money from him. Then after that Raspberry mother was mad and throw all Raspberry money out the window. Raspberry was going crazy because all her hard money was out the window. A few minder things happen after that. When Raspberry gets home her TV, couch, microwave and money is all gone(150 pg.) Raspberry mother could not take it no more so she went back to the street. Raspberry is going to get pay back at the people that took her stuff. Hope nothing bad happens.

Prompt: Me and Raspberry don't have a lot of things in common but we do have something. Raspberry got her this taken from her house and the same things happen to me before. But for me they took my laptop, $5000 worth of sliver, speaker, and a lot more.

Independent Reading Post #1

Title: Money Hungry
Author: Sharon G. Flake
Pgs. 1-62


Summary: I just started reading Money Hungry at first I thought that it was going to be about a girl needed money for something but it came out to be something different. So far in my book the main character is Raspberry Hill and the story is told from her point of view, she also has a lot of friends in the book and she will do anything for money. One of Raspberry best friend is Zora Mitchell and maybe her father is going to go out with Raspberry mom. In the book Raspberry used to live in the steert with her mom because they got kick out their house(pg. 22). Also Raspberry sells a lot of thing in school to make money, she will do anything to get her hands on it(pg. 18). One qustion that I had as the deep thinker was "How would you feel if someone is making fun of you because you live in the steert? When I started reading the book I didn't know the word Raggedy but now I know that it means having been torn and worn excessively. I think that it ok to love money but when you will go anything to get your hands on it that just sad(pg. 1). Raspberry is not poulaor but she has a lot of friend; Ja'nae is one of her friend and she is short and fat, Mai is another on of her friend and she is also short and people pick a lot on her because of some reason.

Prompt:How does your independent reading book compare to your book club reading book?

Both book are about teenageur with trouble in there life's. But the book are way different they almost of nothing in common. They are different because in Scorpions it about gun, gangs, and crack. But in Money Hungry it about a girl trying to making money because she never want to be poor for one day in her life. I didn't notice but in both book they have to get money for some reason.

Book Club Post #4

Book Club book: Scorpions
Pgs: 162-216

Summary: So far in my book a lot of exetureme things happen in my book so far. Somebody died, two people got shoot, and someone got send back to their country. Randy got stab in jail because Idiana wants to take over the gang. Jamel was the leader of the gang but he wanted to drop it because he couldn't take the peruse in his life. After everything happen Mark told everybody that he was the one that shoot Idiana so Jamel didn't get in trouble. Also Tito grand mom send him to P.R. to live with his father.

Opinion: That was sad that Tito had to go back to his father in P.R. but his grandmom found a gun in the house, she could not take it anymore founding a gun in the house is a big thing. Jamel brother never got out of jail and in the book they never said his mother name.

Book Club Post #3

Book Club book: Scorpions
Pgs: 88-162

Summary: So far in my book a lot of things happen. But I'm only going to tell you the important parts. Jamel got into a fight with a bully(Dwayne) in school. Remember the gun from before, he used it in the fight. Jamel had the gun in Dwayne face because he was losing the fight, so he held the gun in the face and just starting hitting him a lot. Dwayne didn't going nothing back because he was to afraid. So after that Jamel ran alway, he just left after the fight....... Jamel give the gun to Tito for he can hide it. Tito hind it in the refergorater and his grandmom founded it. Tito got kick out the house and didn't know what to do.

Opinion: I think Jamel is not that smart because 1st he took a gun to school, 2nd he used the gun in school, and 3rd he fired the gun in a park. Jamel just shouldn't have taken the gun from Mark(his brother best friend) in the first place. If he didn't take the gun from Mark maybe none of the things that happen to him would not happen.

Prompt: My 3rd book club meeting was the 1st that went good but we didn't have a lot of time to talk. One question that the deep thinker had was "Do you think Jamel is smart, or do he just have to get his life together." That question made people in my group think of the dum thing that they do in school. The best thing that happen thing week was that jamel is going to do something bad but i don't know what it is.

Book Club Post #2

Book Club book: Scorpions
Pgs: 37-50

Summary:
So far in the book something really funny happen, Jamel got pimp-slapped by a pimp because he was try to defend Tito(one of his friends). Tito was laying on the pimps chine(his car in other words) so the pimped pushed him. After that a lot more happen but the most important was that Jamel is trying to make money to get his brother out of jail. So Jamel meet up with Mark(a friend of Ranny), Mark is the war-lord of the Scorpions gangs he is trying to make Jamel the Head of the gang for they can make money to get his brother out of jail. Jamel has to meet up with Mark again, ask time they meet he said "I'm going to bring the stuff". Jamel thinks that the STUFF is a gun but he don't know what the gun is for. Later on Jamel go's to Tito house. They were talking about how they are going to make $2000 to get his Ranny out of jail. Jamel said that he waited to get a job to help his mom out.

Opinion:
It's sad that Ranny went to jail for killing a man, but in jail he can't get hurt; I hope that he don't get hurt. If Jamel gets a job he can help his mom. What Jamel doing is go but why did he take that gun from Mark. If someone give me a gun I wouldn't even take it from them. I would just drop it on the floor not like him. How he tooked a gun to school, if they find him with that he would be in big trouble they maybe will out him in jail or take him away from his mom. So his mom would have lost to childs if they found him with the gun.

Prompt:
What do you think is going to happen in next weeks reading?My first book club meeting went bad at first but then it turn around and we starting talking about what we need to talk. We were talking about Jamel was going to keep the gun and shoot somebody. But I agreed with Kevon when he said it was funny with Jamel got pimped slap. I also areed with Enmaanuel when he said that the book is like things that happen in everyday life. I didn't agreed with any thing that Dedra because that day she didn't read the book. I think next next week Jamel is going to do something bad and get in big trouble because the gun.

Book Club Post #1

Book Club book: Scorpions
Pgs:1-37

Summary: The book im reading is about a poor family that lives in New York. In the book Jamal has a little sister an mother and an brother that is in jail. So far Jamal olny have one friend in school and his name is Tito. Jamal mom told him to go meet Mark, Mark is a friend of Jamal friends that is in jail. When he went to meet Mark it was a crack house(pg36). That is all that happen so far, but sometime the author leave you with out knowing what is going to happen next so that make you keep on reading.

Opinion: I feel that the book is deep. It make me think about all the kids and bum that are in the world. It sad that his brother is in jail but it be sad if he go's to jail to. But if Jamal start selling crack I think he is going to go to jail, if you are killing someone else with what you sell you should go to jail. It also sad that the gang his brother was in (scorpions) want him to join. If I had to recommend someone to read the book I would recommend them because this book make you think about the world.

Prompt:How do you feel about this new unit of Study? How did your book Club group perform this week? What role did you get the chance to play this week and how did that go for you? Tell me at least two new words that you learned this week as you read your book.
I feel that this unit of study is cool because we read and then we blog about what we read. This week my group has be good but sometimes we act up. This week I only done two role in book clubs I have been deep thinker and the historian. When I was the deep thinker I understander the job that i had to do, as a historian it was easier because all i had to do was write was big invents happen in the book. This week I learned the word heavyset means with a compact and powerful-looking build; I also learn the word addle means to make something rotten or spoiled.

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