Fiction
- Is there a moment in the book that reminded you of something you have done or felt? Find the passage and read it aloud. Explain why you connected to it and how the passage is important to the story.
- You are directing a play based on this book. Your lighting director asks you to choose a color to help create the mood of the opening scene. First discuss and define the mood, and then pick a color. What associations do you have with this color that made it your choice.
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- Pick your favorite character. Which settings deeply affect the character's decisions and feelings? Which create problems? Identify two or three setting and clearly explain the impact each has on the character
I am reading The Daughter of the Wind. The color that i would pick for the opening scene is a bright blue. I would choose that color because the first two characters are finding food for their village, and they found a big bear. Then I would choose a red for two reasons the fact that she gets kidnapped and the first two characters almost die. That is why i would choose that color.
ReplyDeleteIf I were directing a play based on the book Run, Boy, Run by Uri Orlev, I would choose my opening scene to be a tinted gray color. During the beginning of the story, Duvid is describing his life in the ghetto of Warsaw. His words are very intense and give you a feeling of sadness. He talks mostly about his family struggling due to the war and his plans to escape for freedom. As I was reading this, I suddenly had sympathy for Duvid. Therefore, the best choice for the background color to be a shade of grey.
ReplyDeleteif i was a director for a play for my book the color i would pick for the opening seen would be black, because most of this book so far seems to be stressful for most fo the chacters. i picked black because like on a mood ring the color that it is soupost to turn is black.
ReplyDeleteThe color that I would pick for the opening scene is Black because Darrell is always mad,and sad,and angry. The color Black fits the mood and the title of the book. My favorite Character is Amberlynn because she is always sticking up for Darrell when Tyray his picking on him and she is always nice and sweet and never mean.
ReplyDeleteThe mood that would best represent my book so far is scared and love,because Mitty is very worried that he could have contracted Small Pox.His friends and "girl friend" are all scared for him.The second mood that fits my book is love because Olivia and Mitty really like eachother.Thereforin my opinion the color that would best represent those moods is the color red.
ReplyDeleteMy character the I choose is Cabel because he comes from a poor home which leads him to doing drugs. Then he starts going to school and then he becomes really smart. The last
ReplyDeletesetting would have to be at his crushes house where he opens up and actually talks about his problems. So this kid is kinda bi-polar depending on the setting.
My book is "Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix". The best color for the first scene would have to be red. Harry is stuck at his horrible, aunt and uncle's house for the summer away from the wizarding world unlike everyone else. This is extremely frustrating for him because he is the only one who has no way of knowing what is going on with the evil lord Voldemort... So when he keeps getting useless letters from his friends, his anger just keeps building. The color might also change to black because Harry and his cousin get cornered by a soul sucking dementor. VERRY intense!!
ReplyDeleteIn mybook Harley like a person the main character Harley is my favorite character.Inthe bookthe settings like the band room or the art room make her feelings better because it doesnt matter where she came fromshe knows that she can just be herself in those rooms. She normally acts like a better person than because she knows she can do great things. However when she is hanging out by the school stairs she turns into a completely different person who doesn't care about rules. She starrts doing things like smoking, drinking, and doing drugs. Samething happens when she is in her boyfriend's car or hanging out with him.She acts like two completely different person depending on where she is or who she is hanging out with.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite character in the book, Going for the Record, is Leah. The main setting that affecs this character is her dad's illness. This illness cuses her to miss some very important milestones in her soccer career. The only other setting that really affects her is her friend Clay. During the book they are best friends but then Leah realizes that Clay loves her more than a friend. This keeps Leah away from her best friend and training partner for soccer. This ends up causing Leah to lose some of the passion she had for soccer.
ReplyDeleteSo far in the book I'm almost done. The book is the coolest book I have ever read this school year. I hope mabey some day I can read the 7th book of Harry Potter. I hear that it is quite fascinating. So the story so far is when Harry Potter figures out that Serouse Black is really his uncle. Also he's not trieing to kill him he's trieing to help him out so Harry won't get killed.
ReplyDeleteThe book I am reading is Elijah of Buxton, and the color I would choose for the opening scene is red. I chose this color because to me red represents action. In this book, the main charater has to hunt down the person who stole money from his friend. Also, some of the characters in this book die and the red would enhance the mood, which is why I would choose this color
ReplyDeleteI am reading Max from the Mxaimum Ride series. The whole thing is really violent; lots of fighting and sad moments. But there are some really joyous moments to. The part that im at right now is very susspensefull. Max is lost in am underwater cave without a flashlight and she is very scared. So i would have to say that the best color is a dark grayish color.
ReplyDeleteMs.Blum there is no question for nonfiction?
ReplyDeleteMy favorite character from Paul's Game is Paul. One major setting was at the CD store when he told Julie to steal some things and to test how well he can control her. The other was when he told her to set his house on fire while his parents were out and his siblings were asleep. That was probably the only time where he was actually nervous, so that's why I chose that setting.
ReplyDeleteI am reading Blue Moon By: Allyson Noel. The color i would choose is a deep shade of red. I would choose this color because in the opening scene the connectoin between Ever and Damen is very romantic. The always tell each other their feeling towards one another. And the way that each of them words there sentences makes you get chills; all of the love is so over coming. A deep shade o fred would most def. represent their undieing love for each other.
ReplyDeleteIn this story, the young girl,Kealdra, has a big deacision to make. The stories of wars between dragons and humans convinced her to take her rightful place as a dragon slayer and slaughter the scaley bruts. However, during her time nursing them and their draclings she sees that there is more to them than firey destruction and cruelness. I typed all this down in comparison to my life at one time because I had a hard time figuring out who I wanted to be. I wanted to grow up and take my place as a young adult, but I also missed the fun imagination adventures that I thought would happen.
ReplyDeleteI'm read "Merlin". The colors I would choose to set the mood would be red, orange, and blue. I chose these because the red would define the mild violence thoughts of young Merlin. Orange shows that even though the people live in a world of poverty they will soon find a way to fix it all and still a joyful life. Blue represents the sadnees Merlin encounters through his dreams and some in real life when he remembers he's an orphane and left many people he loved behind. Those colors really define what this book is about.
ReplyDeleteFor the story, "A Face First", the opening scene would be green to show how Kelley has no worries other than saving the environment. As the story goes on it would become sort of like a black out to show her confusion about the acciedent she lived through. After many surgeries and skin graft operations, Kelley life becomes a blue because although she is as content as she feels is possible, she will never be as happy as she was again.
ReplyDeletei'm reading a book called tears of an tiger.and so far in the book we are getting to know about this car acciedent that happened in the begining..the color i would choose would be red cause andy in the story is angry about the car acciedent..and i would pick blue cause every one is said about th acciedent
ReplyDeleteI reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoniex. I would choose blue because they were sad because of the way Hagrid looked.
ReplyDeleteI reading Hertbeat by Sharon Creech, the mood that the book makes me feel is happyness. This is because Annie baby brother was just born and her family is relieved that he was born and excited to see him. So the color I would choose from the director would probably be yellow because its bright, and it makes you feel happy.
ReplyDeleteSo if I were directing a play based on my book, Needful Things, I would choose the color black or grey for the opening scene. The beginning of the book is kind of mysterious with the explaination of the new store in town... So the colors represent confusion and excitment, because when things are black you can't see or judge something, and with grey things are hazy.
ReplyDeleteWell, in my book, there is a part that reminded me of a bad memory. In the book, someone had cut off the head of a dog and left the head on the owner's door step. It reminded me of the tme that I saw a dead rabbit and it's body parts were all over the place outside. I guess the neighborhood cats had killed it.:( It was so sad.
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A scene from the book that remind of something in life is my kiss with my a crush . For exmaple she come and help with reeves with the leaves.Then we start to play. Then he falls onto me and then we kiss, afterward his mother call, because micheal on the phone.My first was after school and we stayed together to make up work. Then i turned around and he kissed me. Then run off so that he doesn't get in trouble.
ReplyDeleteIf I were a directing a play based on my book my lighting would have to be black, grey, and orange for the beginning. This is because in the beginning its kinda gloomy because Giselle just gets out of the hospital because of her aneorexia so i picked the colors black and grey to represent that moment. I picked orange because Giselle left the hospital and i thought that was a really intense moment in the beginning because she was able to leave because obviously Giselle was getting better. Also, orange is like a bright happy color so that represented that moment.
ReplyDeleteThe main character of my book, Seph McCauley, goes through alot and many things change him. For example bieng turtured in the havens breaks him, and shows he is nothing in the wizard world, which humbles him but also sets him on a path for revenge. Also bieng in Trinity inspires him and shows he isn't alone.
ReplyDeleteThe passage I chose to represent something that I have felt is in the beginning of the story when Asa's mom told him that his dad and her were getting a divorce, he was crushed because he loved his dad very much. I connected to this passage because my mom and dad got a divorce, and I felt the same way Asa felt. This passage is important to the story because this time was part of Asa's life.
ReplyDeleteIf i was writeing a book on my book SPY HIGH i would choose the colors black, and red. I would choose those colors because the book is about spys and when i think of spys i think of people who try to be unseen the hole time they are doing any thing that spys do. Black because spys sneek around in the night when its black out. Red because i also think of blood when i think of spys because they are always killing.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking from the point of the amazing penguin Captain Cook, I would say that in 5 years he would still be at the north pole establishing the first breed of north pole penguins. With him Gretta and their 10 penguin childeren they will be fine in the north pole
ReplyDeleteIf I were to direct a play on my book, The Hunger Games I would choose the color black for the lighting. I would choose black because black is usually a symbol for being depressed, and in my book I think the main character Katniss is depressed because she doesn't know how to handle being in the hunger games, and not knowing how her family is and if they are able to get the things they need to survive without Katniss around.
ReplyDeleteIn the book there is a part that the main character is alone but wat he doesn't know is that his sister is disguised so he doesnt know that she is there and then he figures it out and is really happy to see her. I connected because last year i went to Maine and Massachussetts for 2 months and when i saw my family i was really happy to see them.
ReplyDeleteAlek Burgess
The color that I would pick for the opening scene if Revelation would be blue. I would pick this color because Reed was leaving her home in Croton, Pennsylvania after Thanksgiving Break to go back to her boarding school in Easton. Blue is a good color to open this play with because Reed doesn't want to go back to Easton after she was accused of a murder.
ReplyDeleteyes i think the part where Luke was confused about was when he was suppossed to make a decision.I think the same thing has happened to me many times whereby i wished i wasn't alive and many more. Am sure i would pick blue because the story is somehow based on FIRMAMENT[which is the title of the story] and playing of the piano.So am sure i will pick blue or sky blue
ReplyDelete1. Morgan took my one of my cards and blackmailed me. Just as Raditz took Goku's son and blackmailed him.
ReplyDelete2. I would chose red becasue in the begining a villan comes in and kills a person.