Reading log week 8

1 hour   The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan  pgs. 278-321
Changes over time: Before, Percy didn't remeber anything about Camp Half-Blood. But when he fell asleep on the plane, he remebered Tyson, which is in the present. In the future, he will eventually remember everything.
              "Percy figured the farther north he went, the harder it would be to communicate with his friends, even in his dreams.
               "Tyson!" he called."
              This quote shows that Percy now remembers some bits of his past, such as Tyson.

1 hour   The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan   pgs 322-363
Details: When Hazel is fighting Alcyoneus, she learns that Nico may be captured by Gaea. When she asks Thanatos, he gives her an unsatisfactory answer.
             "'What about my brother?' she asked. 'Is Nico alive?'
               Thanatos gave her a strange look-- possibly pity, though that didn't seem like an emotion Death would understand."
              This shows that Nico is possibly captured, and most likely is based on Thanatos's expression.

Reading log week 7

1 hour   The Wonderful Wizard of Oz  by L Frank Baum  Chapters 1-6
Details: This story is about Dorothy, a normal girl that lived in Kansas with her boring aunt and uncle, and her best friend Toto, her dog. When a tornado strikes their home, Dorthy gets sucked into the tornado, and ends up in a weird world of munchkins and witches. When she lands, her house landed on a wicked witch, killing the with. She is thanked for killing the witch. But Dorothy can't get back to Kansas! She sets off on a journey to find a wizard named Oz, who can bring her back to Kansas. She befriends three people: a scarecrow, a tin man, and a cowardly lion. Dorothy shows different ways of bravery.
           Dorothy shows bravery when she hit the seemingly fierce lion. "...the great beast had opened his mouth to bite the dog, when Dorothy, fearing Toto would be killed, and heedless of danger, rushed forward and slapped the Lion upon his nose as hard as she could..."
           This quote shows Dorothy's bravery because she needs to have a lot of bravery to hit a big lion that could easily kill you.
1 hour   The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum   Chapters 7-12
Changes over time: When the Lion was first introduced in the story, he was a coward, and was too scared of everything. But now, the Lion showed courage when he threatened the witch. In the future, he will gain more courage, and feel more satisfied.
           The Lion threatens the witch by saying, "No. If you come in this yard, I will bite you."
           This quote shows the Lion's bravery that has grown since the beginning of the story. This is because before the story, the Lion wouldn't have threatened the witch, since he is a coward. But when he did threaten her, it showed his improvement, and his bravery.

Reading Log week 6

1 hour    The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan    pgs. 206-237
Changes over time: At first, Hylla hated Percy and wanted to kill him. Now in the present, she wants to help him, Frank, and Hazel escape.
              "You were incredibly foolish to come here," she said. "You destroyed my home. You made my sister and me exiles and prisoners."
              Thsi shows Hylla's hate for Percy in the beginning. Now, since she must fight another warrior, she wants to help him escape.

1 hour    The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan    pgs. 238- 277
Patterns: There is a pattern of the introduction of each characters' powers. First, Percy shows his water powers, then Frank shows his powers with his spear, and then HAzel shows how she can use her jewelry powers in this scene.
              "The entire pallot fo jewelry exploded with ta sound like a thousand slot machines hitting the jackpot. A tidal wave of silver friendship bracelets poured across the catwalk, washing Doris and Lulu right over the railing. They would've fallen to their deaths, but Hazel wasn't that mean. She summoned a few hundred bracelets, which leaped at the guards and lashed around their ankles, leaving them hanging upside down from the bottom of the catwalk, screaming like little girls."
               This is an example of how the author expresses Hazel's power. Frnak and Percy alkso has special powers, and are portrayed in a similar way as this.

Reading log week 5

1 hour   The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan    pgs. 118- 163
Details: Before Percy, Frank, and Hazel start off on their quest, Reyna has a talk with Percy, and gave him tips for the quest. She tells him about how she knew him before.
            "But at the door of principia, Percy couldn't resist turning. "How did we destroy your home, the spa where you live?
              The metal greyhounds growled. Reynna snapped her fingers to silence them.
              "You destroyed the power of our mistress," she said. "You freed some prisoners who took revenge on all of us who lived on the island. My sister and I...well, we survived. It was difficult. But in the long run, I think we are better off away from that place."
           This quote shows that Reyna knew Percy from before. Even though Percy lost his memory, he was still able to learn more about his past in order to gain more knowledge of who he is.

1 hour   The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan   pgs. 164-205
Different Perspectives: What the Roman demigods were taught was that cyclops and centaurs were all bad, but to Percy, he knew deep within that this wasn't true.
              "Centaurs," Percy said. "But ...that's not right. Centaurs and good guys."
               Frank made a choking sound. "  That's not what we were taught at camp. Centaurs are crazy, always getting drunk and killing heroes."
               Percy is confused, because he knew in his past that he was friends with centaurs and cyclopses, so he was confused about the fact that the Romans were taught that centaurs and cyclopses were bad.

Reading log week 4

1 hour   The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan   pgs. 82-117
Different Perspectives: Percy believes the people of the 5th Cohort are strong and good people. But the people of higher up cohorts think they are losers and look down on them.
               "The Third and Fourth Cohorts weren't even advancing. They stood back and laughed, watching their "allies" get beat up. The defenders clustered on the wall above the gates, yelling insults at the tortoise formation as it staggered back and forth. War games had deteriorated into "beat up the fifth"."
                 This shows the 3rd and 4th cohorts' disrespect for the 5th cohort. They betrayed them and just let them get beat up by the 1st and 2nd cohort.


1 hour   The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan   pgs 118- 146
Changes over time: In the beginning, Percy hadn't known anything about his life after he lost his memory. But over time, he regained more knowledge, through meeting people he formerly met, such as Ares, or Mars.
             "Frank noticed that one person wasn't kneeling. Percy Jackson, his sword in his hand, was glaring at the soldier.
              'You're Ares,' Percy said. 'What do you want?'
               A collective gasp went up from two hundred campers and an elephant."
               This shows how Percy is slowly gaining back his memory. HE intially forgot Ares, but now after he sees him, he remembers.

Reading Log week 3

1 hour    "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee    pgs 324- END
Changes Over Time: In the beginning of the book, Scout was afraid of Boo Radley. But by the end, when Scout realizes he saved her life, left items in the hole by the tree, and put the blanket on her during the fire, she has a different perspective of him. She also gets more mature throughout the story, and feels more for others.
              "Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad."
               This shows that Scout felt more thankful for Boo for what he gave to her and Jem. She also feels bad for not giving back, which shows her maturity. In the beginning, she cared mostly about herself, but by the end, she realized to open up.

2 hours    "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan    pgs. 1-81
Details: Percy has lost his memories, and ends up fighting gorgons, monsters that turn to dust when hit, but come back to its normal form eventually. He finds his way to Camp Jupiter, a camp of demigods of Roman God descent. He meets Reyna, the leader, Frank, a demigod of unlnown descent, and Hazel, a girl with a curse and a tough past. Percy still remembers Annabeth, and vague memories of Greek, Camp Half- Blood, and friends.
                   "So you still don't remember any memories?" Reyna questioned.
                   "Nope not at all," Percy answered.
                  Percy doesn't remember any memories, but will eventually put together the pieces. Even though he isn't treated well by others at Camp Jupiter, he still stayed together and is determined to get his memories back.

Reading Log Week 2

1 hour    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee    pgs. 253-291
Different Perspectives: When Scout wants to invite Walter Cunningham to the house, Aunt Alexandra strongly dissaproves, saying Walter is trash, and would be a bad influence on Scout.
              "But I want to play with Walter, Aunty, why can't I?"
              She took off her glasses and stared at me. "I'll tell you why," she said, "Because he is trash, that's why you can't play with him. I'll not have you around him, pickinng up his habits and learning Lord-knows-what. Your enough of a problem to your father as it is."
               Scout and Aunt Alexandra have different perspectives of Walter Cunningham, causing disagreement, and in the end Scout feeling frustrated, since she didn't get what she wanted.

1 hour    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee    pgs. 292- 323
Ethics: In the timeframe of this book, white people are easily dominant over black people, or Negroes. After Tom Robinson, is stated guilty for rape, he is sent to prison. Despite Atticus's thoughts that Tom has a chance to get out of prison, he ends up trying to escape and is shot and killed.
           "We had such a good chance," he said. "I told him what I thought, but I couldn't in truth say that we had more than a good chance. I guess Tim was tired of white men's chances and preferred to take his own..."
            Tom was put in a paradox. He is frustrated with the ways of white people, and wants to solve things his own way by escaping the prison, but knows he has a slim chance of escaping without death. He ended up taking his own path, but was killed in the end.
            

Reading Log Week 1

1 hour     To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee      pgs. 170-216         
Details: Scout and Jem sneak out of the house to follow Atticus to his office. They get there and find many men around Atticus. When Atticus finds them, he is surprised and scared.
            "I thought it was a fine surprise, but his(Atticus) face killed my joy. A flash of plain fear was going out of his eyes, but returned when Dill and Jem wriggled into the light."
             Atticus was scared when Scout came into the office. She interfered with Atticus's and the mens' business. The men were cold- natured people, and Atticus didn't want the kids in the middle of it.

1 hour     To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee    pgs. 217-252
Patterns: Repeatedly, Jem tries to have Scout do as he tells her, but Scout always refuses with a threat.
             Scout would say often, "You gotta make me first," or "Who do you think you are?" after Jem would try to make her do something.
             Even though Jem is older than Scout, Scout always hates how Jem tries to "boss her around." She always yells at him, threats him, or even fights him, because she hates feeling belittled.