Reading Response-2

The Hunger Games

              The Everdeen girls are in a drawing called the reaping.The reaping is a drawing of one male and one female to participate in the Hunger Games, which is a "tournament" to the death. There are twelve different districts and each child from the ages twelve to eighteen are place into the drawing for the Hunger Games. Katniss is the main character in the story. She has her name put in the reaping bowl 20 times because of tesserae which is added reaping entries in exchange for grain and oil. Katniss' sister Prim has her name in only once. At the reaping Prim, who has a one and one thousand chance of being chosen, actually gets picked. Katniss as a protective sister volunteers for Prim. The male who was picked was Peeta Mallark. So Katniss and Peeta along with twenty other tributes will battle to the death at the Hunger Games.
               As Katniss and Peeta go on the train to Panem and once at Panem they get a treated like royalty. They have lavish meals along with flamboyant dresses. At the introduction of the tributes Katniss had a special dress that looked like it was on fire. After the introduction Katniss and Peeta have a few arguments. But they then get along better and treat each other with respect.  The tributes then go to an arena where they are taught different skills and also show there skills off. When Katniss was showing her skills off to the Gamemakers she felt they were not watching here so she shoots an arrow through an apple in a pig's mouth. This event showed that she was the real deal.
               So far this book is very action packed and I am looking forward to the climax of the fight at the Hunger Games.

Reading Times-2

The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
8/21= 15 min.
8/24= 15 min.
8/25= 110 min.
Total=140 min.

Exciting Past Weeks

                 Some exciting events in the last few weeks were school related events. The first event was my first day of high school. As I walked through the quad for the first time I was extremely nervous. The seniors at first were very intimidating, but once some of them talked to me about how I was doing on my first day I felt more relived.
                 The second event was my first football practice. This was very exciting because it was a new team and I was looking forward to having a fun season together. My first practice I met some of the other freshmen on the football team, and made many new friends. Although my first weeks at EHS have been a little scary they have been full of excitement and many thrilling events.

About Me

Since I am new to Episcopal High School many people do not know a lot about me. I have many goals about English class and hope that people will get to know me better by the end of the year. One goal that I have for this year is that I will read different types of books. In the past I have only read adventure and survival books. But now I want to expand my choices on types of books to read. My second goal for this year is to improve on my writing skills. I want to put my thoughts into sentences better and to have a larger vocabulary.
Some things about me are my interests, hobbies, and sports. My interests are LSU sports, the Saints, and MLB. My hobbies are fishing, tennis, and golf. Over the summer my family and I went on a charter fishing trip and caught ten Mahi-Mahi. The sports I play are football and baseball. I look forward to this year of making many new friends and learning new things.

Reading Response to Divergent

As I was reading the novel Divergent, I liked the many parts of intense action throughout the entire book. It seemed to me that every chapter had so much action that I could never put the book down.The first bit of action was the aptitude test and Tris' decision on her specific faction. Her aptitude tests say that she was Divergent. After, that she choose the Dauntless faction.
                     The second bit of action is a big portion of the book. Which was the Dauntless initiation. The initiation was a assessment that tested pushed the initiates fighting skills and fears to the limits.