The city of ember.

       in my book the city of ember by Jeanne DuPrau, Lina a 14 year old girl and her best friend doon are stuck in an underground hell. the only thing they know is that they live in the only city in the world and there is nothing but darkness anywhere outside the city of ember.linas grandmother is despertly ooking for a timed lunch box. inside holds the secrets to escape from the underground hell hole.

   the reason for this underground city was that there was a horrible plague that threatening the human race so Linda's great  grandma went underground to keep the race alive. she died but before she did she gave Linda's grandmother the instructions.

   now that Lina grandma found it poppy her little sister has chewed it so now its barley legible. lets see if Lina and Doon can decipher this cryptic message      

     

rr for march 7th

     In my ,book  the Omnivore's Dilemma  the characters are trying to figure out what is causing the universal omnivores dilemma.  Michael Pollan goes around the world looking for the best food chain and try to figure out how some farmers use organic ingredient. Michael travels to a farm called Pollyface. They raise hens and chickens in a happy environment. This farm doesn't use any byproduct or any mutilators. The Farmers let the chickens roam around and eating worms, incests on the farm. The buyers don't mind seeing the animals getting slaughtered because they know they lived a happy life on the farm.

He also talked about corn, how it is the most abused food in America. It is literally used in everything, like when you go to MC Donald's if your like me you get MC Chickens and a large drink. well, your eating a corn fed chicken in a corn flour fried in corn oil, and to wash it down you drink a soda sweetened with high fructose corn syrup . He was allowed to go to hte goverment facility and find out exactly how many "fod" items it makes. 

Michael Pollan then  goes on a  hunt to solve the very beginning of the omnivores dilemma. That means he has to go to the very bottom of the food chain with no manufactures or pesticides or humans involved just the wild food. Mr. Pollan said,  "that his plan was to go the outback of California and live off the land". First step was to  find and kill a wild boar. Then for the vegetables  find some herbs and then go to a previously burned forest to collect special mushroom. This mushroom can only be found in a place filled with ashes, its very delicious. This special  mushroom are called morels, they  only need feed on ashes to grow. As he described it ,it was the "perfect" dinner except that the mushrooms were gritty and the salt that he had collected in the San Fransisco bay was too toxic to serve to a human.

     this book has really opened my eves to how we Americans eat. we have no diverse food or culture. without it we stray from our roots and cause the omnivores dilemma. And just what goes intoour food and how most food is corn. This book has literally CHANGED my life

reading responce for feb 14

    in the book Surrogates,there is a human like robot that is trying to take down the surrogates.surrogates are like a real  life avatar they walk and talk like a real person, accept we control them. there is a man that wants to make the world real again. he is constantly trying to find a way to restore humanity so he creates an EMP. this electro magnetic wave can disrupt any kind of electrical signal in the area without effecting humans or structures. He believes that he is cleansing the world.

    the main character is a detective with a wife who uses a surrogate and he keeps telling her he loves her not the surrogate.he finds out that the man wants to stop surrogates he is happy but needs to stop him.so he stakes out on the roof top of the EMP station and waits. finally he comes and they fire every thing at him. its too late before they could pull the trigger and it ends all surrogates even himself. 

when he goes home he goes to his wife's room to only find out she had committed suicide because she didn't like her real self.      

     zanes reading

flipped 30 minutes     pg 64-114

Hunger games 30 mins.  Pg 259-294

hunger games            finished 

rot and ruin 30 min    pg 1-86

rot and ruin 30 min    pg 86-164

rot and ruin 30 min    pg 164-204

rot and ruin 1 hour    pg 204-389

rot and ruin 1 hour    pg 389-end 

malice       30 min    pg 1-66

malice       30 min   pg 66-123

malice       30 min   pg 123-189

malice      30 min     pg 189-248

malice      30 min    pg 248-299

malice      30 min    pg 299-371

malice      30 min    pg 317-end

dust and decay 30 min pg 1-55

dust and decay 30 min pg 55 -81

dust and decay 30 min pg 88-122

dust and decay 30 min pg 122-155

dust and decay 30 min pg 155-187  

dust and decay 60 min pg 187-299 

dust and decay 60 min pg 299-354  

dust and decay 60 min  pg 354-444   

dust and decay 60 min  pg 444-543

dust and decay 60 min  pg 543-613

dust and decay 60 min  pg 613-788

dust and decay 30 min pgs  788 to 963

dust and decay 30 min pgs 963 to end

ciberia 30 min 1 to 30

 ciberia 39 min 30 to 70 

ciberia 39 min 70 to 120

ciberia 37 min 120 to 160

ciberia 38 mins 160 to 189      

Cyberia

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     In my independent reading book Cyberia the main character Zane, in facing serious problems. Even thought me and the main character share the same name the similarity stops there. Zane lives in the future, and is wired up to a high tech room. It can monitor his blood pressure, blood sugar, heart rate and his emotions all at once. For his 15th birthday his dad got him a blue tooth that can connect him to his room. What he doesn't know is that it allows him to talk to animals. when his dog talks to him he completely freaks out, for he doesn't know what to do.

     This is where the peer pressure come in, he had just saved a bunch of animals from an evil doctor that wants to control all animals and make them our slaves. His dog Hugo doesn't like this though so he and a bunch of animals all want to free a group of racing dogs A.K.A gray hounds. He goes to only see suffering dogs that are deprived of food and water except the winners. They get generously rewarded. For the rest of the animals he hears all their crys for help. it over whelms him so he leaves and decides to never come back forever....

    but hugo his dog kept pleding and then forces him to      

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in the book bad boys the main character Walter dean Myers is in a giant slump in life, because his uncle had died. he never was really close to him, but his mom and grand father were. so now with his father gone and his uncle dead his mother is literally forced into depression. now with his family depressed it has effected his whole life. He has skiped schol for almost a month and the principal of the high school warned him if he missed one more day of school he wouldn't graduate.

  With his depression things haven't been the same.hes lost confidence in himself and now he has entered a basket ball contest to win one thousand dollars. with his depression growing hes lost confidence in his game so he now cant win the thousand dollars to get his family some money.       

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                  reading response by Zane A Johnson

                            In my book "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers hes facing a troubling problem with growing up because with his mom and dad fighting he feels all alone in the city of Harlem, new york. Since he has nobody to talk to he been taking all his anger out on people who upset him. So now he has got himself into so many fights  that he had to be relocated to a new disciplinary school that focus only education and wont tolerate bullying ,so with racism becoming a growing issue in new york he has to find a way to keep out of trouble and off the streets. 

 

   Along with the growing issue of racism he has a speaking disorder so when he speaks in front of a group of people or at school he is unaware of what hes saying and how hes pronouncing it. So now all of his teachers encourage him to write out everything now speak it. Since hes been reading so much Shakespeare instead of writing these essays and short stories he writes poetry and becomes a amazing poet. Since hes still a kid though every makes fun of him and thinks he not a real man.Now without his father  around hes the man of the house and need to take on all of the responsibilities that his dad had. Like feeding him and his mother and supplying money. Now with all this new found responsibility he had to step up to the plate.   

 

With all this stress he doesn't have time to think and sit down and write so he picks up the game of basketball hes good at it too. After a while he figured out he wanted to be a lawyer but everyone kept saying that he couldn't because he was black  and he had a speech imperfection.