blog 2 term 3 reading response #3

                                   Ender’s shadow-Orson Scott Card February 1 (50)

This week I read about Bean choosing Enders battle team. Bean includes himself in Ender team.  Sister Carlotta finds out why Bean is so intelligent. She finds out that Bean is part of a genetic experiment to create super human intelligent babies.  A scientist discovers a way to make humans super intelligent but with a very short life span.  Another scientist illegally alters 23 clone babies to make them super intelligent. Most of the babies are destroyed, except for Bean who escapes by hiding.  A   young couple  help him for a while but, they are not allow to have children so they send him away when they think the government may find  about they having a baby.  Sister Carlotta tries to find where the scientist got the original baby to clone the other babies so that she can find Beans real parent. 

This explains a lot, Bean is not a natural intelligent kid; he was genetically engineered to be smart. I wonder if that is possible in real life today.  I also wonder is someone would really choose to create have a super intelligent baby even if their life was going to be very short.

In Battle school Bean meets Nikolai Delphiki, another student. They become best friends, Bean can talk to Nikolai. Bean includes Nikolai in Ender team, even though Nikolai is not as good as the others. Sister Carlotta discovers that Nikolai Delphiki and Bean have the same parents so they are brothers. Ender seems to treat Bean the same way that Ender was treated by General Graff. He makes sure the other know Bean is the smartest in the team. This makes Bean uneasy.

 

blog 2 term 3 reading post #2

                                           Ender's shadow-Orson Scott Card February 1 (45)

I have been reading Ender’s shadow. This week I read about Bean in the Battle school. He tries to lean as much as he can about other students.  He also tries to hide as much information as he cans about himself because he does not trust other people. He doesn’t participate in many of the games that the school uses to study kids personalities and minds. Instead, he spends his time reading and going into the vent system to look around the battle school without been seen. He spies and listens to other students, teachers and other leader in the school. He also manages to steal a teacher’s password to the school computer system and he’s able to read files and information on many students. He is most interested in Ender Wiggin. He totally avoids interacting with Ender, but at the same time he studies him intensely. He tells Major Anderson that the reason he avoids him is because everyone compare him with Ender. They were both very young when they started at Battle school and they are both the smartest kids in Battle school. But ender is different from Bean because People like Ender, they admire him. Ender teaches what he knows to other students, even the new kids.  He seems spend more time teaching others in the battle room than working to prepared himself. Everyone looks up to Ender Even the teachers admire Ender. Bean wants to be like Ender. He wants to be a leader. So he tries to study Ender from far away and in secret.

blog 2 term 3 reading response #1

                                          Ender's shadow-Orson Scott Card February 1 (28)

Today I started Ender shadow. The book starts by introducing several children including Bean, the main character in the book. The children are orphans and live on the street. They are hungry and fight for food. They organize themselves in group with a leader and a protector. The leaders have to be very mean and violent. They fight for the little food they can find. The fights are very violent and one kid name Achilles even kills a girl name Poke. Bean is very small and that is the reason they kids named him bean. He is also very smart. That’s why Sister Carlotta notices him in a soup kitchen. She decides to test him to see how smart he is. But he cannot read or write. So she teaches him and in the process she realizes that he’s very intelligent. Eventually she asked General Hyrum Graff to test him for Battle school.  Graff finally agrees to test Bean and he scores perfect in the entire test except the physical test. So he is qualified to attend battle school in space.
I think it is very hard for somebody so small to survive on the streets and also to be so smart.  It’s also strange to think of kids living on the street all the time.  Bean found a way to survive by observing people on the street, he developed social intelligence. Later Sister Carlotta taught him reading, writing, math and other academics.  Bean goes to battle school and he is very different than the other kids. But he has always been alone. He is always on the defense observing other people to be able to survive.  

 

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blog 2 term 3 poem #4

                                                             Wish You Were Here
I think that this was written as a tribute to someone. I think that the singer is talking about someone in this song. I think that the singer wishes that one of his friends that left were still here. I think that that the singer is trying to tell them that what they did was wrong and that even though they think that they are right they're wrong. This song shows a metaphor when it says two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl. It also has a rhyme scheme though out the poem.

blog 2 term 3 poem #3

                                                                           The Raven
This poem talks about how this guy is going crazy. I think that the guy is in deep despair. It think that the raven represent the guys feeling. I think the bird is himself answering his own questions.
this poem shows a rhyme scheme.

blog 2 term 3 poem #2

                                                                Sonnet 130
I think that this poem's meaning is that the guy who is talking loves whoever he's talking about despite what they look like. I think that he thinks that it is special that he feels that way. I don't really get it but it sounds like it makes sense. this poems a rhyme scheme every other last word on the line rhyme. I think that this poem kind of shows signs of a simile when is says Their eyes are nothing like the sun.

blog 2 term 3 poem #1

                                                              Casey at the bat
I think that this poem show that we shouldn't be too confidant. I thin that it is ok to be confidant but not over confidant. In this poem Casey was so confidant that he would win the game for everyone that he didn't swing the first two times but at the last chance he had he choked. So I think that this teaches us that we should take advantage of every chance we have and not be so sure of ourselves.
This poem shows rhyme scheme. The last words of each sentence rhyme.

blog 2 term 3 vocabulary words

                                                 Vocabulary words
 word      what I think it means                 actual definition                                                                
enlighten-to make something brighter- make clear to the intellect or conscience
sly- being suspicious- artfully cunning; secretly mischievous
equalizer- makes something equal- an equivalent counter balancing weight
cay- a beach- a ledge
HMO- high maintenance option- health maintenance organization;
foulder- a folder- To flash as lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder
swerve- to turn- to climb
scow- to look- A large flat bottomed boat
friar- a cook- a brother or member of any religious order

Current Event Last term 3 blog

                                            current event

Recently the was a plane that went missing. I think that the plane was from Malaysia. Some people think that the plane may have crashed somewhere in the ocean. I think that the plane was hijacked. I think that there might have been some terrorist that took over the plane. I don't think that they have found the plane yet but I think that it probably has crashed by know.