Challenge JUNE 4th

CHALLENGE JUNE 4TH

The book I have chosen that has an awful cover but is a very good book is



I chose it because it has way too much going on on it to understand. Although its a very good book to read to entertain yourself. The cover doesn't look like its good to read. The colours on it doesn't set a very good mood or tone. I get that they tried to use dark colours but they haven't placed them well.

M.S

Challenge for the week of june 4 G.V

A great book that I have read wth a horrible cover is The Maze Runner. If you've read it you know what I mean. For such a great book, its cover is mis-leading, just a the walls from the Maze in which the Gladers live. I know the Maze is a huge part in the book, but I think that they could have done a better job with the cover. For example they could have had Thomas and Minho running away from the Grievers in the maze instead of just the Maze. The great story of how the determination, friendship and sacrifice of teenage boys to get their friends out is a great story, but with a bad cover like it has. Many people will not even give it a chance.

Tomorrow, when the war began 1

Seeing as how I had just finished up The Maze Runner, it was time for me to start a new book. The book I am reading currently is Tomorrow, when the war began. The part I have most recently read is when the teen's go into town to get Lee from his temporary hiding spot. They somehow got out using a plethora of vehichles to get out, including a brand new BMW, and a truck with a shovel to carry Lee in. They also got a new member to the group when they came across a classmate whem they were trying to hide out for a while. They restocked supplies and our now hiding out in Hell while trying to find out what to do.

Rating: Hollywood undead, lately I've been lucky coming across so many good books. So far I love this book, the characters are great because I can easily relate them to friends of mine and the story line is great. A group of teens trying to free their town from a hostile army.

G.V.

Challenge May 28

Challenge May 28th

The recipe that was my favourite during my childhood was Thiacry. It represents our family because its the traditional dessert and each time we go on vacation to my parents country (Senegal), we eat it. When I was a kid and my ant made it, she put the couscous it in a special type of bowl and shakes it until it became moist and I touched it almost every second to see if its ready.

Recipe:

Ingredients
two cups of couscous
pat of butter (optional)
dash of salt (optional)
one cup evaporated milk
vanilla yogurt
one cup sour cream
one-half cup sugar
one-half teaspoon vanilla extract
dash of nutmeg (optional)
raisins or crushed pineapple or mint garnish (optional)
cup of water


Prepare the couscous as normal. (Bring four and one half cups of water to boil in a large saucepan. Add couscous, butter, and salt. Stir and cover. Remove from heat. Leave covered for ten minutes.) Allow couscous to cool. Pu couscous in a bowl. Combine all other ingredients. Stir yogurt mixture into couscous. Add more sugar, to taste. Garnish as desired. Serve warm or cold.



MS

Challenge May 28 G.V.

It's hard to think of what my favourite childhood dish was, I mean there are so many. Moms home made cookies, dads home made pizza maybe? No definitly Grand-ma's home made pancakes.

 That was a staple at Grand-mas house, you go to spend the night or the weekend and you can garaunte yourself that you would gain a couple of pounds. Thats just from the pancakes at breakfast! Don't even get me started on lunch and dinner... But back to the pancakes, you would wake up and smell the pancakes, run your little but off to get downstairs before someone else got the first one ( Usually grand-pa did) but you still ran anyways, then you would sit down and with every single pancakes, was a piece of heaven. These weren't your regular plate size pancakes, these were bit-sized pancakes! Even better, you would pack as many as you could onto your plate and just pile on the maple syrup.

 Sadly though she has never revealed her pancake recipe to us yet, but we are still trying to get it out of her.

I know the challenge says to only give 1 of your favourite childhood dishes, but this next one is so good I gave to include it. Dad's home made pizza. That was simply the best, it was tiring to make, it took the whole day. Between making the home made dough, and the home made sauce, it took you the WHOLE day. Ohh and the sauce, my dad would always get mad at me because I would eat it with a spoon when he wasn't looking. But that pizza was the best I have ever had, still is to this day, although there are some that have come very close, but back to the pizza. Home made sauce, home made dough, real bacon, ham, sausage, fresh mozzerella, made my dad every time. Thankfully I know the recipe to this one so I'll be having some more pizza in the future, unlike the pancakes..

Maze Runner 4

In the section of Maze Runner I read, the Grievers took 1 more Glader like Gally said they would. But Thomas went out to purposly get stung, he had to do it to get his memories back, to try and figure out how to use the code. When he went through the changing he figured it out, he figured out how they have to make their last stand, make their way to the Griever hole to punch the code in the computer that is there, or die trying. He got Newt and Minho on his side and they convinced the others.

Rate, Hollywood Undead again. This book just keeps getting better and better as it goes on, I loke reading every page of this book, it is nearly impossible to put down and I just can't wait to read the ending to see how amazing it is, because if the parts leading up to it have been amazing, I can't imagine what the ending will be like.

G.V

Challenge May 14th

1) I don't think I could live a technology free life because I use it everyday.  In my opinion most people would need lots of help becaus all most all people take technology for granted.  For example the computer, lights in the house, microwave and many more.  These products that we have in our houses now will take a lot of effort to recreate without using technology.

2) I do and don't think using a ram is cheating because it is electrical and it is technilogical.  Their is really no ther way to get water so it may be acceptable under the rules they are supposed to follow.  They have done a really good job and it would not be fair if someone accused them of cheating.  So all in all I think its all right that they used a ram to get water.

4) I don't think I could live this way at all, I am used to having all these things around me every day .  The thing that I would miss the most is running water.  Out of all these things I use running water the most in a day.  Running water is one of the things I take for granted the most it's been on the planet earth since I was born. 

6) Yes sometimes I do feel rushed and I wish I could take a day off.  Their is always something going on T.V, my friends are texting me or I have school work.  Some days all I want to do is play video games or sit in the sun witha good book.

J.B

May 21

This week, I read Maximum Security, in the CHERUB series. I read the entire book this week, it was pretty amazing! It started off with James doing a training mission (we didn't know that until they revealed it). The main part story in the book is the actual mission James and his sister embark on. They have to go be an inmate in the Arizona Max prison, befriending the son of Jane, a arms smuggler. They befriend him, get lots of evidence, and eventually capture and prosecute Jane.

My rating system (I wasn't here when the whole class did this, and I recently figured this out)
It goes as 1 the best, 5 the worst.
1. T.I (My favourite rapper, so the best book would get a T.I)
2. 2Pac (Amazing lyricism, flow, honestly the best rapper in history)
3. Meek Mill (Great flow, awesome lyrics about life in the ghetto, has to be one of my favourites)
4. Nicki Minaj (I do not like her rapping, she sometimes has an OK song, but overall I don't like her music.)
5. Lil Wayne (Probably the worst rapper at the moment, his rap is not even rap, its him talking like a fool on some kind of medication that he abuses.)

I would give Maximum Security a solid T.I. It is an amazing book, I couldn't put it down. I think this book made my record, finishing a book in 1 week. I usually never finish half a book in one week, I guess Robert Muchamore changed that for me with the CHERUB series. I am looking forward to reading the next of his series, it is amazing from what I've read so far (the Recruit, Class A, Maximum Security)

Blog Challenge: I think the book Hunger Games wouldn't be changed way too much, most manga's I've read are either action or comedy (Naruto, Bleach, Toradora, Peacemaker etc.) Hunger Games would be an amazing manga since it is all about action, seeing Peeta and Katniss actually fight against the gamemakers would be simply amazing.

The characters wouldn't change too much, maybe a few details would be changed, and the behaviour.
The action would be paced a lot faster, they wouldn't need to write too much description, the picture is there for that.
The ending would not need to change, it would be shown the right way, with them coming back to District 12.
The title would not need to change no matter which format of book it is, the name of the actual games are the Hunger Games.

N.C

CHallenge May21

Challenge May 21st

The book I am reading is Life of Pi. It would change the book in a bad way because Life of Pi is about a boy who is experiencing 2 religions (Islam and Christianity) and he realizes that they both have one obvious common thing, they both believe in god. Manga's are more of a fantasy thing that's most of the time very unrealistic. The characters are Pi and Richard which is a Tiger. The characters would change because the name Pi and Richard are common names and Manga's tend to have Japanese names. They wouldn't act differently because they are very mature in the book. The title wouldn't change because the title can possibly be anything. The pace would be the same because there is several types of Mangas which are similar to Life of Pi. The end wouldn't change because ends for Mangas are very unexpected like the end of Life of Pi.

M.S

Maze Runner 3

In the third section I read of Maze Runner things have gotten intense. Teresa, the new girl has triggered "the ending" she told Thomas that telepathically, supplies didn't come for the week and everything is going bad. Minho and Thomas went out to do their jobs as Runners though and found something very interesting. At the cliff a couple of feet out there is a "Griever hole" where the Grievers seem to come in and out from, it's nothing that can be seen though because it's an optical illusion. They go back and tell Newt and Alby about it. After they get back though, Teresa wakes up from her coma and right away knows Thomas. In her first day there she had more memories than anyone before.

Rating
Hollywood undead. Yet again this book delivered, I couldn't stop reading. I thought it was impossible but the author James Dashner proved me wrong by making an amazing book even more amazing! With the book almost to the end, I can;t wait to see what happens.

Challenge

1. Seeing as I don't know what the characters look like I can't say if they will look different in manga. But I think they would act different, I think they would all be more blunt and aggresive towards each other and have less tolerance for stupidity and less patience.

2. I think for the most of it the action would stay the same if it was switched to a manga book. Like I said before there are some very good action scenes in The Maze Runner that would stay the same, just only a few scenes in the Glade would be changed to where there are a few fights between Gladers.

3. No, I think the ending would stay the same if the book was changed to manga. Because the ending scene where all the Gladers make the final push to the "Griever hole" to punch in the code is very intense. Alby sacrificing himself even though he waas crazy, other Gladers sacrificing themselves. The intense battle between man and machine. The ending would suit manga very well and wouldn't need to have any major changes, maybe a few small ones such as someone more known in the book sacrificing himself.

4. I think the title would/should stay the same. Because it's a mysterious title. It makes you wonder about what the book is about, it draws you in to reading the book.

G.V.

CHALLENGE MAY !14th

Challenge May 14th

1) Yes, I would need help because if I don't even know anything about building products involving technology I obviously would fail and need help
2)I wouldm't consider it as cheating because you're using technology to help you with your needs.
4)I wouldn't be able to live without all of these essentiels because electricity keeps you warm and cozy, a refrigerator can keep your food from rotting and water is most essential to the body. You can live with it for more than weeks.
6) Yes, I feel rushed in fast time, but I wouldn't want to have a leisurely day because I am so used to the distractions we have around us that it would be almost impossible to make that transition happen


Firestorm would be a wonderful asset because the adventures Jack goes through are so cool and amazing. First he learns how to fight very well and to fly.


M.S

Challenge May 14

Questions.

1: No I don't think I'm knowlegdable enough to live technology free for a year. Many people are used to technology helping them for everything, homework, work, even washing your car. I myself am one of those people. Although I am not knowledgable enough to live without technology for a year, I am definitly up for the challenge.

2: Yes and no, I think using a ram is cheating, but it's also playing by the rules. I think its a very thin line between cheating and not, and that is right in the middle. Because my definition of technology is anything powered by electricity, rams are not usuallly powered by electricity so in my books it's all right.

4: I would be able to live with a refrigerator and electricity, but the thing that would be the hardest for me to live without would be running water. Because our generation take most things for granted, running water being one of them. I don't think people truly realise how lucky we are to have fresh clean water to drink when we're thirsty, or how lucky we are to be able to have showers and not have to use a hole in the ground as a toilet. Although I realise we are lucky to have running water, I don't think I appreciate it enough.

6: I do get caught up in life, with all the technology things come at you so fast and form so many directions. It's hard to keep up with everything, and with set schedules it throws off things that are important to keep us sane and healthy. Like sleep, we've all stayed up later than we should because we're on all our differnet forms of technology like computer, cell phones, Ipods, video game consoles, we may have fun on those while we're on them, but when we only get 3 hours of sleep that night? Yeah we kind of rethink it after that. Or how about staying up late to finish a project, people can say it's the teachers fault for giving us so much work, but many people procrastinate on work too. Technology and a fixed schedule go hand in hand for making our life more difficult, we have stuff to do for job or for homework, but we procrastinate and use technology instead.
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G.V

Blue Helmet 1

Lee, a strong young boy trying to get into the baddest town in the city, The Tarantulas. During his attempt, he ended being arrested, and sent to live with his aunt in Toronto. In Toronto, he has found himself doing food deliveries to make money from his aunt, he also goes to school. At school, he has gotten into a fight with the schools bully group, and ended up getting beaten up.

Blue Helmet 2

In the second section of Blue Helmet, Lee is now used the life in the sandwich shop with Reena, but he ends up thinking about his past, like hitting his ex, and stealing from convenience stores. He is also befriending a man named Cutter, he is strange but shakes Lee's hand so it does show that they do trust each other. Cutter doesn't let anyone touch his computers, or his documents, lives alone etc.

Blue Helmet 3

After Cutter's suicide, Lakshmi tells Lee that Cutter left his house, and all the insides on his last will and testament, with the name Lee on it (Cutter gave all his things to Lee). As Lee starts to clean the house and what not, he discovers the weird and wacky things Cutter did, he had one computer only for Internet, one for business, and one for games (he made them). He also finds out why Cutter is crazy, paranoid, insane, and all those other things you DON'T look for in a person.

Blue Helmet 4

In the amazing last section of Blue Helmet, as Lee is biking home from Cutters place, at around midnight, the least expected happened. Reena was found lying on the ground unconscious and bloody. Just as he walks in he sees a burglar running out.  As usual, Lee takes care of him by beating the crap out of him, then takes Reena to the hospital. Later on in the ending, Reena, Lee and Lee's father moves into Cutters old house, living a new good life, away from gang warfare.

N.C

Challenge - Week of May 14th

1. I think being technology free is a little too hard being in this generation. Amish people probably live really hard lives without ACTUAL refrigerators, or running water, so no, I think I'm not knowledgeable enough to live a life as an Amish.
2. No, using a hydraulic ram wouldn't be cheating, or breaking the Amish rule. Its not necessarily electric, or hurting the environment, isn't that their goal? To not hurt the environment and be completely Eco-friendly? Using the ram is still a non automatic object (people have to pump it).
4. I think I could live without a refrigerator, without electricity or technology, but I would struggle A LOT. It would take a lot of adapting since I already live in a world where technology is a substitute for actually trying to do things yourself.
6. No, I couldn't just relax in the sun leisurely. I need to be doing something at all times. Relaxing on the sofa doing nothing is NOT something I could do, I need to be moving, or seeing something move on a screen.

A book that would fit this, is Box Out. The main character struggles as a basketball player but ends up being one of the best. I want that sort of life, he is a regular teenager living with technology, electricity, a microwave and a refrigerator, a life I do have and will always want.

N.C

Challenge April 23rd mansour

Challenge April 23rd:
The books I have choosen for this challenge are
1)Harry Potter 1: This book is when Harry Potter is younger and has the information about when he was younger, and you want to know more about his childhood

M.S

Maze Runner 2

In the next section of Maze Runner that I read, a lot happened. First of all, Thomas is starting his job training with each of the keepers to see what job he's best at, but still no matter what he does, he still wants to be a runner he doesn't know why though, it just feels right. But the most interesting part of the book is when Alby and Minho went to check out the dead Griever, they didn't come back until right when the doors closed. What had happened is the Griever wasn't dead, so when they went to check it out it came back to life and got Alby. Thomas saw them coming rigth before the doors closed and he couldn't control himself, so he went to help them. Now it's the three of them out in the Maze at night with tons of Grievers running around, Thomas hung Alby up on the wall to try and save him from the Grievers, Thomas had to do it alone though cause Minho went off running earlier. Having dealt with Alby it was now his turn to run and hide, he ran from a couple of Grievers before he finally ran into Minho, they ran themselves into what many think would be a dead end at the cliff but they didn't. Using a move where they have the Grievers run at them and move to the side at last minute to trick the Grievers and have them run off the edge.

Rating: Hollywood undead, like the first part of the book I read, this part was equally as good in my opinion. It kept you on the edge of your seat wondering what would happen. Like when Alby and Minho never came back, you didn't what to but you always wondered "Maybe they're dead?". Luckily Thomas and Minho are alive, hopefully Alby is too.

G.V.