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= IRP Quarter 4: Book Discussion = // The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, is discussed by Amanda, Mana, Rin & I! Enjoy the video as we discuss the theme, plot, and characters of the story, as well as our own opinions. // media type="custom" key="18342506" = = = = = Debate on Friar Lawrence...Guilty or Innocent? = // Romeo and Juliet's Friar Lawrence, could he be the one man who is responsible for the couple's death? // media type="custom" key="17884770" = Sonnet Recitation: Psychedelic Sky (Original) = // The original sonnet that I made, inspired by Shakespeare's beautiful sonnets. Watch the video to see how I recite my sonnet. // media type="custom" key="14211968" = Quarter 3 Independent Reading Project: Podcast =

=Title: Thirteen Reasons Why=

Author: Jay Asher
For Q3 IRP, I did a podcast introducing the book "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher. The story is about Hannah Baker, a girl who committed suicide, but makes audio tapes before she took the pills that ended her life. The audio tapes are addressed to people who she believes caused her death. Who are involved? What is going on?

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=**Travel Article - Cambodia**= I went to Cambodia during my Project Week, and it was an eye-opening experience. Cambodia makes anybody cry in two ways; from sadness and from joy. Both the unappealing and the unattractive are reflected and one can find both standing side by side. Leaving Cambodia does not mean leaving the memories with me too. I am never going to forget the memories of what Cambodia gave me; to drink lots of ice water in the scalding heat, the laughter I had between the Treak Village kids which I now call friends, the flattened ridges of my shoe soles due to the exploring of temples, the scar-leaving bicycle rides, the repulsive yet pleasant taste of the fried cricket, the thunderous sound of the tuk-tuks, the random display of animals hanging loose in the streets, the striking orange, yellow, and brown attires of the monks seen among the dull terrain, the life-changing perspective that the Ton Le Sap Lake reflected, and most of all; the smiling faces of the Cambodians greeting me a simple sunny “Sues’day” (hello), or a despairing but whole-hearted “Li Hai” (goodbye).

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** Original Short Story - Breaking Barriers **
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= Quarter 2 Independent Reading =

Author: Sharon Creech
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Walk Two Moons, is an award-winning story by Sharon Creech. It is about 13 year old Salamanca Tree Hill who is trying to solve the mystery of why her mother disappeared and abandoned her so many years ago. She is on a road trip with her grandparents and she tells them about how Phoebe's mother disappeared. Sal realizes that Phoebe's story is similar to her story, and that they have a lot in common. The ending is really surprising and unbelievable.=====

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IRQ2 - Walk Two Moons P: Pheobe (Emily) S: Salamanca (Chelsea) D: Dad (Amanda) -This book is called “Walk Two Moons” by Sharon Creech (award winning) -We picked this book because we decided it was an easy yet interesting book that we could all enjoy. - Told in Salamanca Tree Hiddle’s point of view. - A 13 year old country girl trying to solve the mystery of why her mother left her when she was younger - In the book, Sal is on a roadtrip with her grandparents, and to pass the time she decides to tell them about her best friend Pheobe and her mom’s disappearance - realizes that pheobe’s story reflects her own story of her mothers disappearance.
 * brief summary (Amanda)

“The book we decided to read is called “Walk two moons” by Sharon Creech. It’s about a girl named Salamanca who is trying to solve the mystery of why her mother left her so many years ago. During the book, Salamanca is on a road trip with her grandparents, and as they are driving she tells them the story of Pheobe and her disspearing mother. While she is telling this story she realizes that hidden in Pheobe’s story is another story about her own mother’s dissapearance. The main character of this story is Salamanca tree hiddle, she is 13 years old and she’s been searching for the reason her mother left her when she was very young. Salamanca’s best friend is Phoebe Winterbottom. Pheobe likes to worry a lot and tends to get scared easily. She is a very dramatic girl and she tends to over-react often. -Setting is in: Takes place in Pheobe’s house <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Pheobe’s mom has dissapeared and left 3 notes for her 2 daughters and husband <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Pheobe doesn’t know what to think and starts to freak out. <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-Here, we don’t only see the internal conflict of certain characters like Pheobe, but we also see an atmosphere that foreshadows the future events of the book, which, we cannot spoil. There is also an external conflict, which is Pheobe’s mother disappearing in the story.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">introduce the characters (Emily)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">introduce the scene (Chelsea)

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“The scene we are about to demonstrate is when pheobe comes home to realize that her mom has dissapeared. Her mother has left 3 notes for each family member (pheobe, prudence and the dad) saying that she will be gone for a few days. Pheobe is a VERY worry-some girl so as soon as she realizes that her mother has left her, she starts to freak out.”

__SCENE__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: (knocks on door) Pheobe? PHEOBE? Where are you?! I’ve been looking for you everywhere, where have you been? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">P: Quick! Come in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: What? Oh my gosh, what?! You’re scaring me Pheobe, tell me! Tell me now! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">P: (Leads S to table with 3 notes) I opened my note (Show S the note) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: Where did you find that?! What is that? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">P: My mother....she placed these three notes on the table for us to read. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: (reads it aloud): “Keep all the doors locked and call your father if you need anything. I love you, Pheobe. From Mom” ) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: Pheobe- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">P: (Cuts off S from finishing sentence) I know, I know. It doesnt sound terrible or anything. My first thought was that at least she knew I was old enough to be here by myself. I figured she went shopping or something. But then Prudence came home and opened her note. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> P & S: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Show S the note and read aloud together) “Please heat up the spaghetti sauce and boil the pasta. I love you Prudence. From Mom” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: She’s probably just working late...Don’t worry okay Pheobs. Everything’s going to be okay. *pats her shoulder* <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">P: (Doubtful) I don’t know... I don’t like the sound of this <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6aa84f; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D: (Walks in) Where’s Norma? Shouldn’t she be cooking dinner? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6aa84f; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D: What’s this? (Opens note) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">P&S: (Reads dad’s note) “I had to go away, I can’t explain. I’ll call you in a few days, From Norma” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">P: Where would she go? A few days? Why wouldn’t she tell us? ... I think we should call the police! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #38761d; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D: Don’t be ridiculous! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">P: Im serious! Maybe some lunatic dragged her off! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #38761d; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D: If the lunatic dragged her off, why would he let her sit down and write these notes? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">P: He might! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #38761d; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D: This is no time for joking around! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">P: We have to save Mom! She could be in danger right now! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #38761d; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D: Okay, that’s enough Phoebe! Let’s just calm down and eat dinner now. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #38761d; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">D: (looks at Sal) Oh I didn’t see you there Sal <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">S: (confused and shocked about the letter) I... I have to go <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">P: (Walks Sal towards the door)

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- AT THE DOOR- <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">P: Sal, my mother has disappeared. Don’t tell anyone. Don’t tell a soul.

__Narrator__ <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- The start of the Rising Action (Not a climax because there is no falling action that follows this scene) <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Sal realizes that Pheobe is more similar to her than she thought <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- Sal relates to Pheobe’s story and learns of her own mother’s dissaperance by helping Pheobe cope with her mother’s dissapearance.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why we chose the scene?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why it is important

__Final Conclusion:__ <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chelsea: -Because we found this book amazing, especially when the reader gets to the ending as it is surprising we can recommend this book to anyone of any age. The vocabulary is fairly easy, and it is a simple yet amazing book that will make you laugh and cry.

= Quarter 1 Independent Reading =

<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Author: Nicholas Sparks
Panel 1: Will, Ronnie, and Jonah watched the turtle eggs they have taken care of for so long finally crack into life. Setting: Beach. Panel 2: They were talking and suddenly their conversation was interrupted by consecutive coughs that was coming from Steve, Ronnie’s dad. Their sight was covered by the horrific visual of his face being covered completely by blood. Panel 3: ...After a few hours, Panel 4: Steve was hooked up to an IV in a hospital bed when he told her that he had stomach cancer. Panel 5: The flashbacks that Ronnie had- her fights with her parents, leaving the piano, never replying her dad’s letters, never replying her dad’s letters. He would never see her get married, and she asked him if he told her to come “so I could watch you die.” Panel 6: Steve apologizing about how Ronnie had to know like this, and Ronnie replied “Of course I forgive you.” This marks the climax, as it is the decisive point in the story, the turning point where Ronnie changes and the true conflict is exposed. Panel 7: They hugged, and she cried even harder. Air bubble: The relationship as aliens, strangers. Panel 8: They discussed even more, and dynamic character of Ronnie was discovered here. She mended her relationship with her dad, knowing that he only have a few period of time to live left. Panel 9: She left the emergency room with Will and Jonah, the setting changes to the cafeteria, where Pastor Harris offering her a drink. Panel 10: They had a conversation where Pastor Harris made her realize that her dad loves her so much. Panel 11: At night, she went back home where Will finds her in the back porch looking over to the beach. She hugged Will and cried in his arms. Panel 12: The next morning..... Panel 13: Will and Ronnie discuss the fact that Will was moving for college in a few days, to Vanderbilt. Panel 14: They broke into an argument when Will told her about what happened last summer, when Scott, Will’s friend started a fire in the church, but nobody knew this, only Will. Will kept the secret for a long time but never told the truth to anyone, which angered Ronnie because the church was Pastor Harris’ life, her Dad’s life. (picture of Will with air bubble and the fire.) Panel 15: Ronnie said, “GO! You’re leaving anyway, and we’re never going to see each other again. Summers always come to an end. We can talk and pretend all we want, but we can’t change that, so let’s just end it here and now. I can’t handle all this right now, and I can’t be with someone I don’t trust. I don’t trust you, Will. You need to go. LEAVE!” Will stands in the background, shattered into pieces.