Zachary Robert Luedders Summer Reading Summery (Gathering Blue) July 24‚ 2013 Plot: Kira is a girl with a twisted leg who lives in a more primitive society where people who cannot work‚ die. She has been kept alive by her mother‚ and when her mother dies‚ Kira is brought before the Council of Guardians. Kira’s life is spared when she proves she can weave very well‚ and she is assigned to the task of fixing up the robe worn by the singer whose only job is to sing the story of human civilization
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unfortunate family and one member would have to be executed. · The Lottery prevents breakdown of society because everyone follows the tradition‚ no one seems to boycott it (if they were even allowed). o This story reminds me a lot of The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry. In both stories‚ the communities are one unit that have all the same worldviews of life and the people of both are sort of controlled‚ none of them really have feelings about anything. Jackson never described what Mrs. Hutchinson was
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The Story of an Ungrateful Heart In a land known as Tierra Grata‚ there lived an entrepreneur known as Noel. Noel is a very rich man who rarely stays at his home because he travels to different parts of the world and meet different kinds of person because of his business. Although he is always away‚ he always remembers his town. One day‚ he decided to visit the other people in his town. At the beginning of his tour to the town‚ he noticed a man looking very sad. He looked at him and saw nothing
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Gabriela Smith Independent Reading Project The Giver By: Louis Lowery The Book I read for my independent reading project was called “The Giver” by Louis Lowery. This book is multiple types including social science‚ science fiction‚ and utopian and dystopian fiction. The main character’s name in the giver is Jonas. Jonas is a twelve year old boy who lives in a utopia. Jonas goes to the what we would call retirement home frequently to bathe old people. He goes there mainly to see Fiona one of
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The Giver Page 1 of 182 The Giver Lois Lowry NOTICE This accessible media has been made available to people with bona fide disabilities that affect reading. This notice tells you about restrictions on the use of this accessible media‚ which could be a book‚ a periodical‚ or other content. Copyright Notice Title: The Giver Author: Lois Lowry Copyright 1993 by Lois Lowry This notice is not part of the copyrighted work‚ which begins below after the phrase "Begin Content". Bookshare distributes
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The Kite Runner is a number one New York Times best seller. It is an emotional story that shows‚ you should never give up on friendship. The Kite Runner takes you on a poignant journey within the novel and film. There are few similarities but many differences between the novel and film. The similarity that stands out most between the novel and film is‚ the film follows the novel so well. The beginning and ending of the novel and film are very similar. That being said‚ the audience and readers are
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For our Life-Span Development class we had the opportunity to observe the physical‚ cognitive‚ and social development of Jonas‚ a four year old boy. The observation was conducted by Professor Christians here at Dordt College in room classroom building 260. The infant’s parent consented to participate in the live observation. During the observation‚ I was able to notice a lot about Jonas. With the knowledge I have gained from psychology and the observation of the child‚ I am now able to explain why
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Chapter 1-2 Summary We are introduced to Jonas‚ the eleven-year-old protagonist of the story‚ as he struggles to find the right word to describe his feelings as he approaches an important milestone. He rejects “frightened” as too strong a word‚ recalling a time when he had really been frightened: a year ago‚ an unidentified aircraft flew over his community—it was a strange and unprecedented event‚ since Pilots were not allowed to fly over the community. As Jonas remembers the community reaction
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Vanderpool used her choice of diction to create a pensive mood in the story. “Hearing Gideon tell about it was like sucking on butterscotch. Smooth and sweet. And when he’s go back to not saying much‚ I’d try recalling what it tasted like. Maybe that was how I found comfort just them‚ even with him being so far away. By remembering the flavor of his words. But mostly‚ I could taste the sadness in his voice when he told me I couldn’t stay with him for the summer while he worked a railroad job
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As you watch a movie‚ you can see a big difference between the movie and book. In the book and movie‚ “To kill a Mockingbird”‚ there is a difference between them. They are both different because the book has more details about situations that are happening. Also‚ because of the way you can picture what is going on. They are similar because in some parts in the movie‚ the characters say the same things as to when you read the book. In my opinion‚ the book gives you a better understanding of what the
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