The Last Survirors - Susan Beth Pfeffer (Novel Reflection)

Since Miranda's family heard that the asteroid is going to hit directly to the Moon. Even though they were excited at first, but later on... the series of chaos happened. Her family has to went through all the problems and disasters together. For the first time in Miranda's life, she has to skip lunch or meal because the food aren't going to last forever and especially, water, electricity became the rarest thing that a person could afford. People no longer use phones to contact, instead, they use letters. But after the asteroid hit the moon, lesser people who pick up the letters and when it finally came, it's probably from ages ago. It was super hot in the summer and extremely cold in winter. Things aren't going really well, they didn't even think about showering and doing laundry because the electricity no longer on. Disasters happened everywhere. More amount of people died. How could they survive through all of that? It was epic back then but untill Miranda's 17th birthday, it was fine, they were all still alive.

Among the Hidden - Margaret Peterson Haddix (Novel Reflection)

Luke - a boy who was a third child in a house that already had two children. Those children are called Shadow Children. AFter sneaking out of the house for the first time of Luke, he found out that the Sport Family - who also had two children. That person was a girl name Jenn, Jennifer. Her family is so rich that she could get a fake I.D card but she rejected. Why? Because she didn't want to be someone else! She wanted to be her - herself. Freedom is all children supposed to have but the Shadow Children have to hide. Jennifer has planned on everything to demonstrate that every kids should be live in free and not worry of being killed. She asked Luke to come...Would Luke take a risk? Or he would rather stay at home and live in hidden?

 

Demon Glass - Rachel Hawkins (Novel Reflection)

Sophie Mercer thought she was a witch. Though, she is actually a demon. And that's all why their parents divorced. She was shocked that their parents hide those secret from her since she was born. First, she decided to go through the Removal, but after seeing another two demons at Abbey Thorne, she wanted to keep her power so she can protect herself from the Eye. Before she was training two months spending her vacation with her dad at London, she went to a club with Jenna and another two damons. That was when she got attacked by the Eye. She met Archer again! Stranger though, he supposed to kill her but Archer let her go. Once again, on her birthday, Archer Cross attempted there and screwed up the whole thing. She realized that she still didn't over Cross yet... What is she going to do, trying to hide it, or explain it to her family that she has a crush on an Eye...?

Hex Hall - Rachel Hawkins (Novel Reflection)

It was her 11th birthday, Sophie Mercer discovered herself that she is a witch. Her parents divorced before she was even born. After all of that magic things she did in "human" school, her father - a warlock, forced her to go to Hecate Hall - a school for all Prodigiums, witches, shifters like her. For the first day attempting at Hex hall, Sophie Mercer was known as a dark witch. Her roomate - Jenna, who is a vampire, was doubted for a series of killing. In the three enemies of Sophie, two were attacked by an unknown person. That's why Jenna got kick out of the school. Even worse, Sophie had a crush on an Eye - Archer, which she found out who he really is when making-out-on-the-ceiling stuff happened. Her biggest threat was in front of her and now she has to prepared for the whole new life with all magic and dangers.
 

The Rose that Grew from Concrete - Tupac Shakur

The Rose that Grew from Concrete

---  Tupac Shakur ---

Did you hear about the rose that grew

from a crack in the concrete?

Proving nature's law is wrong it

learned to walk with out having feet.

Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,

it learned to breathe fresh air.

Long live the rose that grew from concrete

when no one else ever cared.

• 1. What is concrete? Explain, using imagery, what it looks, feels, smells, tastes and sounds like. 

-        -  Concrete is something people use to build house and it needs to be strong enough to make the house solid. It doesn’t look nice and it actually looks disgusting. People walk on it, spit on it. It represents something bad or problems.

• 2. What is a rose? Using imagery to explain it. 

-       -   A rose is a pretty and pleasant flower. It represents something nice, beauty, or something that overcome the problems.

• 3. What is the tone of this poem?

-        -  The tone of this poem is strong but soft at the same time. It probably cheers people up. It sounds great and happy.

• 4. What is the message of the poem?

-         - The message is to believe in ourselves. We can do anything if we try and we can make something out of nothing. We can change, from bad to good.

• 5. What figurative language does the poet use?

-          - The poet uses imagination to compare concrete as a bad person; and rose is that person after some changes, that person becomes a better person. 

Homework (Changes-Tupac)

1) What's the tone of the song?
- Aggressive and angry. He tried to tell people to not fight over each other and also don't be racist toward black-Americans.

2) What imagery does Tupac use?
- He used the experience of his life to describe the world around him. He saw his friend died in the game and that really sad. He was forced to do something that he didn't want to. And he prefer a better life.

3) What figurative language does he use?
- He used rhymes, alliteration, onomatopocia, repetion.

4) Text to Self.
- Tupac sent the messages through the song and

5) Text to Text.
- This song has the same content and meaning as the speech of MLK - I have a dream. They both tell us about being racist toward each other is not the right thing to do.

6) Text to World.
- In this world, lots of people still live in poor and they have to do dirty jobs like: stealing and selling drugs because that's the only thing they can do to survive. Tupac has describe the situation very well. The world has to change.

My Favorite Song "Safe & Sound"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K4PGpXsOAI