oh, oh, oh, i have the bestest of best news!!!
so like no one will remember this but me, but we talked late in the fall about our favorite books that we read in the fall – and i mentioned “marathon woman” by katherine switzer – and then i check my e-mail this morning and instead of the typical sixth grade parent e-mail questioning my grading sanity:) lo and behold, there’s an reply to my e-mail from the fall from a Katherine Switzer – seems i wrote to the New Zealand account she checks when she’s in New Zealand – which is every six months:)
so, awesome way to begin the week – and, of course, i love her book even more now – as for reading, i got two books on loan this week – one, “once in a lifetime” came from florida – it was about a new york soccer team in the 1970s – they had a glorious three, four years – and then imploded b/c of a myriad of reasons – as a soccer nut (really, running is just a coping thing for the fact that i can’t play soccer anymore:) i loved the book – oh, and as a child of the 1970s, any references to atari are awesome
second book, “boston” came from auburn in montgomery – book about the boston marathon – i just started it – loads of photos – one i thing i learned so far is that the original course, which the course today runs close to, was built to mimic the 1896 olympic marathon in athens – neat trivia
in the world of magazines, i read how the right wing is trying to manipulate the texas education board and its new history book (or that’s at least what the writer in the ny times thought:) i read how europe is trying, again, to save greece’s economy, i read a ton about the olympics (few hockey stories which got me ready for the big win sunday night), read some baseball features (the yankees and the yankees in the japanese league – who are called the giants ironically enough – are both working together) and i finished running times (inspiring story about a 78-year-old who runs daily in a cemetery – creepy)
hope your week is great,
mafeld
Monday:
This week I am reading the book Macbeth (for your class and for blogs) and I didn’t think it would be that good but actually it is. So far it is talking about how the kings son is in line for the throne as well as Macbeth. This is a threat to Macbeth because well you know he is the king’s son. So Macbeth decides to kill the king and his son so that Macbeth would be in line for the throne. He tells this to Lady Macbeth and she wants in on it so she does.
Tuesday:
After this he plans to kill Duncan and when he is there ( in the middle of the night ) and after he murders him he hears someone scream “MURDER!” and before he can finish the plan he runs back to his room and tells Lady Macbeth of the news. She tells him that he has to go put the knives on the guards so it looks like they killed him or they would be framed but he gets a little guilty o Lady Macbeth Takes the knives and does it but when she gets back they here a knock on the door and they start to panick so they hop into their night gowns and wash the blood off their hands.
Wednesday:
Macbeth,
I know you did it. I know you’ve killed Duncan and if you don’t go and report yourselves I will and you won’t like what happens. You will probably be killed either way, but if you report yourselve you probably won’t have as much guilt but whatever.
-Anonymous
Thursday:
Then when he plans to kill the king and his son, he doesn’t actually kill them he gets someone else to. So when his servants go and hide in the park they wait until the king and his son leave. Then when they do the servants jump out of hiding and attack the king who is on his horse but his son escapes but they cannot find him. When the servants go and tell Macbeth that they killed the king but not his son , Macbeth is not worried because he says he will handle him later.
Hello again. So as you know I was reading Hamlet and I finished talking about how I finished the first two acts of Hamlet and they were pretty amazing so…… I encourage everybody to start reading Shakespeare at my age. Ok i ended last week with Polonius running to the King to tell him the reason for his deppresion and hows he has been acting. He tells them that he has fallen deeply in love with his daughter Ophelia. He hasn’t been able to be with her so he has become deppressed. They decide to make an appointment where Ophelia and Hamlet meet to see if this is really the cause for his deppression. This is where act 3 starts, Ophelia, the King, and Polonius are meeting in the lounge waiting for Hamlet. The King and Polonius go and hide in a closet and watch through a peep hole to see what is going on. Hamlet comes in and is reading to himself and then finally realizes that Ophelia is in the room. He spots her and discusses how he has waited to finally meet her. He then starts saying that she is not loyal and cheating on him and that is the reason for her not replying to him in letters. She tries telling him that she hasn’t and he doesn’t believe her so after yelling at her he walks out and the other two people come out and discuss what they have seen.
Since I started you people who read my blogs on the fourth of the series, I found my copy of the first of the series and reread it. So here it goes for a long blog. On Earth, a boy named Arthur Penhaligon is at a new school. He collapses because of a severe asthma attack. Two of his schoolmates, Ed and Leaf, stop to help him use his inhaler and then run to get help. While waiting for help, Arthur notices two strange-looking men coming out of thin air. The first man’s name is Sneezer, an old man. The other is in a chair which is being pushed by Sneezer. This man is much younger; he is known as Mister Monday. They are discussing about the key, and whether or not to give it to Arthur. Monday doesn’t want to because he needs the key in order to continue his “ruling” over his domain, but Monday as to fulfill his part of the Will. After Arthur dies, he will once again regain control of the Key. After a while, Monday is forced to give him the key. The key appears to have the shape of the minute hand of an old clock. Sneezer and Mister Monday then fight and a mist comes off Sneezer. The mist becomes a small book, and it drops into Arthur’s lap. When he held the key, he felt his breathing ease. He sees his teachers running towards him, so he hides the key and puts the book in his pocket.
Except for when he let go of the key, the asthma attack comes back.
Arthur wakes up in a hospital bed, tired. The two people who saved him came and visited him. It turns out that they were brother and sister. Leaf said that she had seen an old man pushing a bath-chair with a young man in it; obviously Sneezer and Mister Monday. Ed has not seen Monday and Sneezer, but claims to have seen a bunch of men with dog-like faces digging up the field. Leaf confirms this. In pain, Arthur pushes his hand under the pillow, only to have his fingers touch the Key which had appeared there magically. CREEPY! Ha Ha… Anyways, a week later, Arthur returns home. When he gets there, he uses the key to open the book, which is called the The Compleat Atlas of the House , and learns that the House (a giant, aelaborate fashioned building that he passed when going home) has an entrance called Monday’s Postern. That night, he is visited by the dog-like “Fetchers” that Ed had said earlier. He is saved by the ceramic Komodo dragon in which he had placed the Key. During the next day, he finds himself being pursued by Monday’s Noon, who proves to be more powerful than the Fetchers. He escapes, using the Key, and enters the House as by the Atlas. There, he finds that the House is a world unto itself, around which the Universe is organized, whose purpose is, or was, to observe and record all that occurs in the infinity. In his travels through the House, he finds that he is the Rightful Heir, a person to whom the Will referred. If he fulfills this function, the Architect of the World’s original intention will be enacted. To save the Lower House, he must kill Mister Monday and steal the key from him. He is accompanied during the most of his journey by a cockey girl-child named Suzy Turquoise Blue, who was brought to the House by the Piper (one of the immortal Denizens of the House) along with many other children. That is were I will end the story because that is nearly the whole begining. Today it is Mister Monday… tomorrow it is Grim Tuesday. Peace. 😉 🙂 😀 😛
My Blog for Monday.
I am still reading that “good book (as the reviews say)” Switchbacks.
Right now Marty has finally gotten to Lake O’Hara to be the “alpine technician” or in other words, stranded skier rescuer, and as he puts it a mountain mule. He calls himself this because when he actually gets to O’Hara he finds out that the first job that he has to do as “alpine technician” is that he and his partner, Bernie, have to carry signs up a, maybe a 5,000? foot climb up a mountain all for the tourists who need help finding their way up a mountain. That is my blog for Monday.
BBYYEE!!
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Monday
First to post? Yay. I am reading Nights in Rodanthe. The author’s purpose of this book is to entertain. Although, this book has been very hard to get into, I am going to finish it, only to see what crazy ending Sparks uses this time. I think this book is aimed towards older people, because the characters have just gone through a divorce, and she is telling her daughter the story of how she feell in love with a complete stranger at a bed 7 breakfast one weekend.
Tuesday
I am going to compare The Last Song with Nights in Rodanthe. Well, as in all of Nicholas Sparks’ books, we find it as a love story. One of the memorable traits that this author uses is to get us emotionally attached, thus making us feel the pain that each and everyone of his main characters faces. I find that in Nights in Rodanthe, the main character falls in love, which, so far, has happened in all of his books and I don’t see it changing anytime soon, but anyways, she is married and falls in love with a doctor while taking some alone time at a friend’s inn. In comparison, Ronnie, the main character in The Last Song, also is visiting a place from her long ago past, and does fall in love unexpectedly. In contrast, Ronnie has time to make mistakes and can fall in and out of love freely, on the other hand Adrienne has already commited 14 years of her life to a man, which complicates the story.
Wednesday
Nights in Rodanthe relates to character because Adrienne realized that even when all hope is lost, that things can turn around. This changes her character because it gives it hope, and livelyhood. She can not only look forward to seeing Paul again, but on bad days, she can always remember that weekend, and his letters, and know that they will always be together, in their hearts.
Thursday
Dear Paul,
After sharing our story with my daughter this past week, I realized only how much I miss you, and want you to be in my life again. It has been so long, and I still have the same love for you I did the first time you grabbed my hand and looked into my eyes. I know this may be a little crazy. But in a few short hours, I will be boarding a plane to come and see you.
I love you,
Adrienne.
* I’m oober excited about Friday, just hopefully we won’t get rained out this time around, and have to sit in the CRAMPED basement for 30 minutes.
😛 hay waz up Dr. roy hows the bakery doin
i am still reading 39 clues the maze of bone (go figure i have been reading it which seems like forever)
😀 so far i have rad that inside the ice cream van the holts were beating the crap out of each other like dang idiots like aulston (burn p.s sorry aulsten if you read this i am just making a simile)
🙂 and madison was beating the living tar out of hamiltons back by beating like a poor dog with box filled with fudgsicles and the mom (the fun killer) was trying to break it up
bye
🙁 🙂 😛 😀
I’m counting because I’m going to disney that week. 🙂 (hotmail makes it easer to use emotion coms.) :0 so in this general time area, I’m reading “PenDragon” Book two: the lost city of faar(they must of got tired of marjorie and the pillow repear bills) 🙂 so what has happend so Faar (you pronaunse(?) it fa-r k.) is that Loor was sent back to her home teritory to protect it. While Bobby and Uncle Press go to Cloral to stop Saint Daine (Marjorie) from causing havic.
will give u more intel later
your book warm,
rump
p.s. Katlin,,,,, I mean trey can you email all the combos at Matt.lipscomb@hotamil.com please..?…
Ok I am really sorry for the awful thing I have done. I have stopped blogging on Hamlet because i haven’t had enough time to read on in it because I let my friend borrow it. I am so sorry but anyway i must start a new book. The new book I started is written by my favorite author of all time which is Lois Lowry and she wrote my favorite book which is The Giver. Surprisingly that is not the book i am reding I am actually reading The Messenger. This is a new book to me so I think this is going to be pretty good. I haven’t gotten that far in it. It starts out with a kid Matty who lives in a town called Village.He lives with a blind man named Seer. They are both in the kitchen and he is trying to teach Matty how to cook so Matty could cook for Seer. Matty tells Seer that after dinner he is going to go to the Forest to look at something before sun down. After dinner Seer goes into the living room and starts playing the guitar and Matty walks off to the Forest.
Tuesdays and Fridays are my favorite school Days of the week.
I think that the book Switchbacks compares well to Everest by Gordon Kormen. I think these two books compare well to each other because the contestants in Everest have to be great hikers and have alot of endurance. In Switchbacks the people who want to be wardens first have to go to trail jobs, making trails and fixing other ones. This is similar to boot camp in the book Everest. When Marty finally gets the job at O’Hara he is surprised to see that he has to carry signs up a mountain. The contestants in Everest are running around a track with heavy packs on their backs and they are the same as the ones they would be carrying up Everest. This is one of those carrying heavy things up mountains. Those are the comparisons for tonight.
BBBBYYYYEEEE!!!!!
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So, like this week, I’m going to blog on Fire. It is the companion to Graceling.
Mon.- So in the very begining of the book, Fire (the main character) gets shot in the shoulder by a poacher. He was a poacher because they weren’t aloud to hunt in the forest at that time because Fire walked around. She has the power to control people’s minds by talking to them, or just thinking things to them. Okay, so she gets the poacher to take her to her house and of course, Archer her “friend” (because he’s what we call a boyfriend, and you didn’t have “boyfriends” a long time ago) So Archer is really mad. Okay, well I’ll leave it there.
Tues.- Well, since Archer is really mad at the poacher, he like wants to kill him (literally) because he can. Which brings me to his pet name, Archer. His name isn’t Archer, and I can’t remember his real one. It’s rcher because he’s like the best archer in the Dells. Well, Fire gets the arrow pulled from her arm, and she freaks out. Well, it takes her forever to heal, and then Archer, her, and some guards do to Roen’s house, the queen, who isn’t married to the king, because he’s her son because her husband died. Whew! Okay, now for the next day.
Wed.- Well, her arm is still hurt and she has to like wrap her hair up every where she goes because her hair is like blood red. (which explains my name) So like on the way there a lot of men get in a fight over her, because she’s a monster, and monsters are completley flawless and beautiful. So, when she finallt gets there she doesn’t want to meet the king, Nash, or his brother, Brigan. She knows that they will probably do something like propose or something crazy. I’ll leave it at that.
Thurs.- So she does meet Nash, when he’s drunk one night, and she tells him to leave using her mind. Did I mention she can read minds? So cool! Well, that same night she meets Brigan, who hates her. He pins her arms against the wall and makes her shoulder bleed and bruises her wrist. Oh yeah, they have this plan to drive the 1st (a branch of the army) to the crack in the side of the mountain. She does something really crazy. You’ll have to see what she does next week!
Okay, well have a great week blogging-and Mr. Mayfield, I do remember when we talked about what our favorite book we read over the fall- and mine was The Hunger Games. Still an awesome book, and a soon-to-be-movie. Which will be coming out in Fall 2011 or Winter. So cool, and the screen writter is the author. AWESOME!!! 🙂
Okay now to basicly finish the beginning and then the end then go on to the book Grim Tuesday.
Where we left off he had just been introduced to Suzy. While on his adventure with her he learns something of the House’s history: where the seven Trustees known as the Morrow Days, being contaminatted by the seven deadly sins, refused to obey the Architect’s Will; where the Architect’s (you could almost call him her husband), the Old One, had defied the Architect for some purpose of his own and been imprisoned as a result; where the House, under the inadeqate rule of the Trustees, has become a mess. At the end of the book, Arthur takes pity on Mister Monday and lets him go, after healing him mentally and physically. He hands the responsibility of government over to the Will itself, after it became the form of Dame Primus (also know as the “First Lady”), returns to Earth, and tries to regain the threads of his old life.
Now that you know the beginning and end it is time for Grim Tuesday.
Arthur has returned home when the telephone that the first part of the Will (also known as Dame Primus) gave him starts ringing. Dame Primus informs him that in the six months of House Time that have passed since he left, Grim Tuesday, the second of the Morrow Days, has found a loophole in the agreement not to interfere with the other Trustees. This allows him to take control of the Lower House, which Arthur obtained from Mister Monday. Dame Primus tells Arthur that there is a way to overcome this loophole if he returns to the House, but the phone is cut off before she can tell him. Arthur then travels to the Far Reaches (Grim Tuesday’s section of the House) with some difficulty, where he is mistaken for an indentured worker and forced to work. He then meets Japeth, a former Thesaurus. His work gang is forced to walk to another location, but Arthur and Japeth eventually fall behind.
A vehicle arrives suddenly, containing Suzy Turquoise Blue. She tells them that she brought equipment to break into Grim Tuesday’s Treasure Tower, so as to retrieve the second part of the Will and the Second Key. The three decide that Japeth should catch up with the work gang on Suzy’s vehicle while Arthur and Suzy break into the tower. They reach the tower by crossing the ceiling of the Far Reaches, to find that the tower is surrounded by a giant glass pyramid. A large mass of Nothing which claims to be Grim Tuesday’s former eyebrow, called Soot, gives them a diamond to cut through the glass pyramid, in exchange for helping it into the treasure tower. Arthur and Suzy break into the treasure tower, where they meet Tom Shelvocke the Mariner, the second son of the Architect and the Old One, who is currently Tuesday’s servant as a result of blackmail. The Mariner, when requested, provides them with transport to a worldlet inside a bottle, in which the second part of the Will is located. They manage to retrieve the Will, which is in the form of a bear, and return to the treasure tower.
Grim Tuesday arrives and chases them through a weirdway (a type of portal) into another part of the glass pyramid. They are then notified by one of Grim Tuesday’s servants that the East Buttress of the Far Reaches is giving out, and that if not attended soon, it shall fall. Its fall will then lead to the death of all of them. Tuesday, whose power over the Far Reaches and his namesake day has been revoked by the Will, demands the Key to solve this problem; the Will, however, declares a contest between Arthur and Tuesday of creating something with the Second Key, of which the Mariner is judge. The second key takes the form of two silver gautlets, which can be used to form objects and creatures out of Nothing. Whoever wins the contest could claim the Second Key and the Far Reaches. Tuesday creates a beautiful tree of precious metals; Arthur, knowing he can not compare in respect to physical beauty, creates a xylophone and plays a tune he composed as a young child as a sort of thank you song. The Mariner, as judge, declares that while the tree is a great work, it was copied from a human sculptor; thus Arthur is the winner for having made something of his own. Arthur goes to mend the eastern buttress, where he encounters a high-ranking Denizen, sopossedly to be Superior Saturday’s Dusk. A fight comes, where Arthur stabs his opponent, revealing that this figure, unlike most Denizens, has golden rather than blue blood. Arthur manages to mend the wall, stopping the buttress from collapsing. Once he returns, he is appointed Lord of the Far Reaches; as with the Lower House, he appoints Dame Primus (who now consists of parts 1 and 2 of the Will) his Steward and returns home. Dame Primus reverses the effects of the First Key on him before he left (to slow the process of him becoming a Denizen), at his request, and so he is in very ill health when he returns, and is sent to the hospital. When he wakes up, he finds an invitation from Drowned Wednesday under his pillow. WOW! like I said last week that was a lot of typing. That is all for this blog. Peace. 😉 🙂 😀 😛
hey Mr. mayfield hows it going and …. uhhhh well thats it so….
i am still reading the 39 clues the maze of bones :l (same old same old) :l :l :l
so far i have read that amy was going to beat saint loes like a )big giant buck beats up a little itty bitty baby buck when they fighting during the rut) but any way her stomach had over planes (if you know what i mean (hehe) 🙂 😀
and dan and amy were exgangening dirty nasty horrible looks (like this 🙂 oops i mean this :P) down at the yummy smelling bakery they every body said stop! so they would quit
now Mr. mayfield i will see you tomorrow home-boy
bye
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thank you trey
gusse what 1 🙂 less day of wating
I’m still reading The lost city of Faar:
bobby gusse what your famly retuned but their’s a problom.
your family dosn’t know you 🙁 every time we walk p to them thay say grt of their lawn, and their going to call the police ,and they call our parents, and stuff. every time we walk to the flumes your not their and we just recived your last journal. so were scared we want see you again.
see you soon hopefuly
courtney and mark
Now it is time for the third book in the Keys to the Kingdom series…Drowned Wednesday .Drowned Wednesday is the first Trustee among the Morrow Days who is on Arthur’s side and wishes the Will to be fulfilled. She appears as a leviathan/whale and suffers from Gluttony.
The book begins when Leaf is visiting Arthur and they are discussing the invitation that Drowned Wednesday sent him. Arthur had been admitted to hospital because of the damage done to his leg when he attempted to enter Tuesday’s Treasure Tower. Suddenly, the hospital room becomes flooded with water as the two are transported to the Border Sea of the House. Leaf is snatched away by a large ship with green sails, known as the Flying Mantis, while Arthur remains in his bed. When the Medallion given him by the immortal called the Mariner apparently fails to summon help, Arthur is without hope. Eventually, a buoy marking the pirate Elishar Feverfew’s treasure floats toward him. As soon as Arthur opens it, his hand is marked with a bloody red colour. Arthur now has the Red Hand, by which Feverfew marks whoever has found his treasure, so that he can identify them later. Not long after, a scavenging ship called the Moth rescues Arthur. On board, Arthur (going by the name of Arth) is introduced to Sunscorch, the First Mate, and to Captain Catapillow. Their journey brings them through the Line of Storms and into the Border Sea, where they are later pursued by Feverfew’s ghostly ship, the Shiver. The damage inflicted on the Moth is serious; therefore Sunscorch commands an Upper House Sorcerer, Dr. Scamandros, to open a transfer portal to elsewhere in the Secondary Realms. Scamandros claims that Arthur is carrying something that interfered with his magic, and tells Sunscorch to throw him overboard. As a last resort, Arthur shows them the Mariner’s Medallion, which stops Scamandros saying that they must get rid of Arthur. After going through the transfer portal (with Arthur’s help), the ship is grounded on a beach. When Arthur wished to learn what happened to Leaf, Dr. Scamandros applies his sorcery to make it possible. She is revealed to be aboard the ship Flying Mantis. Arthur joins Catapillow for supper, later to reveal his identity. At first, Propaganda issued by Dame Primus (Arthur’s Steward) makes them skeptical of this, but they eventually become convinced. A few days later, Wednesday’s Dawn takes Arthur to meet Wednesday for her ‘luncheon of seventeen removes’. As they approach, Wednesday shrinks into her human form to meet Arthur. During their lunch, Wednesday tells Arthur that after Part 3 of the Will has been released, she will surrender the Third Key to Arthur. Arthur is then taken by Wednesday’s Dawn to a place called the triangle in search of his friend Leaf. He learns that Leaf has been forced to work on the Mantis, but is otherwise intact. Arthur later makes a deal with the Raised Rats, a group of anthropomorphic rats brought to the House by the Piper, to take him to Feverfew’s hideout, which they believe is inside a miniature world located within Drowned Wednesday’s stomach. On the Raised Rats’ ship, Arthur opens a gift from Dr. Scamandros, which proves to be a golden transfer watch. With this, he communicates with and rescues Dr. Scamandros. He then uses a scrying mirror Dr. Scamandros gave him to watch Leaf. A rat watches him during the scrry, and later saves him from a battle with Feverfew. Later, the Rats bring Arthur onto their submarine, where he meets with Suzy Turquiose Blue. In contrast to Suzy’s former cockey attitude, she has assumed a more “ladylike and proper” on the orders of Dame Primus. Only when they are no longer on the Border Sea, but under it, does she resume her ways of speech and dress. They are, with navigational difficulty, able to enter the stomach of Lady Wednesday and the worldlet therein. There, Arthur and Suzy, disguised as rats, find escaped slaves, professed followers of the Carp. These exiles take them to the Carp, who is the third part of the Will. They are halted in their attempt to escape by Feverfew, who proposes that each of them will try to kill the other by means of one strike only. Arthur fails his first try, then dodges Feverfew and severs his head. Leaf, who is Feverfew’s prisoner, then kicks it into a mud puddle containing Nothing, which consumes it. Upon his death, the worldlet begins to collapse. Via the Moth, Arthur and all his friends (with the exception of the reluctant Catapillow) are able to escape. Lady Wednesday recovers from her gluttony, then dies as a result of being poisoned by the worldlet, which had opened a void to Nothing. Arthur, now Duke of the Border Sea, appoints Sunscorch as his Noon and Scamandros as his Dusk. Okay so now you know the whole story and since I have already blogged on Sir Thursday and on Lady Friday… I guess tomorrow I will blog on Superior Saturday. 😉 🙂 😀 😛
Wednesday
The author’s purpose in The book Switchbacks is to entertain and also to inform. For example, the book contains stories that tell of the Canadian Rockies. These stories are for the most part true. This book also has evidence of entertainment because when Marty is talking to Lawrence Grassi in his cabin, which him and his partner are staying in right now, they share stories of all kinds of adventures. Most notably the story about the cabin that Grassi built on the continental divide on Mount Victoria on the Alberta-British Columbia line. My blog for Wednesday.
i am still reading macbeth here at home on my computer. its a really good book. see what i do is i read the book at home alot and then when i get to school i dont read where i left off i read it all over again so tht i get a better understanding of it. so this week i shall write about macbeth. and guess what, its wednesday and im doing my blogs. yea for not being a slacker and doing it at the last minute.
summary of what ive read so far
i have gotten to act 3 at school but gotten to act 4 at home. since i didnt get to act 4 until tonight after baseball practice ill do it on act3. so far macbeth has killed duncan, the king. in the mist he talks to his dagger. kinda questions his sanity. and the he talks to the night. how do you do that. i mean what are you going to do, wait til 6 oclock and then talk to the moon or somthing like that. then before all of this murder and stupidness he actually listens to his wife about killing duncan. who listens to there wife, this makes him sound more crazy. well after all this stuff happens macduff finds duncan dead and the servants with blood all over them. when macbeth walks in he kills the servants saying it was out of anger right before they were about to start talking. then his wife comes and acts like nothing happened. then outside the castle ross and an 0ld man are talking about how just before the murder they saw an owl kill a hawk and horses eat each other. i dont knw how horses eat each other but they did. maybe they could take one bite and then let the other do the same. dang canibal horses. finally ross finds out that macbeth is being crowned king somewhere when macduff explains to him that the sons had left in a hurry making them suspect and macbeth the king. just like the three witches said so at the beginning. kinda makes you wonder about that no man born of woman thing. its a trick. im not going to say anything about it because i havent got that far but my dad told me what happens cause he read it in high school.
booyah got it done zac
hi mr mayfield i am still reading the 39 clues the maze of bones (golly this dang book is taking to freaking long 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 but i am all most done with it (he-he) 🙂 😛 😀
so far i have read that nielly was going to murder dan :O because her face was that color of dark red like when those cartoon characters get really really mad and she was mad because she was waiting out side of the hostel for dan but he was two freaking hours late ( :^ ) then she started shaking her iPod around making her head phone dance doing the boogy-boogy 😀
then amy started complaining like a sissy baby about there cellular phones not working
bye
1- well they all go downstairs to check on her, and she’s just sitting there in shock. she’s not moving or anything… she’s just staring with wide eyes. the other girls talked to her to figure out what happened, and they all thought that she was crazy. she said that a hand reached out and grabbed her, but when they checked the closet, there wasn’t anything there….
2- so they decide to just get out the aouja board so they can talk to elena. they all get dead-silent so bonnie can concentrate. all of a sudden, they see the pointer moving to different letters on the board. it was elena, trying to communicate. eventually, bonnie figured out what she was saying. it said “run, run, death awaits”.
3- as soon as they read this, the lights go out. everyone is scrambling to find the door, but they can’t. they tried to stay together, but they separated. nothing is working for them. two girls went upstairs, bonnie and meredith stayed downstairs, hiding, and caroline somehow found her way outside. all of a sudden, meredith felt a hot, sweaty hand on her shoulder…
4- she turned around, but she couldn’t see anything. it was all pitch-black. then, it all happened, simultaniously. they heard an ear-peircing scream from upstairs, there was a sound of wood breaking, and the sound of something hitting the ground… hard. it lasted for about 5 seconds, then the lights came back on. then bonnie and meredith went upstairs to investigate.
sorry about the miss spell in the last blog was in a hurry.:)
so what has happened now is that bobby and press are in the city named grallion. as i may have mengened(?) so faar(ha ha ha book humer):) all the teritory of cloral is covered in water. do the people live under water you may ask. Well no. the live on floating citys called habitats. every habitat has a spacific type of work some farm some are floating banks and some are facturies. grallion is a farm major.on grallion bobby meet one of press’s friends spader. Spader is a traveler but he dosn’t know it yet.
thats all I know talk to you later
rump
Book: Orel Hershiser (almost done :-))
*Monday*
The author’s purpose is to explain that Orel had heard the phrase “Better to be lucky than good”. Well, Hershiser was just lucky. He was doing very well in the first eight innings, but in the ninth, he just started doing terrible. He couldnt hit his spots, he couldnt control his trash balls (curves, changes, and knuckle balls), and he could rarely even hit the ball. Yep, Hershiser got lucky for only eight innings so the coach took Hershiser out and put another pitcher. Timmy Belcher (who has a good fastball and really sharp slider was up on the mound for the Dodgers. He was actually pitching a really good game (especially for a rookie). He held the Mets and the Dodgers were up 6-2 going into the ninth. Belcher was disappointed about having to come out of the game. The coach put in lefty Jesse Orosco for the pitcher and the Dodgers lost the game.
Hey I didn’t get to blog yesterday because we had to fix are computers so I did it on paper. I am going to have to catch you up. So after he left the house he took a short route past a school teachers house and his name was Mentor he is called Rosy because of the large red spot that covers one whole side of his face. He took this route because he has a crush on Rosy’s daughter. Her name is Jean. She always joked around saying she was going to kiss him. Matty grabbed a stick and started to draw a heart with both there names in it. He was hoping she would see it. His friend Ramond came and asked if he wanted to eat with them. He said no and he headed off into the Forest. It turns out that everybody has there own job like Matty’s is the Messenger. He has been through the Forest so much that he has made his own paths. Nobody ever went into the Forest because people have gotten stangled and they died by the vines. The Forest seemed to like Matty and they wouldn’t hurt him. Matty had to send messages to people through the Forest so it was a good thing that the Forest liked him.
Okay so now I will blog of everything that I have read in the Keys to the Kingdom series. Superior Saturday is the firstborn of the Seven Trustees chosen by the Architect to help Her manage affairs within the House, which is the epicenter of the universe and the first Creation of the Architect. When the Architect disappeared, She left behind a Will, stating what was to happen to the Keys to the Kingdom, and with it, the mastery of each demesne of the House. Superior Saturday is afflicted with the deadly sin of Envy. Saturday was given control of the Upper House and the Sixth Key. Defying the Architect’s wish that control of the House be given to a mortal Heir, Saturday kept the Sixth Key and the Upper House, and with the help of Lord Sunday convinced the other Trustees (Mister Monday, Grim Tuesday, Drowned Wednesday, Sir Thursday, Lady Friday) to retain mastery of their respective Keys and demesnes of the House. She serves directly under Sunday, and often makes rulings on things not under her direct control, using his “tacit” approval as authority. It has been revealed that she is the oldest Denizen, the most powerful and knowledgeable sorcerer within the House, and the third most ancient being in the universe, after the Architect and the Old One. She decried their collaborative experiment of having children from the beginning and (possibly as a result) resents being inferior to Sunday. For the last 10,000 years she has been hatching a plan to remedy this injustice and rule the House from its highest realm, the Incomparable Gardens. She represents the sin of envy. As shown in all of the novels in the series, Superior Saturday was the one most plotting against Arthur Penhaligon. During Grim Tuesday she ordered the creation of the The Skinless Boy, an example of a certain type of Nithling called a Spirit-Eater or Cocigrue, whose purpose is to take the place of a mortal within their Secondary Realm. A Cocigrue has the power to control the minds of anyone whom it touches, using the spores of a fungoid as a means of doing so. At the end of Drowned Wednesday, it is revealed that she (Saturday) sent this one into Earth to take Arthur’s place, preventing his return. Using its spores to control the minds of Arthur’s family and friends, Saturday was able to hold their memory of him for ransom in exchange for all of his Keys, Demesnes, and any claim as the Rightful Heir. Her next move was to order an invasion of the Middle House during the events in Lady Friday. She proclaims control of the Middle House; but as Friday did not legally show her authority of the Middle House, Saturday’s claim was false. It has been confirmed that Saturday possesses the sin of envy when she is taunted by Sunday when he shows her glimpses of his realm. He is aloof and represents pride. It was revealed in Sir Thursday that Saturday controls the Bathroom Attendants; Denizens who “wash between the ears” of Piper’s children, removing their memories. She controls elevators between the various demesnes of the House and also attempts to control the telephones of the House, but as these fall under the authority of the Lower House and the wiring of them under the Far Reaches, she lacks full control. She also (up to the events of Sir Thursday) controlled the Army of the Architect through Thursday. Most of these powers have presumably been granted to her by Sunday. At the end of Lady Friday, Suzy Blue gave Arthur a piece of paper, ripped from a larger piece, that was found by Ugham, and was given up by Ugham before he was destroyed by the Void of Nothing.
“For the last time, I do not wish to intervene. Manage affairs in the House as you wish.
It will make little difference in the end.”
S.
Dame Primus confirms to Arthur that the note is from Sunday, as Saturday would not have signed it with a single “S”, being too proud.
The Sixth Key is a quill pen and the Sixth Part of the Will is a raven. This part of the Will seems much more charitable than the others, being willing to help Arthur rescue Suzy, but still lacking respect for lower creatures, rather willing to knock out a Denizen for his clothes. It is implied that Arthur has been changed by his use of the Keys into an immortal (though it is uncertain of what type); his blood is now golden rather than red, his eyes are now blue and luminous, and he is taller, stronger, more handsome, and more tolerant of injuries than before. So that is how the series has been going so far. Peace. 😉 🙂 😀 😛 😯
Blog for Thursday
The Relation to our class theme-change- in the book Switchbacks is very well picked up. For Example when Marty is lugging the signs up Mount Victoria, they talk about how they are being forced to destroy natures wonders with wooden signs. The other strong evidence almost lasts through an entire two chapters. This example that I am talking about is that Marty begins on trail crew swinging grub-hoes and pick-axes. Then he graduates to go to Lake O’Hara to be the alpine-technician. In other words, the hiker rescue squad or as he puts it the O’Hara warden. That is my blog for Thursday.
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Monday: Started a new book “Ghost Town” not a very good book. Haven’t gotten that far but I think I’m going to drop it. Still giving it more time to make a MAJOR comeback. One of the Characters ar Charles or as his family calls him chip(don’t know how You get Chip from Charles but whatever floats their boat and cruises their ship) and other characters only thing I have got out of them so far is Mom and Dad and I think Sister someone (she was only mentioned once if at all) Well thats the intro of the book.
Tuesday: So Charles is like Mr. Grumpy Guss b/c him and two have his friends had big plans to play at the arcade ALL day Saturday but Charles’s parents had diffrent plans to go to the O.K. Corral place to watch a reanactment of the O.K. Corrals “BIG” shoot out. Charles keeps this horrible attitude the entire trip up and he had to stay up there all weekend. As soon as they got to the town Charles split up with his family to go grab lunch by himself and they planned to meet up at 2ishh for the Shoot-out.
Wednesday: When Charles sat down to eat this dude with his country get up comes strut’en his lil self down the street and just helped himself to sit down at the table Charles sat at. Now if this dude came up to me and put his nose all up in my business looking like he did Pshh I go all Ninja Mermaid on him! Charles just let him sit there and ejoy himself, then finally he gets some common sence and asked why he was dressed like that and if he worked there.
Thursday: That was a big mistake asking b/c then the County dude started talking about the history of the “BIG” shoot-out. Now I don’t wanna hear about that in person better yet not reading it! Seriously in Mr. Scott’s room and I literally almost fell asleep reading this part! I mean thats real sadd!! So as the Country Boy jabbered on and on Charles just saat there “ACTING” like he cared and asking question just so he wasn’t and rude and junk. Then outa nowhere Country was like Holeyy COWW I’m gonna be late! and ran off to the shoot-out. Charles followed b/c he was suppose to meet his parents there anyways.
update on when the final book of the Hunger Games is coming out. It’s called Mockingjay, and it comes out 6 days before my birthday; 179 days, 4 hours, and 10 minutes!!!!! started a new book monday, like promised. i’ve started maximum ride: the angel experiment. it’s about these kids who have had tests done on them at a place called the School. They’re now mutants with bird bones, wings, and a bunch of other stuff. One kid is blind due to the “scientists” “improving” his vision. They escaped from the School with the help of one of the scientists who felt sorry for them. He was killed by Erasers (people who were also mutated into wolfmen and work for the School). Now they are living by themselves in a house on the side of a cliff where nobody can find them. One day, the Erasers come in a helicopter to find the kids, and when they do, they attack. The kids put up a fight, but they lose. The bad guys have taken the youngest of the kids, Angel. They try to rescue her before the Erasers leave, but the Erasers have guns. Once they leave, the other 5 kids come up with a plan to rescue her. Max, the oldest, Nudge, and Fang will fly to the school and try to rescue Angel. Gasman and Iggy have to stay at home in case Angel escapes and comes back. Of course, Gasman and Iggy aren’t happy about this, especially since Angel is Gasman’s sister. Once the three leave, the other two start building bombs to protect themselves in case Erasers come back. Max, Fang, and Nudge fly for a while when they decide to take a rest. They fly into an abandoned ski resort and break into a house. Nobody is there, so they eat and take a nap. While they’re sleeping, Angel is having experiments done on her. She’s on a treadmill, and has been for at least 4 hours. Every time she stops, a man shocks her with a metal stick. She passes out soon, and she wakes up on an operating table. Back to the rescuers…when they wake up, they realize it’s been 8 hours. They’ve wasted a lot of time. They take off and start toward California. That’s as far as I’ve gotten.
wuzzup! Read the newest Alex Rider, Crocodile Tears. Cheap Jowada power station. Angry worker. 20 tons of C-4 plastic explosive. Big explosion, chaos in the streets, ect. Now Alex is looking in a mirror to see how he looks for a party. (Big gap between those 🙂 ) Desmond McCain, the bad guy (somebody a Democrat?) is hosting a party, which Edward Pleasure got tickets for, so Alex snagged one of his and is tagging along. No spying yet. Then, driving home, somebody shoots a wheel from Alex’s car, which plunges into the below 0 water (of course, deathly situation which he miraculously escapes from). When he gets out, an Indian or Pakistanin. he takes them to a hospital, which Jack meets him at. Sabina + Edward leave, and Jack + Alex go home to find…… no one. (anti climatic, huh?) He goes to school, leaves, and goes by Ian Rider’s grave. He gets jumped by 3 chinese people, and a 4th takes pictures, unseen. That night, a reporter meets alex and shows him the pictures.
sorry, computer almost came unplugged, so i sent it to not lose it. Anyway,the reporter tries to talk him into telling his story, which he does not. (btw, a trip to greenfields, a science center, is coming up for school in the book) after school, he goes to M16 to talk to them about Harry Bulman (the reporter). They talk a little about that, and steer the conversation towards a operation in greenfields. then they send him to Smithers (awesome scientist guy), who gives him a lead lined (xray proof) Simpsons pencil tin, infused with ghost images of pens + stuff. Gaget time! big eraser-rip it in half and get a memory stick.Library card-all purpose swipe card.pencil sharpener-tiny knife. Calculator- phone to M16 + camera jammer. Red + Black pens-small explosive (red is more powerful.) See ya next time!
Monday
I am reading Bear. The book is about Paul “Bear” Bryants life. it is a very entertaining book. the best way i like to describe the book is awesome. The part im at is where alabama is about to win the championship
Tuesday
I think the author’s purpose is to entertain and to inform because the book tells you about Pauls life. So its realistic fiction. The book tells facts, yet it is very interesting at the same time. I like books that are not all facts, but I don,t like that many books without facts.
Wednesday
I think the book relates to change because Paul changes throughout the book. He is a regular football coach and at the end he is a championship football coach. It is a big change in the book.
Thursday
This book is like another book I read, called Touchdown Alaxander. They are alike because they are both based on football and about championships. One is about a player and one is about a coach. both books are really good. bye
#1 Dear Dromio of Syracuse,
We understand your “mishap” with the other man who takes your place sometimes. We would like to help you, but we want something in return. We want you to work for us in the city and do it so that your master will not know what you are doing. If you do this then we will take that man, send him back to where he truly belongs, and then you will work for us for about 2 months and that should pay off the debt.If you decide it is better to be tied up and called insane then go ahead, but if you would rather be the only dromio then come see us at the porkchop and sign your name to a contract.
Signed,
Men who understand.
P.S. we will all be wearing red feathers.
#2 The author, William Shakespeare is a wonderful playwright and he shows this through all of his plays, but “The Comedy of Errors” is by far my favorite. He is showing the way that many people act like, saying that they didnt do something, when in turn they really didnt, but were mistaken by the man to be someone else. He is writing to entertain the many people who were going to see his play be performed in one of the many London theaters.He not only entertains the rich people who enjoyed going, but many of the surprisingly regular poor people who enjoyed his plays so much that they gave up much needed money to watch his brilliance being performed in real life.
#3 The characters are amazing. The jeweler, Angelo, is a normal person who wants to help his “friend” out by getting the money that would pay for his necklace that Angelo made for Antipholus of Ephesus. But he gave it to Antipholus of Syracuse, and from then on when he questioned Antipholus of Ephesus on what kind of man he was to dispute the matter because he had obviously given the necklace to him. Angelo was mearly a man making a mistake he didnt know he was making. And then there are the twins. They didnt know each other existed, and so when they saw each other they were confused. There is also the Duke. He was a wise man, he listened well and asked good questions. Once he found the answer he said something.
#4 Facts: The twins from Syracuse came to Ephesus to find their other twin. They set off and didnt find the other twin, yet they were treated very well, and they were surprised because they had never been treated so well. They believed that everyone was a witch/wizard and they were all casting them under a spell. But when they were finally shown their brothers, they were so surprised and ecstatic to see and find out about each other, all charges were dropped and everyone was happy.
Opinions: I am so happy for the brothers, and sorry for everyone else’s inconvenience, but I wouldve been just as confused. If I were Angelo, I wouldve been so mad at both Antipholus’ for there dong, but when I found out what was happening I wouldve just gotten my money and been happy.
hey mr mayfield whats going on 😛 🙂 😀
well i am still reading the same old same old 🙁 but only got 4 more chapters lest 🙂 😛 😀
so far i have read that amy absolutely hates giant crowds but being surrounded by dead people will not bother her at all strangely enough
then neille and dan hurried up the steel stair case and then ended up in some room which the warm air smelled like a wet rock and mildew and made out of lime stones and there were also air pipes over there head which was making the room smell
bye
Book: Orel Hershiser
*Tuesday*
Dear Jay Howell,
I don’t really believe it was right for you to be ejected, although the umpires called it wrong. You almost had that batter out. I mean it was so close! It went ball one, ball two, ball three, foul (strike one), foul (strike two), and then the umpires came and noticed that you had pine tar (pine tar helps you grip your bat better- i guess it’s illegal). Hope yall win the World Series. Gosh! I mean it just keeps getting closer and closer! Maybe yall will pull it out and win. Also, hopefully there will be better umpires next time.
Book: Orel Hershiser
*Wednesday*
The book i am reading relates to another book i have read before, The Atlanta Braves, because both books (of course) is about sports, actually baseball (all the books i read are about sports). In both books, it talks about how hard a team works to get to where they want to be and to (in this case) win the World Series. Both books talk about how hard a team practices and can come so close to winning. In my book now, the Dodgers jump ahead quick on the Mets in the World Series, but the Mets just come back and win the game. (I just thought of this) a team or a person can just work so, so, so hard to acheive a goal of their own and practice, work hard, and just give it all they have, but just lose what they have been fighting for. In the Olympics, some lady was starting off to ski and lost her balance. She got elliminated- i mean everything that sh’e been working so hard for, she just, well, lost it.
Book: Orel Hershiser
*Thursday*
There is conflict and it is external because both teams (the Mets and the Dodgers) are fighting to win the World Series and show how bad they want to win and earn it. But, only one team will acheive and accomplish there goal by winning. I mean everybody loves to win and almost everyone shows how bad they want it. Orel Hershiser is a really great baseball player and just about everyone gets mad when they fall short of what they have been fighting for. There’s one team who is going to win. There is always going to be a loser no matter what. No one is perfect and just like everyone will fall short of the glory of GOD, some point in everyone’s life, they will fall short of something but i tell you, EVERYONE will fall short of the glory of GOD. Go to church! Get saved! Enter the kingdom of heaven! It is so much better than hell. Goodnight!
OK so now you whant guess what. Michle knows were Bobby is and all about the ring. Not the flumes and stuff just the ring. Mark and Courtney are trying to keep it hush hush but they got calt(?) in the boys bath room together reading Bobby’s leters when the janitior came in to clean they left in a hurry and dropped 1 paper and Michle found it. So to keep him to shuitup Mark agred to let him read the journles bobby send him.
thats all i n know now so see you late,
rump ( I wish i knew how to make my r backwards)
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Since I can’t find the new blog page I will blog on this page. I am now reading the book Erec Rex: The Dragon’s Eye. Life is not easy for twelve year old Erec Rex. His single mother works constantly, but can barely support her adopted kids. They’ve moved again, into an apartment so tiny that Erec sleeps with the washing machine. And worse, there is a strange force in Erec that makes him to do odd things. No matter how hard he fights it, his urge to obey grows until it is impossible to resist. Usually, it makes him do good things, like putting pillows at the bottom of stairs moments before his sister crashes down. But what if, someday, he is made to do something terrible? Then one morning, Erec’s mother is missing. His power commands him to find her, taking him on an adventure that will change him forever. He meets Bethany, an orphaned girl working for her Uncle and who also lost both parents in her mysterious past. Together, they discover a magical world called Alypium, where the knowledge of magic is kept. Things in Alypium are amiss: their King Piter is hypnotized, and his castle lies on its side. When Erec tries on his mother’s glasses, he finds he can see her wherever she is. She is a prisoner of a king named Pluto. Erec can not understand why Pluto would want her … but secrets start to tumble out. Erec learns he was born in Alypium, and he may not be safe there. He is upset she has hidden so much from him, and loses trust in her. His only hope to rescue his mother is to find ingredients for a formula to blast her free. While searching for them, he enters contests to choose the next three rulers of Alypium. The contests, including the “Pro and Contest,” where they are reprimanded by movie characters, and the “Under Mine,” are challenging enough, but somebody is attacking the winners, making kids afraid to compete. Erec’s magical power helps him save friends from such things as swamp gas, attack fleas, and a minotaur. Balthazar Ugry, not only evil, but with a terrible smell, seems to be the culprit. Just looking at him makes Erec tremble. What’s more, Erec discovers someone is planning to take over Alypium, as well as the other magical lands—Aorth and Ashona. Could this be Ugry as well? When the blasting formula is ready, Erec crosses King Pluto’s deadly dungeons to save his mother, but he makes a mistake. He doubts her advice, and almost loses his life to the deadly destroyers and shadow demons.
Amazed he survived, he puts on the glasses to find he freed his mother. With renewed confidence in each other, they plan a strategy. If he becomes the next king, he can save Alypium from Ugry, and his family could come out of hiding. With odds stacked against them, Erec and Bethany advance to the final contest, but something is not quite right. He must retrieve an eye from a ferocious dragon. King Pluto wants the eye, but Erec learns he must keep it. He escapes to the castle, where he is thrown into the clutches of his most deadly enemy. Erec will not make the same mistake twice. He has learned from his previous failure in the dungeons, and now he prevails. He has gained understanding of himself and his magical power, solved the mysteries, and is ready to embark on a quest to become king. So that is mostly the book of Erec Rex: The Dragon’s Eye. 😉 🙂 😀 😛 8)