“The Chicago Cubs head to the World Series!”

The curse of the billy goat is broken!  The Chicago Cubs are heading to the World Series for the first time in 71 years.  Just like how the famous Harry Caray once said “Someday, the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the World Series”.  If the Cubs win the Worlvd Series, it’ll be their third title, tying with the White Sox (city rivalry).  This “curse” began with the mayor of Michigan, he came to Cubs game with his pet goat.  Evidently Wrigley security guards denied to let them in so the mayor supposedly put a curse on the Cubs.  Cubs fans really want this W (win), so they could have their third World Series title lots of fans actually died waiting to see.  The Cubs are going to play the Cleveland Indians, and Game 1 is on October 25th, 7:00 P.M

Revision of 1st quarter of 8th Grade

For the first couple of days in 8th grade, I think I was doing alright, but since we started getting homework.  I’ve been on a very bad slump, I need to start doing my homework if I want to have the successful life I’ve always wanted.  The homework stresses me out sometimes because back then in other grades they were barely any homework, I get why there's so much homework and it’s to get us ready for high school because we’re not that far from high school homework.

At the end of the quarter, I think I left a slightly poor effort.  I know this is not my best so for the 2nd quarter, I’ll do my best on completing homework and studying more to get the grades to start my way onto high school.  One way I can start improving is that I can have a 30 minute break when I get home, get a snack, then start to do my homework in my living room, by myself.

I think I've did good on my blogs lately, we're barely started the year so I think I'm doing good for what I'm at right now.  One strategy that help me was the 5w’s, it helps you to make sure you give information so the reader isn't confused.  My writing has progressed a lot, Mrs. Larson really cares about how you're doing and requires her students to try their best, I know I did better than last year.  My goals for the next three quarters is too improve my work and help my vocabulary so I can be smart as I can.

The Giver Book Essay

(Part 1) While reading the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, I've found some events to compare from the book to the film such as when  Jonas was selected in the ceremony of 12 to be the next “Receiver of Memory”. Ive managed to find this quote “We failed in our last selection,' The Chief Elder said, solemnly. 'It was ten years ago', when Jonas was just a toddler”, this quote helps compare the book and film because the film also had a ceremony and a speech.  Another event I found to contrast while watching the film was when Jonas took away Gabriel so they wouldn't kill him. This quote helps to picture the moment “Things could change, Gabe. Things could be different. I don't know how, but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colors.  And grandparents. And everybody would have memories. You know about memories”, I can contrast from the film and the book because in the book, Gabriel is staying in their dwelling but in the movie Gabriel is in the nurturing center.

(Part 2) From reading The Giver by Lois Lowry, I've seen how the ending of the books is portrayed in the film.  The ending of the book is very detailed and you picture almost every moment but I felt that in the film, it was rushed.  This quote might help picture the moment “For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo”. This quote gives the reader a picture to see that moment at the end of the book, the book ending was better because of all of the detail. Another way I found that the book ending is portrayed in the film is when they were talking about Rosemary “You suggested, Jonas, that perhaps she wasn't brave enough? I don't know about bravery: what it is, what it means. I do know that I sat here numb with horror. Wretched with helplessness. And I listened as Rosemary told them that she would prefer to inject herself”, this moment is portrayed very well in the film because they do have some sort of a “memory” about Rosemary with those memories that made her release herself.

(Part 3) I think the film made me understand more about the ending of the story because I got to visually see what happened.  The film also gave a bigger impact because you could actually hear them speak so you can hear their emotions more, the film is a better understanding for the ending of the story.

Theme and how Jonas is a Dynamic character

From reading the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, I’ve concluded the Jonas (main character) is very dynamic.  For one way I can show Jonas’s relationship between pain and pleasure is when “The sound of Jonas’s shuddering breaths.  He was struggling not to cry” This quote shows how Jonas.  Changed from being very shy and quiet in the beginning of the book now, where he's very talkative and shows emotions and feelings. Another reason that shows how dynamic Jonas is when this happened "now he understood the joy of being an individual,special and unique and proud", this quote shows how Jonas has changed when he was given his job.  Because before he felt like the same as other people with no differences.

While reading the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, the theme turns out to be “Relationship between pain and pleasure” because Jonas can show emotions like this quote “Overwhelmed by pain, he lay there in the fearsome stench for hours”, this quote shows how Jonas can be very emotional.  Jonas can show true emotions because of the memories that The Giver gave to him, this is why I feel that the theme is “Relationship between pain and pleasure”. Another way the theme is "