Category: Reading

Worlds Apart Part One

October 10, 2016 / / 1 Comment

In February, 1880 when the weather was bitterly cold and out of the deep from the woods came a grumpy,  8 feet tall and huge in stature man. He looked so unkempt and slams his foot on the paving stones as he walked towards the village square of  Cookney, Aberdeenshire in the early hours of one Sunday morning. His footsteps woke up the whole village as pictures and clocks hanging on the walls fell down as he walked pass.

Before he could cover about 200 yards more than half of the villagers followed him wanting to see his face. No one had the courage to ask him his name or who he was. Only one lady had the courage to go up to him and ask. She was the nicest person in the whole village, so if anything she said was a good suggestion, the whole village would agree. She was very petty, and a day wouldn’t go by without some of the men lining up at her door, asking for her hand in marriage.

“What’s your name?” The roughen was about entering his home, but before he did, he gave a menacing stare that drove all the villagers away. The lady had followed him, a few of the men tried to stop her, but it was too late. On the way, the man found it strange that she wasn’t afraid of him…

The lady couldn’t help but to sing while wondering into the meaningless and empty forest, she wasn’t aware of her whereabouts or if someone or something was watching her. But she kept on singing. Humming to assure herself of any danger, she noticed that every time she hummed or sang a song, a lower voice would mix in and make a beautiful harmony. She decided to follow the voice until she came to a fork between two roads, the one on the left was higher than the voice on the right, but the left was also more louder, so she couldn’t decide which one to take.

It was the following day, and as usual, the men of the village would go to her door and ask for her hand in marriage, also bringing gifts to win her over, but alas, she wasn’t there. They had forgotten she was even gone, so the people of the village were all alerted and alarmed, because the most favoured person in the whole of the village, was gone. She was still picking though, until she took the right. It wasn’t a wise decision. It was extremely dark, even though it was day time. She was robbed of her sight as soon as soon as she chose the path, causing her to wonder through a totally different world. The whole town was panicking about where she was and if she was OK, even she herself couldn’t even force a squeak out of her mouth.

Suddenly, a pair of yellow eyes stared straight at her own, she

wanted to walk forward, but she found herself going backwards until she was falling, falling to her doom. The people of the village created a search party to look for her, but she had already gone down the hole. When she thought all hope was lost, a giant hand reached in for her and caught her.

The woman didn’t know where she was or when she got to this mysterious place, but she didn’t want to stick around to find out. She dashed for the village, but her sight was still robbed and she went in the wrong direction. For she had bumped into the feared man she was looking for. He was a complete stranger to only her. Everyone knew that he was the person who terrorized the village until someone had the courage to go and teach him a lesson and he was never seen again.

 Part two…

ANIMAL FARM REVIEW – ANOTHER BOOK I HAVE READ!

October 1, 2016 / / 6 Comments

The Animal farm is also another great book made by George Orwell.
This book is about a farmer called Mr Jones, who terrorizes his poor defend less animals. One day he and his men went too far and the animals rebelled as the wise Major had said. Mollie and snowball, who betray their own kind, chose to join Mr Jones on Fox-wood farm and they both tried to help him win the battle of the cowshed.

By that time the animal farm became known to all of London, but supporters of Mr Jones wanted to take it back to its rightful owner. Before Snowball had left, he said that they should build a windmill, to save the energy of the animals, but comrade Napoleon said they shouldn’t.
They ended up building it without Snowballs help because Napoleon had took the idea for himself.

Later on Snowball had destroyed the windmill because of his jealousy and joined Mr Jones in his pledge to take back the farm. Subsequently, Fredrick wanted to take back the animal infested place an punish the animals in it, but Napoleon wasn’t having that. He and everyone worked even harder to rebuild the windmill and they did, they even made the walls thicker. But when Fredrick had ambushed them, he then made his way to the windmill and blew it into oblivion!

When the animals opened their eyes to see that all their hard work had gone down the drain, all animals’ rage boiled like water in a pot. The charged at Fredrick and his men, but the men were too strong and killed quite a few of them. Boxer was on his hooves, knocking them down all at once. Eventually Fredrick said they should retreat while they still could.

I would rate this book 5 stars because it is really interesting and it would be a really good for people who like to read.

Wide Reading Project

September 20, 2016 / / 0 Comments

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During the year you will be asked to read a wide range of texts. Using texts studied in class as well as texts you have selected you will also complete a log of the reading process. Overall you will read eight texts including at least six written texts and two visual texts. You will complete log entries on each text and present a report on your findings.

Attached is the outline of your required personal reading project – inside is the guidance you need to make sure your own-choice reading is going to meet the wide reading criteria.

You can always ask your teacher for advice about which texts would be best to concentrate on – and once you’ve read each text, you’ll then be asked to write a journal entry on your blog explaining how it helped develop your understanding of The Individual and Society.

This year everyone in the school will be required to have a ‘book at hand’ – and for English students, it makes a good idea to make that book one that helps you towards this reading project.

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