1960s
* Read a novel, biography, or fact book about any of these topics. Must be at least 200 pages. If you cannot find a book that long, combine 2 different books to add up to 200 pages.
* Complete the following activities:
- Write a 1-2 paragraph summary of your book
- What is the time period your book is set in? What was going on in history during that time period? Does that time in history have an effect on your characters or the plot of your story? Explain why or why not. (1-2 paragraphs minimum)
* If your story is fiction, make an educated guess of the time period and then answer the questions above.
Due on November 30th
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ReplyDelete1. My book is called” So far from the Bamboo Grove”. It’s about an 11 year’s old (Yoko Kawashima) old Japanese girl living with her family in North Korea during the end of World War II. As the Korean Communist come closer to her home town, Nanam. Yoko and her family must run away from their home, without her brother [Hideyo] and her father. Luckily, Corporal Matsumura gave their permission to go on the train. But while they were on the train the airplanes attacked them, so they have to walk to the Seoul station. They faced many tragedy and sacrifice, like they were almost caught and when they have to wear the soldier’s clothes. Also Yoko’s brother almost died from the blizzard after he read the note from his family to go to the Seoul station. But when Yoko and her family arrived at the Seoul station, they decided to go to Pusan and to Kyoto, because Yoko’s mother wants her daughters to go learn there. But while they were at their new school they were teased, but they didn’t care. But at the end their mother died and they saw their brother again.
2. The setting of the book is when the Korea was under control form the Japanese for four decades (1910-1945). For centuries Japanese emperors regarded Korea as a foothold for expansion into Asia. The Koreans were treated badly from the Japanese, like advisory were formed to check the power of the governor general, the Japanese allowed only wealthy Koreans to vote for council members. All subjects in the school for Korean children, except the Korean language itself, were taught in Japanese, the Koreans were furious. So when the Korean military became stronger, they expelled all the Japanese from their country. The characters were affected to that time, because when the Korean communist came to their town, they knew their life’s are not safe, so they ran away from the Korean communist.
Ieuan Owen 7A
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I read a historical fiction book called Kim of Korea written by Faith Norris and Peter Lumn. The book is about a young Korean boy called Kim, who endures an epic adventure to find his promised-to-be father. The book is set in the period of time just after the Korean War, when there are still a lot of American soldiers in Korea, preparing to leave for America from the coastal city of Inchon.
Kim is a country war orphan living at a big orphanage in a big city. Here, because of his country ways, Kim is treated badly by the city children. So when another boy very similar to Kim arrives at the orphanage, and says that he knows of a big, uninhabited building at the top of a hill just near the orphanage, they decide to run away and go and live there. After they arrive they realise how difficult it will be to survive so the other boy reluctantly decides to go back to the orphanage, leaving Kim to endure the hardships of winter and food gathering alone. After a few months, an American soldier, called Len, comes to explore the old house.
Almost immediately, after arriving, he spots Kim hiding in a tree. After luring him down with kind words and chocolate, he gets Kim talking, and after hearing about his parents death and Kim's horrible time at the orphanage, Len feels pity for Kim. Over the next days, Len buys Kim proper food, clothes, and even a toy yo yo. Len spends a lot of time with Kim playing soldiers and hiking further up the very large hill that the house is on. During this time Len grows fond of the polite little Korean war orphan and Kim becomes devoted to the gracious American soldier.
One day Len tells Kim that he has to go to a hospital to have his war injured-leg treated. He then asks Kim if he would like to go back to America with him, and live with Len and his wife on a farm, after he comes out of hospital. After thinking about it for a minute, Kim decides that he would like this very much. So Len leaves Kim that day with the promise that he will be back in a couple of weeks to take Kim to America.
Following an unfortunate turn of events, Kim ends up getting kicked out of his own house and is left to seek out Len by himself. The only place Kim had heard mentioned of by Len was the port of Inchon. So Kim decides to set out for it on foot.
On the way to Inchon, Kim experiences many mishaps, learns many things, makes many friends, is ill-treated, and even helps capture one of the country's most dangerous criminals. He joins a travelling circus, crosses one of Korea's largest rivers, and travels with a crazy old man in a half-broken old car. Eventually Kim arrives in the American army camp in Inchon. Here Kim's heart is nearly broken with disappointment when, round a corner, out pops Len!
After relaying their stories to each-other, Len and Kim set off to America to live happily ever after.
Ieuan (continued)
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My book is set just after the Korean War which ended around 1953, so I am guessing it is in the later part of 1953 or some where in 54.
As the book is set just after the Korean War, troops are still leaving the area, and the regions involved are starting to settle down a bit more. Elsewhere in the world Peter Pan was released by Disney, the discovery of REM sleep was made, and (sadly) England lost to Hungry 6-3 at Wembley - their first ever loss at home to a continental team.
This time in history definitely has an effect on the characters in my book, especially because my book is a historical fiction novel. As it's just after the Korean War, the people are still recovering and settling down from the war. There are a lot of American soldiers still in Korea because of this, and the setting is affected by the warfare. There are also a lot of orphans whose parents were taken by the war. This completely effects the book because the two main characters, Len and Kim, are both one of these peoples. Len is an American soldier there from the war, and Kim is a war orphan. Other minor things that affect the characters in my book include: peoples' knowledge of how to get to the American army camp in Inchon; a slight difference in the products available for purchase – because of the American customers; and many homeless people – because the war destroyed many houses.
Hannah Huff 7A
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My book is set in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. It is about a boy named Y’Tin who wants to be the youngest elephant trainer in his village. He finally gets his wish and becomes a full elephant trainer at the age of thirteen. A fear starts spreading throughout his village that the North Vietnamese Army would invade their village. After a while, they actually did and Y’Tin escaped into the jungle with his elephant and two others. One other elephant trainer and Y’Tin’s best friend escape into the jungle with him. Half of the village escaped but the other half were killed by the North Vietnamese.
Y’Tin was separated from his family and started to fight with the other two boys. His elephant, Lady, was pregnant and about to give birth. She became interested in a wild herd of elephants. Y’Tin suspected that Lady knew that the calf would stand a much better chance of living with the wild herd than with the humans. The humans had been unable to keep Lady’s last calf alive. Y’Tin knew that Lady was right, so he let her stay with the wild herd. He then continued on his way with his friends and their elephants. Eventually, they found a camp that had all the survivors from the different villages. Y’Tin’s family was there. After a long debate, the men in charge decided to eat the two elephants that the boys had brought with them. Y’Tin disagreed with them and ran away into the forest. He slept there and in the morning, he found Lady and her calf standing beside him. He spent several days with the two and decided that he should let them go and that he should leave Vietnam and live his dream elsewhere.
Hannah Huff 7A
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A Million Shades of Gray was set from 1954 to 1975. The book never says specifically when it was set, but it was set during the Vietnam War. This time period definitely has an effect on the plot. Had the book not been set during the Vietnam War, it would have been an entirely different book. There might not even have been a book.
Y’Tin’s village would have never been stormed. He would have never been separated from his family. No one would have died. Y’Tin wouldn’t have been forced into the forest. The elephants would never have been eaten. Lady’s calf would have probably died. The whole story would have just been about Y’Tin training Lady in his village. It would not have had the adventure or great sadness that the book did. It would have been a very boring book.
By Rees Chamberlain, 7A
ReplyDeleteMy book was about a girl named Sun-Hee, and her brother, Tae-Yul, who were in Korea during World War II. Korea was owned by Japan. Her family was ordered to change all their names to Japanese names. Sun-Hee was named Keoko. The Japanese made it illegal to speak Korean or to have Koreas national plant, the rose of sharon tree. They weren’t even allowed to Own a Korean flag. Japanese went to different schools and abused Koreans all the time. However, their uncle secretly makes a newspaper for a resistance group
Sun-Hee is thirteen. She spends all of her time studying in school and practicing kanji. She was named best in her class and got a badge, but a bunch of boys started calling her a suck up and a Japan lover. This life continues until Japan starts losing ground in southeast Asia and the Japanese fear that the Allied Forces will get to Korea, so, Sun-Hee has to stop having normal schools and just spends all day working and practicing with throwing rocks and stabbing dummies with a bamboo pole. Every day she comes home and studies kanji there.
Her brother, however, hates school. He is 18 and is in love with vehicles, especially planes. He goes and signs up, without his parents’ permission, to build a landing strip. After a while he joins the army , also without permission. He gets questioned by an officer about his uncle but has to go to training so he doesn’t answer any of the questions. He goes and works really hard until he signs up to be a kamikaze. I don’t want to ruin the end for anyone who wants to read this so I will say no more.
My book is set in the 1940’s, when Japan owned Korea. I think the time plays a huge role in my story because if it wasn’t based in this time, then they would be allowed to speak and be Korean. The son also wouldn’t be a kamikaze if it was this time period. They would have been a lot freer and the story would be a lot more boring.
In history, at this time, Japan owns all of southeast Asia and Manchuria and Korea and all sorts of places. The Allied Forces, especially America, are trying to beat Japan and are in production of the atomic bomb. The Nazis are at large and so was Mussolini. Lots of people were killing and being killed and the world was a complete wreck
Cen 7B
ReplyDelete1)The book that I read for the book report assignment is called "The Fire-Eaters" by David Almond. The book is based on a boy named Bobby Burns who lived in a small town known as Keely Bay in 1962, around at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The story starts off with Bobby meeting an insane man whose name was McNulty. He was a fire eater and also an escapologist. Bobby was amazed by what McNulty could do. Later on Booby figured out that McNulty had fought in World War II with Bobby's father, Mr. Burns on his return trip from Burma to Keely Bay, McNulty had a mental break down because of all the things that had happened to him during the war.
2)The Cuba Missile Crisis was when the Soviet Union threatened the U.S. with nuclear missiles in Cuba. Every one though it would be the end of the world because they though every country would join in because of their ideologies. The fact that the story took place at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis does not affect the plot that much. The only thing that it seems to effect is Bobby's diary entries. Almost every night he would write how he wants everyone he loves and cares for not to get involved with the Missile Crisis. The only time the Cuban Missile Crisis seems to be mentioned outside the diary entries is when Bobby was talking to his friend about it, although it was not a significant to the story, unlike many other themes in the book.
Cen 7b
ReplyDeleteThere was supposed to be two paragraph in number one, the first one ends at Crisis. The second begun with The Story.....
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“Boys, let us get up a club”, and with those words, six men pulled white sheets on their heads and raided the country. Soon this blub would be known as “The Invisible Empire” that spreads all around the US.
ReplyDelete“They Called Themselves the K.K.K.” is a book about the American terrorist group called the KuKlux Klan. It tells about discrimination of black people, and the crimes and endless raids. This book tells us exactly how the Klan persecuted the blacks and how the back people struggled to stay alive and avoid them. There are many stories from real people who were attacked by the Klan. The thing that caught my attention was the pictures. Every single drawing symbolizes something in some way.
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The first KluKlux Klan was founded around 1850-1870 or something, and it lives even now, U hope that counts as a 1960s book. Personally, I don't think the time period effects it at all(unless the Klan stole nukes), it just matters about the Klan. If it wasn't founded, then all the crimes(and this book) wouldn't have happened.
Emma 7A
ReplyDelete1.The Wastons go to Birmingham, by Christopher Curis.
The Watsons, a family of five live a normal life in Flint, Michigan in 1963. There’s Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, 13 year old Byron and 10 year old Kenny.
When Dad decides to take a trip to Birmingham, Alabama, Kenny doesn’t know what to expect. With the car looking brand new and a new radio, the Watons start out on their trip to Alabama. When the Watsons arrive in Alabama, everything looks great at first, but they then experience some of the most terrible racism against them.
2. This book was set in 1963. At this time in America there was a lot of racism against African-Americans. If this book wasn’t set during this time I think that the plot of the story would have changed a lot. I think that if this book was set in modern times then racism issues wouldn’t have been present. Then it would have been a boring book.
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ReplyDelete1. I read a book called Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata. This book is about a girl named Katie who is apart of a Japanese-American family. The first word her older sister (Lynn) taught her was Kira-Kira, meaning sparkling, or glittering. Katie really admired her older sister in many ways. Lynn is kind, trustworthy, and a genius. They were best friend and did everything together. The family lived in Iowa and their parents owned an Asian supermarket. After the store ran out of business, the family moved to Georgia and lived in a small apartment. Katie’s parents found work at a hatchery where they worked with other Japanese families. Lynn and her sister went to school like all of the other kids.
ReplyDeleteOne day, Lynn became sick with a condition called anemia. Her parents bought a new house and let Lynn choose the house she wanted for the family, so she’d feel better. Lynn had gotten another condition called lymphoma, which was the cause of her death. The whole entire family was very worried for her health. Lynn had died on New Year’s Day alone in the year 1962 when Katie was 11. Katie kept all of Lynn’s belongings as a memory of her sister and also for her spirit to stay in the household.
2. My book was set from 1951 to around 1962. During this time period, the Korean War ends and rock ‘n’ roll music becomes famous. I think that the time period doesn’t affect the plot of the story because, the story is more about family less than what’s happing around the characters.
1)All The Broken Pieces by Ann E. Burg. It's about a 12-year-old boy named Matt. He is a Vietnamese boy (6th grader) who was air-lifted out of Vietnam (during the war in the 1960s) by American soldiers, after his Vietnamese mother (his father was an American soldier)asked them to take him to the US. Matt was adopted by American parents, who love him very much and encourage him to follow his talents and his dreams. When Matt tries out for and makes the baseball team, some of the other kids are unhappy – especially Rob, who blames Matt for his brother’s death in the war. They give him some trouble until their coach makes them stop. When the coach is diagnosed with cancer, the boys got a new coach, the abuse begins again.
ReplyDelete2) My book was set from 1975 to about 1977 and during this time period, the Cold War was going on. I think the time period does affect the plot of the story because if there wasn't a war going on, then there would be no conflicts and the main character wouldn't even have to leave his homeland. Which will totally make the story pointless and boring.
Melissa 7A
ReplyDelete1. My book is called Schooled. It is about a boy named Capricorn (Cap) Anderson who lives at Garland, a community for hippies. One day his teacher Rain, falls of a tree while picking plums. Rain needs to stay at a hospital for a very long time and Cap isn't allowed to stay at the community alone. Cap has to stay with Mrs. Donelly, a woman who once lived at Garland when she was little. Mrs. Donelly has a daughter called Sophie, who absolutely thinks Cap is a "freakazoid." Poor Cap thought Sophie was very beautiful and he could never get mad at her. Since Cap had to learn, he had to go to a middle school called "Claverage Middle School." Unfortunately, Rain never taught Cap about the world outside of Garland, so Cap had no idea what to do and how to behave at school.
Zach Powers and his friends want to make Cap humiliate himself by being 8th Grade President because he wore weird clothes (hippie) and had really long blond hair. He was elected and did Tai Chi in front of the school. One day, Cap was trying to stop a fight and accidentally got punched in the nose. An ambulance had to bring him to the hospital, but it was also because Rain had recovered. The students at Claverage thought Cap was dead and held a tribute in the school parking lot the day there was supposed to be the Halloween Dance. Sophie picked Cap up at Garland for the dance and drove to school. When the students saw him, they started crying, and he said goodbye to every one of them!
At the end of the book, Rain sold Garland and ended up having a lot of money to buy an apartment and send Cap to a real school. Luckily, he already knew all the student's names.
2. The book I read was set in the 21st century. Nothing special was going on in that time period. Yes, the time in history has an affect on the plot because if it wasn't set in the 21st cenury, the book wouldn't have been fun. Lets say the time period was in the 1960s. The book would have been absolutely boring because mostly everyone would be hippies, and Cap was a hippie, so the book wouldn't be fun.
1) I read the book Cracker! : The best dog in Vietnam by Cynthia Kadohata. It was about a dog, Cracker ,a former champion dog, retired early to a cushy life with an adoring Chicago eleven-year-old, Willie. But Willie's family had to move, and the new apartment won't allow dogs. They put up ads for a new home for Cracker, with no answer, but reveal that the Army needs shepherds as scout dogs. Cracker is sent to Vietnam to help in the war with her new partner, Rick, a teenage army volunteer who plans to get home after the war to prove his family wrong. They get off with a shaky start but soon trusted each other and became friends. Cracker rises to every challenge, sniffing out bombs and signaling Rick her findings. They have to work together to ever get home alive.
ReplyDelete2) This book was set during 1968 to 1975. It was during the Vietnam War. It would affect the whole story. If there wasn’t a war Cracker would be living with Willie or someone and never meeting Rick. She would never have gotten to go the Vietnam and experience all the things she did. The whole story would have just been about Cracker staying in America. I think it would have turn out to be a pretty boring book with just Cracker staying in America and not out sniffing out a bomb.
Namton 7B
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1. My book is "Dark Dude" by Oscar Hijuelos. It starts with a boy named Rico who living in New York City, during the Hippie Movement in the late 1960s-1970s.
Running away. That was what was bugging Rico's conscience at this very moment. Rico had come from Cuba but nobody would guess that, because he had white skin. His family treated him as if he was an infectious disease, treating him very badly. Rico never fit in with any of the other boys; he was kicked of the Latino group because he had white skin, but he simply didn't fit in with the other white kids. When the world seems to be the cruelest place ever, Rico finally decided to run away with one of his two best friends, Jimmy. They try to hitchhike all the way to Wisconsin. On the way Rico found out that Jimmy has been shooting heroin! Since Rico was all depressed, he asked Jimmy for some heroin, but Jimmy knows that the stuff is not good, so he stopped Rico from shooting the heroin, even if he himself cannot quit. After that fiasco, Rico comes to his senses and tosses the remaining heroin in the trash. When Jimmy finds out, he gets angry at first, but comes to his senses and knows it was for his own good.
The two friends finally reach Wisconsin to start their new lives in the midst of hippie drug dealers, crazy war veterans and cleaning the outhouse.
2. My book is set in the late 1960s-1970s. During this time period, the Hippie Movement was very strong and America was in a chaotic state. The hippies strongly advocated peace and love. As a way of protesting against the government, the hippies took drugs; many of the American population were on drugs . The story being set in this time period is very important because it made drugs readily available; the scene in which Jimmy stops Rico from shooting heroin is a huge turning point in the story. If the story was set in another time it would hardly have any significance or meaning.
Sophia
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My book is about Korean girl, Sookan, and her family who was forced to live under the cruel and harsh rules of the Japanese. They were given Japanese names and had to worship the Japanese god. They were not even aloud to have flowers in their garden. The Japanese had taken over Korea when the war between them and the Americans started. Sookan's house was a place for several girls to make socks for the army. One day Captain Narita came and took the sock girls away to the front because they had not been able to make enough socks the day before. Before this incident, Grandpa became ill and died one night making Mama so sad she wasn't able to help the sock girls finish their job. One day the family heard news of the war, finally they were free. After a while living in peace, the Russians came and brainwashed people that the Americans are bad and they can make things right. They killed people who tries to escape to the South also known as “Traitor”.Kisa, one of the guy helping the sock girls quickly arranged for Sookan's family to escape to the South where the Americans are. He hired a guide who will guide them on a dangerous journey across the 38th Parallel. That's when the journey begins.
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ReplyDeleteSummary: My book is called Wings it is about an American boy who finds a baby mocking bird and he and his friend Mate take care of it. The boys name is Nick and he names the bird Marcy. Trouble strikes when Nick must go on a vacation and Mate can not take care of Marcy. Nick does not know what to do.
This book takes place in the 1960's. It talks about how Kennedy became president it had an effect on the story because Mate's brother is named after John F. Kennedy other than that there wasn't much else.
Leah"Yumi" Oh 7B
ReplyDelete1. My book is called, “The Family from Vietnam”. This book talks about a Vietnamese family that lived during the Vietnamese war. The main character, Set, lived with his wife, Mai and their 3 children. At that time, South Vietnam was in an urgent emergency, thus Set and his family had to escape to America. It was easy for them to escape since Set had worked with Americans in the past. They decided to take a special plane, but on the process Set and his son were separated from the rest of the family. Mai arrived in America with her children, even though they missed their family back in their homeland, there was no way back home.
2. This book is set in the 1960s, with the Vietnam War still going on. I think this setting really affected the story overall. The story would have been completely different, since Set and his family would still be in Vietnam living happily if there hadn’t been any war. The War and how people react to it, is the central focus of the story.
Nicole Ford 7B
ReplyDelete1)My book is called "Shadow of the Dragon". It is about a boy named Danny Vo, who came to America with his family to escape the communists. His life is simple and easy, until his cousin, Sang Le comes to America after getting out of a re-education camp. Between trying to keep Sang Le out of trouble with gangs, and trying to get the girl he loves to notice him, Danny's life is turned upside down. It's not until something terrible happens that Danny realizes the importance of family and sacrifice.
2)My book is set roughly around the 1980's. The communists are controlling a lot of Vietnam. Vietnamese people have fled to America to escape communism. Because of the Vietnam war, Vietnamese people in America are harshly judged by a lot of people. This makes life difficult for characters in the book. It affects them greatly when it comes to being accepted by Americans.
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ReplyDeleteMy book is called( actually books, I read 2 books) Escape from Saigon by Andrea Warren, and The Vietnam War by Reg Grant.
Escape to Saigon is a story about a boy named Long.He was born in 1966. His father was an American and his mother was Vietnamese. Once when he was four his mother tried to send him away to a Korean family. Of course, he wouldn't want to, he wouldn't eat,sleep, and keep on crying for 3 days.Long was confused, why would his mother want to send him away? A couple of days later, Long's mother died. Long had to live with his Grandma. His Grandmother took him to Saigon, where he later he went to a children's home. The children at the children's home would get adopted and go to America. Long was desperate to get adopted. Later, an American family takes interest in Long. All the children would go to America because of the Vietnam war.
There were 2 airplanes, the first carried 230 kids, and just after fifteen minutes the plane crashes, most of the adults were killed, 152 of 230 children survived. Now Long is more scared to be on a plane then ever.
At last he got to America and stayed with his family. His name was Matthew Steiners or Matt for short.He joined the baseball team and jogged with his dad. He was a Vietnamese boy who turned into an American citizen.
This is set in the 1960s, when the Vietnam War started. This is very important to this story because this true story has taken place in the Vietnam War.
Annella Espana
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1) I read the book Charlie Pippin written by Candy Dawson Boyd. The book is about an 11 year old hard-headed Black girl, who lives in America. She is always breaking the school rules by making money out of her own little business, when one day, her mind is set on a project she truly believes in and wants to learn about; the Vietnam War. Charlie knew that her dad was a Vietnam veteran, and that he became so tough ever since the war. She wanted to know what really happened in Vietnam that changed her father, so she was eager to do the project. The only problem is that her father won't even let her interview him, because he never wants to talk about the war ever again! Charlie Pippin is in trouble and is expected to get a good grade on her research, and now she has her own researching to do on the Vietnam War.
2) The time period my book is set in is 10 years after the Vietnam War. During that time period, a lot of Americans were still scared that there would be another war versus another nation. They were also worried that there might be a nuclear war. That time in history does have an affect on the characters on the plot of the story because just 10 years ago, the Vietnam War happened. Charlie's father fought in the war, and he bacame such a cold person. Charlie is confused, and starts to reserch on the war, and interview people on their thoughts about it. She is also wondering how much people still know after just 10 years.
This is Arisa
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1. I read a book called The Haunted Stars written by Edmond Hamilton. The book is about a man named Robert Fairlie, a linguistic, who was asked to translate a very old tape recording. It was no ordinary tape recorder, this tape recorder was found by the astronauts that were sent to the moon. On the moon they found a base carved into the side of the mountain. Scientists have already learned that the aliens that lived there were called Ur-men, meaning that the tape recorder was recorded in the Ur-men language. The Americans try their best to rebuild the base or what they called a Lunar Space Station, as much as possible, with the help of technologies and equipments that were already there and technologies they already know. It also was like a competition to the Americans as well because, at the same time as them the Soviet Union had also landed on the moon and planned to do a research of their own. What they found out at the end, will definitely not be what they had expected.
2. The Haunted Stars was taken during the year 1966, which was still during the Vietnam War. The unmanned Soviet Luna9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket assisted landing on the moon. Also the Soviet's space probe Venera3 crashes on Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet.
I think that because it was set in this period of time, there were kind of like a competition between the Americans and the Soviets. They both wanted to be the first to do something, technology, spacecraft landing, anything. The Vietnam War was also still going on, so I think it would have made it harder for the Americans to concentrate on the progress of their work. The Americans were involved in the Vietnam War, and trying to work with the sapcecraft and trying to translate a very ancient recording tape at that time must have been very hard for Robert Fairlie. I think that there must have been many distractions for the Americans to make a big progress on the work.
Gabrielle Holofcener 7B KIRA-KIRA
ReplyDelete1. The book I read is named Kira-Kira which means glitter in Japanese. The story is about a poor young Japanese girl named Katie who has lived in Iowa all her life until she recently moved to Georgia. Katie’s family moved to Georgia because her mother and father’s small super market had gone out of business. Katie’s uncle found a new job for her parents working at a hatchery as a chicken sexer.
Kira-Kira is a significant word in this story because it was the first word that was taught to Katie by her older sister Lynn. Lynn is Katie’s absolute best friend. Lynn is beautiful, smart, gentle, and humble. Katie believes, depends, and does everything Lynn does!
As the story progresses, things in the Takeshima family have their ups and downs (mostly downs). The only little bit of happiness that happens is when Katie’s mother has a baby boy named Sammy. When Sammy is born things take a turn for the worst. Lynn gets sick with anemia which turns into a serious case of lymphoma. Lynn ends up dying in 1962 alone in her bed. Katie was just 11 years old.
2. This book starts out in 1951 and ends in 1962. During this time president Dwight D. Eisenhower was president. In the book they refer back to how Katie’s uncle Katsuhisa didn’t like Presidents Eisenhower at all. President Eisenhower was president from 1953 to 1961.
Ryan German
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#1 My book, Okay For Now, is about a boy named Doug Swieteck that has to move to a town called Marysville in New York. He has to move because his abusive father had tried to assault his boss. So they moved to Marysville so his father could get a job at Ballard Paper Mill. At first, Doug hates Marysville and would rather be anywhere else. Gradually he grows to love Marysville through making friends like Lilian Spicer and counting on what his hero, Joe Pepitone would do. He starts drawing, which he finds he loves doing and is great at and being a delivery boy for The Spicer Deli, where he earns many friends who were on his delivery route like Mr. Loffler, Mrs. Daugherty, Mrs. Mason and Mrs. Windermere.
Doug has many goals in the book like to restore the portfolio of Audubon: Birds of America by either duplicating them or trading something to get them back in the portfolio where he thinks they belong. Also, he really wants to play ball, and be like and just hang out with Joe Pepitone his role model and hero. He doesn't get to play ball with Joe or hang out with him but surprisingly, Joe Pepitone asks for Doug's autograph after Doug does a spectacular job in a Jane Eyre performance that Mrs. Windermere (a delivery route customer) got him into and that is how he got back 2 of the paintings for the Audubon portfolio. I think that this book is a good read and I would recommend it.
#2 My book, Okay For Now, is set during the Vietnam War. The book never states when exactly but you can tell it is during the Vietnam War because in the middle of the story his brother, Lucas, comes back double amputee from Vietnam with post-traumatic stress disorder. So that would mean sometime between 1955 and 1975. This does change the plot of a the story a little bit. For example, his brother has no legs so it takes him a long time to get a job and get back on his figurative feet. Nobody wants their customers to feel sorry for him because then they will not come back because they know they will feel sorry for him. So Lucas is depressed for longer than others might be. Also, fewer people like Doug at school because his brother is a “baby killer” but nobody says that to his face. Eventually Doug makes lots of friends with lots of people in “stupid” Marysville as he liked to call it at the start of the story. In the end he says that he loves Marysville.
1. The book that I have decided to do my report on is called “ Project Mulberry”, which is by Linda Sue Park. It is about a seventh grader by the name of Julia Song who lived in a town called Plainfield. She and her friend, Patrick are doing farming project together for a club called WGGL (Work-Grow-Give-Live). Julia's mom suggested that they could raise silkworms and gather their silk, just like what Julia's grandmother did in Korea. Julia was very upset and wanted to do a project that was more American, but because Patrick was very ecstatic about the idea, Julia had to keep her feelings inside. To have own a silkworm farm, Julia and Patrick had to overcome many obstacles, such as saving money for silkworm eggs and finding a food source for the worms. Julia had a fight with Patrick over the money, but they made up and joined forces to find a mulberry tree to feed their silkworms with. They eventually found the only mulberry tree in Plainfield. It was Mr. Dixon's (an old “black” man) mulberry tree, and overtime, Julia along with Patrick became every good friends with him. When the worms hatched, Julia began to get close to them and realized that the project was not as horrible as she thought.
ReplyDeleteWhen the time came to boil the silkworms and their cocoons to get its silk, Julia was very surprised and angry because she became very attached to them. Unfortunately, if Julia does not kill the worms, she would not have silk to embroider a picture, which needed to be entered in the farming competition. Patrick came up with an idea to save the silkworms, but some worms would still have to be killed....
2. Since this book is is fiction, I am guessing that it is taking place in 2005.(It was when the book was copyrighted in that year.) Some major events that happened in 2005 was Hurricane Katrina and the discovery of Eris, the dwarf planet. This time in history did not majorly effect the story, because there were no parts in the novel that relates to any of the events in 2005. It did effect the book a little, because in the plot, Julia and Patrick uses the computer, and technology was very advanced for that time.
Carnia 7A
ReplyDelete1) Countdown, by Deborah Wiles
It's 1962, and Russians are bombing. Franny Chapman is an 11-year-old girl who is going through some problems. She is fighting with her bestfriend, Margie, who is always talking about another girl, her uncle is turning crazy, fighting a war inside his own head, and she notices her older sister, Jo Ellen getting envelopes from someone called Ebenezer. Jo Ellen is also starting to smoke now.
One day, she sees a new neighbor moving in. She found out that it was Chris Cavas, her old neighbor. He came back from Pakistan, looking a whole lot better, making Franny like him. Later on, her sister, Jo Ellen, goes missing, and isn't able to be found. This story is about a girl going through the ups and downs of life.
2) The time period in my book is 1962. During this time, the Russians are bombing where the main character, Franny, lives. What is going on is having a big effect on the plot and the main characters. Franny, is a girl who is scared of the bombs. At school, they would have drills, practicing to hide when the Russians drop the bomb. Also, Uncle Otts, Franny's uncle, is fighting an old war inside his own head. Now, when the Russians are bombing, he is getting even more crazier.
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ReplyDeleteThis is Nathan Charles LeSeure :D
I read the book Okay for Now, It is set in the time of the Vietnam War. Okay for now is about a boy named Doug Swieteck, Doug has to move to Marysville after his dad tries to assault his boss. When Doug moves he does not like it there, but gradually starts to make friends and fit in. Eventually Doug starts drawing and finds that it is something that he likes to do. He makes more friends along his delivery route which helps him to love Marysville more. One of the bigger events that take place in the book is when Doug's brother,Lucas, comes back from the Vietnam war and had lost both of his legs.Lucas has a hard time finding a job because he is disrespected because he is a 'baby killer'.
This is a good book and I think that it had a cool cover. :D
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ReplyDeleteMy book is called “Ten Girls Who Made History” it was only 153 pages so I also read “Ten Girls Who Changed The World.” As you can tell there are more than one or two stories. So I decided to pick one story because 20 stories would be to many to write about. So I choose Elisabeth Elliot. It’s all about this girl (Elisabeth Elliot but her last name before she got married was Howard) who was born in Belgium, growing up as a missionary kid. She grew up and married Jim Elliot. Elisabeth Elliot was famous for bringing the message of Christ around the world.
ReplyDeleteThe time period when she gets older is the 1960’s and that’s when she started to spread the word of Christianity. When she was much younger Elisabeth lived very close to Germany when Hitler was ruling. Apart from that I don’t really think the time period mattered too much. Her story is about spreading the word of the Lord.
Reuel Ng (7B)
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"A Million Shades of Gray," by Cynthia Kadohata
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My book is called "A Million Shades of Gray". It is mostly set in the 1970s, in Vietnam. The main character is a boy named Y'tin Eban who is part of the Rhade tribe. As an elephant handler, he had a great love for elephants, especially Lady, who was the elephant he handled.
During the early years of the Vietnam War, the Americans had come to his village, and his father, as well as some other men in the village, had aided them by tracking the Vietcong and North Vietnam Army. However, as time passed, the Americans withdrew from the war and Y’tin’s village was left alone again. A few more years passed, and the Vietcong and the North Vietnam Army became more aggressive. Fearing the worst, the people of the village planned to leave the village and set up a guerilla camp. Before plans could be fully made, however, soldiers came to take over the village. Most of the villagers escaped, but Y’tin was left behind with some other villagers.
One night, spotting a break in the guard, Y’tin and one of his friends, Y’Juen escape the village and on to the jungle, where Y’tin and Y’Juen meet Tomas, another elephant trainer, and Y’tin’s elephant, Lady. Joining together, they begin to look for the camp where the rest of the village had gone.
Reuel Ng (7B)
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Question:
This book is set during the 1970’s in Vietnam, during the latter part of the Vietnam War. The setting of the book greatly affects it, as the plot is based entirely on the Vietnam War. If the book was in another, more peaceful time period, the plot would have to be very different. For example, the invasion of the village by the North Vietnam Army would not have made sense. If it were not during the Vietnam War, when North Vietnam was attempting to take the south, why would the North Vietnam Army have wanted to invade the village?
The book could have a similar plot without being set during the Vietnam War, but I think the Vietnam War setting gave the reader greater understanding and made more sense.
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My book, “I am the Clay”, takes place during the Korean War. It is about an elderly couple fleeing from the Chinese and North Koreans coming from the north. The couple once had a child who could not survive, and died. When they get knocked over by American tanks while fleeing, they fall into a ditch. In the ditch they find a boy, wounded very badly. This boy reminds the elderly woman of the child she once had, and insists to take him with them. The elderly man is against this, but knowing that the child will die in a couple days, he accepts. Amazingly, the boy does not die, and although he is burning with high fever, he recovers. After that, the family need to overcome many obsticles and fight to stay alive with little food left.
I am the Clay is a very realistic story that shows the many struggles of people who get sent out of their village.
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My story is set during the Korean War, so the story takes place between the 25th of June 1950 and 27th of July 1953. The fact that the story is in this time period effects the story a lot, because if the elderly couple did not find the boy in the ditch, that would make a completely different story. The couple wouldn't be fleeing in the first place.
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ReplyDeleteThe book I chose for my book report/book log was called “Letters from Vietnam” written by Bill Adler. The story was vividly narrated through a collection of hundreds of letters from the US soldiers who went to the war in Vietnam. In this book, it talked about unforgettable experiences shared by the US soldiers during their time in the Vietnam War. Most soldiers sent at least one letter back to their family, friends, wife and significant others. They told the stories of what had been happening every day at the war; how they were living their lives, trying to survive; how they missed their families and things they wanted to say to them.
The time period in “Letters from Vietnam” was in the 1960s or during the Vietnam War. There was the spread of Communism going on in the northern Vietnam and the US feared that it would have also spread to the southern Vietnam. Therefore, the US government sent American soldiers to join the Vietnam War in order to help save people in the southern Vietnam from being communists. The time period wouldn’t really affect my main characters because they were a group of soldiers. Actually, there were no real main characters in this book.
Benjamin Chit (7B)
ReplyDelete1) My book is called "The Watsons Go to Birmingham." This book was taken place in the year 1963. Its about a family called the Watson. They are one loving, funny family who is living in Flint, Michigan in the early 1960s. The oldest brother in the family, Byron, continues his path down to trouble. His parents decides to take him to stay with his grandmother in Birmingham, Alabama. His grandmother is a very strict adult. She argued and argued not to stay with his grandmother, but he was to learn his mistakes. The entire family went on a trip in a car to Birmingham. While they are in Birmingham, a church was bombed, killing several of children. Kenny, the middle aged child is scared and was shocked of what he seen and was in great fear. As they are in Birmingham, the oldest sibling was to stay with his grandmother, he was hanging out with thugs and thieves in his school. The Watsons had many encounter and danger ahead of them.
2) The book I've read was set in 1963. During that time the Beatles released their songs "Please Please Me" & "Ask Me Why." The Beatles taped 10 songs for their first album. Beatles meat Rolling Stone for their first time. In this period of time, in the music area it is mostly about the Beatles because they are one of the most popular music band. These stuff had nothing to do with my book are relate to my book and the Beatles received their first silver CD album.
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Sophia
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My book is set in 1940s, when the Japanese took over Korea . This effects my story greatly because this was when the Koreans didn't have any freedom. If this event didn't occurred, this story wouldn't happen then the Koreans would be able to roam around freely and do whatever they want. They could have beautiful gardens, eat rice, earn money, wear their traditional clothes and celebrate Korea's special occasion. It would also be easy for the Koreans to travel easily and safely, never having to hide. That's why I think this effects my book greatly.
Helen Park
ReplyDelete1. A SINGLE SHARD by LINDA SUE PARK
Tree-ear is an orphan boy who lived under a bridge with his friend, Crane- man, in a village called Ch’ulp’o which is a potters village. Crane-man had taken care of Tree-ear since he was a baby, despite his disability and which was that he had to use a crane to walk. Even though they were poor, they did not steal or beg but they scavenged in search of food. Every day, after Tree-ear completes his housekeeping which is making everything neat, he walks to a mud and wood structure house, sits on his favorite spot, behind a paulownia tree which hides him from being seen and through the leaves he watches the beautiful work of pottery made by Min, a famous potter, who is also known for his short temper. He is fascinated by how Min can make such beautiful pots, and dreams of making his own pot someday.
After a long time of watching, Tree-ear finally manages to convince Min to let him work under Min and is very excited because he finally gets to make his own pot. When Tree-ear went to Min, ready to make pots, Min gave Tree-ear a cart and ordered him to fill the cart with wood. So all day he cut wood and didn’t even get to touch a single bit of clay. The same happened the next day, and the next. Finally after many days, Min came to Tree-ear and told him “Clay today, not wood.”
2. My book was set in 918 AD to 1392 AD (it is an educated guess because my book is fiction). During that time, Korea was a poor country where there were many people without food or shelter. In this time, white rice or normal food was hard to find, so poor people took leaves and made porridges out of them to feed themselves. If the time period changes, it might be some effect because a few hundred years after this time period was the Korean War. The setting might also change because in this story, the main character is a poor orphan who has no good food or shelter so if the time period changed, the characters background might be different.
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1.) I read a book called "The Fire-Eaters" by David Almond. The book was based in 1962 (Cuban Missile Crisis) in a small city called Keely Bay. The story begins when Bobby met a man. That man's name was McNulty. McNulty is not a normal guy; but he's a fire eater. He's also kind of crazy. Bobby thought that McNulty was awesome. Later in the story, Bobby learned that his father knew McNulty and they fought War World II together. Bobby also learned that McNulty was crazy, because of all the bad memories that happened to him during World War II.
2.) My story was base during the Cuban Missile Crisis. That time, everybody thought that the world is going to end, because Cuban had a bunch of missiles. That time period kind of did affect the story, because Bobby kept records about what was going on. Bobby wanted peace and he doesn't want people to get involve with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Willie 7A
ReplyDelete(1) I read a book called “A Rumor of War” by Philip Caputo. The book is an autobiography/war memoir about the author's service in Vietnam and being in the Marine Corps. The book talks about his life in Vietnam during the war.
At first, he joined the Marine Corps for personal reasons. To him, it was a “pleasant war”. However, it all changed when he arrived in Vietnam. He still fought for his own reasons, but he did not think it was so pleasant anymore.
The book talks about the things he would do daily during his service in Vietnam, and it talks about all the things he has learned, all the difficulties he has been through, and all the pleasures he shared with other people in the war. The author had to experience first-hand combat against the Viet Cong, as a rifleman. It talks about the tasks he had to do when he was a rifleman, like removing landmines, learning how to shoot and aim a gun, etc.
(2) This book was based in Vietnam during the Vietnam war. The time in history has a great effect on the characters in the book, because since it was the Vietnam war, they had to fight in the war. The time in history is pretty much the plot of the book, which effects everything.
The time in history plays a big part in the book because it changed all the characters. At first, when the characters came to Vietnam, they didn't really know what to expect. However, when they finally experienced the things that were happening in history, it all changed.
Jae Jun Choi 7A
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Blur lighting is about the army in the Vietnam War. They are the U.S. rescue force, but sometimes they had to fight or ride in boats for a really long time. The main character in this book is a guy name Campbell. He is a fighter war pilot in the war. He also has a wife sending him letters to encourage him and tell him to be careful. His true mission is to find and save his friend that got captured from the enemy’s POW camp and then run away to Barbary Coast to escape. Maj. Quac sent a crusade to avenge and find the solders that were in the war. It was hard for Campbell to find his friend but found him at the end of the story. This book takes the Vietnam War and puts it in a fiction type novel.
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The time period in my book is in 1955. It was the time where there was the Vietnam War still going on. It does affect the characters in my book because then they had worst technology towards the “military” side, such as the helicopters controls, their gun’s characteristics, etc. That also meant that it was a bit harder to fight in the war with those equipment compared to the modern equipment. The guns attached to the helicopter might need and improvements, making the pilot keep flying around the enemy or their targets because their aim system was bad that time. Their medication was not the best type of medication at that time such as injures and other wild-life injury. The transportation of troops to countries to countries was a bit slower.
P.S This work might be sent at 10:39 (Sorry for that) I had to go to the NIS concert thingy. uh...HAVE A GOOD NIGHT :D