Reflection Blog

Logan Goldberg Final Blog February 20, 2014

            Over the course of trimester two I have read the three books in the hunger games series, by Suzanne Collins. I used good reads in many ways. I used it to see what other people were reading, and to add to my list off books I wanted to read. I also recently went on and decided to read Divergent next. Over the course of the trimester, in blogging I have struggled with writing detail. Sometimes I wouldn’t write enough, or wouldn’t use textual evidence/ quotes, and other times my blog might not have related to my book in some ways. Throughout the course of the trimester, I did however improve on these problems by adding details in my blog. I did this by adding quotes and textual evidence to my blogs, and therefore my blogs were effectively more relevant to my book, and proved what I was trying to convey more. A strength I had throughout blogging in this trimester was that I had answered many different blog questions throughout the eight blogs. I think this would be a great strength for me, because it keeps blog readers interested. This is because readers don’t want to read the same things over and over again, it would get very boring after a while.

           

            I think my writing has improved in many ways over the course of the trimester, in many ways. As I said before I have recently started to add a lot more detail into my writing. I have done this by adding details and a lot of textual evidence. This makes me relate back to the book in my writing, causing me to have a well written blog post. This shows from my first blog to my sixth. One excerpt from my first blog is “Think of competing in the battle of the death, and then having to battle again against the best of the best. Scary right. This is Catching Fire the second book of the Hunger Games series. This past weekend I watched the movie, and I loved it. After the movie I instantly wanted to start reading the book. I loved the first book and I am looking forward to reading the second.” And then a quote from my sixth blog would be “One of the very important line in the first chapter would be "I back away from the bakery and bump into something, lose my balance, and find myself sitting on a hunk of sun heated metal, I puzzle over what it might have been, then remember Tread's recent renovations of the square. Stocks, Whipping posts, and this, the remains of the Gallows" I believe this is a very important quote to the first chapter of the book because it gives a little background information of the second book.” These are great quotes to show my growth in my writing because it shows how in the very first blog I didn’t use quotes and talk about the book much. It also shows how I used quotes to relate to the book, which was a very good improvement from the first blog. Another good quote from that blog would be “I think this because it shows how district 12 was bombed and left in ruins, because she couldn’t tell what she tripped over at first. It also shows haw the government was taking more control before the uprising. The Stocks, Whipping posts and the Gallows, show this. It also shows this happened a little while back, because it says the Gallows was sun heated. I believe this is a very important line in the book because it sets the time frame for the whole book, and tells us some very important details about the last book, Catching Fire.” This also shows my improvement in many ways. I liked blogging and I hope to continue reading and posting on my blog.

Blog 7. Februrary 11, 2014 (Mockingjay)

Dear Suzanne Collins,

I have recently stareted reading your last book in your Hunger Games series; Mockingjay. I liked reading the first two books, and so far the third book. I knew this was a very popular series, but i didnt know why. Now that i have read more than half of the series, i know why. I believe it is because of the action, romance, tragedy, comedy, and even the fact that teenagers could relate. There is a lot of action in these books, this is from all of the killing, and even the fact that they have uprisings, or have to live alone in the arena. There is also some romance, this is from the "love" Peeta and Katniss "share", I put quotes around love and share because as readers their love is on and off both for the capitol and for themselves. Gale also comes into play becasue him and Katniss seem to love eachother when they kiss. There is tragedy from all the death and corruption in the capitol. It is also tragedy that katiniss goes into the games twice. It could be a comedy because, some jokes are in the books, not as much as the other elements. I think the fact that Haymitch is a "drunk" could be comical in that sense. And one of the big elements would be that teenagers can realte, i think this is because Katniss is a teensger too, meaning we can easily put ourselves into her shoes. These are many of the main reasons I like these books, and why i think the rest of your readers enjoy these books.

Thanks for reading,
Logan Goldberg  

Blog 6. Februrary 4, 2014 (Mockingjay)

I have recently started to read Mocking Jay the third and final book in the Hunger Games Series by Suzzane Collins. This book is about how Katniss survives the reberllion and is moved to Districrt 13 after she breaks the barrier of the Hunger Games. One of the very important line in the first cchapter would be "I back awayfrom the bakery and bump into something, lose my balance, adn find myself sitting on a hunk of sun heated metal, I puzzle over what it might have been, then remember Tread's recent renovations of the square. Stocks, Whipping posts, and this, the remains of the Gallows" I believe theis is a very important quote to the first chaoter of the book because it gives a little background informattion of the second book. I think this because it shows how district 12 was bombed and left in ruins, because she couldnt tell what she triped over at first. It also shows haw the government was taking more control before the uprising. This is shown by the Stocks, Whipping posts and the Gallows. It also shows this happened a little while back, because it says the Gallow was sun heated. I believe this is a very important line in the book because it sets the time frame for the whole book, and tells us some very important details about the last book, Catchingt Fire.