Blog for week November 17

Prompts:
1) Background knowledge of book
2) Create a 'WANTED' poster for the antagonist
3) Create a 'MISSING' poster for the victim.

       Cheyenne Wilder gets kidnapped on accident. Griffin didn't kidnap her on purpose. He just wanted to steal her stepmom's car. Little did he know Cheyenne was sleeping in the backseat. It was too late to turn around and leave her behind because he thought she had seen him already. What he also didn't know was that she is blind and has pneumonia and needed her medicine.
     
       16 year old Cheyenne Wilder gets kidnapped. Her stepmother left her in the car with the keys in the ignition. Someone took the car with Cheyenne in it and drove away. Nobody knows who this person is. Cheyenne's dad said people can call him at any time. If you know anything about this kidnapper, please contact 1-888-555-1212 ASAP!!!

       16 year old Cheyenne Wilder goes missing. She is tall, with black hair, has wide brown eyes, she is blind and sick with pneumonia. Last seen in a parking lot just out side a pharmacy. Police said that the kidnapping of Cheyenne was for ransom because her dad is the Nike President. If you have seen or know anything that can help, please contact this special hotline that has been set up, 1-888-555-1212.

Blog for week Nov. 11

Prompt 1: Analyze the impact word choice has on the meaning or tone of a text. 
Prompt 2: Analyze how dialogue or specific incidents reveal information about characters. Make sure to include textual evidence. 

       In the book, Girl, Stolen, there are many different impacts the word choice has on the meaning of the text. In the text it states, "My life is over. I'm never going to drive a car, I'm never going to go on a date, and I'll be lucky if I get a job in some shelter for the handicap." This quote has a negative connotation because of how she is obviously sad and is not happy with her life. 

       The dialogue tells a lot about the character. In Girl, Stolen it states, "I will do anything that's necessary to get my precious daughter back." "The camera zoomed in on his face, wet with tears." This shows that her father is very desperate to his daughter back. It also shows that he is very emotional and will do anything to get her back.

       In the text it also says, "Secretly, Cheyenne always hoped people still took her for a sighted person. In restaurants or movie theaters, she would try to tuck her cane out f sight." This shows that Cheyenne would be so embarrassed that she would hide her cane in public. It also shows that she didn't want people to think of her as a blind person and wanted people to think of her just as a normal person.

Introduction video

Edgar Allan Poe

       Edgar Allan Poe was a writer who is very well known. He was born in 1809, and died on October 7, 1849. He wrote many short stories and poems. His famous writings are "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Raven" He had a very interesting writing style, but wasn't well known back then. Now he is known from people all over the place.

       Poe had a very depressing life. When he was just a kid, both of his parents died. Not just his parents died, his siblings, friends, and lovers had died too. He had foster parents after his parents died. At one time of his life, he was poor and had to burn all of his furniture for warmth. Even when he was poor (still) one of his cousins had robbed him.

       I think Poe's life might have affected his writing. Since most of his life was dark and depressing, he could of put that darkness into his stories. The books Poe wrote are dark and so was his life. He maybe wanted people to know that there are people who have tragic an depressing lives. Also maybe he might have heard about things that were similar to the stories he wrote, and then wrote these stories, just
in a different way.

Blog for week Nov. 3

Prompt: Who is the author? What do you know about the author? What do you imagine the author to be like?

       The author of the book Girl, Stolen is April Henry. She is 55 years old. Born in Portland, Oregon on April 14, 1959. April is an American New York Times bestselling author of mysteries, thrillers, and young adult novels. She (so far) wrote 12 books. 

       April Henry wrote the books Circles of Confusion, Square in the Face:    A Claire Montrose Mystery, Heart-Shaped Box, Learning to Fly, Buried Diamonds, Shock Point, Torched, Girl, Stolen, The Night She Disappeared, The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die, and The Body in the Woods. Her top 5 most popular books are Girl, Stolen, The Night She Disappeared, Shock Point, The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die, and The Body in the Woods. It seems like she likes to write about mystery and thrillers because most of her books are about people going missing or like it seems, killings. When she was just 12 she wrote a story. Ronald Dahl read it, had a meeting with an editor, then the editor asked to publish it. 

       I imagine April Henry to be very interesting to talk to. Her story that Ronald Dahl read was about a tall frog, who liked peanut butter. It seems like she is just so creative. I wonder what she was thinking of when she wrote all these books. Also to me it looks like all of her books are about girls. So I wonder if these books connect to her life.

Blog for week of October 27

Prompt: Use pictures/graphic organizer/web to represent your reading (so far) in the

story.

Pages read: 44-80

       Girl, Stolen is about a girl who is blind named Cheyenne Wilder who gets kidnapped. She was kidnapped on accident. She was alone in the car while her stepmother was at the pharmacy, and the stepmother happens to leave her keys in the car. So this guy named Griffin decides to steal the car, not knowing Cheyenne was in the back seat laying down with a blanket over her. 

So far the book

       

       Griffin then discovers Cheyenne is there. It’s to late to leave her somewhere because he still thought she could see. When he figures out she is blind, he ties her ankles and covers her with a blanket so she cant escape and so no one can see her. When the father of Griffin gets introduced in the story, he is extremely mad. How can someone not know there was a girl in the backseat? They get to a place that is far from where she came from and gets tied to the bed.

      

       

After a while, on the news they hear that the daughter of the president of a powerful company has been kidnapped. The girl’s name is Cheyenne Wilder. Now that they know who she is they have a reason to keep her. They didn’t just learn that she is the daughter of someone who is famous. But also that she is very sick with pneumonia and needs medicine.

Blog for week October 20

Prompt: What you are reading is going to be made into a movie. Make a list of at least 2

characters, what famous actor will play each character and what about the

character makes that actor the best choice for the part.

Pages Read: 1-44

       Chloë Grace Martez would play Cheyenne Wilder. Chloë has played so many different characters and I think she is such a great actor. She has been acting since the age of 7 and (in my opinion) could play any role. Cheyenne is blind and Chloë is not, but I think she could pull off playing a blind person. Cheyenne is 16 and Chloë is 17, so they are about the same age too.

       Griffin is the man who stole Cheyenne’s Dad’s car without know she was in it. I think Zachary Levi would play that role. He was the voice of Flynn Rider in Tangled. In the movie he didn’t think his plan through and in the book he didn’t really either. Also they are both thieves. So if he already played the role of a thief he can play this role also.