by Sam, (26 posts) on June 14th, 2010
This school year, personally, I think my writing changed a little bit. In the beginning, I was a bit uncomfortable with writing in the highest level of English, especially not where everyone can see it, since I came from BA, but as the school year went by, I got more and more comfortable in [...]
by Sam, (26 posts) on June 14th, 2010
At the very start of the year, the first day actually, Mr. Macknight already assigned us a daily homework, the homework was reading every day fifteen minutes. For the first couple of weeks, I didn’t really take it seriously and I must admit, I barely ready anything. But when our first report cards came [...]
by Sam, (26 posts) on June 5th, 2010
Author: Dan Brown
Pages: 510
In the book ‘Digital Fortress’, one of the main characters is David Becker. During the beginning of the story, he didn’t ask a lot of questions, he just said yes to the single job Susan Fletcher’s boss, commander Trevor Strathmore, had asked him to do. David is a very [...]
by Sam, (26 posts) on May 30th, 2010
When we first started this project, I thought this was not going to be a challenging project at all, but by doing this, I was proved wrong. My first challenge was to come up with interview questions, of course anyone could come up with the usual questions, but if you actually want to get [...]
by Sam, (26 posts) on May 9th, 2010
Author: Steve Berry
Title: The Alexandria Link
Pages: 443
One of the major characters in this book is George Haddad. George had experienced the most in the whole story, when he was young, he fought in the war to divide Palestine into two states, one Arab and one Jewish, during that time he was [...]
by Sam, (26 posts) on May 9th, 2010
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Title: Snakehead
Pages: 414
One of the major characters in ‘Snakehead’ is Ash. He is the godfather of Alex, which is one of the reasons Alex experienced this adventure. Ash was Alex’ father best friend and colleague in MI6 Special Operations. He watched over John Rider when he was on his [...]
by Sam, (26 posts) on April 19th, 2010
At first, when I heard we were going to start love poems, I was really bothered with it, because I never even studied them before and never tried to understand them. But as we went through reading multiple poems and understanding them, I started to think they were more interesting then before. For example, [...]
by Sam, (26 posts) on April 8th, 2010
For the past couple of weeks, we have been working on memorizing and understanding one of the many speeches of Shakespeare’s play ‘The Merchant of Venice’. The speech I memorized was Shylock’s speech. At first, when we finished the movie, I didn’t really understand Shylock’s feelings until I actually had to act like him [...]
by Sam, (26 posts) on April 4th, 2010
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Pages: 398
One of the most important characters in this book is Aragorn. At the beginning of the book, he is the one who goes hunting for the Uruk-Hai that captured Merry and Pippin, together with his friends, Gimli and Legolas. Aragorn is a very skilled fighter and a great leader, [...]
by Sam, (26 posts) on April 4th, 2010
Author: Steve Berry
Pages: 500
One of the main characters in this book is Cotton Malone. I really liked him, because he is courageous and smart, which made him very important. He had worked for the American government, but retired, the reason being that he couldn’t take all the action anymore. But later on [...]
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