My Reading Journal 7 G組 吳中翔

I finished reading "Arctic Tale" these days. There are two parts in this book. First, the book presents the polar bears and the walrus lives. After last time I read, I learned some new about the animals in Arctic. I found that when the baby polar bears grow up to two years old, their mother will let them leave from her and live by themselves. The young polar bear will start the solitarily life. On the other hand, walruses inhabit on the ice shore all together. They move and hunt as herds. Until the young walrus is ready to mate, all-female walrus will help her to choose the best male walrus from the male walrus herd. Then the couple will leave the herd they live with before, and start to find other companions.

The second part of the book describe that the environment changes in Arctic. Temperatures get higher than before. It has risen three to five degrees. Consequently, the ice become expand more slowly and contract more quickly.

In the past, the walrus herd will migrate from north to south. But now, the migratory distance has been less. The ice sheet is also melting earlier and faster these years. The seals are harder to find to the polar bears, and the hunting has been difficult.

If the environment gets worse and worse, the animals in Arctic will live harder and harder. I think everyone must protect the earth. We should not let the any species disappear just because people luxurious lives. Cherishing the global is our responsibility.

My Reading Journal 6 G組 吳中翔

After teacher teaching us how to choose the book to read and how to write the reading journal, I decided to rechose the book.

These weeks, I found the book called "ARCTIC TALE". It's written by Barry Varela and published by National Geographic. The "ARCTIC TALE" was released movie and book together last year. The leading roles are Nanu and Seela. Nanu is a baby polar bear, and Seela is a newborn walrus.

It's a story talking about their living in arctic.

The reasons I chose this book is that I am interested in the animals in arctic! In this book, I learned that the male polar bear will leave the female and baby polar bear, and it's also will eat them. How strange it is! So that, baby polar bears live with their mother. The baby walrus not only live with mother and also their aunt they meet on the way to the other place. Polar bears don't afraid of other animals in arctic. They are the strongest. Moreover, both polar bear and walrus eat the seal. I didn't know these things before. It was amazing for me! The other reason is that this story is related about the global warming. Global warming is the issue everyone talking about now. With the temperature get higher and higher, the ice in arctic will melt away. The animals will have no place to live. I think this book may also present the environment in arctic now.

There are 118 pages (11 chapters) in this book. I have read 54 pages (4 chapters). However, "ARCTIC TALE" is easier to read than other books I chose before, and the content is interesting. I hope I can finish it as quick as I can.

My Reading Journal 5 G組 吳中翔

This week, I choose the new book to read. The book is called "the Twenty-One Balloons". It's written by William Pene du Bois. This book is the winner of the Newbery Medal. There are 180 pages(10 chapters) in this book. I have read two chapters.

The Twenty-One Balloons is a story talking about William Watermsn Sherman who is the professor. Professor Sherman had been teaching arithmetic at a school for boys in San Francisco for forty years. At first he thought of balloon travel only as a wonderful way of going to school because he was so tired o teaching. Then he thought of ballon travel as a way of spending a year of rest after retiring. At the age of sixty-six, he stopped teaching. He decided to take a year off and it crossing the Pacific Ocean in a hot-air balloon. So that he could be alone with no body to bother him and leaving his destination to the winds. Watermsn Sherman's trip was very exciting. He ran into trouble right away, including such disturbance as the greatest explosion in the history of the world. It's the story of Professor William Watermsn Sherman's unusual voyage, of his fabulous friends and unusual life.on the Island of Krakatoa ending with the noisiest day in the life of any man in history. The period of the book isthe period when balloons were most popular, 1860 to 1890.

This book is very interesting to me. I wish that I can finish this book in this month.

My Reading Journal 4 G組 吳中翔

I finished the book "EMMA". It is written by Jane Austen.

The story of EMMA is talking about the young woman, Emma's life and her love. Emma is beautiful and rich, but her mother died when she was very young. She lived with her father Mr. Woodhouse and sister Isabella. They lived in Highbury where is near London. After her sister got married and lived with her husband in London. Only Emma and her father lived together. Mr.Woodhouse hoped that Emma not to get marry. If she get marry, he will be very lonely.

Emma didn't want get marry, either. She has never thought of getting married herself. Instead, she amused herself by trying to arrange marriages between her friends and neighbors. But Emma made a lot of mistakes and cause more problems than happy marriages. For example, she tried to match her friend Harriet and Mr. Elton. She thought that they like each other secretly in their own mind. But in fact, whom Mr. Elton loved is Emma, not Harriet. When Mr.Elton told Emma that he loved her, Emma felt very unhappy and sad. She didn't like Mr. Elton, and she was sure that Harriet will be heartbroken. Finally, she refused Mr.Elton and talked the true to Harriet. Emma was so busy trying to arrange other people's lives. Then she almost lost her own chance of love.

Day by day, Emma met more and more people in her life. She began trying to find her true love. Frank was her first love. He was very kind and humorous. Emma always hoped she can walking with him and talking with him all the time. But she found that Frank didn't loved her, he loved Jane the person that Emma didn't like a little bit. When she felt very sad, she also found that Mr. Knightley loved her. Emma was surprised that Mr. Knightley liked her. She thought he was her friend. However, she finally knew that Mr. Knightley was her Mr. Right. In the end of the story, they got married and lived with Emma's father in Highbury.

This story is talking about love. I think it's main idea is that we don't need to arrange our or other's love so prepensely. Sometimes, maybe you will find your Mr.or Miss Right is just behind you.

My Reading Journal 3 G組 吳中翔

I finished the book Charlotte's Web. The end of the story was saying that with Charlotte's help, Wilbur not only became the popular star but also went to enter the competition. Finally, Wilbur won the champion! But sadly, when he wanted to tell Charlotte how happy he was. He found that Charlotte had not much time to live. Wilbur was so sorrowful because he didn't want to lose his friend. To repay all things Charlotte did for him, Wilbur decided help Charlotte taking care for her children. As time went on, the baby were born and they like Wilbur as their mother did. Although Charlotte was not beside him, Wilbur will still remember his truly and intelligent friend forever.

After reading this book, I think the author want to tell to us is that friends are very important to everyone. We must cherish our friendship! Just like how Wilbur did for Charlotte.

This week, I choose the book "EMMA". It is written by Jane Austen and published by Pearson Education Limited. This book is Intermediate (1700 words).There are 59 pages. I plan to read it in one week.

My Reading Journal 2 G組 吳中翔

These two weeks, I have read 12 chapters of the book that I choose, Charlotte's Web. I found that the story was more and more interesting ! At the beginning, the girl in the story, Fern, bagged her father not to kill the pig which looks weak and small. So his father decieded to let Fern raise it. Fern was so happy and gave the pig a name Wilbur. She took care of Wilbur almost all the time. But Wilbur became bigger and bigger day by day. Besides, he ate more than before. Fern's house could not afford to keep raising Wilbur. Finally, they give Wilbur to Fern's uncle who had a big barn that Wilbur can live in.
After Wilbur getting there, he became met many animals, For example, the gander and the goose who always stammer, the rat called Templeton who liked collecting everythings, sheep and his best friend, Charlotte,who is a spider. Charlotte always can reassurance Wilbur when he felt lonely. One day, Wilbur heard that he will be killed when he grow up. He was so sad, but Charlotte told him she can let him not to killed.

She used her intelligence to save Wilbur's life. She wrote letters on her web to make Wilbur become the popular star so that people would not want to kill him.

I hadn't finish the book yet. It still has 3 chapters. But I feel I made progress than before! I can read English book faster. Two weeks ago, I only can read 7 chapters. But these two week, I read 12 chapters! I am so happy to see my progress!

I really want to konw the end of the story. I think I can finish this book in this week and go to find other interesting books.

My Reading Journal 1 G組 吳中翔

The book I choose is "Charlotte's Web". "Charlotte's Web" is written by E. B. White. This is the story of a little girl named Fern who loved a little pig named Wilbur and Wilbur,s dear friend Charlotte, a spider lived with Wilbur in the barn. This book is published by Bookman Books, Ltd. There are 184 pages (22 chapters)in this book.

The reason that I want to read this book is that I was interested by the movie "Charlotte's Web" first. I remember the movie was produced last year. I didn't go to see that movie at that time,because I had no money.But I really like to see the movie! Last sunday, just in time, when I went to the bookstore, I found this book! So I decided reading this book, and after reading the book, I want to watch the DVD version at home!

As a matter of fact, I have not read English books for a long time. When I started reading this book, I did a little bit slowly. At present, I have read 7 chapters. I hope that I can do more faster and quickly finish reading this book. So that I can watch the DVD!