My Reading Journal 6 Group I 陳怡婷‏

I read the book "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" these weeks. There are seven stories in the book. I've been read two of them. It's written by Edgar Allan Poe and simplified by Roland john and Michael West.

Mr. Shuttleworthy was a wealthy and respectable gentleman. One day, he was missing. His best friend, Mr. Goodfellow, who was popular with everyone leads the search. They thought Mr. Pennifeather was the killer. Mr. Pennifeather was the missing man's only living relation and had bad personality. He had knocked Mr. Goodfellow before but Mr. Goodfellow showed his kindness. Mr. Pennifeather was brought to the prison after the search. A month later, Mr. Goodfellow had a party and received a present. When he opened the present, the poor body of Mr. Shuttleworthy, covered with blood, sprang out in the box and said "You are the man!" Mr. Goodfellow scared and confessed his murder. In fact, this wasn't the supernatural. Another friend of Mr. Shuttleworthy made a secret investigation and found the real killer. He put the body into box and made it spring up. In the end, Mr. Pennifeather was released and his habits changed.

This is my sister's book in her senior high. When I first glanced at the illustrations, I was frightened because they were a little horrible. I thought Mr. Goodfellow couldn't be the killer at the beginning, but I was wrong. We are often deceived by surface because we seldom examine its internal. As we learned in class, we have to think things carefully and use some strategies to analyze them so that we can distinguish whether things are true or not.

My Reading Journal 5 Group I 陳怡婷

I finished the latter half of "Charlotte's Web" these weeks. Under Charlotte's efforts, Wilbur not only lives, but also goes to the county fair with Charlotte. He wins the prize in the end. After the county fair, Charlotte lays eggs which are bigger than her body and then she dies. Wilbur brings it back to Zuckerman's farm. When spring comes, a lot of little spiders crawl out from the eggs. Most of them leave but three of them still remain to be friends with Wilbur.

If the little pig didn't met Charlotte, he would be very miserable. Besides, if Fern didn't help Wilbur, he would be a watering cuisine. Charlotte helps Wilbur to escape the death and Wilbur helps Charlotte to care for her children. The selfless help can change our life. We often argue with our friends. However, a pig and a spider can have such a deep relationship and why we can't. After finishing the book, I understand that friendship isn't relevant to the race or all the external form. I'll try hard to help my friends when they're in a trouble just like what Charlotte did. I'll try to open my heart to all kinds of friends just like what Wilbur did.

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My Reading Journal 4 Group I 陳怡婷

In this two weeks, I read"Charlotte's Web" almost half. This book begins when John Arable's sow gives birth to a litter of piglets, and he discovers one of them is a runt and decides to kill it. However, his 9 year old daughter Fern begs him to let it live. Therefore her father gives it to Fern as a pet, and she names the runt Wilbur.

Wilbur lives with Fern for a few weeks and then is sold to her uncle, Homer Zuckerman. Although Fern visits him at the Zuckermans' farm as often as she can, Wilbur gets lonelier day after day. Eventually, a warm and soothing voice tells him that she is going to be his friend. The next day, he wakes up and meets his new friend: Charlotte, the gray spider.

When the old sheep tells Wilbur that he is going to be killed at Christmas, he turns to Charlotte for help. Charlotte has the idea of writing words in her web extolling Wilbur's excellence (such as "SOME PIG"), reasoning that if she can make Wilbur sufficiently famous, he will not be killed.

I can never imagine that a pig will give all its true heart to a spider which looks terrible and dangerous. Likewise, the spider returns a true-hearted promise to the pig which may not have future at all . Though they're different from each other, it won't be the gap between their friendship. Their friendship cross all the boundaries, and is built by two hearts' harmony. Now, I have many thoughts about my friends. I never think much about the meaning of friendship, but now, I have new idea. I'll try to treat my friends with my true heart more than before.

My Reading Journal 3 Group I 陳怡婷

I finished the book "Forrest Gump" in two weeks. This book is written by Winston Groom and retold by John Escott.Let me introduce the story.

One day when Curtis had to change a wheel on the car, I helped him.

"If you're an idiot," he said angrily, "how do you know how to do that?"

"Maybe I am an idiot," I said, "but I'm not stupid."

I was born an idiot, but I'm cleverer than most people think.

I think this is true in this wonderfully warm and funny story about Forrest Gump, a good-hearted young man from Alabama in the USA. He wins a medal for being very brave in the Vietnam war and meets the President of the United States of America.He becomes a footballer, a film star, a businessman and he goes into space.And his best friend is an ape called Sue!

Forrest Gump is an unusual man who does a lot of unusual things.The story make me feel that it doesn't matter if you are clever or stupid, rich or poor, you can be anything you want to be. I am amazed that the writer can use only 1200 words to write such an interesting story. I didn't spend much time in reading English book because the midterm examination is coming. Therefore, I will read more books after that .

My Reading Journal 2 Group I 陳怡婷

This week I finished the book"Alice's Adventrue in Wonderland".
I forgot to introduce this book before so I wrote it this time.
This book was written by Lewis Carroll and the story is about a little girl Alice have a strange dream.
In this dream, she meet the Mad Hatter,the Cheshire Cat,the Duchess,and the Queen of Hearts.
Alice follows the White Rabbit down a mysterious hole and lands in another world peopled with unforgettable characters and filled with fantastic adventures.

In fact, when I read in the middle of the book, I felt a little boring.
I think maybe the story is a little childish for a college student.
However, there are still some interesting plots.
For example, when the queen ask Alice to play the croguet, the croquet balls are live hedgehogs, the wooden hammers are live flamingoes, and the hoops consist of cards which can move.
How queer it is!
I admire that Lewis carroll can create such a imaginatve story.
If I had such a magical dream,I wouldn't want to wake up.
Althouth this book is about 2000~2500 words, there are still some words I don't know.
I tried to read it without dictionary but it's hard to understand the story.
And it made me feel impatient to look up the dictionary.
I think next time I would choose easier book to read.

My Reading Journal 1 Team I 陳怡婷

I chose "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" to read because this novel was bought in senior high but I never read it.
In addition , this novel isn't too easy or too difficult for me to read.Its level is 2000~2500 words.
I think the level is suitable.Now,I've read five chapters.
Althogh we've known the story since we were kids, I still found there are many details that I forgot or never knew.
I remeber the first time that I knew this story was on TV.It was an anime on disney channel.
Therefore , there are a lot of colorful image in my head when I was reading the novel like the rabbit dashed busily or the caterpillar was speaking to Alice.
This made me understand the story more easily.