My English Journal 3 Group H 陳宜平

　　　Finally,I had finished the book---The Phantom Of The Opera.Because it is retold,it is not difficult to read.Forthermore,it has only about 50 pages,I am a little disappointed to myself that I read it over 1 month!The content in the book is still good,the rewritter catches the point,short,but good to look.I think the most happiest thing is that at last I finished this book,which I couldn't surpass in high school.

The next book I am going to read is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.The reason that why I choose this book is simple:just because My brother have this book;and I have never seen this movie at all.It has bout 160 pages,not heavy,and seems good to read.The author is Roald Dahl.

　　Ｈere are some introduces about this book:Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last!But only 5 lucky children will be allowed inside.And the winners are:Augustus Gloop、Veruca Salt、Violet Beauregarde、Mike Teavee and Carlie Bucket,the hero,a boy who is honest and kind,brave and true,and good and ready for the wildest time of his life!

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My Reading Journal 3 GroupF 鄭人豪

I had started to read the novel "the curious incident of the dog in the night-time".I find there are some interesting factors in this story.It's writed by first-person narrative of Christopher ,just like he tells you his story in person.In the story,

Christopher explains why gives the chapters prime numbers,he say that prime numbers are like life.They are very logical but you chould never work out the rules,even if you spent all your time thinking about that.Actually,he likes thinking,but he cann't really understand others thinkings, he cann't understand abstract things.So,he likes science and maths,because they just need to think by oneself.I think he is a genius,a dreamer,a murder mystery novel writer.

"I don't ever use others writing"

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My Reading Journal 3 Team I 林佳瑩

This short story named "The Stolen Party",the author is Liliana Heker,she published her first volume of short stories in her teens.Later she became editor-in-chief of a literary magazine.

The girl,Rosaura,in this stroy is an innocence and claver child,her mother is a maid who is working for a rich family.One day she was invited by Luciana,the daughter of the rich family,to the birthday party.Rosaura was gald,but her mother did not want her to attend the party,saying that it was rich people's party;she and Luciana were not real friends.She didn't approve of her mother and was deeply offended,"I'll die if I don't go"she whispered.
The party went well that night,she thought she was the same as other rich children and she help serve orange juice,hotdogs,and cake,she really acted well.She was so pleased with the compliment.Rosaura knew that there is a present to every child who attend this party,a while later,her nother came to fetch her,Luciana' mother came up to Rosaura and her mother,instead of giving her a presnent,she rummaged in her purse,in her hand appeared two bills,for thanking her help.Rosaura felt her arms stiffen,her eyes had a cold,clear look that fixed itself on Luciana's mother.Luciana's mother only motionless,as if the slightest change might shatter an infinitely delicate balance.

Children and adults are differ in their views of others,Rosaura think she and Luciana are friends,they know each other's secrets;do homework together,but in her mother's eyes,they are from different world.They conflicted.
At the end of the story.Rosaura has lost some of her innocence or naive.She finally realize why her mother said they are not friends because of the differ of their social classes.Like her mother,probably she will become more skeptical,amd less likely to believe people.
Experiences always change our attitude toward others.Sometimes they cause people to be more cynical and question the sincerity of those around us.We were thaught to bass our views on money and social classes,and learn that's how this world works,and then,we grow up.

RJ3，D組 楊雅婷

Chapter .The Burrow

Because of Dobby's appearance,the Dursley knew that as an underage wizard Harry couldn't use magic outside school .For this reason,the Dursley didn't afraid of Harry any more and locked him in his room.In addition,due to Dobby's prevention,Harry was neither get any letter from his friends nor wrote to them.Ron Weasley,his friend,Fred and George,Ron's twin brothers,drove their father's flying car to save Harry from his room.Harry lived with the Weasley until the next term began.

RJ3，B組黃怡亭

Last Wednesday, I finished my first book, Matilda. Although this book was not difficult for me to read, it still took me the whole month to finish it. Because this book is really full of pages!

In the last part of this book, the little girl, Matilda, found that she had a special power. And she found this because once she was angry at her father. She suddenly realized that she could control things surround her with her mind! While trying to put up with her parents' and principal's cruelty, she decided to give them a lesson. She used this power to destroy the television and make a reptile fly on her principal. And with enough practice, Matilda started to learn to control her special power well. Finally, by using her power, she successfully drove the principal away from school.

However, this story ends with a happy ending. Because Matilda's father was captured by policemen, he had to move away to another city. But Matilda did not want to go with him. So, he finally decided to let Matilda live with her teacher, Miss Honey.

In my opinion, I think Miss Honey is the only person who can bring happiness to Matilda. So, I think it is really a better decision for her.

My Reading Journal 3 J 組 賴盈蓁

I read a new book recently,it is called"Gone With The Wind",and
it's a story about romance.
In the novel .a young woman,Scarlett O'hara ,tells everyone
that she is in love with a man,named Ashley Wilkes.But there is
another man ,Rhett Butler,who has a powerful effect on her,and
it is not until Rhett decides to leave that Scarlett realizes who
she truly loves.The book is about truth and imagination.What
we believe we are is not necessarily what we really are.
In addition to the love story,I also appriciate the philosophy
of Scarlett .For her, "tomorrow is another day. "When I am in the
low mood,I always tell myself that tomorrow will be a better day.
Reading "Gone With The Wind"is not only for pleasure ,but also a
good reminder of this truth about tomorrow.

My Reading Journal 3 C組，林泯輝

After finishing "Tales from Shakespeare", this week I choose "The Phantom Of The Opera." I borrow this book from William. The reason why I borrow this book is that I want to test my English reading ability due to William said the book is really hard to read.

I will make a brief introduction first. This story is written by Gaston LEROUX, the profile French mystery and horror novelist best remembered today as the anther of The Phantom Of The Opera. This book is published by The Modern Library. The company says that they has published the world's best books at the best prices.

I read only three chapters – "Prologue", "Is It The Ghost?" and "The New Margarita " during this week. Actually, it is really not easy to read. I will tell more feelings about this book after I read in next reading journal.

My Reading Journal 3 Team F 陳聖勳

This time I choose a children's book that is named Charlotte's Web. Charlotte's Web is a children's book by acclaimed American author E. B. White. First published in 1952, it tells the story of a barn spider named Charlotte and her friendship with a pig named Wilbur. The book was illustrated by Garth Williams. To get to know what kind of books foreign children will read in their daily lives, I choose this book, which is recommended by my classmate.

Charlotte's Web is an animal fable that deals with several important aspects of a happy life: friendship, heroism, constancy, and death. Wilbur is hyperactive and always exploring new things. This book begins when John Arable's sow gives birth to a litter of piglets, and Mr. Arable discovers one of them is a runt and decides to kill it. However, his 8 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. It's a pity that I didn't finish it yet due to the continuous holidays, but I will finish the last part because it's interesting!

My Reading Journal 3 G組 高千涵

I have started the second book " Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."

The book was written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake.

Its first publish is in the USA 1964, and this edition published 2001.

There are 190 pages in the book, and was divided into 30 chapters.

I have read to chapter 7 since last week.

There are five children in this book:

Augustus Gloop: A greedy boy.

Veruca Salt: A girl who chews gum all day long.

Mike Teavee: A boy who does nothing but watch television

Charlie Bucket: The hero.

The story is that Charlie was in a poor family and one day the most special candy inventor,

Mr. Willy Wanka said that he would open his factory to few lucky children.

Little Charlie also want to be the lucky person.

Was he lucky enough ? The next journal, I will tell you.

My Reading Journal 3 G組 吳欣潔

I started with a new book "A Tale Of Two Cities ." This book was written by Charles Dickens,a famous novelist which is deepl loved.He is borned in 1812. His father couldn't make good use of money , so he was in the prison for his father's debts.This poor background didn't frustrate him but made him more serious on every thing he did .He was truly afraid of poverty .On the other side,he really paid much attention to the poor.In his early twenties,he wrote his first novel.It's a provement of a man who made an effort despite of bad environment.

This book descripes the story between Paris and London under the French Revolution.In the violence and terror of the revolution,Sydney Carton,sacrificed his life for the girl he loved.This is a tragic.I don't really like these kind of story actually.but I think there is something inside the story that the author wantted us to know.Knowing the author's background can make me easily to konw what the ideas he wants to convey and why he wrote that way.

This book is a 3000 words level.It's more difficulty than last book and I just read a few pages of it. But I think I can get many things from it after I finish it.

My Reading Journal 3 F組 朱慶元

To continue the previous chapter , this time , Oliver is being taught to , without knowing anything , steal stuffs from other children by the way he thinks is just the game . After few days , he is being sent to "work" with his partners and then they steal a silk handkerchief from a elder which make Oliver astonished , scared him run away and mislead that elder think he is a thief (I have a question: Since Oliver knows what thieving is , why couldn't him identify the purpose about that "funny game" is , is so weird , isn't it? ) . Then he is being arrested and sent to police station , meets the one who is bad temper , doesn't want to get trouble and willing to make Oliver guilty without clear evidence . Fortunately the book store owner make the correct witness , lead Oliver being freed , taken to the elder's house and treated well . Till here , through these chapters , the world which author describe is really brutal to those who don't have significant background like Oliver , those who surround them , in fact , don't care them whether the are suffering or what else , even more dead . They are just tools , being used until broken , and that's their only value in the world . Can this being changed ?Only the author knows .

RJ3 Group A 巫孟凌

This month , I choose the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time .

First , I was attracted by the title .It's a book of mystery . I love to read this kind of book . It makes me have the motive power to read continually .

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is about a boy who is gifted with a superbly logical brain but autistic . Christopher is good at math . Holmes is his idol .

A dog's homicide case happened in this village . So Christopher decided to investigate the real killer and turn to his favorite fictional character .

I hold the very big anticipation to this book .

Next I'll tell you more about this book .

My Reading Journal 3 Team L 林孟萱

Book title : The Secret Garden

Author : France Eliza Hodgson Burnett

Retold by : Clare West

Illustrated by : Jenny Brackley

Publishing hourse : Oxford University Press

The novel belongs to a series named "Oxford Bookworms Library".

This simplified edition was published on 2000.

This story talks about a little girl, Mary Lennox. She originally born and lived in India. Her parents were always busy with their own things, and only her servants kept company with her. It seemed that nobody cared about her. But when her parents died of a serious disease, she was sent back to England to live her uncle's home in Yorkshire. Mary primarily never thought about other people, but only herself. In fact, she was bad-tempered, selfish and disagreeable. When Mary move to her uncle's house, which is big, old and full of many secret. She met some people, and the way they treat her is different from those she used to know. Mary began to adapt to the life in Yorkshire, and at the same time she was learning and changing little by little. After she found the secret garden's key and entered it to take care of plants there, she also found that the child, who often cried in the night, is Colin, her uncle's son. Mary and Dickon, who she made friend with in Yorkshire, helped ill poor Colin get out to breath fresh air and took him to the secret garden. They had much happy time in the garden. In the end, because of Mary and Dickon's help, Colin became health, and found back the love between he and his father.

The author, France Eliza Hodgson Burnett, was born in England in 1849. When she was sixteen, her family moved to USA, and made their home in Knoxville, Tennessee. There, she began to write stories for magazines, and after marrying in 1873, she went on writing stories for both adults and children. "Little Lord Fauntleroy" in 1886, made her famous, and in 1905 came another book , "A Little Princess". "The Secret Garden" came out in 1910. By that time Burnett had two homes ─ a house in Kent, in the south of England, and a house on Long Island in USA, where she died in 1924. Today, most people think "The Secret Garden" is Burnett's best book. In this story the children are more like real children ─ they are selfish and disagreeable, they shout and get angry, they learn and change. The idea for this book came to Burnett from the old rose garden at her home in Kent, where she made friends, like Mary in the story, with a robin that came to take bread from her hand.The story is still a great favourite with children, who love the idea of a secret place that adult do not know about. And this story had been adapted to movie many times.

English Reading Journal3 ,L,吳冠英

It's a shame that i started my English reading just at last week.

It's too late and also impratical to find or make any excause for myself.

The book that I chose to be my reading task is a novel named "Never let me go" writen by Kazuo Ishiguro.

The name of the book " Never let me go" usually make peaple associated with some sentimental stories or something romantic,

but actually it is a science fiction contains literary components.

The autor "Kazuo Ishiguro",a Japanese-British writor who won the Booker Prize in 1989 with his previous novel "The remains of the

day",try hard to convey the central issue of the free will through this novel and pondered it by every charactors in the story.

The novel describes the childhood of Kathy H, a young woman of 31, focusing at first on her youth at an unusual boarding school and

eventually, her adult life. The story takes place in a dystopian britain, in which human beings are cloned to provide donor organs for

transplants. Kathy and her classmates have been created to be donors, though the adult Kathy is temporarily working as a "carer,"

someone who supports and comforts donors as they are made to give up their organs and, eventually, submit to death.

"above excerpt from the introduction of the book"

The novel can be divided into three parts, chronicling the three phases of the lives of its main characters

I have completed the chapter1,2 and 3 already.

The begenning of the story is set at Hailsham, a boarding school where the children are brought up and educated. The teachers there

mysteriously encourage the students to produce various forms of art. The best works are chosen by a woman known only as Madame

and are said to be collected in a gallery. That Hailsham is not a normal school is also indicated by the emphasis on frequent medical

checks and other odd details.

The story is very charming to me , it aroused my curiosity and keeping me to read it as a before-sleeping job.

My RJ3 L組 劉梧柏

Because I had to return the book"The Count of Monte Cristo" to the library, I change the book I read. This time I choosed the book "Pride And Prejudice".It was written by Jane Austen. The reason that I choosed the book was that it was a famous book and I had read it in Chinese when I was little.So I thought it might be fun to read it in English.

There were 581 pages in the book "Pride And Prejudice".And I had read 60 pages for the two weeks.There was a Bennet family.Mr.Bennet and Mrs.Bennet had five daughters .The only life goal for Mrs.Bennet was to look for good husbinds for her five daughters.And the most important thing was that the man who would like to marry her daughter needed to have fortune.And one day , they had new neighbors.The young man ,Mr. Bingley, had a big fortune and was single.So Mrs.Bennet was very excited.She tried a lot of ways to introduce her daughters to Mr.Bingley.And fortunately, Mr.Bingly hold a party to invite a lot of single girls neighborhood.And he thought the eldest daughter of Bennet family ,Jane, was very beautiful.At the same time,Jane liked Mr.Bingley.

The book was really fun while the beginning was not that fun at all.But it let me felt the content was better and better .And that made me to want to continue my reading.I would like to enjoy the book.

reading journal K組 蘇郁玫

Through this two week, I decided to change the book I read. Because I thought the last book was too difficult to me. The book now I am reading is named The Bluest Eyes. It was written by Toni Morrison and originally published in 1970. My classmate introduced me this book, and borrows me the book. Toni Morrison is an American author and Nobel Prize recipient. This is her first novel, talking about racial hatred and historical memory.

The story focus on an 11-year-old black girl named Pecola Breedlove. Pecola's father drinks, her mother is distant, and two of them often beat each other. Pecola believes that if she had blue eyes, she would be loved and her life would get better. I think this book can make us thinking about the issue of racial and racial equality. I wish I can keep reading and learn something from this book.

My Reading Journal 3 H組，Pythia

I continue reading this book "Pride and Prejudice" in theses days. From 3/27 to 4/9,I have read the pages from 112 to 192 and there was 28 pages that I have not finished. In fact, the project was behind schedule. I expect to finish it on March.

To continue the story, As time passes, however, Mr. Darcy begins to see that Elizabeth was a woman of culture . In fact, she is a lovely and clever woman.But, he was afraid that he might have given her the negative impression. Therefore, Darcy unconsciously made that mistake that behaved arrogantly. In the same time , Elizabeth thought Darcy as a proud man and has a prejudice against Darcy. Therefore, the more one tries to cover up, the better-known it will become.

Although I haven't read it completely, I had seen the movie and Chinese edition novel before. I have a feeling that anyone who desire a beautiful romance, there were always some obstacles on the way. After Elizabeth realizes the error of her initial prejudice against Mr. Darcy, it's embarrassing when they met each other again. It is very interesting. They don't chat as smooth as before, they talk stupidly, just like two shy little boy and girl. So, love is blind, it let you couldn't see the rational, what a foolish thing you may do when you fall in love.

reading journal K組 莊清瑜

Reading journal 3 K 組 莊清瑜

I have finished 《The Hunchback of Natre Dame》recently. It's easier for me to read.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is originally named 《Notre Dame de Paris》, because the backround story happened at Paris's most famous gothic cathedral. This Novel was written by Victor Hugo .
The main characters name is Quasimodo, he was named by his cruel guardian the owner of the cathedral Claude Frollo. From the moment he was born Frollo had trapped him the belle tower . Although he was in that bad enviroment, he grew up to be a kind-hearted young man .One time when a festival was held, Quasimodo met Esmeralda who had not only caught the instrest of Quasimodo, but even Frollo , thus the sad story starts.

The book's most touching part is that Hugo had used the book to criticize the darkness and the unfairness. Although Quasimodo was born ugly, he had a kind heart, reflecting to that, the cathedral owner Frollo had an ugly heart.

《The Hunchback of Notre Dame》is not only made into an animated cartoon, but was also made into a musical, and both are very popular. Although it is a sad ending, I still love it.

My Reading Journal 3 J組 楊凱容

This two weeks, I have read to chapter sixteen of my chosen book - Charlotte's Web, leaving six chapters to be read next week. In the final of my last time reading the book, I read that the pig, Wilbur, was feed to be killed as bacon or ham. So, Wilbur went to find the spider, Charlotte, who could help him out the crisis.

Charlotte spent a lot of time working on a plan to save Wilbur's live. Finally, she got a good idea. She weaved a message on her web to show the people who were the master of the farm and intended to eat Wilbur. What the message said was that "the pig." This action result in a miracle on the pig. People who lived in the village all came to the farm to visit the pig and the master was also proud of Wilbur.

Infect, I couldn't really understand what "the pig" mean. Wasn't it equal to "certain pig?"I have consulted the dictionary but still found no answer. Though I was confused by the word "some pig," I read the book continually, wondering that maybe I could understand it by reading from the context.

Followed by "the pig," Charlotte weaved some other word like "terrific" or "radiant," appealing more people to came. Wilbur became more and more famous and so did his owner. By the way, there was not only Charlotte but also much animal helping Wilbur, such as the rat, Templeton . Then, one day, the master of the farm decided to take Wilbur to the fair. In order to protect Wilbur, Charlotte and Templeton hided in the crate which Wilbur was put in.

I have read here this week. It's odd for me why the spider weaved the miracle web, but the pig got the fame.

RJ3，E組，吳曼綾

The book which I have read for many days is" The Egypt Game."
I have introduced it in RJ2,but I forgot to write down its publish year.
The book was copyrighted in 1967 by Zilpha Keatley Snyder.

Now, I have read it for 92 pages.
The girls,April and Melanie,played Egypt game with the role of priest.
Both of them were 12 years old.
And Melanie's younger brother,Marshall,joined them.
He played the part of Pharaoh in the game.
But he is only 4.

Besides, after a semester,a new neighbor was coming.
A mother and three daughters.
The oldest daughter named Elizabeth,about nine years old,also joined them.
However,something terrible happened.
A boy,who was extraordinary killed and was found in the dismal.
That made everyone lived there feel frightened.

Well,what will happen next?