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Write down your thoughts,comments and critiques on this week's **reading/movie/video. ** //Hints on what to comment on:// //*Did you like it? Why or why not?// //*Can you compare it to something else you have read or seen?// //*What makes it work? or not. ex: setting,pace (as in the build up of suspence),any startle factors, surprise ending et//

​ 2.13 - Test Journal Entry: What did you eat for dinner last night?

Spaghetti and meatballs and sausage catchatorri with bread and a brownie

Week One Reflection:

The movie we watched last week was quite interesting, and I have not see a movie like that at all. I enjoyed the movie because it was so unique and fun to watcha movie that I would not normally watch. The setting worked really welll with the movie, it made it seem like it could happen anywhere. In the movie, when it showed how the aliens took over the person by making a duplicate of the person, i thought that was quite creepy and freaky. The ending was a huge surprise, i thought the girl that ran away was "cursed" and the guy was still "uncursed", but it was the other way around. Pretty good movie.

Week Two Reflection:

I have never watched the Blair Witch Project, and i have wanted to, so I was glad you chose this movie to watch. The movie was not as good as good as i thought it would be, however the acting was really convincing about them being scared. Seeing this movie reminds me of the land my family owns, and when I go up to our land at night I probably will think about this movie a few times while I am up there at night. There was one part of the movie that was really creepy, and that was the abondaoned house in the woods with all the bloody hand prints on the walls and stairs. The ending was also unique and well planned. I liked how it related to the original story of the blair Withc and how she killed the children. The Setting and plot of the movie was very good, minus the amateur video taping. It was overrall a good movie, thanks for choosing it.

I also agree with you on the ending of the movie. It was really creative and I thought it was soo creepy how it came back to the original legond of the children facing the wall while the man killed the other children in the house. The bloody handprints were also really scary, but the characters were too busy trying to find their friend and not realizing that they were in the same house as the legond.--Allie Argentieri

​ I agree with dominic not not that it was scary i just would think about it every time i go camping....JT

Week Three reflection:

The beginning of Dracula was somewhat boring and unique at the same time. When we started getting into the mysterous parts of the novel, and the unknown reasons for such things made the book interesting. Such things as Dracula not having any servants, and never being home during the day, and also many of the door being locked, especially the front door. I thought the book would be more intersting, however i am not drawn into reading the book a lot.

Week Four Reflection:

The novel is starting to clear up and become more and more understandable. the was only one confusing part, which was the children and who was hurting them, but when I found out it wasn't count Dracula it was a total shock to me. Also it was confusing on why Renfield would leave and stay at the front of the house, but once I learned that was Dracula's house that he bought, it mad much more sense that Dracula must have met with renfield in the past or somehow "set a trance" on him. Bram Stoker wrote this novel really well, and i think the reason it is somewhat chaleenging is due to the suspense and unexpected occurences.

-I also didnt understand why Renfeild was standing at the door of the house either, But now i understand all of the novel. I find it to be almost like contagious, Once I start reading it I dont want to put it down. -Amanda Stoddard

I agree some parts of this novel can be very very confusing but if you read alittle further it usually helps you understand. Sammy Campbell

A lot of the challenge for me in the novel is how it's written. It's not a bad thing, but i have to keep reminding myself that whoever is writing at the time is writing only his thoughts and what's occured so far...not what others are thinking or alluding to events that may happen in the future, like other authors do in books. -Nicole Mastin

it would be nice to see into renfields past -ddelill

Yeah i agree with dom i think the novel is confusing and challening due to the suspense and unpecting turns. Renfield is a strange person as it is but i dont really know what to expect out of him thats why he confusing and grosses me out:)JT

I would also say it is confusing but i would blame it on the age of the novel, it has a very diffrent type of writting in it that is challenging. JDS

I also thought it was Count Dracula kidnapping the children but kind of knew in the back of my mind that it could have been Lucy. --Allie Argentieri

Week five reflection:

The Novel is getting more and more suspenseful, whether or not they will and how they will catch and kill Dracula. It makes me very curious on where the last box of earht is, and having to get all the boxes of earth first in order to kill Dracula is very unique and I would have never thought about that with all the things I know about vampires including Dracula. Also it seems like Dracula is trying to take down all the people who are trying to caprtue him slowly one person at a time. He moved from Johnathon Harker, who luckily escaped him, but to Lucy and Mina. However I think Van Helsing and the other characters will get to Dracula before he is able to turn Mina into a Dracula, especially with Renfield's help. I am looking forward to finishing the book and seeing what happens.

i belive we all are ready to find what happens in the end -ddelill I also think that Van Helsing and the others will be able to stop Dracula and that renfeild is a great asset. --Allie Argentieri

I can't believe there are so many ways to kill a vampire!! -Gill Rose

i agree i wanna know and look forward to finding out what happens to dracula and also i agree with Gill. i didnt realize all the ways to kill a vampire i knew about the steak thing but cutting off the head and then garlic didn know about.---(calvinHaynes)---

Yeah i didnt understand the boxes thing at first but as i continued to read i realized what was going on. but i think the killing of dracula is going to be the best part of the book,that way my mind can stop think about it day and night all i thought about is how it will end i wanted to just skip to the back and read it...lolJT

Week Six Reflection:

Well a good book game to a finish. I think that is was a well chosen book for us to read because it allows us to keep learning and excercising our mind and have an interesting and fun novel to read. Even though I was glad Dracula was ended up being killed and peace was broguht to many people. If you think about it, it is somewhat said that a creature such as unique as Dracula that lived for centuries had to pass away with much science on him. It was also interesting how he died with some sort of a peaceful and relaxed look on his face. Almost as if once he died it set him free and it is actually what he wanted. Glad it was a good book.

I was glad that they killed him too! So many innocent people were saved.--Allie Argentieri

If we could only put him in a zoo to "observe"! Ms. G.

Yeah it was a good book. i agree with the choosing of the book it just took a while to read it and get into it i keep holding it off til the last min because it wasnt interesting but after half way i couldnt stop reading it....JT