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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 etc...//

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

a blueberry bagel and coffee from wegmans

2.25 ​ I think that the movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" was interesting. I don't really watch SciFi movies because I don't believe in that sort of stuff, but the movie was cool. I can't really relate it to anything I've seen or read. I have to say that the startle factors definately worked for me and the ending was a complete surprise to me.

3.4 I would definately reccomend this movie to anyone. I'm not really a believer in ghosts, etc. but I liked this movie. I still think that it's easy to make up the story that was in the movie, like the sounds that the three students heard at night. There plenty of startle factors and there were times when I really did get scared. It was hard for me to concentrate with the way that the filming was done. Overall, it was nicely done.

The movie was not so much about ghosts, but witches. I thought the noises at night were very effective, simply for the fact that they WERE vague! I agree. Ms. Giglio


 * I agree with you, but the movie was fake wasn't it? So the noises were too. I thought the movie was alright, but it annoyed me that they didn't show you what was getting them. I don't think they could make the witch or the hermit scary looking enough. Another thing that was confusing was they they brought the hermit and the witch into the movie, and so no one really knows which one is doing what. So that really caused some confusion.-Nina Petteys

3.12 Dracula-first few chapters So far, I love the story. Bram Stoker did an excellent job of descrbibing Dracula and creating a real page-turner. Bram did a great job, so far, of creating structure for the story with Jonathan Harker's journal. In chapter two, I think that Jonathan really starts to realize that he is a prisoner in the castle and that things around the castle aren't normal. Bram kind of set up the "freakiness" by emphasizing the fact that the Count welcomed Johnathan into his castle very freely and openly. It seemed that when Johnathan and the Count sat for dinner, Johnathan seemed to realize that the Count was a little erie. Another warning sign that makes the story a page-turner is that the next morning after breakfast, Johnathan visits Dracula and sees that he is reading books about England, where Johnathan lives. It seemed that the Count was going to make a permanent move there. Like I said, I think that Bram did an excellent job with this story.

I agree with Gill on some points, however I disagree on other points. I wish the novel was written as a chapter book, without the diary-type entries. I think it would give a better sense and feeling to the story. However I agree with you about the part on the Count having all the books about England. He seemed very interested in England and wanted to move there for permanent. Dominic Matacale

I agree with dominic's opinion, it is a great story, but sometimes hard to follow because of the "diary" writing style. --Allie Argentieri

I disagree with Dominic and Allie's pinion and more so agree with Gill on most of her points. i find this to be a interesting story especially because of how long ago it was written. unlike most i dont really mind the diary type style much like the book "the color purple"(calvin Haynes)

Now that I'm getting further into the story, I'm finding that I like it more and more after every chapter I get through. I'm coming to realize it wasn't the Count that was doind all the kidnapping and other crimes. I love how everything is coming together and becoming less "pointless." At the begining, I felt that the story kind of just dragged on, now I can see why Stoker wrote the book the way he did. I think it's really cool how the characters are connected in some way or another. If something haapens to one character, it seems to affect the others in some way, shape, or form. I'm really enjoying how the story is coming together. **
 * 3.18

-I Agree with gill, except i did not think the beginning was boring, just that as the further I read the more interesting it became. I liike the point you amde about everything and every character connecting to one another, you dont think about it much when reading, but when you take a minute to think about it, almost everything relates to everything else. Dominic matacale gill

-I also agree with Gill, this novel is really intreging. I also like the way that all of the characters are connected. The only person that i dont believe is really connected to the other characters is Van Helsing. He is a strange character in this novel, but Renfeild is also a strange character, i mean i dont know many people who like to eat spiders. -Amanda Stoddard

I agree with gill in that the story is finally starting to become less pointless and all of the characters are coming together towards the end. --Allie Argentieri

I agree with you Gil beacause the book started out slow and boring and made me not want to put any effort into reading the book but as we get farther and farther into the book its getting better. - Zach DeG.

 3.26 ​ I'm so glad to see how everything is playing out. With every page I read, the story is coming together more and more. I am curious to see where they find the other earth box. I finally understand Renfield's character, for the most part. I can't believe there are so many ways to ward off a vampire!! I think it's so clever how all the characters are somewhat connected in a way. I think it was very smart of them to get together and share all of their journals so they could tell of the encounters each one of them had with the Count. I'm so interested to find out how they actually do end up killing Dracula.

Thats a good point i like how all the characters are coming together so nicely(calvinHaynes)--

4.1 I like how Stoker reiterates the threat of female sexualtiy by reintroducing the three female vampires that appeared in the begining of the novel. I became worried when they tried to turn Mina into one of them. I felt better as I kept rading to find out that Van Helsing killed the three vampire women, making them return to a state of normalcy. I thought it was well put together when the Count died, he looked calm and not like a monster at all. This was a very powerful novel and I liked it.

I agree with you gillian. Although I did not fear too much, Mina becoming turned into one of the sexual female vampires. The novel was very powerful and has a very well put together storyline and plot. -Dominic matacale

-Yes, the "christian" based part of the novel really shined through in the end with it describen the count's calm and peaceful expression. --Allie Argentieri

I totally forgot about the 3 female vampires until they showed up again in the book. It's good that Stoker found a way to wrap them in the end somehow. -Nicole Mastin

I agree with Gil because it was a very intresting book it was well written and the story line was good too.-zach deg.

I want to know more about those 3.. Where did they come from, etc...? Ms.G.

When i did the group prioject i figured that question out. the three wifes are very simalar to him they think that the wife come from his immited family wife or child or something.JT

I agree with Ms. Giglio about wanting to know more about the three female vampires. Did Dracula bite them? Or did they bite him? It would make sense to assume that he bit them since he goes after the women like they're trophies.-Nina Petteys