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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?

- I had a ham sandwitch, cake, and orange soda.

week 1- I liked week one alot becuse we watched the movie on alieans harvesting human bodys. Everyone loves movies. This movie was interesting to me because i have never heard of it but after watching it i found that it was a great movie. Im dont really belive in other life forms but after class this week i guess it could be possible. The whole idea of other life forms still seems a little far streched though. I belive that if the other life forms were going to come to earth they would have by this point in time or we would have come into contact with them.

Week 2- So far this has been my favorite unit in this class. The idea of witches is scary then aliean life forms. The story of Hansel and Grettel is a tale that is read to most all little kids. To liitle kids the idea of being left to die in the woods is scary. So the idea that this unit and movie is based around is started at a young age for most kids so its blown up as a big scary thing. The movie i will admitt was very interesting and was a great attempt at trying to be scary but it just didnt do it for me. Im not sure if it was the way the movie was filmed or what but it was just not that scary. I did like this unit very much. I have never really read or seen a movie that had to do with idea so this unit was diffrent and interesting.

I agree...I think the concept of witches is far more scary than aliens. Maybe because witches are believed to be "among us" if they are real...and aliens are portrayed to be so far away. -Nicole Mastin

I agree... that witches are scarier than aliens and also that the film wasn't scary. -Sammy Campbell

yea the movie wasnt scary, but it was good and in ways funny to an extent. -DDelill

Week 3- So far the novel is pretty interesting the introduction was a little bit long and confusing I thought but once Johnathan Harker got to the Counts castle the book became interesting especially when he realized he was a prisoner. He was thankful that he got the crucifix because he would have been in trouble without it. The Count would have sucked the blood out of his neck but when he touched the crucifix he stopped. This was the part where John realized he was in trouble and needed to get out but he coudn't he was trapped in the castle. He was hoping that his fiance Mina would come looking for him if he didn't come home soon. There was no way out of the castle the doors were all locked and the windows were too high. I can't wait to find out if he gets out of the castle without being touched by the Count.

I am glad you put the details in your reflection about the crucifix because that is a small, but important detail that I forgot about. It it really cool reading a book that set up the whole Vampire idea and what they were afraid of. The Feeling John had once he relized he was trapped was probably so horrible and I would not be able to even think of what I would do. Ther are some very good twists and things you wouldn't expect to happen. It's ok so far somewhat confusing though. Dominic matacale

WEEK 4- I thought it was very intersting to find that it was not dracula harming the kids. This novel is very intersting becuase it is wriiten by the author in a very old style wich is very diffrent from other novels. Im finding that the author of the novel descibes certains things in diffrent ways. For example if something happens that is risky and shows passion the author has a good way of describing it without being so direct. I am getting into this book alot, the more i read and get deeper into the book the more i like it. I dont read many old novels but this one is very good.

WEEK FIVE- This week for me the story is falling together i find it very interesting how the author brought the whole story together. I was suprised when the killed lucy and how non-sencitve they were about it. My favorite character so far is Ven Helsing. He is like the big expert and professinol Dracula killer. If i had to chose a person from the novel to be i would pick him for sure. This novel is proving to be a very interesting and the story keeps unfolding. I love how the author wrote this book and how he is tying all the chacacters together as the story develops. At the beging of the novel i would have never imaged that the book was going to take so many crazy twists and turn and end where it is. I cant wait to see where this novel rollercoaster will end up.

They can't be sensitive about killing lucy because it wasn't really Lucy it was a vampire Lucy. I think they did what they had to do because she was hurting children. Sammy Campbell

WEEK6- Well its the end of the novel. This novel is very long one but the endding did not disapoint at all. I still like van helsing he is a pretty tough guy to be abable to resist the three beautiful vampire women but he does and ends killing them. Its cool to see how the author brings to gether many forces to take out dracula and after a very tough battle they final kill him. Mina says she sees a sence of peace on his face when he dies. The author also throws a bit of religion into the story at the end because they talk about how the girls after they are killed they return to an inoccent state to be accepted into hevan or something like that.

I agree the ending didn't dissappoint me at all either it was good they got dracula and thats what i was hoping would happen. Sammy Campbell

True good ending dracula lost the battle i kinda expected it though and that the book would end happily(CalvinHaynes)-

- Yeah I like how everything seemed a little drawn out at first and it came together in the end. I also like how religion ties into the story as well. -Gill Rose

_I agree the ending was well written and put in at a good point. But I think the religion part somewhat took away fromt the whole intriguing, cool ending of the story. -Dominic Matacale

glad you liked it. Ms. G.