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**//Write down your thoughts,comments and critiques on this week's reading/video.//** 

Hints on what to journal on:

__**WEEK 1:**__
 * Did you like it? Why or why not?
 * Can you compare it to something else you have read, seen, or experienced?
 * What makes it work? or not. ex: setting,pace (as in the build up of suspence),any startle factors, surprise ending etc...

From the small amount of the movie that i actually got to watch i felt like the movie The Others definitely had a good plot and was going to be pretty interesting. I watched the movie a few years ago, but watching parts of it a second time gave me a better grasp of what was going on. I can compare this movie to a book that I have read, The book is The Blue Girl it has a lot to do with the other world and the different species there are. I like to compare things with other things that I have experienced it always puts a twist on it. The way that they set this movie up was perfect, I enjoyed all of the suspense with the little girl Anne and how her mom didnt believe her but the whole time she knew that she was right about the ghosts. The twist was very surprising and I enjoyed the part when the father came home. It seemed so real! I loved that way they did that. Finding out that they were actually ghosts and that the kids were killed by their mother was the biggest surprise.

you are expected to make up, on your own, anything you miss in class. especially when you know you will be gone, like the choir trip. I am glad you liked the movie. would you recommend the book the blue girl? Ms. Giglio

__Week 3:__

I enjoyed reading this because because it is nothing like any book that i have ever read, I would have never thought that i would be interested in this kind of stuff but everytime that i turn the page it is like an intense moment to find out what will happen next with all of the characters and the chaos that awaits them. It is hard to compare this to something else because like i said i am not really interested in this kind of stuff. But this book definitely explains a lot and i like when i can really understand what is going on. It helps when you recap it and give us some information, stuff that i would not have realized or thought of while reading. I think it crazy how Jon and Mina got married so fast, But it still bothers me that he could trust her with the journal which she read anyways. The part when the wolf comes through the window was pretty intense and frightening. I thought about how Dracula does this and why he is so interested in Britain and the people there and it seems as if he does this to attack the people that would never believe such a thing, that stuff like vampires and sucking blood are just not real and do not exist in thier world. Putting them in an odd position of either believing or not believing. The way that Lucy recovers her beauty before she dies is pretty cool. Are the kids going to experience the same type of thing that Lucy experienced? It bothers me that they cant just believe in the supernatural, and realize that is where all of the strange things are coming from. Not saying that if they start to believe it will go away, just to make things a little easier for them.

__Week 4:__

I enjoyed this section of reading, although parts were confusing to me. I think that it was good for Seward in a way to experience the horridness of seeing his fiance lucy that way at the graveyard, and going through the terrible mutulation of her body after it was already taken over! I thought it was cool that they included the fact the Count Dracula wanted to send the boxes of earth to his new home, to restain his own soil and make himself a new territory. But he just keeps messing with the poor doctors and especially John and Mina they are just suffering so bad, and i hate it. The part with the reading of the diary again made me angry because i know what it feels like to have someone read my diary, totally not cool!! The different negatives and postitives of being a vampire, when these are dicussed it is very interesting although we have talked about them a lot in class chapter 18 really cleared them up for me and helped me to understand them. When Lucy comes into the picture some more, she is just really creepy and out of this world, definitely something that i have never even heard of before. The Count is kind of stupid for bringing the boxes of earth and making them visible for all of the people who are fighting for his death. Since they have the power to just get rid of them! I feel bad for Reinfeld too.. That sucks, but I'm glad that he can help in a way. WOW! Poor Mina and John, I wish that they could just escape the Count and make him go away. He totally just sneaks up on them at the worst times, and if i were Mina a would be scared to death of him and all of the powers that he has over her! And especially her! I cant wait to see what happens next! Dracula needs to be summoned to death! Immediatley!

i agree. that is horrible luck for jonathan and mina, kinda jsut ticks me off that he would "seduce" a mans wife like that seeing as how he was a man before he was a vampire, speaking of Dracula of course. The whole scene is severely offending and makes me personally a little, taken-back. Makes ya think if it was real, jsut how pissed you* would be in that situation. Or im just paranoid :D haha-Joey

I have to admit. That Dracula has been around for generations. I thinks that why he is so heartless. I would be completly horrified to be in Johns shoes. THe worst part is knowing I that I did nothing to protect the woman the I loved.
 * D Bradley Clark

I agree with brads statement saying i would horrified to be john and also how he says the worst part is how he did nothing to protect the woman he loved. I mean if that was me or basically any man they would do anything and everything they could to protect the woman. Mike Smith

__ Week 5: __

The last stretch of this book was really something, I liked how they introduced the three vampire women again! It is so crazy how much power they have over men, wow Van Helsing totally lost it! Its scary how decietful Dracula is, he makes me mad.If i were Jon I would be so extremely pissed at everything that is happening to Mina (his wife), and the fact that Dracula is totally transforming her. Making Jon feel CRAZY! All of the mishaps with traveling and searching for the Count is super annoying definitelybecause it creates just more unnecessary reading that is just I dont know.. Pointless! It sucks because when they are searching for the Count, Mina is with them and she has a telepathic connection with Dracula, making it easy for him to know when they are going to be somewhere. I think that Dracula starts to feel a little defensive, you could say because Van Helsing and Jonathon kind of have a tap on him like what he is doing and where he is going makes things a little interesting. It was interesting how Dracula died, with a look of peace on his face like he didnt want to be who he was but he didnt have any other choice maybe he was just stuck. This reminds me of someone who is stuck in another body, that would suck really bad to not have control over what you are doing like someone with terrets or something. I liked that Jon had a good ending! That made everything seem so real, and Happy Ending's are always better. The only problem I had with this book was that it could have been A LOT shorter! But oh well, Thanks for introducing this book to me. I dont know if I will ever read it again.. But it was good while it lasted! <3 RACHAEL! ​ I also liked how the three vampire women were reintroduced to the book. Draculas death was very interesting but the chase for him was too long and not needed. -Heather

I agree with heather the chase wasnt needed it just made the book go on could of thrown in a good twist to the book there and made it a fantastic book! Mike Smith

I thought that the ending was very dull. -Bradley Clark

__Week 6:__

The witch week!!!! OOOOOooOOOOOoooooOOOO!!!! Scary. Actually, not so much! I don't specifically agree with witches or ghosts nor do I believe in them, this movie was very annoying. I understand what they were trying to get at, and the fact that they wanted to research and discover. But why would they put their lives in jeopardy for nothing.. I did not like that girl Heather she was annoying and made everything worse. One part about the movie I liked is the realistic parts, because it did seem very real! I can compare this movie to other movies like paranormal activities. I was definitely freaked out at the end, it surprised me that they just left us hanging like that. I liked this week but not as much as the other weeks, this week will probably be a lot more entertaining because we will be able to see people present their projects and recap everything we have done in this class.

i agree with you. i dont believe in witches and stuff like that either and i also thought the movie was annoying because of the girl she in fact did make alot of things alot worse- chad cleveland

i agree with you. i don't believe any ghost story ..it is what you think on you mind, is only in your imagination Meng Ling Zhao

I like your take on the movie, even though you don't belive in witches. I totally agree with you about Heather, she completely annoyed me. -Leann