Final Blog Reflection

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The post I decided to use as my best blog post was my theme and summary post on Anna and the French Kiss. I chose this post because first I received full credit and was the featured blogger Friday with it. In the rubric it said to first make a thematic statement about my book. So when making this post the first thing I did was wrote a thematic statement stating, "Sometimes something that is hard in the beginning can pay off in the end." This was a good thematic statement because it was a lesson or a message that fit very well to this book and it wasn't telling the reader to do something, it wasn't being bossy. The second thing the rubric told us to do was find quotes to support my theme and then support it with evidence. So in my post I would provide a quote and then back it up with evidence that would support the quote. One example is when I used this quote, "“French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.” With this support, "This quote represents my theme because it shows that in the beginning she was really confused when she got to France. She thought that it was going to be a bad experience because she was confused in the beginning so how could it get any better." This was a good example of using a quote and support because this shows us exactly why the theme was perfect for this book. I did this three times for extra support. Lastly the rubric told us to write a summary for our book. I wrote a very good summary that explained what has happen, who the important characters were, and all the important details. This is why I chos4e this blog post for my best post.

 

One thing I struggled with when doing the blog was hitting all the requirements when doing the post. A way that I learned how to overcome this was by numbering. First I would get on edline and look at Mrs. Cohen's learning to understand the blogger rubric. Next I would read each one. After that I would go through one by one and compare with rubric so that I made sure I had all the sections. I would number along the way so that I could miss anything. One strength I had while doing was blogger was providing good amounts of evidence. This was a strength of mine because I would know the perfect amount of quotes and how long they should be to prove the point, but not go over kill. As shown in the quote and explanation in the paragraph above.

 

Anna and the French Kiss- Reading Skills

Anna and the French Kiss
1. Next in my book I predict that Anna and St. Claire is that they're going to get into fight, and make up at the end. I predict this because they have been getting into little fights and making up. So I feel like their little fights are gonna make a big fight, but they will still make up. 
2. Questions I have in my book are... How do they make up so fast after getting in big fights? If they get into a big fight will they still make up? What will be the cause of there next fight? 
3. One text to self connection is that Anna is very sheltered and quiet when she first got to school then after a while and she got to know everyone she loosened up. I am also like this because in the beginning of the year I was quiet because I didn't know everyone yet, but now that I have meet everyone and we know each other a lot better I am more loosened up and myself. 
4. One text to text connection is with mean girls. In the beginning Anna is very sheltered and quiet when she first got to school then after a while and she got to know everyone she loosened up. Just like Katie is very quiet and doesn't know anyone, but once she meet some friends like Janice she loosened up and became more of herself. 
5. One text to world connection is that Anna was sent to boarding school over schools by herself. Many kids are sent to boarding schools all over the world to study new things and a different culture. 

This is an interesting article about how make up can really change what someone looks like

Anna and the French Kiss- Posting Requirement

This is a really cool website about the author and it has a part on there for deleted parts of the book so it is really interesting to read!

This is a really good book review of Anna and the French kiss

Anna and the French Kiss- Tone and Mood

1. The tone of my book is calming and romantic. I know this because Anna and St. Claire are always talking romance and when doing this they are very calm and soothing with their tone. The mood of my story is loving. I know the mood is loving because when I am reading it they make me feel calm and loved and like they are truly in love. An example of this is where it is saying...
a. “Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring."
I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?"

"No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.” 

This proves that the tone and mood of my story is calming and romantic because the two of them are talking in a very cute and loving way and expressing there love for each other in soothing and calm ways. 2. An example of when a character swayed the belief of another character is when St. Claire swayed Anna's opinion about how it is okay for her dad to write stories about women having cancer and other bold subjects like that. He used a very calm and convincing tone. This impacted her decision because if he was screaming and just blurting out what he thought she would of blocked him out and gotten upset and did the opposite. His tone made her think about what he was saying and she was able to process it. 

Anna and the French Kiss- Theme and Summary

1. The theme of my book, Anna and the French Kiss is...
sometimes something that is hard in the beginning can pay off in the end. 
2. Some quotes from my book that support my theme are... 
a. “French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.” 
This quote represents my theme because it shows that in the beginning she was really confused when she got to France. She thought that it was going to be a bad experience because she was confused in the beginning so how could it get any better. 
b. “The only French word I know is oui, which means “yes,” and only recently did I learn it’s spelled o-​u-​i and not w-​e-​e.” 
This quote represents my theme because it is also showing how already it was a hard in the beginning and how it was really bad in the beginning because she didn't even know how to speak or spell their language. 
c. “You're the most incredible girl I've ever known. You're gorgeous and smart, and you make me laugh like no-one else can. And I can talk to you. And I know after all this I don't deserve you, but what I'm trying to say is that I love you, Anna. Very Much.” 
This quote shows that as time goes by the bad experience in the beginning can switch to be one of the best experiences of your life because Anna is falling in love, making new friends, and seeing how the other half lives. 
3. Summary: In the beginning of my book Anna was a quiet and shy teenage girl. Her parents were divorced, mom was kind of poor, dad was rich. Anna's parents decided to send her off to France for school all by herself. Anna thought it was going to be the worst experience because she was leaving her friends, family, and much more. When Anna got there she met a boy named St. Claire. St. Claire became one of her best friends and introduced her to all of his friends. Right now in my book St. Claire and Anna are past the friend zone and are dating. 

Anna and the French Kiss- quotes

These are some quotes from Anna and the French Kiss that are some of my favorites

Anna and the French Kiss- Characters (redo)

1. The main character in my story is Anna. Anna in the beginning of the book was a very shy and calm relaxed girl. She was one who had crushes, but didn't really date. Anna had a few close friends, but wasn't really popular. At the end of the book Anna was a very outgoing and a very happy and vibrant girl. She was in love and dating the cutest boy named St. Claire. She has lots of friends and really fits in with everyone. This would mean that Anna is a dynamic character because she is a main character that changes over time because of an event, or conflict.
2. Anna interacts with other characters very naturally and casually, except with St. Claire she becomes very in love and it is a bunch of romantic talk.
I smile. "You don't think I'm perfect?""No. You're delightfully screwy, and I wouldn't have you any other way.” Quote 1:
“Perfect is overrated. Perfect is boring."This is showing that when they talk they're talking really sweet to each other and that they are really in love with each other. Quote 2:“French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.” This is showing that in the beginning Anna was really confused about everything going in to a foreign school by herself. 
3. My character Anna propelled the plot because if she wouldn't of been really shy and not that into boys in the start then events like meeting St. Claire and going to school in France. These events changed her because it made her get in fights which changed her personality, falling in love which definitely changed her personality, met new people which also did the same. These all made the story keep going and changed the characters. 

anna and the french kiss article

This is a great article about what happens in the book and what other people think of the book. I think you will really enjoy it. Article.

theme and summary: Anna and the French Kiss

Theme: When bad things happen, good things come.
Quote 1: “Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you've come.” 

This is a quote from the book where St. Claire, Anna's best friend first welcomes her when she comes to Paris for the first time for boarding school by herself. It shows that a bad thing happen where Anna had to leave her family and go to another country for school, but people are already welcoming her.
Quote 2: “Anna: You really think he likes me?
Rashmi: Anna. He teases you all the time. It's classic boy-pulling-girl's-pigtail syndrome. And whenever anyone else even remotely does it, he always takes your side and tells them to shove it.”

This a quote showing that even though Anna had to leave her family a good thing came because she is falling in love with the worlds sweetest guy. 

Quote 3: “You're the most incredible girl I've ever known. You're gorgeous and smart, and you make me laugh like no-one else can. And I can talk to you. And I know after all this I don't deserve you, but what I'm trying to say is that I love you, Anna. Very Much.” 

This quote is showing the same as the other quotes. This is showing that just because bad things can happen good things like falling in love will soon come. 

Summary: So far in my book a girl name Anna who did live in Atlanta, Georgia. Her parents sent her to France for school. She had to leave behind her friends, family, school, and everything else. Anna still had someone back at home that she really liked. When Anna got there she met a guy name St. Claire. She started to fall in love with him and him with her. Come to find out that the guy she had like is now dating her bestfriend and they didn't tell her so she got really mad at them. I can't wait to find out what will come up next in my story and how it ends.  

This is an article about The Help that I think you would enjoy.

The Help- reading skills

In the book The Help I predict that Skeeter will go against the other white people and try to help the black people and help prove that they are not bad people. I predict this because Skeeter talks to the maids in a much kinder to the maids then the others. Also, Skeeter pulled Aibileen aside and asked her if she ever wished things were different so that makes me think that she wants to help them or change things. A few questions I have about the book are...why does Skeeter have interest in helping them and making a difference when she has been brought up in an area where everyone looks down on them? Another question I have is why do they think so poorly of the people caring for them when all they have done is helped them and been loyal to there "owner"? A text to self connection is that I have heard rumors before at dance about what someone did when it wasn't true so I stepped up and proved everyone wrong just like Skeeter is going to help the black people and prove the white people wrong. A text to world connection is that in this book white people are against blacks just like in America the white people used to be against black people. A text to text connection is To Kill A Mocking and this is because in both books they think differently of black people.

The Help: summary video

This is a quick video that shows a little about the story and what the general plot is.

TFiOS Article

The Fault in Our Stars Video

b. TFiOS

b. Hazel Grace Landcaster started as being a very sheltered, shy, but still confident girl with cancer. Once she met Augustus Waters she turned into a very mature, confident, stronger person. The way Hazel changed from meeting other characters is it helped her come out of her shell and mature, be able to trust, and be even stronger then she already was. Hazel was a very complex character to try to figure out because she had cancer and was different from the other kids so it made her more complex. She kept the plot moving by breaking out of her shell and saying things from her point of view which was not only just another point of view, but also someone are age and someone who is sick and looks upon life differently. Hazel’s opinions, stories, point of views, quotes and much more helped us come up with a message, theme that had been sent through the whole entire story. An example of her point of view is when it says, “…’you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.’” (page 20) Normally we think oh my gosh why would you smoke it’s gross and smells disgusting, but Hazel thinks more along the lines of cancer and how it can affect someone’s life.