q2 week 2 post B

So far ive really liked the book and i cant wait till i see whats going to happen next, but i also dont want to know because then i might finish it too early and then itd be done and there would be no more.
I like these last few chapters, but especially "A place to hide" and "Kreachers tale" because i have seen in this book and others what house elves can do and there pretty sick nasty so its cool that kreacher is starting to like Harry because then its like having a second Dobby who can do like whatever Harry wants him to do and dissasporate anywhere. Also i like this chapter because it has a cool story behind it, with how Regulus Arctucus Black( sirius's younger brother) had worked for Voldemort, but then changed his mind, and with Kreacher he searched out and found the Horcrux and stole it, and told kreacher not to tell anyone in the FAMILY what happened, but since Harrys the owner of Kreacher and Harrys not a Black, that means that Kreacher is able to tell Harry the story(which hasnt been told to anyone).

Q2 week 2 post A

skittering(171)-to move rapidly along a surface with usually light touches, or changing directions a lot too.
solidified(173)- to make solid, into a hard or compact mass

Figurative Language
1.Silence spread outward in cold ripples from the place where the patronus had landed.(160)- this is imagery because its easy to see in your mind exactly whats happening.
2. Dust swirled around Harry like mist, catching the blue gaslight, as Mrs.Black continued to scream.(171)- This again is imagery because it gives a clear picture of whats happening, and its detailed and descriptive.
3.His scar had burned again as something flashed across his mind like a bright light on water(172)- his is figurative language and it might be a simile because its comparing his scar hurting to light on water.

Quote
"The Ministy has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming."(159)- this is a very important quote because Kingsley says it with his patronus to warn the guests at the wedding that the Death Earters were going to attack and so it gave people time to escape, but not much.

Theme.
The Theme of the book so far is that you have to keep your friends close and just in general friendship.

Oustide reading, Quarter 2 Week 1 post B

Already in the book i can tell that this will be my favorite Harry Potter book yet. It is action filled starting with the first chapter, its mysterious and leaves you wondering your own ideas about certain characters and what here going to do next but its also kind of sad because already in the book a few big characters have already died.
My favorite chapter so far is The Seven Potters, because its cool how he was able to escape. Harry's departing group made pollyjuice potion and made 6 of the poeple look identicle to Harry, and then they dressed them all up like him and gave them alll luggage and each one pretended they were Harry. The Deatheaters came and they were really confused on who was the real Harry Potter, and so eventually after being chased by Voldemort, Harry escaped on the bike of Hagrid.
Unfortunatly, one of their strongest members of the Pheonix died, Mad-eye moody.

Outside Reading, Quarter 2, Week 1, Post A

Vocab:
unobscured(73)-clear to the understanding; not hard to perceive
retort(71)- to reply to, usually in a sharp or retaliatory way
Figurative Language:
1.Harry dropped the hair into the mudlike liquid(50)- this is figurative language because it uses a simile "like"
2.Revulsion and fury rose in him like vomit(28)- its relating his revulsion and fury to vomit using a simile.
3.Lucius Malfoy looked up . his skin appeared yellowish and waxy in the firelight, and his eyes were sunken and shadowed. When he spoke, his voice was hoarse.(7)- this is an example of imagery which is figuative language because you can imagine that picture in your head as you read it.
Quote: "My Lord, the Order of the Phoenix intends to move Harrry Potter from his current place of safety on saturday next, at nightfall."(3)-- This is an important quote because he says it to Lord Voldemort who then acts upon it and ambushes the moving party, and he ends up killing Mad-Eye Moody.

Theme The theme of the book so far is friendship and that friends are more important then anything else.

"Our Endangered Values"

As I finished reading Jimmy Carters paper on our environment, I see how much more I could be doing to save the environment. Our environment is highly unstable and is getting a lot worse every day. I agree with Jimmy Carter that something needs to be done and I think that the United States should be the ones who set an example for the rest of the world.
One major threat to the environment Jimmy Carter shares is that we should use cars that get better MPG and he talks about the problem of Automobile company's finding loopholes when trying to find there cars' mpg. If our cars would get better mileage, and maybe if we'd start using other forms of energy for them then we wouldn't have to rely so much on foreign oil. Cars alone use more then 40% of our country's oil supply which we could easily lower if everybody did there part. If we lower the mpg that our cars take up, we could postpone and maybe even never have to drill for oil in Alaska. Also, if Automobile company's are trying to find loopholes in the rules that end up lying to us, we should make the rules stricter and make sure there are no loopholes, so that the company's cant continue to cheat us.