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Mrs. LaRue (Reading Project)

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In class we read, Dear Mrs. LaRue, Letters from Obedience School by Mark Teague. We were learning about the VOICE trait for writing. This book demonstrates many types of voices. In my project I wrote a news report. I tried to demonstrate Mrs. LaRue speaking in many voices such as happy, angry, sorry, and shocked. You can read my project of the interview below.

Brian Lin + Mrs. LaRue (Interview)
By: Brian Lin (The Interviewer)

Brian L.: I’ve heard that you are going to send your dog, Ike, to Obedience School. WHy would you do that?

Mrs. LaRue: I have done tons of good stuff to my dog, Ike. For example, giving him food, blankets, pillow, anything he had wanted and I couldn’t believe he ate me dinner!

Brian L.: Instead of sending him to obedience school, what else can you do instead of hurting and frightening his feelings?

Mrs. LaRue: I don’t care about his feelings! He doesn’t care about my feelings either. I have been back from 11 hours of hard work, hungry and tired. And the first thing I saw when I opened the front door is seeing that Ike, my dog is eating my chicken pie that I am saving for dinner.

Brian L.: Did he ever do anything good to you? Why would you be so angry? Try to think about the good stuffs Ike had done to you. Try to think about good things Ike had done. Maybe it could make your feeling be better.

Mrs. LaRue: Ike had once saved my life. But today, I think he ate my chicken pie on purpose because he thought it was fun. So I couldn’t handle my temper. I was wrong about that. But I wonder why Ike and I was always hating each other.

Brian L.: You could try to BE NICE to Ike, maybe something good will happen. Maybe he would like you more and listen to you more.

Mrs. LaRue: To make him more good to be a good dog, I would have to be nice to him? Okay. I would try that. Thank you.

Brian L.: Thank you for your participate on the interview! Mrs. LaRue. You can go back home now and watch yourself on TV.

Magic Love Potion (Commercial) — Reading Project

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We read A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare.  Then we got to choose a project to make that relates to this play. This is my famous reading project of the MAGIC LOVE POTION commercial. It is so famous! Even Brian Hung is interested in my commercial. Hope you enjoy it!

This is another video that tells a summary of what we were doing in class. Just Enjoy It.

My Book Trailer and Book Review AND my Book Presentation

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Book Review

No Talking

By: Brian Lin

About Andrew Clements: Andrew Clements was born in May 29, 1949, is an American author of children’s books. Clements grew up in Camden, New Jersey and Springfield, Illinois, United States. As a child, he enjoyed summers at a lakeside cabin in Maine where he spent his days swimming and hiking and water skiing, and his evenings reading books. After graduating, he worked as a teacher sharing his love of reading with elementary, middle, and high school students. In 1985, Clements added his own work to the market with a picture book entitled Bird Adalbert. His first novel was the award-winning Frindle, which has won sixteen state book awards, as well as the Christopher Award. Clements works have been translated into several languages including German, Italian, French, Korean, Portuguese, Basque, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, and Spanish. Clements lives in Westborough, Massachusetts, with his wife Rebecca and his 4 children. This book is about the fifth-graders war, about boys vs. girls. The fifth-graders are the loudest class in Laketon Elementary school until when Dave Packer challenges Lynsey Burgess to a boys vs. girls “no talking” contest. It is not going to be easy for either sides. No talking for 3-4 days! Not even at home. The teachers and principles of Laketon Elementary very shocked to see this situation. They thought they are being quiet for no reasons, until Ms. Hiatt noticed that when someone said a word, someone will take out a notebook and write something in it. At last, the principle went shouting at Dave for not talking, Dave shouted back. Dave was right but learned his lesson. The score was tie, after Lynsey said a few word to make it tie. It was over… all over.

This book’s main character is Dave and Lynsey, who had been challenging the boys and girls into a “no talking” contest. It all happened in school. Dave had been enemies with Lynsey since the time that Lynsey said that boys are so loud. When Dave accidentally heard it, it caused the whole story to begin. Dave was now arguing with Lynsey. Which caused the contest. A no talking contest with 3-4 days not even talking at home! The contest stopped when Dave yelled at the principal when the principle is yelling at him. eventually, Dave was right. We have the loyalty to not talk, which is not true because they are having a contest. But Dave had learned his lesson and the contest had stopped. The score was tie.

This book’s message is that don’t challenge your friend, when you challenge he/her, the person will think you as an enemy. The story’s theme of this book is friendship. Lynsey had made the score tie, because she still think of Dave as a friend.

I liked the book No Talking because it is interesting because his project is about Gandhi. The person that does not talk to think. Dave had wanted to try that too. I liked this book also because it is about friendship. I think friendship is the most important thing an all of the themes. I recommend to all of the people. This book is very interesting.

This is my Book Review and my Book Trailer AND my book presentation, it is all about the book No Talking.