P. 170- 205 Reading Log

Halfway to the town, the coyotes were very hungry and attacked a kid wondering in the forest. One kid saw it and reported it to Sam. Sam called the emergency bell and everyone proceeded to the emergency boats. They are now waiting for Drake.

For the second time, the narration went to a part outside of the dome. It showed Sam's mom, and why she gave up Caine  (who was originally named David) for adoption and not Sam. And how that led to the reason they are what they are. Also, Connie (the mom) is seeing a military general. But the general doesn't know it's just for information. She found out that a while before the dome appeared and this all started, a nuclear response team came and was alerted that radiation had been leaked from a meteor that had crashed into the power plant.

P. 144-170 Reading Log

The dome that everyone is surrounded by is growing darker. A black stain is spreading around that will soon make the entire FAYZ dark. In just a couple of days, it will be completely dark. And Sam is afraid of the dark. He can create little Sammy Suns but they give off as much light as a candle. It would almost be useless if everything went dark. Also, although no one knows it, Little Pete is causing mutations among everyone. After he disappeared, he went to this strange place where this is a lot of avatars. Whenever he touches them, they change into different forms. He accidentally did that to Taylor and one other girl. He doesn't know that though. But he decided not to mess with them anymore too.

And Drake has mustered an army of talking coyotes and is going to the lake to get one girl who is pregnant. Her name is Diana. The baby's father is Caine.

P. 22- 54 Reading Log

I started the second-to-last book in the Gone series. It is called Fear. By Michael Grant. After the big bug battle, The Split had happened. Caine and Sam, two brothers, one evil and the other not, had separated into two colonies. Sam, the good one, went to a lake where there is an infinite supply of water. (or until the lake runs out) Caine decided to stay at Perido Beach where some of the crazy kids are. One kid killed another. Caine decided he was king. He has telekinetic powers. He has four punishments for bad people. A fine, jailtime, Penny, and death. Penny can create allusions that can terrify you. She did that to one kid.

P. 410-456

 Another person who is an outcast is Caine. Caine is Sam's evil brother. Caine found this island that no one knew of and was staying there with plenty of food when Quinn came and asked him for help Caine's power is telepathy. Only he and Little Pete can defeat the cockroaches. Caine is also a master of manipulation. When Caine got to the mainland, he made the kids believe he is their king. But when he got to town, he and Brianna (a person who can run at supersonic speed) defeated the giant cockroaches by lighting them on fire and blowing their brains out. It was an epic fight.
 Later, Drake found Orc, Astrid, and Little Pete at Coates Academy. He had his own squadron of giant bugs at his disposal. The Darkness had commanded him to take LP to him because LP was very powerful.

P. 342-410

Orc and Astrid (Sam's girlfriend) run away from town because if you kill someone, you are banished. Orc is a giant monster made of rock. Astrid was an inch away from killing her brother (Little Pete) and she is ashamed. Orc actually did kill someone when he was drunk and he is ashamed too. In the end, Astrid just left the place they were staying (Coates Academy) with her mindset of never returning. Drake attacked Sam with his massive cockroaches and when Sam shot his light out of his hands, they just reflected off of the bug. So Sam found out he is useless in the fight against them.

P. 326-342

  In this set of pages Drake is starting to attack the town, but first he goes on the lookout for Sam. When he meets Sam, he tells him a whole bunch of lies and Sam knows it because there is a kid there who can tell if you are telling a lie. Drake tries to tell him that he has Sam's girlfriend to get him to fight him. And Albert, the guy is the businessman of the town, the Donald Trump is you will, was attacked and he has no pulse. But when Howard opened his eyes, the pupils dilated like normal. Then Howard rushed off to get he Healer.

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      P. 295-326 In this set of pages, Sam had finally found food. And Drake had finally found the Darkness and is now its' servant. They had finally found out that Little Pete had caused the FAYZ too. With all the animals becoming mutant, they are now giant cockroaches who are servants to Drake. They will now proceed to kill everybody in the FAYZ except Little Pete.

connection: I think it would be exactly like what kids would do if this really happened. I think there would be killings left and right.

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3rd reading log post: p. 188-252

 On the look for water, Sam and his friends stumble across an air force base. There, there is lots of food and Pepsi. They rejoice at finding it. Also, in town (Perido Beach) there is a plague going around that makes people cough up their lungs. It has killed six people so far.
  The main enemy of this book is the gaiphage. It is an alien that can control people. It gave Drake his whip. Sam and Lana tried to defeat it but failed. It is immortal. It call on Drake and he goes there. That's the point I'm at right now.

Second reading log post: P. 146-189

  A kid named Hunter is the hunter of the town. He looks for deer and rabbits because the food supply is running low. But one time he encountered this green, flying snake. The snake then dropped some acid on Hunter. It turns out it is a parasite. The parasite ended up eating Hunter alive. Sam had to burn the body so the parasites wouldn't spread. On the way for the water trip, Sam, Dekka and (has the power to control gravity) Jack (is super strong) destroyed the cave in which all the greenies live. Also, Sanjit went over to where Lana lives and talked to her. 

 Question: Will they ever find the water they are looking for?

First reading log post: p. 86-122

The book I am reading is called Plague. It is part of the Gone series. In the first book of this series, all the adults in the area disappear. The reason they just poofed was because of this little boy who had mysterious powers. The entire dome in which they are trapped in centers around a nuclear power plant in which Little Pete (the little boy) created. Some of the kids' then developed supernatural powers. The main character is about Sam. He can shoot light from his hand's that burns everything they touch.
  In the beginning part of this reading, Sanjit (a normal person) likes Lana (a kind of crabby person who can heal you of your wounds.) and basically asks her out. He tricks her by annoying her so she says yes. The food and water are running out really quick. So Sam and other people set off to find water.
  Also, Drake escaped. He is like the devil of Perido Beach. He has a long tentacle for one arm and he uses that to whip people. He is a raging psychopath. He kills people without a second thought. He was in prison but now he escaped. Also, he's invincible. He literally cannot be killed.
Question: How will Drake die?

Play Thank You

           A big thank you to Mr. Faris for letting us come to the play and watch the performance. It was very good and it makes me want to be in a play. I thought it was very well written too. The costumes all matched perfectly with the time period. It also looks like you put a lot of time and effort into it. The Chinese speaking was cool because that's learning a whole new foreign language that sounds nothing like English. I also like how the actors put a lot of singing effort into it.
        My favorite actor was Ms. Meers. She was creepy when she said "all arone in da world." The accent was wonderful too. The Chinese guys went along with the story well. Our teacher showed us some parts of the movie and I thought it was pretty similar to the movie.
       It looked like the play took a lot of memorizing also. A lot. I couldn't even dream about memorizing all of that. But it still makes me want to go out for it though. I found very few mistakes in it too. But I didn't catch them until we talked about it in class. Overall I thought it was an excellent play.

Harlem Herald Report

The Harlem Herald

Crime Catchers Column

As one of the Prosecution's witnesses plead guilty, the State now has a serious advantage in this case of murder of Alguinaldo Nesbitt. Steve Harmon and James King are on trial for murder of him. Richard “Bobo” Evans and Osvaldo Cruz were in the robbery as well and they plead guilty.

If they hadn’t done so, it would’ve made the State’s side nearly impossible to rule against them. But Richard “Bobo” Evans did. On the Defensive side is O’Brien defending Steve Harmon, and on the prosecution side is Petrocelli. Briggs is defending James King also. Richard “Bobo” Evans enters the court with his prison suit on. Petrocelli, Briggs, and O’Brien cross examined Richard “Bobo” Evans to state events about the crime and to find out more about the crime.

“Bobo” said that he knew James King all his life and that he knew Steve before the robbery. Petrocelli then asks why he is wearing his prison outfit. Richard then says, “I’m doing a heavy and a half up at Greenhaven.” Heavy and a half means seven and a half to 10 years. He is doing the time for selling drugs.

Petrocelli then asks if he has been arrested before. “Bobo” says that he has been arrested for breaking and entering, grand theft auto, and on time for taking a car radio and another time for fighting a guy and the guy died during the fight, so he got charged for manslaughter.

Petrocelli asks about the plan of the robbery. She asks “Bobo” who gave him the sign that everything was okay and he pointed to Steve Harmon. He then says that they got into a pickle with the guy behind the counter and James King shot him with the gun Nesbitt had. They then grabbed what they wanted and split.

Briggs then asked what they did after the robbery. “Bobo” says that he and James went to a fast-food place to eat. Richard “Bobo” Evans then says that he had nothing to eat all day which is why they went to the fast-food place.

O’Brien asks if he has had a conversation with Mr. Harmon after the robbery. “Bobo” says that he didn’t and that Steve is one of James’s friends. He gets asked what would Steve have done if there were cops in the store. “Bobo” says that he didn’t know, that he was supposed to do something. O’Brien asks that if he had a gun when he entered the store and “Bobo” says no. O’Brien also points out that even trying to rob a store of any kind is a felony and that’s automatically a 20 year sentence. 

We will keep you more updated as the trial continues. 

Update after July 15th: Accused Steve Harmon was on trial today for murder of Alguinaldo as previously stated. One thing different about Steve's testimony was that he said he wasn't at the drugstore. He looked pretty suspicious in the juror's eyes. He said he had nothing to do but small talk before the stick up happened. Steve also stated that he was looking for something to do his film project on. He said that he was just wandering around that day. He doesn't remember specifically. He said that he has talked to Osvaldo Cruz about playing ball and what’s going on in the neighborhood. But nothing much more than that. But everyone else said that he had something to do with it. Dorothy Moore is the cousin of James King and she said that she got a lamp from him at the time of the shooting. That was the alibi of James. She also stated that he did not have a job and did not know where he got the money/lamp from. George Nipping said that James King was left handed because he went and bought him a baseball glove but had to return it because James King was left handed. Nippings said that he estimated that James was 17 or 18 years old. Mr. Sawicki (Steve's film mentor) had a project due for Steve and he had to get that done.

Summary with Vocab. Words

Summary: In the beginning, Steve Harmon, Bobo, James King, Peaches (peaches had nothing to do with the crime)  were all acquaintances who were plotting to rob a drugstore. Only Steve, James, and Bobo went to rob it and Osvaldo, the accomplice, joined the robbery last minute. Osvaldo was in the Diablos. Bobo and James fought for the gun Mr. Nesbitt had while trying to suppress them and shot him. Mr. Nesbitt made a grandiose move. They had a stick up. James and Bobo were vicious in the crime. James and Bobo then were captured and Bobo accepted a plea bargain. Steve is trying to redress things and wants to avoid capital punishment. Osvaldo made a deal with the police and told them everything. They are now in court. The robbers are on the defense. Petrocelli, who wants to prove them guilty, is on the prosecution side. There is a stenographer recording everything that is said. While they are at court, O’Brien, Steve’s lawyer, is trying to reassure Steve. While they were on court, Sawicki, a mentor of Steve's, went into the court.