Angry Management is a hard book to understand. The characters come from other books that the author has written. You don’t have to read those other books, but it seems funny because all the characters are from other books, and if you read all of the other books, you already know all the characters. Although I haven’t read much, I know that the book changes main characters every few chapters, but the main characters are always from the angry management group. It is simple so far, but I wonder what exactly are the kids in the angry management class for? It is not for anger management, the teacher explained already that, that is just a name he uses for all his classes, in honor of his dead student, who couldn’t pronounce anger management correctly, and instead said angry management. The book is simple, and good, but I think it needs to be a bit more hooking, and something interesting has to happen. Then, it will be a good book. Also, once I got really into the book, the story would end and a new one would start, me desperately wanting it back– which shows good writing, because every short story I got into, and I didn't want it to end.

A good writer should always be able to do that, but I feel that short stories may be easier to be interesting, because they don't drag out the plot. Something interesting can always be there. Unfortunately a short story can be harder, because if you are making a book with many short stories, you keep having to make up a new plot and new characters. In the end, I think this is a good book, and praise should be given to the author. Lastly, I think that we should really give praise to the author because of his good work on this story

R&J Outline

Thesis - Similarities and diffrences between aranged marriage in Verona and present time

P1- Overview of arranged marriage
P2- Arranged marriage in Verona
P3- Arranged marriage in India
P4- Pros and Cons of Arranged marriage

Romeo & Juillet Project

Hey 812!

What is 1 or 2 strengths? What is 1 or 2 questions about the essay that you don't understand or are unclear?  What is 1 or 2 suggestions you have for revision? 

 (This was updated today so the date is wrong)

Have fun reading


I handed this in, but here it is on the blog.

One of the biggest issues of Romeo and Juliet is Juliet and Paris's arranged marriage. Arranged marriage may seem like a new concept if you haven't heard of it, but there is much to say about it that you might not have known.

Juliet and Paris's marriage was arranged by the family or more specifically the dad. That is very common for arranged marriages. The motives for this specific arranged marriage were unclear- but not completely invisible. Because the Capulet's are a rich large royal family it is very likely Paris was from another large wealthy royal family, and Capulet wanted to intertwine the two families to make themselves bigger and richer.

But what are the main reasons people have arranged marriages? Arranged marriages originated from the times in Europe when there were monarchys and royal familys (around the time Romeo & Juliet was written). People would have princes and princesses marry other princes and princesses in other countries (like england prince marries swedish princess) so that the countries bond together would be better. The reason modern day people do arranged marriage is probably because of money or religion.
- Make another paragraph to say effects of romeo and juliet's marriage -
One of the most popular places arranged marriages are today is in India. Many familes arrange their son or daughter with another person for religious reasons. In the US, you can threaten to throw you child or disown them if they do not marry someone you chose, but you legally cannot force them to marry. <- Add 3&4 toghether

So even if you have never heard of arranged marriage before Romeo and Juliet, or you've heard tons about it- the reality is it is still around. Whether that is good or bad is your judgement, but it definitely is here. <- Cormac revise this

Non Fiction RR for 3/21/13

Non Fiction Responce on -  "Scientists attacked over claim that 'junk DNA' is vital to life"  By: Robin McKie@ - http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/feb/24/scientists-attacked-over-junk-dna-claim

In the mid 2012, some scientists discovered what they thought was "Junk DNA". They found some particles in everyone's body that looked like they had no use. These particles were called "Junk DNA". Until recently, some other scientists found uses for the so called "Junk DNA" and effectively disproved the original scientists. People say the work the encode scientists did (the scientists who said some DNA was Junk DNA) was terrible and that the statics were horrible, and they are just badly trained technicians not scientists. Other scientists proved that this junk DNA had many uses from genome sequence to our evolution. The scientists said the people at encode science are not scientists, but just a profiting company, profiting off bad testing. But others say the people attacking encode science is just a complaint about big science with big money involved.

I think the people attacking encode science are right about the Junk DNA being a bad experiment with big money involved, but I also think they are using this to make a point about big science and big money in science, where they think science shouldn't involve so much money. I think some of the people really could back down and not go so aggressively against this one company, and maybe use other terms to protest big science. But overall, I really think the small scientist teams, and the big science companies should work together for the common goal of discovering new things, and doing science.

RR for 2/28 (Added on 2/26, revised and updated on 3/1)

"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"

Christopher James is a very smart kid. He likes numbers, which is what he is good at. He is not very good at talking to people, or doing "normal" things alone. He doesn't ever like people touching him, and he isn't able to do some simple tasks. But he is a math genius, and is very observant.

Christopher lives with his dad because his mom is gone. This doesn't effect Christopher very much because he doesn't really understand. His dad doesn't lose his temper easily, so working with Christopher isn't as hard as it may be.

One night Christopher finds Wellington, the neighbors dog, dead, with a pitch fork in it. He holds it, and strokes the dead dog. He likes dogs, and he is sad Wellington died, and he makes it his mission to find out who killed Wellington, and write a book about it. That book is the book called "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time".

A text to world connection was that Christopher had something that seemed like a functional autism, or Asperger syndrome. He doesn't take things in easily, like when he was told to stop investigating who killed wellington, he didn't understand and kept on investigating. Or when he found letters from his mom he didn't understand. I can also tell he has Aspergers because he doesn't let anyone touch him, and doesn't like to be touched, which is a sign that he has aspergers.

In conclusion, Christopher is very smart, but he is limited on his social interactions. He can't function correctly, and easily gets mad. He was sad when he found Wellington dead, and mad because he wanted an explanation for why he was dead. *Spoiler Alert* He also got very mad at his father when he found out it was his dad who killed the dog. He wasn't happy with his findings, and he was very frustrated, so he ran away.

Non Fiction Response - Cars of the future

The Article I read (from http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/2011/10/cars-of-the-future) was about cars that could drive automatically. It was about GMC’s new breed of cars (that is not available for consumers yet) that can drive automatically. It talked about how it could drive automatically, and from a push of a button from a smartphone, It would come to you.

It also talked about Google’s cars (mostly Toyota Pruis) that could drive automatically. Both companies expect to release this new technology around 2020, and around 2030 nobody will drive manually again.

I think that all-though this might seem ultra-cool to some, I don’t like it. If cars go fully automatic, I can’t drive, and I was looking forward to driving. So this might seem as a very good advance for most– for me, I just wish it didn’t happen for another 60 years. If the automatic car wipes away the place of the car we see today in 2030 like scheduled, I should I have had 13 years of driving, but I would have wanted more. Fortunately I do not think that, that will happen so soon, so I will get in at least 20 years of driving.

Reading Responce - 2/14

Angry Management is a hard book to understand. The characters come from other books that the author has written. You don’t have to read those other books, but it seems funny because all the characters are from other books, and if you read all of the other books, you already know all the characters. Although I haven’t read much, I know that the book changes main characters every few chapters, but the main characters are always from the angry management group. It is simple so far, but I wonder what exactly are the kids in the angry management class for? It is not for anger management, the teacher explained already that, that is just a name he uses for all his classes, in honor of his dead student, who couldn’t pronounce anger management correctly, and instead said angry management. The book is simple, and good, but I think it needs to be a bit more hooking, and something interesting has to happen. Then, it will be a good book.