The Pit and the Pendulum

I like this book because it is a historical fiction. We are reading scary story's in class. this book is about the Spanish Inquisition that a man was not practicing his religion so they punish him they put a pendulum more it moves the lower the blade goes to his neck.and rats are is biting him so he got his left overs an smothered on the rope an the rat bit the rope and he was free and then the french army came so he was safe.
Jesus

The Monkeys Paw

this soldier has a mummified monkeys paw and he want to get rid of it because theres a spell on it that lets you make 3 wishes and the purpus of the spell is to show man that you cant controll fate. so the soldier throws the paw in the fire and mr.white takes it out and wants it for himself. he keeps it and makes a wish for 200 pounds and the next day his son goes to work and one of the employees goes to their house and informs their parents that their son has passed away at work and for that they get 200 pounds. to as you see the point of the story is that you cant mess with your fate and everything the do changes the outcome.
Carlos

The Tell-Tale heart

The Tell tale heart is about this guy who took care of an old man. The old man had this creepy eye. The other guy wanted to kill him because of his eye. Every night he would spy on the old man for 7 nights. He would wait until he opened his eye to kill the old man. One night he went in the room and saw the old mans eye open and he flipped over the bed an killed him. he chopped him up and put him under the floor. the neighbors called the police because they heard a scream. the guy confessed and showed him where the body was. Amanda

tell-tale-heart

it was about a man that was taking care of an old man. But the old man head a creepy eye and the man thought that the old man was cursing him with the creepy eye. So he plans to kill the old man he waits at night so he can sleep opens the creepy eye to kill him. on the 7th day the old man opens the eye so the man flips the bed on the old man kills him. then he takes him into a tub and chops him up. Then hides him under the floor boards. Then the cops come and searched the house and did not find any thing. Then the man confesses that he killed the old man cause he felt guilty and heard a heart beating. I like the story because it has great details.
Marco

The Raven

The raven is about a man that lost his wife. One night the man siting down on his room and all the sudden he heard knocking on the chamber door but he thought that it was just his imagination. Then he look at the window and there was a bird on the window. Then when man was done talking the bird would always say nevermore. His wife name was Leonor. The mood of the story was sad because the bird keep remanding Leonor to the old man. The story was interesting and I liked.

-Veronica.

The falling of the house of Usher

The story of The Falling of the house of Usher is about a man who is named Roderick Usher. One day Usher sent his friend a letter to come stay with him at his house for a few weeks. Usher's friend said yes..that he would stay with him for a couple of weeks. Usher had a sister that was sick. One day while Usher's friend was there she died. Usher became very scared because he thought that his sister was going to come back and take him with her. Usher became very paranoid. So he also died because he got scared and it was to much for him. I thought it was a very good story.

-Tayres M.

I have read "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. This story is about a man who just lost his girlfriend or wife. As the story goes on, a raven lands on his window and he keeps saying, "Nevermore" like it was a parrot. This story was hard to understand but I got the gist of it. Overall it was sort of interesting story but hard to understand. Once I understood, I learned that the raven saying "Nevermore" means that he will always be sad or lonely.


-Kevin

the raven

This story is about this man who lost his wife and he was very sad that he lost his wife because he was really close to her, but then he just lost her unexpectedly. then he met this raven who he gets really close to and he thinks that the raven has something to do with his wife and when the raven said some thing he got frightened, and the bird kept on saying "never more," and the man thought that was very unusual.anyways the man wanted the raven to leave him because he felt bad and he knows that the raven is never going to bring his wife back. but the raven didn't leave him and he was surprised. So the raven stayed with him forever. and i like this book because it has allot of feeling and i put my self in the persons in the books feet and i felt very sad about it and yeah that's y i like it.
Kim :)

The Raven

I read the poem called "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe. It's about a person who lost someone important in his life, and that was his wife. Her name was Lenore. And all of the sudden this Raven appears. It was taking place in his house. The Raven keeps reminding him of Lenore and would never get away and all he keeps saying "Nevermore". It was hard to understand the story because it was published a long time ago. The mood of the story was mostly really sad. I wouldn't recommend to other people since it was a long time ago that was written. Once I understood it, I get the mood of the story/poem.

Angel

the monkey paw

The monkey paw is about a magic paw that gives you 3 wishes. But if you wish for something that you don't need something bad happen in return for what you wish for because when it was made the old man put a curse on the paw.
Because he thought you should not mess with faith.

the end

M!ChElLe?^

Let's try this again

So last year we tried to start this blog about what we are reading and it did not work out as we had planned, so we are going to try again this year. The plan is to post to the blog at least twice a month about what we are reading in class as well as independently.

The first unit we are working with this year is short stories. Right now we are working with the theme Strange Going's On reading stories with elements of horror, suspense or irony. We will also be reading other short stories from various themes throughout the unit, as well as writing short stories of our own. Throughout the month of October we will be posting about the short stories we are reading as well as our independent books that we are beginning to read for our first project this year.

We hope that this year we are better about posting to our blog and that you enjoy reading about what we are reading. :)