Monday, March 21, 2011

march 17th blog. Quarter 4.

Give the title, author, publisher, copyright date, genre (how do you know the genre - from the back of the book, the title page, the text?), a description of the cover of the book, and the main character(s) you have met so far and on what  page you first met the character on.


 I am reading The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan. The copyright date is 2006 by Disney. The genre is Mythology. I know it is mythology because i was reading it and it revolves around gods, demi-gods, and mythical animals which do not exist in the known world.

There is a award at the top of the book that says "The New York Times#1 best-selling series" that they put there to try to get you to read it. The cover of the book looks like a giant yellow eye looking at a satire and two humans crossing a bridge. Below the bridge is  what looks like a  dark black ghost ship in a river of molten red lava. There is also a mist of hazy red around them. There is no words on the cover except for the title and the author, and the auther. This cover makes me want to read the book to see what such a place would look like and why everything is different colors of red.

The first character I met was Percy Jackson the son of a god Poseidon and a mortal woman. I met him on page one. He apparently is the chosen demigod child to tell whether the gods stay alive or are taken over. The second character I met was a homeless boy named Tyson, but you later find out he is a cyclops and Percy's half brother because he is claimed by Poseidon, I met him on page nine. The the third character i met was Annabeth, daughter of Athena. I met her on page twenty three. These characters are all very awesome because they all have very important things they must do for each other in this book.

So far in the book Percy and Tyson went to gym and three cyclops brothers attacked them then Annabeth showed up and took them away down an ally way because the cops where chasing after them. She then summoned the three witches cab driving and that brought them to camp half blood where the tree that protects the magical borders was poisoned and now monsters are attacking the camp. When the new camp leader would not let Percy take the quest to find the golden fleece(which is believed to be the only thing to save the magical borders) he gave it to another demi god so he Annabeth, and Tyson Ran away to go find it too.

1 comment:

  1. Jordyn,

    Wow what a great job. This is a total 9! You were very descriptive and I enjoyed how you talked about the characters and the cover.

    Next Step: capitalize i please (I).
    Check the fluency of your last paragraph. It is a little unorganized.

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