martes, 20 de noviembre de 2012

Lord of the Flies: Chapter 7

Prediction:

I think they will climb the mountain again because they will not sleep knowing that there is a scary beast in the mountain. There will be a lot of problems because of this situation.

Reaction:
If Jack had not encountered Ralph, the problem of the monster will be solved. What happened with Roger is very disturbing.

Lord of the Flies: Chapter 6

Prediction:

I think in the next chapter they will find the dead parachutist and the mystery will be solved. As I said in the prediction of the last chapter, they will have a meeting again to discuss the monster.

Reaction:
This situation increase even more the problem of the monster because the littluns will be even more scared. Gratefully the tension between Jack and Ralph decreased, because both are very important to the group.

Lord of the Flies: Chapter 5

Prediction:

I think they won't find any monster. The Tension between Ralph and Jack is increasing, so probably there will be aphyisical confrontation between them. I think they will have another meeting when everybody is more calmed to finally solve the beast problem.

Reaction:
The objective of the meeting was to tell to everyone their failures in respecting the rules to improve as a group, but the result was the opposite. Jack int's respecting rules.Therefore he is provoking chaos and is not contributing to the order on the island.


Lord of the Flies: Chapter 4

Prediction:
They probably will talk with the littluns, because they need someone to tell to them that the beast is something unreal. As I said in the last prediction, they still need to have a meeting because when the daily living was described, the littluns were not doing anything.

Reaction:
The tention between Ralph and Jack increases. Jack, interested hunting, and by his success of killing a pig, is too excited to care about the principal object that is escaping from the island (keep the fire going).

martes, 13 de noviembre de 2012

Lord of the Flies: Chapter 2 and 3.

Reaction:
They are losing control of the situation. At the beginning of chapter 2, older children, had agreed to set rules, so they can maintain order in the island. It worked during the second chapter, nut when the forest of the mountain caught on fire, the problems started, and they began breaking the rules. By the third chapter, they are disorganized, and a few is making the work of all.

Prediction:
Probably they will have a meeting to reestablish order, and they will catch the first pig, because a lot of days have passed without eating meat.

domingo, 7 de octubre de 2012

Lord of the Files: Chapter 1.

Summary.
At the beginning of this chapter, there is a fair-haired boy, Ralph,  apparently lost in an Island, who meets Piggy, another lost boy who wear glasses and has asthma. Through their conversation, we can know that, at war, they were in a plane in a student’s trip, and the plane was attacked, and all the students were scattered by the accident.
While Piggy and Ralph were walking around the beach, wondering what happened with the other children in the plane, Ralph pointed into the lagoon: something creamy lay among the ferny woods. They took it out, it was a shell of eighteen inches, with a slight spiral twist and covered with a delicate, embossed pattern.
Piggy realizes that shell could be used as a trumpet, and with its sound they could makes all the other children appear. He convinces Ralph to blow through the shell, and after he did, the other boys start appearing. 
After they laugh at piggy because of his nickname and his physical condition, they decide to organize, and choose a leader. Ralph was elected as the leader, and he chooses Jack and Simon to explore the island.
The boys (Ralph, Jack and Simon) climb up the side of one of the steep hills. From the top of the hill, they notice that they are in an island with no civilization, a desert island. The three boys make a long travel through the jungle and emerge near the group of boys waiting for them on the beach.
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Discussion Questions.
1) What would they eat in the future, if they don't dare to kill a little pig?

2) Is going Jack to betray the group, because he is jealous of Ralph?

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Prediction.
I think that the next chapter will be about what the boys will do to survive, with that i mean what they will eat, or were they will sleep.

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Quotes. 
 "What´s that?"
Ralph had stopped smiling and was pointing into the lagoon. Something creamy lay among the ferny weeds. (Pg.16).

"They are all dead," said Piggy, "an' this is an island. Nobody don't no we're here. Your dad don't know,nobody don't know--------" (Pg 15)

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Reaction.
Untill here they have confronted the situation in a very good way, and they are taking good desitions to survive, but the situation has been easy for them. When the climate betray them, or when they run out of food, the real problems will start.

viernes, 24 de agosto de 2012

Students will raise money for a good cause.

Agustín Díaz, Student.
July 20, 2012.

SANTIAGO.- Last week a group of students that met by the International Baccalaureate program joined in Chile, to raise money to help people from Talcahuano rebiuld their houses.

27 of February of 2010, after an earthquake, a tsunamy stuck the city of Talcahuano, and left more than 300 dead people, and a lot of families living in the street. The idea of the group of students is to start a collection in the next days with the objective of taking the people of Talcahuano out of the situation they are living now.

"We are trying to help these families to recover their previous life, by means of this campaign called Helping Talcahuano", Diego Rodriguez said, the organizator of the campaign.

In a couple of weeks, the group of students will start collecting money all troughout Chile, with help and support of a lot of chilean people.