Independent Reading – Connections 1. As of Friday, December 11th, 2015 I have finished reading Paper Towns by award winning author John Green. The book, published in 2009 by A Penguin Random House Company, is a novel about romance and mystery. This book sends a teenager boy who tries to find the girl of his dreams. I have finished 305/305 pages within the book.
2. The book Paper Towns by John green is about a teenage boy, named Quentin find a girl named Margo, the girl of his dreams. Ever since Margo moved in, Quentin was in love with her. They played with one another and were friends. However, over the course of a few years their friendship broke apart. Margo quickly was the most popular kid in high school. One night, Margo invites Quentin on an adventure, which establishes the connection they once had, as kids. Quentin decides to ask the next day, if she would be willing to go to prom with him. Unfortunately, Margo did not come to school nor was she home, Margo was declared missing by the local police. The news quickly spread around the school, and Quentin decides to go looking for her. Quentin and his friends, Rader and Ben, as well as Margo’s best friend, Lacey use clues she has left behind to find where she is hiding. After Margo’s location was found through a series of solving multiple clues, they locate that Margo is at a “paper town”, a town which is fake. These towns are fake and are put on maps. They are used to identify copies and re sells of a map. A long road trip leads them to their location in New York. Margo is at the café, the group of friends find her and approach her. Margo then says that she wishes not to be disturbed, and she will return once she feels like it. Margo and Quentin kiss at the end, as Quentin sees Margo once more and heads back to his city. Connections 1. Text-to-text Connection Passage: “I watched Ben stand up next to me. …show more content…
This is an important stop, because I am very, very, very, very hungry and dehydrated. For some reason, talking about the food we’ll buy at the BP eases the nags. Lacey prepares a grocery list for each of us, written in small letters on the backs of receipts she found in her purse. She makes Ben lean out on the passenger side window to see which side on the gas cap is on. She forces us to memorize our grocery lists and then quizzes us. We talk through our visit to the gas station several times; it needs to be as well-executed as a stock car pit stop.” The passage above talking about the first stop, where the group of friends must do everything according to plan. Specifically the part about everyone doing different tasks reminds me of my last stop when I came from New York City. During the summer of 2015, I went on a road trip to New York City. We planned to come back Sunday so, all the adults can get some rest. However, we were short on time, so we didn’t have much time to spare. My mom, created different tasks that each person must execute accordingly. This helps me better understand the characters and how they felt with a task. I can see how it creates pressure upon a person because of a
2. The book Paper Towns by John green is about a teenage boy, named Quentin find a girl named Margo, the girl of his dreams. Ever since Margo moved in, Quentin was in love with her. They played with one another and were friends. However, over the course of a few years their friendship broke apart. Margo quickly was the most popular kid in high school. One night, Margo invites Quentin on an adventure, which establishes the connection they once had, as kids. Quentin decides to ask the next day, if she would be willing to go to prom with him. Unfortunately, Margo did not come to school nor was she home, Margo was declared missing by the local police. The news quickly spread around the school, and Quentin decides to go looking for her. Quentin and his friends, Rader and Ben, as well as Margo’s best friend, Lacey use clues she has left behind to find where she is hiding. After Margo’s location was found through a series of solving multiple clues, they locate that Margo is at a “paper town”, a town which is fake. These towns are fake and are put on maps. They are used to identify copies and re sells of a map. A long road trip leads them to their location in New York. Margo is at the café, the group of friends find her and approach her. Margo then says that she wishes not to be disturbed, and she will return once she feels like it. Margo and Quentin kiss at the end, as Quentin sees Margo once more and heads back to his city. Connections 1. Text-to-text Connection Passage: “I watched Ben stand up next to me. …show more content…
This is an important stop, because I am very, very, very, very hungry and dehydrated. For some reason, talking about the food we’ll buy at the BP eases the nags. Lacey prepares a grocery list for each of us, written in small letters on the backs of receipts she found in her purse. She makes Ben lean out on the passenger side window to see which side on the gas cap is on. She forces us to memorize our grocery lists and then quizzes us. We talk through our visit to the gas station several times; it needs to be as well-executed as a stock car pit stop.” The passage above talking about the first stop, where the group of friends must do everything according to plan. Specifically the part about everyone doing different tasks reminds me of my last stop when I came from New York City. During the summer of 2015, I went on a road trip to New York City. We planned to come back Sunday so, all the adults can get some rest. However, we were short on time, so we didn’t have much time to spare. My mom, created different tasks that each person must execute accordingly. This helps me better understand the characters and how they felt with a task. I can see how it creates pressure upon a person because of a