Book report

My report is about the book "Pompeii" by Ron and Nancy Goor 1986.The book is 118 pages. The book tells of the pre-death, death, and rediscovery of the roman city Pompeii. In this report I will be focusing mainly on exploring the pre-death of the city but will touch upon the death and rediscovery as we continue. This is the story and culture of Pompeii, a living ghost town. Our story begins on August 24th,A.D 79, the day Mount Vesuvius erupted. At around one p.m, as many pompeiians were eating…

Illegal Book Report Book Hook: This little girl named Nora was left with her mom and grandma by her dad to go over the border from Mexico to America. Now she is 15 and lives with her mom and grandma. There dad stop sending money to help them pay for things. So with the money they have Nora and her mom decide to go over the border to go find her Dad. With the long exhausting trip over the border in the back of a fruit truck having trouble surviving in Texas is extremely difficult. Trying to…

loses most of his friends as he comes out, but makes a new friend. Sebastian supports Grady and teaches him about parrotfish, and that it’s okay to be different. Parrotfish is inspiring, enlightening, and entertaining book. Parrotfish inspired me in a few different ways. In the book Grady cut all of his own hair off without telling his parents. He knew if he asked the answer would have been no. Another thing that inspired me was when Sebastian asked Grady to the winter dance, but grady said…

Jackson Gifford 3/23/14 Mrs.Brooks 6th and 7th hour The Misfits In the book The Misfits, written by James Howe, a group of friends struggle to get through their 7th grade year with obstacles like name calling, stereotypes, and injustice. They call themselves the group of 5,however, there’s really 4 members. They are Abby, Bobby, Skeezie, and Joe. Three members of the groups problems will be revealed. Skeezie, Bobby, and Joe will have their stories told and why they are a part of the…

entire lives just so we can understand history. Unbroken, however, is on another scale of horrific. This book is about a man named Louis Zamperini, an Olympic track star from Southern California whose race to the gold medal was cut short by one of the worst war experiences ever told. His WWII story is spine tingling, inspiring, and downright depressing. Hillenbrand didn’t just write this book out of her imagination, she interviewed the main character, Louis Zamperini, dozens of times to get the…

destroyed.Kara Cooney has and includes lots of sources and notes. Cooney does a good job using primary and sundry sources when write this book about someone who almost erased form history. Kara uses all sources that she can to describe Hatshepsut such as monuments, statues, temples, chapels, obelisks, portraits, stone blocks, reliefs, and chiseled inscriptions. Kara’s book states that Hatshepsut’s body is not yet found. However this may cause some disagreement between scholars. Due to the fact…

My book is called Bystander. It follows the life of a young boy named Eric who is new to Bellport, Long Island. As a seventh grader it is scary to move to a new school, especially if you do not know anybody going into it. Early in the book, he becomes “friends” with the school bully and his followers. This however was a big mistake. He gets himself into uncomfortable positions where he has to decide to stand up to Griffin (the bully) or stand behind him. My presentation took place on October…

The book, Influencer, suggest that attempts at implementing change initiatives often fail for three reasons, fuzzy, un-compelling goals, infrequent or no measures, and bad measures. Each one of these can lead a well-intended attempt at change to failure. Without a clear goal employees may not understand what it is that is expected of them out of the change. Without a way to measure the attempts at the change, managers and employees may have a different opinion of success when it come to the…

struggle to be free. We can learn some things from this book, for example Marjane never stayed quiet, she would protest in her house, hilarious but it shouldn’t matter how old you are you…

Miriam is a 27-year-old Christian mum who had a great job as a reporter in Iran, she was a “fashionista” and loved walking in high heels. However, when the Islamic Regime came, they took over the station she worked for, and censured all the pieces the new station was writing about, in top of that, they fired Miriam because of the way she was dressed, since she did not want to cover herself, however, later on, she was pushed to the limited to do so, just to not to be killed by the Iranian…