Star Wars Book Summary

The book I,Michael Bennet starts off in New York City with detcective Michael Bennett, who is planning to arrested one of the most noturios criminals Mannuel "the sun king" Perrine. He was a vicaious murderer, a billonaire drug dealer,and ran the Tepitpo drug cartel. Bennet is a NYPD detective which puts him lead officer in the case. They plan to catch perrine when he makes one of his few trips out if Mexico in to the Unites states. The arrest soon turns to a shoot out and Bennetts good friend Hughie is killed by perrines right hand woman marrieta.

Introduction Jane L. David and Larry Cuban do a great job of informing the reader of issues involving closing the achievement gap in education in their book, “Cutting Through the Hype”. David and Cuban, friends and colleagues for forty-five years, collaborated yet again to revise “Cutting Through the Hype” to re-address the “far more pronounced” effects of the federal role and the philanthropic foundations in funding and setting the policy agenda for reforming U.S. schools. Chapter three, Closing the Achievement Gap, begins with a realistic scenario of a fifth grade classroom of thirty students that range from six non English speaking students, limited English speaking students, and fluent English speaking, high performing students. The

There were 7 main characters in the book. They were described very thorough in the book. In the book it said that Sodapop had Blondish, gold hair, but in the movie he didn’t have blonde hair. In the movie Dallys hair was dark brown but in the book it said that it was almost white. In the book they said that Two-Bit was supposed to be tall but in the movie he was shorter than everybody else.

Luke’s Mom is a country woman who runs the family farm. She is very protective over Luke and encourages him to quit bull riding. She tells him that bull riding isn't worth the money and that she would much rather lose the farm over losing him.

Serpico, the New York City cop who couldn’t be bought by nobody. Serpico is a book that tells a story about a cop that works in New York, that wouldn’t take any brides from anybody and who had to deal with a very corrupt police department. There was a big gambling problem going on in New York and there was nothing being done about it so Serpico being such an honest cop decided he would try to get rid of the problem. In the following book report over Serpico, by Peter Maas, I will summarize the book’s contents and give my thoughts over the book.

Chapter 11 and chapter 12 is about grandpa Hillburn calling Hiram’s parents to explain why Hiram would not be returning home. Hiram’s mother was understanding and said “ just you remember who you are, Hiram Hillburn, and be sure you do what is right no matter what”. Also to help your grampa as much as you can. you’re not there on vacation anymore”. Ruthanne returned back the next morning looking very exhausted.

In the book, many details are given about how greatly the different characters vary,

This quarter I read the realistic fiction book, The Batboy by Mike Lupica. This book is a story about a 14 year old boy named Brian Dudley. Son of a former pitcher and an avid baseball fan, Brian gets his dream summer job: the bat boy for his favorite team the Detroit Tigers. When it seems like his summer cannot get any better, his all-time favorite player Hank Bishop is signed to the team. At the beginning, Hank is cold and yells at Brian a lot, but in the end they become friends.

“There is a convoy of government soldiers coming our way.” Lizard snapped his cellphone shut and rammed it in his pocket. The phone was a badge of authority, proof that he was in command. “Who will volunteer to fight?” Once again, hands shot up.

In chapter 1 Jay Heinrichs, the author of the book, to uses examples from his family life to help introduce the central theme. He starts with an example of arguing with his son about toothpaste, Heinrichs’s argument with George reaches a clear resolution unlike some of the other examples given in the text. Heinrichs does this to show readers a way to argue while showing intelligence. Having established the importance of controversy and rhetoric in an everyday setting, Heinrichs states that rhetoric is an “unavoidable a part of life”. This is where he introduces the central idea of the book which is that rhetoric is necessary and unavoidable part of life he goes on to state that

In the story, “Fighter” by Walter Dean Myers, and throughout the story, Billy is fighting himself and life. First off, in beginning of the story it states on page 27, “Billy Gates told his wife that he was just going to the gym to work out. If he’d told her the truth, that he was going to fight again, he knew she would have cried.” I think this shows that Billy is going to fight, but he knows his wife does not want him to fight. But, he knows that he needs to fight, but not necessarily wants to fight.

I recently read Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt. This story’s setting is in a suburban area in Long Island. This story takes place in the 1960’s and the atmosphere of the book is relevant to that of what it would be like during that time period. At the beginning of the book, the author addresses who lives on the North Side and who lives on the South Side. Where people live is based off of what your last name ends in.

Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard was published in September 2011. This novel is based on Biography on the life of President James Garfield’s assassination and the medical bungling that led to his death at the age of 49. It is a fascinating look at a period of neglected American history. The author explains the reality of the incidents that had occurred to James Garfield the struggles that he had faced throughout the time that he was alive. James A. Garfield may have been the most remarkable man ever elected president.

Everyone will get consequences for some of their bad actions. What did you do to get your consequence? You probably didn't get one as bad as the boy in “The Fight” a story about a boy and a bully named Mike, get into a fight,. Adam Bagdasarian is the one who wrote this short story he shows us that you will get consequences for your actions. The boy who got into the fight got a lot of consequences for what he decided to do and lost things that were important to him.

Katniss Everdeen: Katniss Everdeen is the protagonist of the novel, and the story is told from her perspective. She is a 16-year-old girl who lives in District 12, the poorest region of a nation called Panem. She has straight black hair, olive skin and gray eyes. This is a common appearance for residents who live in the Seam.