Final Blog Project #1

The independent reading book that I am reading is Under the Jolly Roger by L.A. Meyer. It is about a girl of 15 by the name of Jacky Faber. She escapes from a boarding school and boards a whaling ship bound for London to search for her beloved Jaimy. But when she finds him, hes holding hands with a beautiful young woman. She jumps to conclusions and runs away. In the process is mistaken for a man in her costume and is pressed into service for the king on one of his ships. When she is taken aboard against her will, Jacky thwarts the advances of its crazy captain and when he dies of a heart attack she gains possession of the ship and rallies the sailors to her side. After that she and her crew plunder 4 of the kings enemy ships and she was soon caught. She turned in the prizes including the ships all but one which takes and gets a crew and they plunder some more. Before she knows it she is being called a pirate and theres even a price on her head.
The picture of the ship above connects with the book when she gets her own ship, named the Emerald. It was 110 feet long just as the ship above is. Jacky used this ship to plunder and invade enemy ships such as France or Spain. She was caught and the captain that caught her ordered her now not so beloved Jaimy (she still didn't know that the girl that was with Jaimy at the horse race was his cousin) to sink her Emerald. She was devastated when her ship sank beneath the waves to rest forever on the bottom of the ocean. =]]

Empathy

Im Jacky also known as Bloody Jack. I got this nick name when i killed a man. Not just any man. It was the Captain of a pirate ship that was running away with some treasure. We had boarded their ship to take it over and i had caught sight of him planning to take off in a life boat. So i took me gun and shot him in the chest and down he went. I got extra gold for killin him.

Thank You, Ma'm Essay

Alicia McCarthy

Period 1

Thank You, Ma’m

Have you ever gotten the urge to show someone trust? I believe that if someone gives you trust, you will want to give trust back. In Thank You, Ma’m Roger tries to snatch Mrs. Luella Washington Bates Jones’s purse and ends up in her house. She opens opportunities for him to run away but he doesn’t.

After Roger tries to steal Mrs. Luella’s purse she brings him to her house. Roger, at that point didn’t know what she was going to do with him. When they get there she makes him wash his dirty face and makes him dinner. While she makes the dinner she leaves the door open. “The door was open. He could make a dash for it down the hall. He could run, run, run, run, run!” Roger knew that he could make a run for it but he wanted her to trust him.


While she makes the dinner she leaves him by himself with the door open and her purse on the couch. “In another corner of the room behind a screen was a gas plate and an icebox. Mrs. Jones got up and went behind the screen. The woman did not watch the boy to see if he was going to run now, nor did she watch her purse which she left behind her on the day-bed. But the boy took care to sit on the far side of the room where he thought she could easily see him out of the corner of her eye, if she wanted to. He did not trust the woman not to trust him. And he did not want to be mistrusted now.”That shows that Roger wanted to show her that she could trust him.

Mrs. Luella gave Roger trust so he wanted her to trust him. He did this by not running out the door with her purse. So if someone gives you trust, you will want to give trust back.

Thiller by Michael Jackson

Cause This Is Thriller because i cant wait till the weekend because im going to 6 flags. More flags more fun. I am also thrilled because my daddy bought a boat for $5,000 and last weekend we went sailing but only in the bay and this weekend wer going to go out to sea.

First Mission

This year i have read Eragon, Shabanu, and Dragons Blood. These are all good books expecially Eragon. Shabanu was my second favorite but it was kind of nasty because the girls had to marry their cousins and old men. I didnt really like Dragons Blood because it was about dragons that were bred to fight in pits so it was kind of depressing.