Friday, August 19, 2011

Jeremy's journal number 6

Dear Mrs Zrihen
                            I currently read a non-fictional book called “Who was Albert Einstein” by Jess Brallier. This was a biography.The exposition.  Albert Einstein was a very poor student who got kicked out of school. He was one of the most brilliant people that the world has ever known. Also he was a peace-loving person who hated war, but his work led to the creation of the most destructive bomb ever. Albert was shy and hated publicity and attention, but he was a media superstar. Albert made his entrance into the world on March 14, 1879, in Ulm Germany. He certainly didn’t seem like an extraordinary child.The rising action. He was chubby and pale with thick, black hair, he was so quiet and shy that his parents worried that there was something wrong with him, (they took him to the doctors). Albert didn’t speak a word until he was 3 or 4 years old. Then suddenly he spoke something and his parents were wondering why he hasn’t talked before. Albert said, “Up to now everything has been fine”. Most boys played soldier and other rough-tougher games, but Albert just played easy board games. When Albert saw real soldiers with their blank faces they frightened him. Albert also preferred to stay by himself and day-dream . He enjoyed playing with blocks and building houses out of playing cards too. His parents started to worry about their lonely and quiet son. The doctors said he was a thinker. Albert’s father and uncle had a business that sold batteries, generators, and wire, electricity fascinated Albert. Albert pestered his father and uncle with lots of questions. Albert enjoyed thinking about a world beyond the one that could be seen or explained. As he later said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world”. Albert has also been fascinated by the compass that his father had given him. No matter what he did with the compass, its needle pointed at the same direction: North, he turned the compass sideways and upside down, but nothing always the same directions. His dad explained that the earth is like a big magnet that’s always pulling on the compass’s magnetic needle. Albert was amazed that some strange and powerful force was all around him. School wasn’t teaching him about the things that mattered to him, so at age 10, Albert starting teaching himself. He was going to read as much science books as he could. Albert also liked to play the Violin , music always calmed his active mind. He especially liked to play duets with his mother. One day while they were playing, Albert suddenly realized that music cords were like patterns of numbers. Musical rhythms were like counting by threes, fours, or eights. “music’s just like numbers” he exclaimed to his mother. ( Albert was even thinking while relaxing).Later, when Albert was famous and traveled all around the world, he carried only two things with him-his suitcase and his violin.The climax. When Albert was a year old, his family moved to the city of Munich in Germany, there his sister Maja, was born. He would lie in the grass, look at the sky, and think about space. Albert found books to help him think of math and science.The falling action. He was a genius. On April 18, 1955, Albert died with a sheet of equations, and the last words on the paper was “All nations to give up on nuclear weapons”. After Albert’s death, the scientific community lost someone of a great and original mind.The resolution. Jews mourned the loss of a leader who always wished for a better and more peaceful world, even in in the darkest moments of Jewish history. Also all people mourned to the loss of a great peace-loving man     THE END
The genre of the book : non-fictional, biography
 The topic of the book: Albert Einstein
 The main idea of the book: Albert Einstein and what he accomplished
 The book is stated because everything was settled before his death
 Another title: Albert Einstein: the famous and the genius
 The supporting details are: to always learn new things, the book talked about his accomplishments, and how smart he was and how people loved him
The book is factual because it gives a lot of details and facts about his life
 The essential message is: to always learn something, be smart and everything can be accomplished
 The cause is Albert studying and the effect is being smart
  The problem in the story is Albert dying and not being able to study more
  The five text features are: bolded and highlighted words, table of contents, titles and sub-titles, headings, index
   The impact is: they help me write down more info about the book and gives me ideas about the important facts
 is about Albert going to school then him studying then him growing up then him moving and hiking then his death in the hospital
The Author’s purpose of the book: to inform about a smart guy
 The Authors perspective is: He is smart and intelligent
  The auther is subjective because Albert could not finish his learning because of his death
 The significance is that Albert learned a lot and his parents are happy about that
  The tone and the mood is happy at first but said at the end and it was good
 The characters are him and his parents
The setting was in school and home
 The protagonist was him and his parents antagonist none foil none
  Plot str. Studying then growing up then moving then learning more then death
 Conflict is his death made him stop studying internal character VS self
 The moral was anyone can be a genius and accomplish what they want

Your student Jeremy Kazieva


  


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