year 9 Picture Book Group Oral Assesment

I chose the picture on the second page because it has the most symbolism and meaning. You can see the fear in the boys face, he is scared, but also very suspicious. He is looking off the page, as if there's something we can't see. The mood is very scary, you feel sorry for the boy, he seems lonely and afraid. The camera angle is eye level so you feel like you're in the room with him. You can tell by the colours around him that his life is dark. Then there is quite a contrast in the tone, from the black around the boys face to the yellow and orange on the other side. On the lighter side, there are photos of how life used to be, before the wolves came. In one he is a baby, cuddling with his Mum, they look peaceful and content. In the other he is with his parents, laughing, they are happy like isn't a worry in the world. But he had graffitied all over the walls with pictures of wolves, their evil eyes watching him. he'd written in messy hand writing like his hand had been shaking, and the incorrect spelling showed he probably hadn't been to school. It says about how the wolves are everywhere, and they're coming to get everyone you love, just like they did to him.

Literature Cicle #2

This week we read chapter 6 until chapter 14. These chapters were much more eventful than the first 6, and just as descriptive. The character that the most focus is on is Josie. In these chapters she gets closer to her Nonna, when her Nonna started telling stories of her past. She also gets closer to Sister Louise and the bishop as she realises she has a lot of respect for them. But she does get further away from her mother, because she doesn't like her date, Paul Presilio and her Mama doesn't like Josie's date, Jacob Coote. He asked her out after he saved her from Greg Sim's gang who tried to attack her and Anna, after they finished their job at McDonald's. But then their date goes badly, they have a fight, and whilst walking home she bumps into her Dad and they get much closer, also when she called him at school because she got in a fight with a racist model, Carly and broke her nose. So she called her Dad to help defend her, then after her date with Jacob Coote, he takes her out for pizza and he agrees to give her a job at his work instead of McDonalds. Then later she sees John in a cafe and he’s quite depressed and thinking of ending his life and she finds she’s no longer attracted to him. They have a big chat and swap envelopes full of everything they’re feeling at the time, so later they’ll both open them and read it to each other to see how things have changed. 5 words I don’t know the meaning of are incredulously, prejudice, cloistered, aggregating and hostilities. The meaning of incredulous is showing unbelief or being sceptical. The meaning of prejudice is an unfavourable opinion, the meaning of cloistered is secluded from the world. The meaning of aggregating is throwing out. The meaning of hostilities is a hostile state.