Monday, October 12, 2009

THE SLIPPERY SLOPE

The 337 paged literature is entitled The Slippery Slope is filled with drama, action, and adventure. The Slippery Slope is the tenth book in the Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. Violet and Klaus follow Count Olaf into the perilous Mortmain Mountains. They find a group of kids called the "Snow Scouts" who camp out in the caves of the mountains. The siblings also find another person who is one of the missing Quagmire triplets; Quigley.
Together, they set out to find Count Olaf and their missing sister Sunny. They know that they do not have much time left. Violet and Klaus find the V.F.D. headquarters burnt down, and they find a boy who reveals himself to be Quigley Quagmire, who the children believed to be dead. They see Sunny’s Flammable Verdant Device and Violet builds a mountain climbing device to climb the mountain. The Baudelaires and Quigley kidnap Esme` and try to Count Olaf to her to release Sunny. Count Olaf’s associates throw Sunny off the mountain, and Violet, Klaus, and Quigley grab a toboggan and slide down the mountain. By the time they get to the bottom the mountain shatters. Quigley and Violet call desperlatey call for each other but they couldn’t hear over the rushing water.

Monday, September 28, 2009

#33Shooting Stars sid washington

The 258 page biography entitled Shooting Stars by LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger, is filled with drama, adventure and action. This non-fiction biography describes LeBron James, Little Dru, Coach Dru, Keith Dambrot, (also known as Coach Dambrot). It tells how LeBron James becomes an National Basketball Association (NBA) star. The major conflict is when Keith Dambrot uses the Fab Five (LeBron James, Willie, Romeo, Little Dru, and Sian) to get back at Division I basketball coaching. The Fab Five, is a very successful team.
The main conflict is how the Fab Five gets used by Keith Dambrot. He makes them the best team in the state for two years in a row. When he coached college the team he coached was the worst team. He gets fired and decides to coach high school to redeem himself. Since the high school won two straight state championships in a row, Keith Dambrot decided to coach The University of Akron. After he leaves they win a National Championship. My insight about the book is it has a lot of life lessons.