Paper Towns

I've never read Paper Towns or any of the books on the list, but it sounded the most interesting so I picked it. I read a few book reviews on it, and it sounded pretty interesting. I guess it was about some guy who had a crush on this girl he was friends with as a child. And one night she came knocking on his window and asked him to come with her on this wild prank in the middle of the night. And then she didn't show up at school the next day for some mysterious reason. So he and a few other friends go on some sort of journey looking for her.

A lot of people liked it and they talked about how the characters in the story were so realistic. They said that they were the kind of people you would want to be friends with. They talked about how it was the kind of story that helped you see through someone else's eyes.

Edgar Allan Poe

It seems like reading Edgar Allan Poe stories around Halloween is a rite of passage for students in English classes. He wrote poems such as "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee" and stories like "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Black Cat", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Masque of the Red Death", "The Pit and the Pendulum", etc.If you have read Poe stories before, which ones have you read and what do you remember of them? Did you like them? How scary/creepy were they? Share your memories of you or teachers reading the works of Edgar Allan Poe.If you have not read Poe or don't remember, describe to me what you expect from a classic horror writer? What kinds of stories do you think we'll be reading? Have you ever read scary stories?

The only poem by him that I have read was "Annabel Lee". I only vaguely remeber it. We did it last year in English with Mrs. Eaquinto. I think it was about some one he loved that got sick from the cold and died or something. And it talked about him like going to her tomb or something. I don't really remember... it was creepy though.

A pet's point of view

"How do you keep making the lights go on and off?" your pet might wonder. Write about you doing something in your house...from a pet's point of view.

Why do you have those funny water squirting things in the yard? They chase me! Every where I run they are always right behind me. I am barley safe from them even from the porch. What is their problem?