6 Sentinces That Me, I Mean I, Wrote Correctly

1. My mother, father, brother and I live in Jakarta.
2. On the way to school my friend said hello to me.
3. I tripped on my own feet.
4. I talked to some friends.
5. Some friends talked to me.
6. It took me a week to finish my project.

Galaxy of Fear Series

Galaxy of Fear
by John Whitman
*****

The Galaxy of Fear Series by John Whitman is a Star Wars series based on the adventures of siblings Zak and Tash Arranda, their uncle Hoole and their droid, D-V9.

There are 12 books to the galaxy of fear series named Eaten Alive, City of the Dead, Planet Plague, The Nightmare Machine, Ghost of the Jedi, Army of Terror, The Brain Spiders, The Swarm, Spore, The Doomsday Ship, Clones and The Hunger. All in all not the most attractive of names.

Zak and Tash are orphans who live with their uncle Hoole. Since Uncle Hoole is a scientist, studying different lifeforms, Zak and Tash visit many different planets. But after they start to trouble the imperial, an evil dictatorship, they try going into hiding but often stumble upon danger. They have been imprisoned, disected, menaced by zombies and attacked by shadows. A very exciting series.

I thought that galaxy of fear was a series that made you want to read the next book. My favourite book was Spore because it had a lot of good action.

Characterisation-Zak Arranda

In the Star Wars Galaxy of Fear series by John Whiteman, Zak Arranda is one of the three main protagonists. He has very life-like feelings that everyone can relate to. John Whiteman has done an excellent job at bringing him to life.

On page 7 of The Doomsday Ship, Zak thinks that his Uncle Hoole and his Sister are his last surviving relatives. He cares about them and would do anything to keep them alive. Zak also cares about his dead parents and thinks about them a lot and often dreams about them. In all, the thing that Zak cares about the most is family.

On page 5 Zak notes that he lives in The Shroud, a small spaceship that moves from planet to planet. Zak has had to live there ever since his home planet was destroyed. Zak's uncle is a scientist who studies life forms on different planets and is the reason The Shroud keeps moving around. Zak often wishes that he could settle down on a planet and live a normal life.

On page 6 Zak states that his main problem is to escape the imperial, a dictatorship whose evil scientific experiments Zak and his family have ruined. They are now on the run and Zak, who has been betrayed many times by harmless looking characters, is usually suspicious of anyone that he has not known for a few days.

In all Zak has some real world emotions, such as when he is annoyed by his sister, jealous of his sister's talents and frightened in a crisis. John Whiteman makes Zak Arranda a very believable character.

Earthquake

Earthquake

On the 2nd of September, 2009 an earthquake hit Java. This gives me another opportunity to mention nature's balance with humans (see Taiwan Environment).

Jakarta is in the ring of fire and so is likely to have an earthquake. The earthquake was weak in Jakarta but a bit outside of the city, there has been reports of at least 44 people dead. Some houses in Jakarta are weak and fell down during the earthquake.

This earthquake did not cause mudslides, such as typhoon morocat did because the ground in Jakarta is flat, not hill-covered like Taiwan. This shows how natural disasters work in different areas. I also mentioned that many people died. This shows how people work with the natural disasters. But not as many people died as in Taiwan due to the lack of mountains.

All this shows how the environment, natural disasters and people work together in different ways.

J. K. Rowling

J. K. Rowling

*****

Miss Rowling is the author of the famous Harry Potter series and my favourite author. J. K. Rowling has a website at jkrowling.com which is where I got most of this information.

On her website J. K. Rowling states that she often plays minesweeper while typing up her story. She also says that the best way to write a story is to do so while in a cafe.

J. K. Rowling started writing at the age of 12 and had her first Harry Potter book published in 1997.

Harry Potter and the Prisnor of Azkaban

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

****

In J.K. Rowling's third book of the series, Harry Potter starts his year by magically inflating his aunt and takes the knight bus to the leaky cauldron. Ron and Hermione's friendship is braking up because of Hermione's new pet and Harry believes he keeps seeing death omens. A vicious wizarding killer that betrayed Harry's parents to Voldemort has broken out of Azkaban, the wizarding prison, and dementors are sent to guard Hogwarts and are after all of Harry's happy memories.

Its a pretty impressive start to the year but soon even more things go wrong. At Hogwarts school of witch craft and wizardry Harry takes on two new subjects; divination ,whose teacher is convinced that Harry could die any second, and care of magical creatures which is luckily being taught by Harry's friend Hagrid, but quickly goes wrong when Harry's rival, Malfoy, is trying to give Hagrid the sack.

At the end of the year Harry nearly reaches his limits when he comes face to face with the escaped prisoner of azkaban, Lord Voldemort's old servant and a werewolf. A prediction is made that states that Lord Voldemort will rise again and Harry fights about one hundred dementors who try to suck Harry's soul out. Will Harry survive to see his next birthday?

The prisoner of azkaban is very exiting and will make you want to never put the book down.

Taiwan enviroment

In August 2009, Taiwan was hit by typhoon Morocat. In my class at JIS this gave us a great chance to look at the environment and people involved as it ties in to our social studies unit.

When Morocat hit, Taiwan had the worst typhoon in fifty years. When Morocat hit, Taiwan had over two metres of rain! When Morocat hit, buildings, including the hotel shown to the left, were destroyed. All this is because of the environment and the people who live in it.

When Taiwan was flooded, the water rushed extremely fast, which is what destroyed towns and buildings. If Jakarta was flooded, however, the water level would slowly rise. This is because Jakarta is flat and the water would just build up. But Taiwan is mountainous and when the water hits the top of a mountain, and rushes downhill, the water comes with tremendous force.
In the case of the above hotel, the water dug into the earth below the hotel until it fell over.

Another natural disaster caused by Morocat were mudslides. The mountains around Taiwan are covered with a layer of dirt. When the rain falls, this dirt slides downward and creates a mudslide.

Both natural incidents above killed many people, which wouldn't have happened if people didn't live in Taiwan. This shows how people and the environment work together.