The Last Apprentice Revenge of The Witch: Book Report

The story begins with Thomas’ dad looking for an apprenticeship for his youngest son. He has lined up a meeting with Old Gregory to take on Thomas. Old Gregory is a Spook, a protector from bogarts, witches, ghasts, and “all manner of wicked beasties.”

Thomas is happy to leave the farm but is a little apprehensive about becoming a Spook. All his life he’s been aware of things moving in the shadows. His oldest brother even jokes about him still sleeping with a candle lit. His mother assures Thomas that this is his destiny. As the seventh son of a seventh son, it will be his job to keep people safe when Old Gregory is no longer able.

So Thomas and the Spook set off on a one-month trial apprenticeship. Before they go too far, Thomas has to pass a test – he has to spend the night alone in a haunted house. It’s creepy, and there is definitely something in the house besides Thomas. But Thomas manages to keep his wits and survives the test, which has a surprising ending.

As his apprenticeship continues, Thomas learns much about bogarts, witches, and girls with pointy shoes. And he has a lot of questions about what happened to the apprentices that came before him. Left alone for a short time, Thomas gets tricked into letting loose the dangerous witch, Old Mother Malkin. But instead of waiting for someone to bail him out of danger, he figures out a way to defeat her on his own. His troubles aren’t over, however. When he heads back home for a brief break, Thomas discovers Old Mother Malkin’s spirit has followed him and he has to protect his family from her evil possession.

The story isn’t graphic, but just creepy enough to make you look over your shoulder or leave the lights on when you’re home alone. I can’t wait to read what adventures Thomas has next. Out of five stars I would give the book a rating of five. I think this book was amazing and would recommend it to everyone I know.

Battle of The Labyrinth Book Review

After reading parts one two and three of the Percy Jackson series I am up to part four, whre the adventure kicks up. The entire story gets extremely exhilarating and makes want to never put the book down.After Percy realizes that is a demi-god his lifde sets course to an entire new level. He is the son of Poseidon and almost everyone's enemy. His old friends Annabeth, Tyson, Grover and Nico are still here. Although,.... Nico is the most popular one in this story out of all. Nico is extremely angry after he found out his sister Bianca is dead after going on a quest with Percy. Nico and Bianca are the children of Hades and unknown to everyone.
The name of the book I am read is called Percy Jackson and the Olympians Battle Of The Labyrinth. The author is Rick Riordan. It is three hundred sixty nine pages long and yet still doesn't have a dull moment to get you bored. The main characters in this part are Annabeth, Grover, Kronos, Nico, Luke and of course Percy Jackson. The setting of the book takes place in America. They travel to several states in the country to do a quest and missions. The entire series and this book itself is about ancient Greek mythology and revolves around the twelve Olympian gods and goddesses as well as their evil and cold hearted father Kronos.
The story begins where Percy starts anew at his new school, Goode High school. from there he is unsurprisingly attacked by two empousa which are the original character from where the vampires come from except scarier. So anyway he is attacked but is helped by a mortal girl that is able to see through the mist and visualize the monsters in front of her perfectly, even better than half bloods. That, is very rare. After that Annabeth catches up to him there and takes him to camp half blood. Everyone at camp and in Mount. Olympus are very stressed about Kronos coming back to laugh but they are still working together. At least a little. When they get back they have a very exciting welcome. As they walk through the swords arena they find a hellhound, but soon realizes that it's a good one and belongs to the new camp activities director Quintus.
This story was told from the perspective of the character Percy Jackson and I think that it's a good idea for that to have happened. I say that because it just sounds right from his point of view. It fits the story and above all the story is almost all about him. I think it sounds good in his perspective because the story is about him and it would sound more interesting if he told it. It'll make the reader feel like he or she is reading an actual diary written by a real person.
A major conflict that takes place in the story is when Percy and his friends have to battle Luke and his crew all by themselves. Camp half blood had only few inmates while Luke's army which was growing stronger as well as in size had over two hundred people. The worst part of it is, is that Kronos was reborn and he himself lead his army to destroy Mount Olympus. Well of course he didn't succeed......yet.
As a result of these issues the story was lead into an entire new point of view. Camp half blood was actually in the lead and was beating Kronos' army badly. Especially with Percy and Annabeth on their team. Percy and the rest of his friends as anyone predicted got out of the labyrinth and were not killed. Well, they can't be killed, they are the main attractions of the book. Kronos' army is getting weaker and doesn't seem so strong now. Surprisingly Kronos' greatest general, Luke is getting ready to betray him. He doesn't like the path he's heading and wants to go back to camp half blood. He also just misses Annabeth and the rest of his pals. He doesn't want to see them get hurt. I could've told that by reading the third book and the beginning of this book.
There wasn't anything left to discover about Percy and his friends since they practically told all their secrets to each other. One of the only things that was very surprising is that Luke is definitely going to change himself back into the good person everyone else knows and loves. Kronos is also beginning to expect that Luke is going to betray him and I predict that he is going to soon organize to kill him. Luckily Percy and Annabeth realizes that and should decide to help him get back. If it wasn't for Annabeth all hope on Luke would've been gone. She had a crush on him and still cared for him up till now.
The climax of the story was when Camp Half Blood is about to go head on towards Kronos' army. In almost every story the climax is where the main characters have a humongous war. This was just another one of those. It was so interesting at this point. I am pretty sure that to just see the climax everyone will be waiting for the movie to come out and hopefully in this movie they will show the amazing climax that they have in the book. One of my favorite parts of this story was when Tyson meets the last Hundred Hander. I find that very interesting because the hundred handers were one of the weapons used against the titans in the war to destroy them. If camp half blood can get this one to fight on their side they might just even the odds of beating Kronos' army. Also the hundred handers are a part of the real Greek myths.
If I could change this book I would change the part where Quintus is the bad person because it's the same in every story. There is always someone close to Percy and in the end they betray him and leave him to fight them off. I think this book could've been different. It would have surprised everyone and make them wonder. Also Percy needs another companion to stay by his side. His friend's list is rapidly decreasing because of the war and the uprising of Kronos. On a scale of one to five stars I would give this book a full five. It deserves it and the other series do to. Few books interest me and this happens to be one of them. I really enjoyed this book and thought it was very interesting and fun to read. I would definitely recommend this book for another person to read. If someone doesn't like reading after reading this book their minds will be sure to change. I hope you enjoyed my book review on Percy Jackson and the Olympians Battle Of The Labyrinth. Also try reading the other parts of the series.

Reading Response

During this adventure Percy, Annabeth and Grover are on a quest helping Clarisse out. They weren't supposed to go but they sneeked out and eventually and cought up with Clarisse. The gang were in the forest hiding from Luke when Percy noticed a snakey figure, it was the hydra. They dodged and swung but couldn't keep it up for long. Soon cannons blasted at it and it went down. Those cannons were from clarisse. She had gotten a gost ship by praying to her father Ares.
Percy from this book reminds me of Harry Potter from all parts of those books. I say that because they are both the most special of a special camp. Percy of camp half blood and Harry Potter of Hogwarts. Of the entire camp they're in they are the most special and mst powerful. Percy because he is the son of one of the big three. Harry because he survived an attack from Voldemolt. From that attack he got a scar which somehow gave him power.

Reading Response

Sea of Monsters 3/18/10

pgs 150-183 45mins

In this adventure Percy and Annabeth gets a bit delayed. They were planning on asking Chiron to go on the quest to save grover and get the golden fleece but there has been a change of plans. Someone thinks that just because Chiron is the son of Kronus he was the one who poisoned Thalia's tree. He gets fired and there is a new camp activities director. A man named Tantalus. Anyway When Percy and Annabeth steps up to him to ask him about the quest he denies. I don't know why he thinks so much of Clarisse but he gave her the quest instead. They need to think of a new plan really fast or Grover will soon be cyclops food to Polyphemus.

I think of this writing as interesting for the most part because I found out Chiron was the son of Kronus. I never knew that and it was a shock for me. Also just because of that why would someone like Chiron betray camp-half-blood. He is relied on and trusted by almost everyone in the camp so I think he wouldn't do such a thing I am surprised to see that they actually fired him just because of suspicion.

Reading Response

Sea of Monsters 3/17/10

pgs 120-150 45 mins

While reading this part of the story Percy had a dream about his best friend grover being trapped with the great cyclops Polyphemus. The cyclops eyesight was very bad after he was stabbed by king Odyuseus so he thought the satyr Grover was a woman cyclops and was going to marry him/her. Somehow Grover was able to talk to Percy and tell him what was going on. The sea of monsters is known to the normal mortals as the Bermuda triangle. Percy was able to find him with the coordinates that the fates or gray sisters gave him. While there Percy had to get the golden fleece, it would restore any thing or person that was hurt. Luke had earlier on poisoned Thalia's tree which was the only protection for demi-gods so Percy was on a quest to get it to save the tree.

By reading this if I were Percy I would really hunt Luke down and kill him. He is trying to bring the titan god Kronus back to life which could destroy the entire earth. He is betraying everyone in the camp that trusted him and who is now at the risk of being attacked by monsters. He poisoned Thalia's tree which was the protection borders of the camp.

The Student Bill of Rights

1.I believe that the most important right is for students to have the right to

: attend school and receive a free public school education from kindergarten to age 21 or receipt of a high school diploma, whichever comes first, as provided by law; students who have been determined to be English Language Learners are entitled to bilingual education or English as a second language program as provided by law; students with disabilities who have been determined to be in need of special education are entitled to a free appropriate public education from age 3 until age 21, as provided by law.

I say that because I think the most important thing a student should ever think about when going to school is actually having the ability to attend school, receive a quality education get they're diploma and and get a good job. This is why I think that this right is the most important.

2. The right that surprised me the most is when they say you have the right to be in a safe and supportive learning environment, free from discrimination, harassment, and bigotry. I say that is foolish in every school I've been to they discriminate people because of the way they look. They do not make school a safe and supporting learning area.

3. I do not think my rights are protected at FDA because this school lies a lot. They say it's supposed to be college preparatory when you are learning forth and fifth grade work in sixth grade. Also this school is known to have a lot of fights and is surely not a safe and supporting learning environment. People at this school are also very discriminative. This school is supposed to be for scholars sometimes I wonder how some kids actually got into this school.

First Draft of My Research Paper

Greek religion is very interesting and has many fascinating things to learn about. For example in this essay I will give information on Greek culture, their religion, their geography and the various arts and sculptures that they crafted. Today the Greeks are known to have been polytheistic which means that they believed in many gods. They however only created the twelve Olympian gods to give reasons for mysterious things that occur in nature. This is why they are called Myths and the topic mythology.

Although the Greeks were very formal with their gods in before the common era nowadays they are supposedly not currently traditional towards their old Olympian gods. Today the greeks most of the Greeks are Christians, Roman Catholics, Muslims, Orthodox Christians and Jews.

Their culture was very fascinating as well. The greeks are known to create many sports known to man today. They created bowling, handball acted in European handball and of made one of the most known sport competitions ever the olympics. Also their cuisine is similar to the different types of food we may eat today. They used to grow the same crops that we do and feast on the same animals as well. The only difference is that they might have prepared it a different way. They also could have used many other spices in their food as well. Their technology as well as their knowledge of food was less than what humans know today. Their clothing varied from ours as well. While we may wear our T-shirts and jeans the Greeks wore togas, tunics and chitons.
However you could only wear these type of clothing if you are a citizen of Greece or Pompeii. The Greeks also had very similar jobs to us other thaan the fact that they practiced wizardry and witchcraft as a job as well. It may seem very unbelievable and strange to us but to them it is perfectly normal. Infact we got most of our jobs from the Greeks.
The Greeks are also famous for the beautiful arts and sculptures they created. It was so amazing it attracted the eye of one of the best artists in the world, Michael Angelo. It is true that the great Michael Angelo had gotten some of his ideas from the varieties of arts from the Greeks. They used limestone, marble and normal stone to make their buildings which is some of the same materials we use today to make our buildings. There were time periods of art in Greece. The most famous was the Mycenaean period. Greek people long ago used to make sculptures most likely to represent a story or emotion. As what people say today " a picture says a thousand words" long ago it would've been "a sculpture says a thousand words."
Athens is the symbol of art, freedom, democracy and the conscience of the civilized world. The geography of Greece wouldn't be identified as Grrece it would be read as Athens. It had taken it's name from the Olympian Godess Athena whom had the power of knowledge and wisdom. She had won the competition against Poseidon to rule the land and had it named after her.