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We should make the school year longerThese debates occur often within schools and outside of them (where they make the real decisions). This debate can serve the purpose of creating a longer, more educational school year, or to keep the peace with students and not extend the school year.
Cell Phones in Class This debate [...]

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My response through page 111: In the last 50 pages, this book has gone from a slow start to a very fast paced story where everything is different. Fat Charlie has learned he has a brother, and everyone likes his brother. On the night that Spider (Fat Charlie’s brother) realized that there father was [...]

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Vocabulary:
Dexterity(82): Great skill in preforming tasks
Comprehensible(101): Able to be understood, intelligible
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Irony: It’s ironic that Fat Charlie’s fiancée’s mother came to do wedding planning the day after Fat Charlie had met his bother who had left “Daisy” at his apartment to help him.
Symbol: Spider could walk on a pool, which was a bit of a [...]

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Requirements:
2 vocabulary words that you found in the book (with page numbers). Define them in the blog.
3 examples of figurative language (irony, personification, imagery, metaphor, symbol, simile, onomatopoeia, etc.) and how you know it is that literary element.
Pick a quote from the reading and explain its significance (include page number).
Write a sentence in which [...]

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My response to the first fifty pages: 
I think that the first fifty pages are still the exposition. In the first chapter, he describes some of his life, and how he never really liked his father. He talks about how he moved to England when he was 10 with his mother, and about his soon to be wife. [...]

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It seems that when I installed a script to make my website faster I am actually having things not show up on my site until four or five refreshes later. If you are reading this, than that means you are in the clear for this problem. If not, well … then your not. 
UPDATE, Thursday, November [...]

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The following is a blog post related to Q2 outside reading.

Book Name = Anansi Boys
Author = Neil Gaiman
Year Published = May 2006
Copyright = ©2005 by Neil Gaiman
Fiction
400
Evidence it’s challenging = Well… It’s thick (moderately)… It’s supposed to be a great book, and the last book I read from Neil Gaiman was incredible, but long. I [...]

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Last weekend I made a nice round to a guy who sells Vault 12-paks at a good price… and I ended up with 10 of them (+1 diet cherry coke). Here’s a picture:
What else …. I got to start a 1995 computer (see below pics), learn how to disassemble and reassemble a Nintendo DS [...]

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Well, no, I didn’t go to any parties (turned peoples down to homework), but I did do one good thing: I dressed as a burrito! Maybe some of you know, but from 5pm-close Chipotle was giving free burritos to all who dressed in foil! Burrito vs. party… burrito wins!!
Edit: I couldn’t help but to add [...]

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