My Book Review Anne of Green Gables

Posted on April 17th, 2008 in school by lizzie3

 

The story I have chosen is Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The story relates the life of Anne, an orphan who comes to live at a house called Green Gables and how this new life contrasts with her old life in the orphanage.

 

I loved this book mainly because I loved the character of Anne. She has a very definite personality which we can see change as she gets older. The book starts when she is eleven and ends when she is sixteen. At first her personality is flighty and talkative and this gets her into lots of trouble. However she is also confident and intelligent. Later on she becomes more of a daydreamer but grows mature. This helped me to understand her better and to see her as a real person not just a character in a book

 

The story is set in Green Gables, a big old farmhouse in a small town of
Avonlea,
Prince Edward Island,
Canada. I liked the setting because I know it’s the kind of house that every child would like to grow up in including myself.  It was also set one hundred years ago, and some things seemed rather strange, e.g. they didn’t have cars so they had to use a horse and carriage, men did the farmwork and women kept the house. However, I quite liked this because they didn’t have to worry about global warming and I myself would rather do housework than farmwork.

 

We see Anne’s life from when she arrives from the orphanage at the age of eleven until she is sixteen. Her life changes from a hard life as a servant with no friends and no education to a new life at Green Gables where she goes to school and makes new friends. Although her new life seems wonderful, one thing was missing for Anne and that was love from Marilla, her new mother.  However, Anne rubs some of her personality onto Marilla and for me it was a wonderful thing to be able to see that Marilla changed from a grumpy old woman into a more likeable person.

 

I hope you read this book and I’m looking forward to reading the next book in the series to find out what happens to her.

Ohope Christian Camp

Posted on April 17th, 2008 in camp by lizzie3

 Day 1

Last week room 3 which is the room I am in, and room 7 went on school camp. We stayed at Ohope Christian Camp. On the way there I started to feel a bit carsick even though I’d had a carsick pill! Luckily we stopped for lunch. Actually now I think of it maybe it wasn’t such a good thing. It was sooo windy and I’d left my jacket in my big bag that was at the back of the trailer!! I was freezing!

We finally got there and the campsite was really run down slightly grotty. In the evening we went to the  aquatic centre , it was really great fun!

Day 2

The next day my group headed off to the high-ropes. I was scared out of my skin. they were 9 metres high and had a single rope to walk on and 2 ropes to hang onto. I was so glad when I got back down to the ground. After spending the morning at the high-ropes we spent the afternoon at the Amazing Maze. I think that was the best activity we did at camp.  What we did was walk around the maze and find Questions and answers. We got back to camp and went to aquatic centre again.

 Day 3

Today we set off to the wharf to do fishing. I thought it was going to be really boring. But it was really fun! I caught 5 big fish and 2 small ones. Straight after fishing we went Kayaking, but I didn’t like it that much because I wasn’t strong enough to kayaking for long and I had to keep stopping and starting it was so annoying. Finally we finished kayaking and headed down to the campsite to get ready for our walk to Shelly Bay. You have to walk for ages to get to Shelly Bay, and then you have to walk up 310 steps! But once you get there its really cool. Its got all these rock pools with fish, crabs sea-snails and starfish and lots and lots of pipis. But then we had to walk all the way home!was exhausted  by the time we got back to camp! In the evening we went to the Awerkeri hot-pools and had a BBQ. I had a great camp!

  

Descriptive Launguage Doors

Posted on April 6th, 2008 in school by lizzie3

                                             

                        

 

             Throughout your whole life time you will come across billions of doors.You will come across big heavy doors that are stiff and hard to open. Little doors that are easy to open but cannot close. Glass doors that can be smashed at the smallest touch. Stony doors that are stained with black grime. You may come across neat doors that have beautiful paint work and neat tidy flowers hanging down in baskets. This is how we usually think of doors but I see doors in a different way. Doors can be the decisions we make in life. Each door leads to new pathways, new worlds and adventure. You might see doors in the distant horizon just waiting to be opened and revealed. You may come across Family treasures and secrets just by opening an unknown door in the form of an old box of letters found in an attic. However, our desire to open doors could also lead  into war and possibly murder. You could find the wealthiest families suddenly struck with poverty. Children’s lives could be affected because of the world of doors. For example, in David Copperfield his mother opened the door to remarriage.  She died, his stepfather sent him to work and David became poor and homeless. 

Of course good things can happen because of doors. They could bring world peace. Bring hatred and poverty to an end. You could win the lottery and have the exquisite  house of your dreams. People could be led to bigger and better places. We could stop pollution, fossil fuels, global warming and bring green peace to our country and only world. We would stop tagging and graffiti and plant the greenest grass and the highest  trees in its place. We could stop the terrible whaling in
Japan, child abuse, drugs and the hatred on this earth. All our lives we have to make decisions. You can choose which door to open each door we open leads to another decision. You can choose the right door or the wrong door…..your choice