Outside Reading Again

     This week, I finished Someone Like You and began to read The Hunger Games. I saw the movie in theaters and it was probably the best movie I have ever seen. I want to read the whole trilogy and I know there's things in the book that weren't in the movie. Also, I know that everyone at camp this year will probably be talking about the Hunger Games, so it is a must read! I'm not too far into the book yet, but I will be by the end of the day. I would say I spend about 30 minues reading The Hunger Games.

     Another part of my 150 minutes of reading has yet again come from reading my biology textbook and french novel, La Quete de Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo. In biology, we had to take a lot of notes this week. We moved on to Chapter 11, which talks about how genes are controlled. We have already had to do a presentation on the lac operon and the tryptophan operon explaining how they work. Everyone in the class got close to a 23/25, with the best grade being 25/25 and the worst being 22/25. We all did pretty well and read what we needed to out of the textbook. La Quete de Desperaux is the french translated version of The Tail of Despereaux.  It is a story about a mouse who lives in a castle and falls in love with a princess. It's actually pretty easy to read. It is such a nice feeling to be able to read books in French now- it shows how far I have come in the language.