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Week #1-
====In the book **__The House of the Scorpion,__** the most important thing or person in the book is Matt. He is important because he turns out to be a clone and everyone else finds out when he encounters two other kids, Steven and Emilia. He brakes the window to get out of the house because the window was nailed shut and the doors were locked. That was his only way to get out. He jumps out of the window happy to get to the other people. Turns out he wasn't wearing any shoes and got a lot of cuts and glass in his foot. Then he goes into a big house with a sculpture of a scorpion. This first five chapters happen when Matt is around 0-6 years of age. Then chapters 6 and 7 happen when Matt is 7-11 years of age. In the second part Matt meets El Patron. Matt is his clone. He was called to the house because of the bad treatment he has been getting. The book takes place in the poppy feilds and a big house with a scorpion statue in the front. //** ((Laurie Skamra)) **//==== ==== //**I think you added a lot of details in your paragraph and i think that you have included everthing about the first five chapters. You could of included what Steven and Emila looked like and acted like. Amber**// ====

//**Amber, If i added what they looked like it would have added a lot more. ((Laurie))**//

Week 2
==== The second reading included chapters 8-14. The story still takes place at the Alacran Esate. Matt is around 8 at the beginning of this section, and is still the main subject because of his conflicts as a clone. In the first chapter, he was given a personal bodyguard of El Patron to protect him from any possible dangers. The bodyguard's name was Tam Lin, and became very close to Matt. Matt started learning from a teacher eejit and got extremely frustrated and finally began to talk again. Tam Lin has been taking Matt on trips in the mountains (El Patron doesn't know about it), and is teaching him things. Matt found a secret passageway starting from Felicia's room that allows him to travel around the house without being seen but being able to see in. Matt discovered it while he listened to Felicia play piano, which he has taken a liking to. Matt told Tam Lin and now has a piano instructor. Tom is beginning to become very mean to Matt. He even attempted to kill Furball and blaming Matt. Chapter 10 is about El Patron's (and Matt's) birthday. Matt demands a birthday kiss from Maria because he wants to humiliate her for humiliating him with the Furball incident. She gets extremeley mad. Felicia and Tom set Matt and Maria up to go see Mr.Macgregors clone and Maria now thinks that Matt is just as bad a Mr.Macgregor's clone. Matt took Maria's dog and told her to talk to him if she wanted it back, but Mr.Alacran caught him and told him that he killed Furball. The last chapter is about how Celia came to be at the Alacran Estate. She attempted to cross the border from Aztlan to the US when El Patron caught her and only didn't turn her into a eejit because she can cook. Chris ====

I wonder why El Patron just let Celia stay because of how she cooked. But these chapters were kind of confusing and with your paragraph you made the chapters less confusing than it already was. Amber

Week 2:

The second reading in The House of the Scorpions is chapters 8-14. In this part Matt is about 8 years old and it takes place in the Alacran Esate. Matt is the main character because of his problems has a clone. In the first part, Matt gets a personal bodyguard named Tam Lin and he has to protect him from any dangers. A teacher named eejit helped Matt learn to speak again. Matt discovered a secret passage way while he listened to Felicia play the piano. The passage started at Felicia room and it lets Matt travel around the house without being seen but to be able to see in. __Tom__ attempted to kill Furball ( a cat) and Tom blamed Matt for it. Now, it is Matt and El Patrons birthday. Matt wants Maria to give him a birthday kiss because Matt wants to humiliate her for humiliating him. Marie now thinks that Matt is really bad like Mr. MacGregor's clone. In chapter 14, Celia came to be a the Alacran Esate and she attempted to cross the border from Aztlan to the U.S.A when El Patron caught Celia. But, El Patron didn't turn Celia into a eegit because Celia can cook really good. Emily

Week 3: In chapters 15-20, there has been a lot of different events happening. First Matt told Maria about the secret passageway and that El Viejo dies. __Next__, Tom finds out about the secret camera's and Matt told Maria that Felicia poisoned Furball the dog. Matt also went to see the eejit pens and he discovered that Tam Lin set up a bomb that killed 20 kids. Tam Lin told Matt how that he was created and Matt is growing up. Lastly, Matt was trying to decide if he should escape and leave his family and friends or should he stay with them. Amber

Week 4: In chapters 21-26 one of the biggest things is El Patron died, and Matt was sad about it. Tam Lin spread a rumor about Matt being on a safe horse to throw off the farm inspectors. So he should be able to stay away from all the farm inspectors. But before El Patron died he wanted to be with him.

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This weeks chapters were chapter 27-32. In these chapters, Matt is at an orphanage. He meets kids his age and all they do is work. Matt learns alot of new things because where he is know is alot different than The Alcran Estate. After a couple of days, Matt and his knew friends Chacho and Fidelito, go to a new orphanage in San Luis. At the new orphanage, they have to work at a plankton factory. All that they eat at the plankton factory is plankton.Matt learns alot about the ocean and the whales that use to be in San Luis. The new keeper, Jorge, is really mean to the kids. He abuses them by hitting them with canes. Matt got hit by Jorge on page 302-303. After he got beat up, he was sent to the informary. He met Luna and he is a Keeper Trainee. Luna tells Matt about how the Keepers take Laudanum every night. This gave Matt an idea to escape. He figured out that if the Keepers take the drug every night, that he cauld escape because the Fences would be unguarded. In the last chapter, Fidelito is getting beat and Matt and Chacho attack Jorge. They start beating him up so he can't beat Fidelito because he is so small and could get seriously injured. After that Matt gets found out. The keepers see the tattoo on his foot. Everyone starts being mean to him untill Ton-Ton stands up for him. That is what happened in this weeks chapters. xxBeNxx =====

Great job Ben! A couple things I would have included was what Matt did at the plankton factory and Ton-Ton's relationship with Matt. Other than that, you did a great job at making 5 chapters look like a couple of pages. xxChRiSxx

I agree with Chris. You left out some parts, but otherwise it was good. Amber

Very good job Ben!!!!!!!! I agree with amber you did leave out some parts but it was very good. Emily

Week 6: This weeks chapters were chapter 33-38. At the beggining Matt and Chacho are thrown into the Boneyard. Matt escaped before night, in the morning Ton Ton and Fidelito help get Chacho out of the Boneyard. He was injured and weak. They then set out for San Luis. Because of the Shrimp Harvestor being run on solar power the stopped at night. Matt and Fidelito decided to go on without Ton Ton and Chacho. Ton Ton said he would get Chacho to a hospital in the morning. Matt and Fidelito had to encounter the Colorado River, which was highly polluted, they tried crossing but Matt had an asthma attack and Fidelito got help from a nice woman. Se helped them get to the hospital where Ton Ton and Chacho were. When they get there the keepers are trying to take Chacho from the room but the nurse retaliates until Maria's mom, the Head Nurse, gets there and has the keepers drug tested. Then Esperenza and Maria tell Matt hes got to o back to the Opium because they've been in complete lockdown for weeks. So Matt goes back to the Opium only to find Celia, Daft Donald and Mr. Ortega. Then they tell him that during the wake El Patron had some alchohol that he told him to drink if he died or at his 150th birthday. It was poisinous and killed everbody except for the eejits, Celia(because she is pretending to be an eejit), Daft Donald (because Tam Lin told him it was bad and so he didn't drink it) and Mr. Ortega( because he couldn't hear them assemble everybody). Matt was sad about Tam Lin. So he went out to his secret place. There, off on a big rock he saw the Alacran symbol and pressed his hand to it. Inside was more gold then he every imagined. He then thought about what he was going to do about The Opium, because he is now in full power.Thats what happened in this weeks readings.{[-/\]}