RUF!

I am a puppy.  RUF! I am officially a puppy because I have a leash.  RUF! I sleep with my 4 limbs up in the air. Like this.    RUF! I do that because I look like an upside down walking dog.  RUF! I have a leash (my mom's belt.  RUF! I eat puppy biscuits (anything I like).  RUF! I like to play a board game called Lost PUPPIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.  RUF!

My typical day as a puppy:
  1. I eat a puppy biscuit.  RUF!
  2. I go to the pound (school).  RUF!
  3. I work on my fairy tail.  RUF!
  4. I have 2 specials.  RUF!
  5. I have recess and then I have more puppy bisciuts.  RUF!
  6. I have a Q.T.A.  RUF!
  7. I free read.  RUF!
  8. I go to bus line or to the caf. for pickup.  RUF!
  9. I have an after school activity.  RUF!
  10. I relax and say "RUF"! for example...                                                                                      RUF!
  11. I do homework/BEAST.  RUF!
  12. I play around.  RUF!
  13. I have more puppy biscuits.  RUF!
  14. I go to sleep.  RUF!

Ranger's Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan book report: Part 3

Themes:
Friendship
When Will saves Horace from the boar they become friend instead of enemies.   Then they work together and accomplish more things.

Learning
When Will listens to Halt on how to ride a Ranger horse, he gets good at riding Ranger horses.

My opinion
I think this is an exciting book.  It doesn't have any boring parts.  It's either action or just interesting.  I recommend this book for people who like adventurous stories who are 7+.  My favorite part of this book is when Tug bucks Will off and when Will tries to capture Tug.  It was hilarious.

Ranger's Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan book report part 2

 Plot:

The choosing
The choosing is when all the orphans in the ward and the craft masters choose what the orphans will do for the rest of their lives.  Will tries to get in to battle school but the Baron and Sir Rodney deny Will.  Then Halt gives the Baron a note about Will.  Will wants to see what is on the note.  Will climbs the Baron's tower to get the note, but when he gets to the top of the tower and goes in the tower, Halt grabs him.  The note says that Will has the potential to be a Ranger.  Halt was testing Will because he wanted to see how Will would try to steal the note.  Will becomes apprenticed to Halt.

Training
Will starts training with Halt.  Will learns how to shoot a bow, use saxe knives and throw throwing knives.  He learns how to track animals and people.  Will also learns how to camouflage himself well. Will is given a Ranger horse named Tug.  Ranger horses have something you have to say to them, otherwise they will buck you off.  They are very strong, alert and fast.  Horace starts training in battle school.  He learns sword strokes.  He is illegally bullied.

Boar hunt
Will and Halt find angry boar tracks, and the knights and Horace have a boar hunt.  The boar goes after Horace and almost tramples him, but Will distracts the boar and saves Horace.  They become friends.

Fight with bullies
Horace is being bullied.  The bullies go after Will.  Horace and Halt save Will.  Horace gets revenge on the bullies.  The bullies get kicked out of battle school.  Horace and Will become even better friends.

The Gathering
The Gathering is when all 50 rangers come to talk about what has been happening.  Will meets Gilan (Halt's old apprentice).  The Rangers find out that two Kalkara have attacked important people.  Will, Gilan and Halt leave the Gathering to hunt the Kalkara.  Kalkara are BIG, DANGEROUS MONSTERS.  When they look in your eyes you get so terrified that you get paralyzed, and then they kill you.  They are extremely flammable.  The Kalkara work for an EVIL warrior named Morgarath, who wants to invade Araluen.

Kalkara Hunt
Will, Gilan and Halt find Kalkara tracks.  Halt sends Will to get Sir Rodney and the Baron for help.  Halt tells Will to bring them to the ruins of Gorlan castle, because the Kalkara are going there.  Will, Rodney and the Baron go to the ruins of Gorlan.

Kalkara fight
The Kalkara have cornered Halt when Will, Sir Rodney and the Baron arrive.  Halt injured a Kalkara but he is injured and his bow broke.  Sir Rodney and the Baron make the injured Kalkara back into a fire and that kills it.  The second Kalkara is about to kill the Baron and Sir Rodney, when Will shoots it with a flaming arrow.  The Kalkara dies.

Ceremony
At Redmont Castle, there is a ceremony commending Will for killing a Kalkara and saving Sir Rodney, Halt and Baron Arald. Will gets the chance to go to battle school, but he declines and says he can't because he's a Ranger.

Ranger's Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan book report part 1

Setting:

This book takes place in Araluen.  Araluen is a country and a kingdom.  It is not real.  It is divided into fifty fiefs like the US.  Each fief has one baron (leader) and one Ranger.  We don't know what time the story takes place.  They don't have technology.  They ride horses for transportation.   

Characters:

Will:
Will is a fifteen year old boy.  His parents are dead.  He lives in the ward of Castle Redmont.  A ward is a place where orphans live.  Will is small but surprisingly strong for his size.  He is good at camouflaging himself.  Will is fast and when he is moving he is almost silent.

Horace:
Horace is a fifteen year old boy.  His parents died.  He lives in the Castle Redmont's ward and always gets in fights with Will.  Horace is strong and tall.

Halt:
Halt is Redmont fief's Ranger and becomes Will's master.  A Ranger is like a spy and a policeman.  They are extremely talented at camouflaging, shooting bows, throwing knives and using saxe  knives.

Sir Rodney:
Sir Rodney is the Redmont battle master.

Baron Arald:
Baron Arald is the leader of Redmont fief.  

Yesterday there were two concerts.  One was a violin master class with my brother playing and the other one was a chorus concert with my Dad singing.  I was so bored that I had to read my book and in some parts and my Mom had to get me out of my book.  I got compliments on my behavior from my grandmothers and a stranger.  The chorus was interesting because there were 3 soloists.  The master class was interesting because my brother was playing in front of a crowd and he never does that.

Skiing

Last week I went skiing.  I went down the bunny hill first.  It was very easy even though it was my first time in a while.  Also it was a different teacher than before.  So I didn't know him well.  The second time I went down a steeper and longer hill.  It was a little harder, but I got off the chair lift by myself.  I hadn't done that before.  I did it with no trouble. It was pretty easy (we did that about 12 times).  I tried putting my skis parallel to the mountain to go faster.  It sort of worked, but I only went a little faster.  Then I went on the top of the mountain.  It felt like it was 1 mile high.  When I got to the top we passed by a broken down chair lift.  In some places on the mountain it was at a 45 degree angle and in other places it was at a 30 degree angle.  When I went down the mountain, it was pretty of steep in the beginning.  Then it got easier.  We had to stop because someone fell and my teacher had to help even though there was another teacher.  When  I got to the bottom I hadn't fallen yet, but then I fell.  It was funny because I hadn't fallen on a hard mountain and my teacher was sort of proud. 

Last night my family went over to my friends house.  In the beginning we played Minecraft then we ate dinner.  I ate a grape fruit.  There was beef stew with rice with cooked carrots.  We had grape juice mixed with seltzer for a drink so it was grape flavored sparkling water.  We had rice crackers, cheese and olives for a side.  For dessert we had homemade strawberry flavored ice cream ((in small portions) I had one).  There was also chocolate truffles that we brought (36 of them).  After dinner we played a little more Minecraft then we played a board game called Settlers of Catan.  The board and tiles are shaped like hexagons.  The object of the game is to get ten victory points.  There are 5 resources: Ore, Sheep, Lumber, Brick and Wheat.  You start with 2 settlements and 2 roads.  Each settlement gives you one victory point and cities give  you 2.  It costs one Lumber one Brick to make a road, one Sheep one Wheat one Brick and one Lumber to make a settlement and 2 wheat and 3 ore to upgrade a settlement to city.