Reading Strategies Metacognitive Journal: Chapters 30End, Part 3

Strategy Predict: Make a smart guess about whats going to happen next Quotation The devil take you all! Montgomery screamed from around the corner. The anguish in his voice made me stop in my tracks. He was usually so controlled, even when he was seething with fury. (Shepherd, 307) *** Straw rained over the damp ground that had been hidden under the mattress. My breath caught. Claw marks sliced across the stone floor. Long. Deep. Furious. And between them, dark-brown streaks of blood dried. Tracks ran through them. Three-toed. (Shepherd, 391-392) My Response When she said he was normally controlled with his emotions and everything, I knew that something really bad had happened. I thought it probably is a death, as there was many on the island because of the monster, but it must have been someone very important to him. *** As soon as Juliet found the book that had said Prince Edward the III, I knew my suspicions of Edward were right. I knew he would be a very strange person, but I did pin him to be the bad guy from the get go. I find that the mark on the book containing the three-line mark that Jaguar, the bad guy, had drawn on her arm would come in useful sometime. I feel that in a way, I saw this coming, so Im quite proud of that, but at the same time, I didnt expect his actual identity to be that Im not going to tell the ending. Shears: A cutting instrument in which two blades move past each other, like scissors but typically larger: "garden shears". With that being said, I thought shears was a fancy name for that barbed wire they put on the top of jail gates. *** Docile: Ready to accept control or instruction; submissive or obedient. I thought docile meant some kind of acceptance or life maybe, looking at the sentence it was in. As I was reading this, I was getting chills up and down my back! I felt that the author really explained the visual of The Monster very well and she did it in a way that wasnt haunting, but at the same time, quite interesting. While reading, you tend

Clarify: Look closer when something is confusing

I blinked, looking at the claws that were even now reaching for me. I slammed the shears into the longest one. (Shepherd, 286) *** Whatever you did to make them docile it failed... (Shepherd, 299)

Visualize: Imagine a picture or movie in your mind as you read

His knuckles were red and knobby, so swollen I thought they might split and seep blood. As I watched, his fingers seemed to grow. Tendons snapped. The

metacarpal bones grated to try and connect all the other factors the against each other. The hair author slips in, like sounds or smells. In this on his arms darkened, until he case, I was imaging the sound of bones looked nearly as beastly as breaking pretty much. I imaged Kevin the wild dogs that haunted Wares leg or even when I broke my arm the outskirts of farms. and how it sounded. It just made the visual (Shepherd, 404) 100 times better. :p Make I did fix you. Its all right here, I found that this kind of connected to the Connections: in plain print, in your file. But case of the 14-year-old girl Kayla Baker, Connect the surgery was who is fighting for double-lung transplant what youre unconventional. By the time I at the moment, and I was just imaging that reading to finished, you were missing if this was to happen in the real world, I something several essential organs. The wonder what would happen. Of course, I else medical department always never really looked into it that much, but I kept a few live specimens on know enough that it would probably reject hand for the zoology classes. the normal human routine. But just thinking There was a newborn deer that this could be happening right now is well, it served its purpose. just mindboggling! (Shepherd, 341) Summarize: {If you are thinking of the reading the book, I suggest you not read this Retell what summary as it is basically the entire story.} The second part left off with Juliet happened in and Alice hiding the compound, trying to hide from The Monster whos the story so trying to break in. Once the men had come back from trying to hunt down far Jaguar, they heard about what had happened and Edward started to put his escape plan into action. As if sensing their plan, the islands inhabitants starts turning on their God (the doctor) and starts to regress back into animals. While trying to fix the villagers, The Monster beats them home and kills Alice. With her untimely death, the escape plan was now in full swing. While packing for their long voyage, Montgomery and Juliet steal a kiss and get in big trouble with the doctor. Not knowing about the plan, he locks Juliet in the lab and puts Montgomery somewhere else. Once they escape the clutches of the doctor, they find Montgomery and make a run for, but end up losing him again. Juliet traces him back to Jaguars hut, in which he draws the three-lined circle on her arm, to warn her about further events. {Predict^} When all three get back to the compound, they pack their last minute essentials and head for the boat, but Juliet outs that Edward is in fact a creature her father had created and mutates into The Monster when angered. When Montgomery tries to save Juliet from him, he changes and they fight it out for a while. Once Montgomery gets Edward knocked out and Juliet to safety, he lights the place on fire and starts for the boat. Before they leave, Jaguar returns to finish off the doctor for good, with Juliets help of the five-fingered doorknobs. {Creatures only have four fingers.} Once they get to the boat, Balthazar, a fellow creature, tries to

hop on the boat to London with Juliet and Montgomery. With that being said, Montgomery rethinks the situation and realizes that the villagers are his family and he cant just leave them on this island for dead. He packs the boat and pushes Juliet off towards the world, never to return back to island or him ever again.