Harriet The Spy Chapter 8

This week, I still reading the book called "Harriet The Spy" written by "Louise Fitzhugh." I read chapter eight of the book. It's about Harriet did her job as a spy and went to the store of Dei Santi family. She saw that something wrong was happen, when Papa Dei Santi pick up the phone and talked with Mama Dei Santi about the things that happened. Fabio, one of the son in the family, got hurt from the truck. Also, by that time Signora, a daughter of the family, caught the little Joe Curry because he was stealing the food and then he was fired from his work. After that Fabio came back to his house and told his parents that truth that he was working for another job because he do not like to be in the store all day long.

When Fabio was telling his parents that he was doing another job, it reminded me about what I always talking with my mother about the job that I will do in my future. Unlike what Fabio did, I will keep doing my mother business after I graduate from my university. When I was young, I thought that I will not keep it from my mother because I will not like it. I always think that my mother's job is very busy and very hard so, I could not do like what she is doing now. But, I will do my best. Although, I also have some dreams about the job that I really want to do. I want to be a stylist. I want to open my own clothes shop but I think my parents will not allow me to do that.

When I stuck reading this chapter, I used the reading strategies to help me understand the story better. For example, I reread the part that I got confuse slowly and loudly, so I could what was happen in the story.

Harriet The Spy Chapter 7

This week I keep reading chapter 7 of the book named "Harriet The Spy" by "Louise Fitzhugh." This chapter is about Harriet, the main character of the story who really want to be a spy and she is a girl who likes to write everything down in her notebook, and her classmates had discussed about the Christmas performance at school on the Christmas day and her class decided to do the performance about the Christmas Dinner which they had to some vegetables such as carrot and peas, some turkey in the dish and a farmer who got those vegetables for the Christmas dinner. In the play, Harriet had to be the onion which she really did not want to be but she could not say anything.

This chapter had reminded me about a lot of things that happen in my life. Firstly, in the chapter Harriet and her classmates had to think about the performance that they need to perform on the Christmas day and vote for the best one. It reminded me about myself when I had to vote for something like vote for the senior T-shirt. And also the part that talked about the Christmas Performance, reminded me about the Christmas Performances that I did in my old school. When I was in grade 7, my class has the music performance and in grade 9 we sang a song together on the performance day. In this school, our class also had a performance last year on the Talent Show. We sang the song called "Shut Up." We only had a day to practice all together. Although we sang wrong on the performance day but I felt very happy because I thought that we already did our best.

While I read this chapter, I used the reading strategies to help me understand the story better. For example, when I read, I decide what I should read carefully and what I should not read. When the text becomes difficult, I read aloud to help me understand what I read. When I read, I guess the meaning of the unknown words or phrases. For example, when I read the word "Christmas pageant" I did not know what the word "pageant" means and form the word "Christmas" I guess that "pageant" means "performance." And after I read through the chapter I found out that what I guess was correct.