Reaserch Post

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "Infant Safe Haven Laws". child welfare information getaway. December 7, 2008 http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/statutes/safehaven.cfm.

A) the authority of the author is good because it's an orginization that sets up web pages to notify the public about the laws and they work specialy with the safe haven laws so they're experts on the subject. B)the entended audience is the public in general. they just want people to be aware of the laws that are being passed in the US. C) this cite states the law and is less opionated than the other cite i cited. It goes just on the surface of the law and doesn't get into opions at all.

Washington Post. "Does Safe Haven Law Help or Hurt?". Washington post. december 7, 2008 http://voices.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2008/10/safe_haven_laws.html.

A)This was written by the Washington post which is a newspaper and it's a more opionated article because the paper is most of the time atleast a little bit bias. B)the entended audience is more the working public because they're generaly the ones who read the paper but in general just the public like the other article. This aritcle is concentrating more on the adults though, thinking they're more likely to read the newspaper. C) This article is more bias and opionated than the article i cited above. the article above focuses more on the law then what people think of it and their opions on the law.

blog :)

this week the book took an interesting twist. the girls have a step mother and they were hopeing to avoid her and her evilness, seeing as they don't like her because she was the very reason their parents got divorced...but they had to encounter her on their journey back to thier father's new appartement. Gorgie was the most up set becuase she's the closest to her father and her one true birthdya wish was to have him back at home in her everyday life. so they had to spend time with Pandora, their step mother, and they all dreaded the moment.

new book

ok my new book for this quater is called the Dashwood Sister's Secret to Love. and in this book there's 3 sisters and they're all really different. you have Gorgie who's a tom boy and loves doing anything to please her father. then there's Ellie who's the oldest and lives to lead the older perfect child shoes and finaly there's Abby who's in the middle of the three. She's boy crazy and obsessed with what she wears and how she looks all the time. at the begining they're on their way to go visit their dad in london because their parents are devorced. they're going to celebrate Gorgie's 13th birthday.

final post

this week i finishe the book. the ending was kinda sad but over all it was good for all the characters at the end of the summer. ethan and jamie broke up and as sad as jamie is about it she's glad she's no longer held down by a boyfriend who doesn't even live in the same state. then ella had to go home which wasn't bad but she dosen;e like going back home or even being there in general so i guess that was bad for her. then there was ethan who went to writing school/camp and he wa glad to get away from the drama of the break up. so everyone's packing up and leaving maine to go back hoe to New Jersey for the fresh school year.

6th post!

this week i read almost the last of the book. the book is starting to get sader and less complicated because the Jamies family and extended family start packing up for the beging of school and ethan(her boyfriend) has gone away to writing school which is like boarding school. the whole adventure has come to a hault until her cousin Ella found out that he boyfriend was lying about going away to school. he had been in town the whole time and Jamie was just finding this out. they're over and jamie won't even look at him, her world as she knew has crumbled around her.

5th post!

this week i almost finished the book. Jamie and eathan broke up beacuse they faught about the fact that ethan wasn't being honest with Jamie abotu everything and she ended up finding out. Soon the weekend in Main isn't so funa dn she wants to go home. Ethan and Jamie broke up and it crushed her hard.

5th post!

5th post!

4th post

this week i thought i'd give a summerary of what's happeneing in the book. So jamie went to maine with her extend family and there's alot of drama going around. her cousins ella and Casey are sisters and they like the same boy...only one problem, Casey got him and Ella still wants him. Then theres Jamie and Ethan who are dating but everything has changed since last summer when they had first met. the girls lifes seem to take a spin once they relize the world doesn't revolve around them.

3rd entry

so for this next entry i'm still reading the same book, Summer Boys by Halie Abott. and i chose to wirte a letter to one of the main characters eathan, who is Jamie's boyfriend of a year and a half.

dear Ethan,

This is kind of wierd becuase i don't know what to wirte. First let's talk about your relationship with Jamie. is it hard having a long distance relationship? If it was, did you ever have doubts about how long you guys would last or have you ever wanted another girl? Second topic is your love for beach volleyball. I play volleyball too, so i was wondering what your favorite possition in volleyball is to play or if you're even "assigned" a spot. That's all for now, i'll talk to you later. bye,
Ellen S.

Second blog

I chose to write about anothr character named Ella. she's jamie's cousin who also went upt o main for the summer. Her and jamie are really close and they share everything. Especially about things that they did while they where apart for the school year, and Ella always has a new boyfriend she wants to talk about. Ella has an older sister with whom she fights constantly about everything.

first reading

my other blog doesn't work so i had to creat a new one. this is why the first blog is late...

For my first blog i read the first 7 chapters(89pg.) of Summer Boys. it's a serisies of books and they're really interesting so far. i chose to write about one of the mian characters named jamie. she goes to main every summer with her extended family and there she gets to see her boyfriend. In the first chapters she goes to a big party at a pier in maine and the book just talks about her catching up with her family and boyfriend, who she hasn't seen in 9months.

WELCOME!!

ok so since i had to start all over nothing is on my blog yet so welcome!