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= Week 3 Adult: Ilene Woods =

= Week 3 Adult: Ilene Woods = Student: Maddie Green Book Title: Ella Enchanted Pages Read: 48-143 pgs

I feel bad for Ella. School may not be the highlight of her life and adding the word boarding to school doesn’t seem to fascinate her either. Her father forced her to go with Hattie and Olive to boarding school and she doesn’t seem to like it. However, she meets a really nice girl who turns out to be her best friend. Though, Hattie takes advantage of Ella’s obedience spell and orders Ella to break off their friendship. Ella being puzzled and all, comes up with a plan to run away from that dreadful boarding school. This would solve a lot of her problems. She wouldn’t have to befriend her best friend and she could find Lucinda, the fairy that gave her this awful curse. Ella decides to go off to a wedding where she knew that Lucinda would attend and she kindly asks the fairy to help her get free of obedience. The lady told her that she should be blessed to have this gift given to her. This character, Ella, kind of has a hint of “Maddie” in her. I’m sort of a push over to others and I can’t always use the word no. I would like to adopt Ella’s charm and humor. I think that lots of people adore Ella how she is. She is herself around her friends and family and she is kind to everyone. I would like to be friends with Ella because I think that she would be loyal and she wouldn’t try to hurt anyone in any way.

I’m enjoying __Ella Enchanted!__ Every time I pick up this book, I’m excited to hear what is going to happen next. It sounds like Ella’s life is starting to straighten out, finally. She is getting along with her father and she is finished with Olive and Hattie. I’m looking forward to the end! This book makes me think of Cinderella. I image it would be horrible to have two horrible stepsisters like Olive and Hattie. After reading this book, I’m glad to know that I don’t have hostile sisters. (Though, It may seem like it sometimes!)

I’m looking forward to summer. There are only a couple of weeks left for the 8th graders! We’re visiting the Windy City, Chicago, this Thursday for our band trip and Six Flags shortly! Also, track sectionals are in nearly two weeks. I’m five seconds off state and a second and a half off the school record! I’m ecstatic for high school and XC to come next. So what have you been up to lately? Hopefully you’re enjoying the nice weather (minus the rain)!

Thanks Again! Maddie Green

I was extremely happy for Ella at the end of the story. I thought it was pretty amazing for her pulling off “Lela” and not even having Char act suspicious toward her. Olive, Hattie, and their mother were vindictive and spiteful towards this girl. Ella became a servant once her father traveled away for a long period, but Mandy helped her get though it. Risky Ella snuck out of her house and appeared at the ball where Char would be. She got him to fall in love with “Lela” and she wore a mask to conceal that fact that she was Ella. Later, he proposed to her and she broke the obedience spell that had once made life difficult. They married and of course, they lived happily ever after. In a way, I sort of enjoyed this book but it definitely did have its differences! I think kids my age or a tad bit younger would enjoy this book because it would remind them of Cinderella with an odd twist. The main character, Ella finds a prince to marry and she no longer has to be obedient when others order her to. I think the moral to this story is, there is always a light at every tunnel. I think this because Ella had a tragic life in the beginning, but she finally got her ducks in a row and it all worked out. I don’t see why Ella couldn’t have rebelled against her stepfamily and moved away, or why she couldn’t just not do an order when it’s spoken.(Many kids my age must have broken the obedience spell on Day 1 then!) I would have liked to see Olive or Hattie to marry the guy Ella’s dad was practically forcing her in marriage with and Lucinda should have put a massive curse on these girls to show how hard Ella had it.

Evalutation: Hello Ilene! I plan on reading good books for fun during the summer, inviting friends over to my house, helping at Vacation Bible School, and I’m definitely going to hang and swim at the new swimming pool!!! I’m so excited to see it all finished and be able to swim in it shortly. I’m also a Saint Louis Cardinals fan and my family and I have gone to several games! (I love the stadium, It’s pretty incredible. I would consider Albert Pujols as my favorite player, but I’m a fan of all the others also.) My big sister, Nicole, played tennis all though high school and we would occasionally go to the park and hit a tennis ball back and force amongst us. I went to tennis camp for the last two summers, but I love it solely for the fun of it. You know? I’m not really in it to compete. Then I’m going to be in XC and that would probably conclude my summer! I’m definitely looking forward to next year in a whole new building. I would probably say Health is my favorite subject because I can learn it pretty quickly and I don’t really have to try to get a straight grade—It comes naturally I guess. I’m considering an orthodontic assistant, one of those people who put braces on kids and fix them on frequent visits. We’re trying to decide on where to go on vacation but my mom and dad want to go to North Carolina. Though, this year I want to go to a beach, like Myrtle Beach or somewhere like that. (Sorry for my rambling!) Have a great week and enjoy Mother’s Day!!!