Teardrop Book Trailer

This is the book trailer for Teardrop. It's interesting to see how other people think the characters look. Yes the book tells you in the book what they look like, but people still see them differently. Personally I thought that Eureka, Brooks, and Ander would look differently. I thought that Ander would have blond hair and bright blue eyes since that is how he is described in the book. I think that this book should be made into a movie. It would be such an mystery and fantasy. And it would be different then all the sci-fi movies that are coming out.

The author, Lauren Kate

http://laurenkatebooks.net

This is the author of Teardrop, Lauren Kate, website. On this website you can see all the book that she has written over her writing career. When you click on the book you can find the summary of that book and it'll tell you when it was published (I didn't see that coming). Also people can comment what they think of the book, so you get to see someone else's opinion. Lauren Kate can post notes about when the next book will come out, the title, other exciting stuff going on in her writing career. You can even find out when you can meet her! And you can watch videos, sign up to get a newsletter, look at frequently asked questions, learn more about Lauren Kate, and see how much you love her books. 

Lauren Kate's Twitter

https://mobile.twitter.com/laurenkatebooks

I found Lauren Kate's twitter! Now you can get a look into her personal life and not just her writing life. You can now say that you know facts about the author as a writer and as a normal person. Lauren tweets information about her writing career, but she also connects with her readers. She retweets stuff and quotes their tweet. I think that it's cool that she does this. It feels like she can get a view of what her readers think about her books. So now you all can go follow her so you can know what's happening in the world of Lauren Kate and her books.

Final Blogging Assessment in English 1B

My book is very realistic. The book does take place in 2013. Even though this book is fantasy, it has a lot of realisc material in it, and that makes you forget that the book is fantasy. The main character, Eureka, is going through something that some people can realate to. Eureka's mother drowned, her dad got married to Rhoda, Eureka had two step siblings, she went to the therapist. Now comes the fantasy part, there is this boy, Ander, and he follow Eureka, he knows everything about Eureka but Eureka knows nothing about him. The only way Eureka can talk to him is when he comes to her, she has no way to find he, all she knows about him is that his name is Ander, he has blond hair and blue eyes, and that's it. Eureka is trying to solve the mystery of what her mother left her, "She nodded, patting her backpack, whivh held the ancient book and the strange blue chest. She touched her heart, where the locket lay. She held up Diana's tearstained letter, like a wave"(Kate 121). The ancient book was in a language only one person could translate. But when that one person is killed, Eureka is tries to figure out what her mystery she calls her life has become. On top of that, Eureka is also trying to figure out what the Thunderstone is, which was in the blue chest. In the letter Diana wrote she inscribed this about the Thunderstone,"P.P.S. Don't unnwrap the guaze until you need to. You'll know when the time comes"(Kate 123). So now Eureka whole life has became a real life mystery that she is trying to figure out.

^This is what I believe the ancient book would look like. 

^This is what I believe the blue chest would look like. Execpt it would contain a baseball size ball of gauze that's protecting the Thunderstone. In another part of the letter from Diana it said, "P.S. About the thunderstone . . . Beneath the layer of gauze liesa a worked-stone artifact shaped like a triangle. Some cultures call them elf-arrows; they are believed to ward off storms. Thunderstones are found amoung the remains of most ancient civilizations throughout the world. Remember the arrowheads we unearthed in India? Think of them as distant cousins. This particular thunderstone's origin is unkown, which makes her all the more deat to those who give themselves permission to imagine the possibilities"(Kate 123). Since "no one" knows much about this stone it justs adds on to Eureka's mystery.

Text to World Connection

My book is in the third person view of a Senior in high school, Eureka. So I can see how the author portays how they think high school these days is like. I think that this sentence sums up what our school is like in the mornings, "The hallway was choked with shouting kids, and the seed of a headache was splitting open and sprouting a razorwire beanstalk in Eureka's brain"(Kate 254). I know that in the morning, on the third floor, even though its the morning people are always wide awake when they come back from the weekend and have to tell all their friends what happened this weekend. With about 900 people in our grade and all of them are talking, it gets loud. So I think Lauren Kate did a great job of how high school is.

Making You Think

In my book there was this one paragraph that got me thinking, "'Imagine a furture civilization examing some of the artifacts you or I might leave behind' Margaret continued. 'What would the people think of us? How might our brightest innovations- our iPads, solar panels, or credit cards- appear to distant generations'"(Kate 215). Just think about what was said. If you make a time capsole and put some of the technology we have today. What would the people that find the time capsole, years from now, think? Would they think that the technology we have is old? Or what if you put in a notebook with some of the common words that we use. YOLO, swag, selfie. Would they think we were weird? Just think about how far the world has come.