Independent Reading Response #2

The Beast from the East (Goosebumps)

Response #2: pg. 26 – 151
Response Type: 6. Creative

I tagged the beast! My heat was beating very fast. Nat and Pat started at each other and cheered.
“Okay, I am It.”, the beast said and rose his hands up.
Now, it was me, Nat and Pat’s turn to run away from those scary beasts, but I had ideas that can quite this tag game. What we have to do it to escape from this scary strange area before the sunrise! So that the beasts will not eat us! I whispered to my twin brothers to follow the stream to escape from this area. They nodded and we run as faster as we can. However, the beasts were very big and they were already behind us! I took my brother’s hand and pulled them as hard as I can.
I could see the stream! It was almost there! We will win soon! When my brother and I were having the hope the big foots which is covered by blue fur and thick long tails were in front of us. I looked up and a beast was laughing and looked down us with hunger. The beast hand was almost touching me, but I screamed
“STOP!” the beast hand stopped for a while and it asked,
“What do you want?”
“I have a new idea how we tag a person! I think it will interest you!”
The brothers looked each other with wired and surprise face.
“Okay, the new way to tag people is that you spin your body ten times and catch as us fast as you can. If you do that, I will be It.”
“…That sounds fun. Okay, I will spin as fast as I can!” the beast started to spin very fast and while it was doing that we dashed to the stream where said “You can stop you game here”.
Finally, Nat, Pat, and I could go out from the forest and could quit the game!!! We shouted each other with sense of free joy. When I saw the beast, it was still spinning very fast and after finished spinning, it fell in a faint. I was really really happy about it and asked my brothers to follow me. We talked about mother and father. Are they going to believe us? Of course not, but I could explain what was happen in the forest. While we were talking I saw a tent and two black shadows in that place. It was my mother and father!! We dashed to them. They were smiling us with opened their arms widely and we jumped in their arm. We hug them very tightly to make sure we were home.


The Letter to Gender:
Hi Gender, my name is Misako and I am writing this letter for you to tell you what I feel about you. At first, I really want to say you’re very brave person even you are playing a game which you forced to do by the beasts. If I were you, I would not do anything and just sit down and cry, because if I lose the game, the beasts will eat me! But also, you have twin younger brothers and you have to take care (have a responsibility) for them too. I do not have younger brother or sister, so I do not know how people feel about your younger siblings, but you finally won the game! This part encouraged me. The reason is that I play soccer and if my opponent gets the shoot, I always give up continue playing, but after I read the story I felt I should not give up! I might have something lucky if I don’t give up to something. Therefore, I really respect you and I hope you can win the next game against Level 3 beasts. Thank you and good luck!

Independent Reading Response #1

The Beast from the East (Goosebumps)

Response #1: Pg 1 – 26
Response Type: Reaction and Evaluation

I’m reading a book call ‘Goosebumps’ by R.L.Stine. Ginger Wald, the narrator and her identical twins brother, Nat and Pat separate from the parents, get lost in the forest during the camp. She and her family know how to take care when they get lost, but this time, they notice that the grass is yellow, the bushes are purple, and the trees are as tall as skyscrapers. In that wood, what they see is the large blue like bear beast and they are trying to get Ginger and brothers! There are many reasons why I like this book.

At first, I like the characters especially the identical twins brother Nat and Pat because they have very unique characteristics. For Nat, he really loves to climb the trees and if he is gone, everyone knows that he is climbing the trees, so someone must look up at the woods all the time. On the other hand, Pat has Game Boy every time and every where. If one of the brothers has a Game Boy, their family can realize that is Pat and this is the only way they can notice who is Nat or Pat. The writer describes the characters a lot and I can imagine how each person like. Also those people are really realistic. Some people might have the same personality as them. If there were in real world, I would want to meet them.

Furthermore, I like the genre of this book which is horror and also the way the writer changes the chapter. For example, a chapter ends after the dialogue “The beasts have got us!” I was really nervous and in my brain, I predict many way what happened to next. I don’t read next chapter yet, but I can predict two ways that the beasts will bring them to their house and eat them or the beasts will play with three of them. I also like the eeriness of the front page. It shows this book scares and that motivates students to read it, if they like horror story.

I read only 26 pages and I think next chapter is the most interesting part for me. I like this book because it describes each character and setting very much and also it is horror. Before I finish reading this book, I predict that the climax will be the beasts, Ginger, Nat and Pat become friend and find Ginger’s parents together. I didn’t have enough time to read the book last week, but now I want to read this book as soon as possible and want to continue to read this series.