Learning Profile

After looking through my results of the learning profile test, I feel that it is somewhat accurate in depicting my learning style.
Logical --22
Visual --21
Linguistic --20
Interpersonal --20
Musical --17
Kinaesthetic --16
Intrapersonal --16
Naturalistic --14
However, 40 questions are still not enough, the results will be more accurate if more questions are asked. Logical is my most suitable learning style, however there no tasks assigned to the logical people, I would suggest that teachers will ask the logical people to do mathematical tasks on TKAM. For example, Calculate the population of Maycomb, just a suggestion.

Book Review: Black Beauty

Author: Anna Sewell
Anna Swell was born in Yarmouth, England in 1820. It took her nearly seven years to write Black Beauty, her only book.
The author learned to know and love horses when she was a young girl. Driving her father to and from the train station in a pony cart, she was able to observe both people and their horses. After a serious fall in which she was badly hurt, she could no longer ride.
Despite her pain, Anna Sewell was determined to complete her novel. She dictated much of the book to her mother, who write it all down when Anna was too weak to hold a pencil.
Black Beauty was published in 1877. Anna Sewell died a year later. The book was popular from the start. It called people’s attention to their often cruel and thoughtless treatment of animals and did much to improve conditions for all animals.
This story depicts a horse’s life, which can be filled with love and tenderness, or can also be filled with meanness and cruelty. Black beauty, a horse and the protagonist, learns both sides of life in this classic tale by Anna Sewell. It is told from a horse’s point of view, Black Beauty’s own story takes readers into the mind and heart of a sensitive animal searching for love and understanding. From happy times as a young foal romping with his mother to harsh years as a cab horse in the city and then finally t a peaceful old age, this motivating and touching story shows that animals have feelings like humans, and sometimes even know things people do not.
This story is told in an animal’s point of view, which makes it unique and different from others. It could make readers realise the cruelty of human treatment of horses, the similarity of humans and animals and the imperfections of humanity. An inspiring story which makes readers reflect on their own wrongdoings.

Book Review: Around the world in 80 days

Author: Jules Verne
Jules Verne was born in Nantes, France. As a child, he developed a great interest in travel and exploration. He continued to display this interest throughout his life as a writer of adventure stories and science fiction. He also wrote several books on history and geography.
Verne’s first book, Five Weeks in a Balloon, was published in 1863. It made him wealthy and famous. He following year he wrote A Journey to the Center of the Earth, and the year after that cane From the Earth to the Moon.
Around the World in 80 Days appeared in 1873. Along with 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (published in 1870), it is probably Verne’s most popular work.
This story starts with a daring wager made by an English gentleman called Phileas Fogg. He betted 20000 pounds- his lifetime savings, that he could travel around the world in only 80 days. It was the time when airplanes had not been invented, only trains and ships existed. En route he meets a beautiful Indian princess and gets mistaken for a notorious criminal and is pursued by a clumsy detective struggling to get the warrant for Fogg’s arrest. He arrived back at London five minutes late and he himself thought he had lost the bet. However, his faithful and intelligent servant reminded him about something, and what happened was like a miracle and Foggs won the bet after all.
This turning point was a great surprise for readers and it really made me learn something about time that most people might not know. Just read it to find out!

Book Review: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
As a boy in England, Arthur Conan Doyle enjoyed reading detective stories. But once he was working his way through medical school, he did not have much time for writing.
However, in 1886, as the twenty-seven-year-old Dr Doyle sat in his new office hoping for patients, he decided to try writing a detective story. And so, Mr Sherlock Holmes was born.
Over the years, Doyle himself came to be recognized as an expert on crime. He solved many real-life criminal cases and proved the innocence of men who had been imprisoned for crimes they did not commit.
He interrupted his wrting career to serve as a doctor with the British Army during the Boer War in Africa. Afterwards, he had to fight the war. For these efforts, Doyle was knighted by King Edward VII and he became Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
During a visit to the moor country in western England, Doyle became so interested in a lengend about a hound, that he used it as a plot for a new book. This book became the greatest of all Holmes’ adventures, The Hound of the Baskervilles.

This story starts with a superstitious curse which a hound preyed on the family of the Baskervilles. Sherlock Holmes, a famous detective, was hired to solve this complex mystery by Dr Mortimer, Sir Charles’s doctor. Sir Charles was the head of the Baskerville family until he died a mysterious death three months before that, leaving his nephew, Sir Henry, as the last Baskerville left. Everyone thought it was because if the family curse and no one was to blame. It was later found out that Sir Charles’s brother had a son, this birth of his son was unknown and unannounced. The son was an evil man called Stapleton who was eyeing on the wealth of the Baskervilles and so, he decided to hunt down all the Baskervilles and he would inherit the large fortune.
Sherlock Holmes outsmarted Stapleton and thwarted his evil plans at the end of the story. The author has inspired readers like me and after reading this book, I have discovered detective stories were my cup of tea. Readers will never put down the book until they find out the how the mystery was solved at the end.

Book Review: The War of The Worlds by Hebert George Wells

-- Book review edited by Mr S. --
Author: Hebert George Wells
H.G. Wells was born in London in 1866 but did not appear destined for fame as a writer. His father, a poor shopkeeper, could not afford a proper education for his son, so the boy was apprenticed to a cloth maker, and later to a chemist.
But Wells was not content and by studying hard, he won a scholarship to The Royal College of Science. His training as a scientist and his love of writing allowed him to produce The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The First Men in the Moon, and The War of the Worlds.
The inspiration for The War of the Worlds came about inadvertently. Wells and his brother Frank were discussing the invasion of the Australian island of Tasmania in the early 1800s by European settlers, who hunted down and killed most of the primitive people who lived there.
Wells was inspired by that conversation and went on to write the Martian invasion The War of The Worlds.
The story starts with an article in the London Telegraph which reported flaming gas bursts from Mars. Ogilvy, a friend of Wells and well-known astronomer, was curious about these strange happenings. The duo investigated this phenomenon and doubted the existence of life on Mars. However, Earth was being watched closely by beings with greater intelligence and an arsenal of frightening weapons. These beings had plans to leave their dying planet and take over a green, fertile planet crowded with “inferior animals:” earth and mankind’s existence hung in the balance.
Soon a weird-looking cylinder landed on Earth and they attacked. Creatures with tentacles crawled out of the cylinder. The Martians were intent on taking over earth and exterminating its inhabitants.
Could Earth be saved? Well, read this page-turner to find out more!
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WeRead.com

Hi,
just to share with you about this fabulous site for book lovers hunting for good reads.
It provides readers with previews and reviews on books (almost all) written by registered members. In library club, having and maintaining a profile on this website is strongly recommended. This website is being introduced by Mr. S during last year's LA class, some of you might have forgotten all about it.

It's better to update your WeRead account with more book reviews than Sounding your Hunter's Horn, isn't it?