The Copper Gauntlet Book Report

The Haunting of Gabriel Ashe is written by Dan Poblocki. The protagonist is a typical eighth-grade boy named Gabriel Ashe who lives in the spooky town of Slade. Gabriel (also known as Gabe) was forced to move with his family after a fire burned their old house to the ground. In Slade, however, there is a wicked phantom that is coming to power, and threatening Gabe and his family. Throughout the story we get fleeting glimpses of Gabe's cleverness, good-heartedness, and bravery as he struggles against the sinister force that is repeatedly attacking the citizens of Slade (the main conflict). Another conflict in the story is Gabe attempting to be accepted at his new school and striving to recover from being the terrible memory of being the “puppet

This book is called Duke. Its genre is Historical-Fiction. The story takes place during WWII. It is about a kid named Hobie who is always with his dog Duke. When he hears that the Army needs dogs for the war he realizes that he should be brave like his father, who is in the army, and lend Duke to the Dogs for Defense program. Hobie then regretted sending Duke after he realized that Duke could be in danger, get hurt or die. So he tries different methods to get Duke back such as send a letter saying that Duke always chases squirrels and that they should send him back because of that weakness. To find out whether Hobie gets his dog back or

At first, Polly didn’t think of black people as human beings or understand them: “As far as she was concerned, they should all get shipped back to Africa or wherever it was they came from. … How could the good Lord have made such creatures?” (Draper 75). She thought of them as nuisances: “[T]hey were just unpleasant to deal with. Besides, Negroes made it difficult for regular folks like herself to get work” (Draper 75). Polly barely cares for black people like Amari and finds it difficult to think from their perspective. Amari also starts out unable to understand or relate to white people, but Polly makes her think otherwise after telling her about her origins and family: “Amari understood as well, but it surprised her. She’d never really thought about Polly’s loss or grief. She just figured that because Polly was a white girl, her life just had to have been easier” (Draper 118). Over the course of the book, both of them changed. Polly also becomes more interested in learning about Africa: “‘What does it look like?’ Polly asked”

Cole is the 15-year-old juvenile from the novel Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelson. Cole has been in trouble with the law since he was 7 and isn’t thinking about stopping. The wrongdoing delinquent’s latest crime was robbing the local hardware store. A 9th grader by the name of Peter Driscoll went to the authorities to inform the police about the robber. Unfortunately, Cole beats him so hard he is hospitalized for 6 months. At the detention center, Cole’s gravelly-voiced, wisecracking, Native-American parole officer, Garvey tells him about Circle Justice. Circle Justice is a Native-American tradition for healing. Although Circle Justice is meant for good, Cole’s idea is to just to get out of jail. On the island Circle Justice sends

This book is about a teenage boy named Kamran who is the star on the football team and is very smart. His brother Darius is in the military and Kamran wants to join the military like his brother. One day, Darius is blamed for a terrorist attack on the U.S. Kamran’s life is completely flipped upside down and the people he thought were his friends have now turned on him and his family. Kamran has to find ways

Good afternoon everybody, I hope your lunch was good. I’m here today to speak on behalf of Russia, and the entirety of the Silver Lane Pact. As you know, Russia as a whole has been having some serious issues with equal representation and general equality in its past. Whether it be the recent domestic violence law rollback, or the unfair representation in our federatorial government. To take the lead in this matter would be fitting for us, and needed for the entire world. Equality is often defined as the quality or state of being equal. However, we must look at it’s true definition as only two words. The future. Fair and equal representation, and the ability to fight for these core values of freedom is, and will always be,

XIII. Carefully remove the copper metal from the filter paper onto the watch glass. (with a spatula) Place a 400 ml beaker on a hot plate contained with water. Carefully place the watch glass before the water boils to dry the copper metal. (Use the tongs to handle the hot watch glass)

In this experiment an elemental copper was cycled a series of five reactions where it ended with pure elemental copper as well, but at different stages of the cycle the copper was in different forms. In the first reaction, elemental copper was reacted with concentrated nitric acid where copper changed the form from solid to aqueous. Second reaction then converted the aqueous Cu2+ into the solid copper II hydroxide (Cu(OH)2) through reaction with sodium hydroxide. The third reaction takes advantage of the fact that Cu(OH)2 is thermally unstable. When heated, Cu(OH)2 decomposes (breaks down into smaller substances) into copper II oxide and water. When the solid CuO is reacted with sulfuric acid, the copper is returned to solution as an ion (Cu2+). The cycle of reactions is completed with the

This book is called Forged by Fire, by Sharon M. Drapper. In the book Gerald has to grow up with many challenges. The book takes place in the Hazelwood area. Gerald is a three year old boy who lives with his single mom. Gerald's mom is a major drug addict, she doesn't really take good care of Gerald. If he were to have a “accident”, she would make him keep it in his pants or not change him till the end of the day as a lesson to him. Gerald has many problems to deal with in this book, but the main one is having to deal with Jordan, his mom's husband who abuses all 3 of them, Monique (mom), Gerald, and Angel (sister). But worst of all Gerald has to deal with the fact that Jordan is sexually abusing Angel.

"Courage isn't an absence of fear. It's doing what you are afraid to do. It's having the power to let go of the familiar and forge ahead into new territory." ~John Maxwell. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout (Jean Louise Finch), Jem (Jeremy Atticus Finch), and Atticus Finch display acts of valor that contribute, and in some cases encourage their rectitude. Harper Lee demonstrates that acting courageously can lead to an improved, sustained, or newly developed personal integrity.

A whole week passed and we still weren’t any closer to finding Copper. The only lead we had was the video that Copper took on the day he was captured, but it only allowed for us to hear the captor’s voice. We were unable to see his face and even if we could, we wouldn’t be able to identify him because of his mask.

In the fifth reaction, 2.29 g of zinc was added to the copper (II) sulfate solution under the fume hood. The balanced equation for this reaction is written as followed:

Being called a monster. Being seemed as a troublemaker. Being alienated by his friends. Being betrayed and hunted by his homies. Violence, hatred, revenge. There are so much things that a sixteen-year-old boy could bear without turning into a gangbanger who always gets in trouble at school for fighting with others and doesn’t care about the consequences. That's Martin Luna: the protagonist of The Fallen that is written by Paul Langan.After his little brother, Heuro, was killed in a gun violence as a resulted in Frankie confliction with other gang, Martin Luna seeks for revenge. It seems like nothing can stops Martin, only until he realizes that revenge is not good solution for hatred, which is also a theme that the Paul Langan shows in the novel The Fallen by using protagonist: Martin Luna.

Conflict appears to be a pervading theme in the novel Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen, for a young delinquent by the name of Cole Mathews. After a troubling life at home that lead him to a path of destruction and hatred, Cole gets shipped off to an isolated island. He gets attacked by a bear and quickly needs to learn his place in the scheme of life to survive. Not only does Cole have to face death after being brutally mauled by a spirit bear, he also has to chose who he wants to become, face his abusive parents, and make things right with an innocent boy he wrongly attacked. Overtime the reader realizes there is much more to Cole than what meets the eye and that he is intertwined with multiple conflicts.

For our science assessment we had the task to research about a metal of our choice. Since I am really into computers, I chose copper. A metal used in all kinds of wires, cpu’s and other stuff without a computer wouldn’t work. This fits really well into what we have to do for the second part, describe how this metal has helped human society.