The House of Hades

My recent book that I've read was The House of Hades by Rick Riordan. It's about Annabeth and Percy trying to survive Tartarus. While they are trying to survive that, Nico, the son of Hades, is leading the other five crewmen to the House of Hades where they will meet Percy and Annabeth. Throughout the whole book, each person goes through their own hardships and struggles. This is, so far, my favorite book out of Rick Riordan's book series The Heroes of Olympus. My favorite part of the book was when Leo was chasing after the two dwarfs that had taken his and Jason's metal belts and swords. Jason had gotten tied up, so Leo had to go after the dwarfs themselves. So, Leo had gotten some things at a Italian supermarket. He went after the dwarfs and when he got there, he ended up tricking the dwarfs and getting them to be on the gods side. I would rate this book a 5 out of 5 because it was a really good book. Rick Riordan is one of my favorite authors, so it isn' t a surprise that this book is really good.

GenTx Week

This past week at school has been Generation Texas week. It's basically about college and career readiness. This whole week, all of the teachers at my school had to decorate their doors to represent the college they went to. I love this because we get to decorate, which I love to do, instead of reading for twenty minutes. On Wednesday, during your science period you had to go to the eighth grade computer lab and take this career and skills survey. On my career interests survey, my top five pathways were performing arts, journalism and broadcasting, marketing communications, visual arts, and governance. I do not life performing arts, marketing communications, and governance. The only job pathways that I would even consider would be the journalism and the visual arts pathways. My skills confidence survey had similar results. I got journalism and broadcasting, performing arts, professional support services, health informatics, and early childhood development and services. I don't like any of these except, of course, journalism and broadcasting. Tomorrow, there will be a poll of which teacher's doors is the best. I'm pretty for sure that it would be Ms. Pennington's door because hers had lights, a theme song on it, and is overall awesome.

Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters

Earlier this week, my family and I went to the movies for my sister's birthday. We watched Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters. The movie is a sequel to Percy Jackson & The Lightning Theif. It was about Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson embarking on a quest to find the magical golden fleece that would save their camp. While doing this, they have to try and stop their old friend Luke to save Olympus and keep Kronos from rising. I think that the movie was good, but I would say that from a scale from one to ten, it would be a five. I would say it's a five because the movie didn't really follow through with the book and the acting wasn't really good. Though there is talk about a third movie.