Week 2 - Final day: Hunger Games

Today, we finished the second half of Hunger Games. We are going to summarize the second half, introduce some more characters, and make some predictions for the next movie (no one on the predictions team read the books).

Summary:

Katniss escapes from the fire. She finds Rue, the girl from district 11, and they protect each other. But, Rue was killed. After that Katniss found Peeta and he was hurt. All the contenders died except Cato and they fought, and Katniss and Peeta won.

Characters:
President Snow:

• He is corrupt.
• He is in charge of the games.

Cato:

• He loves the violence.
• He was strong and intelligent.

Rue:

• She was lovely.
• She was brave.

Seneca

• He was in charge of the scenery.
• In the end of the film he was punished.

Predictions:

• There will be another Hunger Games.
• Peeta will die from sickness.
• Katniss and Gale will get married and they will volunteer for the 75th Hunger Games.
• The president will change the rules for the 75th Hunger Games. There will only be one winner instead of two.
• Gale will die during the games.

Week 2 - Day 4: Hunger Games

Today, we started watching Hunger Games. We have summarized what we have seen so far, described the characters, and a group of students who had not seen the movie made predictions for what will happen tomorrow.

Summary:
Peeta and Katnoss were chosen.
The made an impression to the sponsor.
Katniss was very brave when she shows her skills.
The battle game starts. During the first 8 hours 13 participants died.
During the game, Katniss refused to fight. The people who control the game forced her to play the game.
Katniss was hurt.

Characters:

• Katniss

 

• She's a hunter.
• She's brave.
• She loves her sister, and she takes her place at the reaping.
• Peeta

 

• He's a baker.
• He's a chicken
• He's strong
• Prim

 

• She is very young.
• She is scared.
• Haymitch

 

• He is the only winner from district 12.
• He loves alcohol.

Predictions:
- Katniss will escape from the fire
- Peeta will die for betraying Katniss
- Katniss accidentaly will kill Peeta by hunting
- Katniss we lost her protection pin
- Katniss will win the hunger games

Week 2 - Day 3: Final part of Coming to America

Today, we have finished watching Coming to America. We have added more characters to our list and an analysis of them. Also, we have summarized what happened in the second half and made some predictions of what would happen after the film.

Summary:
Akeem and Lisa have a date, after that they fall in love. After that, Semmi sends a telegram to the king because they need money. The king, the queen, and the servants, come to america to take the prince back to Zamunda, but the prince doesn't go back because he wants to stay with Lisa. At the end of the movie the prince gets married. He thinks the bride is the first wife, but he was surprised when he realized that it was Lisa. <3 s2 <3

Characters:
King Joffe:

He is old school. He is traditional. He is the kings father.
Queen Aoleon:

She is lovely. She wants her son to be happy.
Patrice:

She only wants money, and she is a gossip.
Cleo McDowell:

He is Lisa's father. He is ambitious.

Predictions:

• Akeem and Lisa will stay together. Also they will have 5 children.
• Akeem and Lisa's children will live in Africa, but they will go to school in America
• Patrice becomes a nun.
• Semmi becomes gay and adopts two children.
• Darryl becomes a fat bald guy.

Week 2 - Day 2: Coming to America

Today, we started to watch the movie Coming to America. We introduce the characters, and summarize what has happened so far.We have also made predictions about what will happen in the movie.

Characters:

• Akeem (The Prince): He is the prince of Zamunda Kingdom and he needs to find a wife who falls in love with him. Not for money but for himself.

• Semmi (Akeem's friend): He is the best friend of Akeem. He comes to America with Akeem to help him look for a wife.

• Lisa: She is a beautiful girl and she's daughter of McDowell. And Akeem falls in love with her.

• Daryl: He is Lisa's boyfriend and he uses Soul Glo

Summary:

• 21st birthday of Akeem who is the prince of Zamunda and he si sad because he is alone and wants to find a wife who loves him for himself and not for his money. So he goes to Queens looking for a queen and he has many adventures. He gets a job and he is falling in love with the boss's daughter.

Prediction:

• The prince will fight for Lisa's love.
• Lisa will fall in love with the prince at the basketball game.
• Lisa's father won't accept the prince because he thinks he's poor.
• Semmi will fall in love with Lisa's sister.

Week 2 - Day 1: Movie Choices / Futurama Episode

Today, we watched one episode of Futurama. Then we voted on which two movies we would see this week. The movies we will see are Coming to America and Hunger Games.

Futurama:

First they went to the moon. Then they entered a park, and Amy lost the keys to the spaceship. Leela and Fry left the amusement park on the moon, and they found a barn. They had to leave because Bender touched one of the farmer's robot daughters. They escaped to the original moon landing site. Amy rescued them.

Coming to America:

Reasons from students:
"One of my favorite movies"
"I haven't seen it before"

Hunger Games:

Reasons from students:
"Looks interesting."
"Haven't seen it yet."







Why some did not vote for Coming to America or Hunger Games:
Car: She saw too many times already.
Emma: Didn't look interesting.

Week 1 - Day 5: TV Shows

Today we watched the pilot episodes of "How I met Your Mother" and "Malcolm in the Middle." We will break our blog into four parts today, discussing the characters introduced in the pilots and a summary of the episodes.

How I Met Your Mother
Characters:
Ted: He is an architect. He is single. His best friends are Lilly, Marshall and Barney. He is the one telling the story and wants to find his true love.
Marshall: He's going to get married with Lilly, he likes olives and he lives with Ted.
Lilly: She a teacher, she's Marshall's girlfriend. She likes olives. She has a fuin personality.
Barney: He likes to wear suits. He likes women a lot. He wants to be Ted's best friend and behaves liek a teenager.
Robin: She is a TV reporter who likes dogs and hated olives.

Summary of Pilot:
Its about Ted's story about who he meets his wife, he tells it to his son and daughter.
Ted's friends Lilly and Marshal are getting engaged.
Ted meets Robin at the bar playing "have you met Ted?"
Then Ted got a date with Robin.
Ted told Robin about Marshall's olive theory.
Ted went to Robin's apartment and he told her "I love you"
to be continued.

Malcolm in the Middle
Characters:
Malcolm: He is the main character. He is a genius kid discovered by a teacher.
Francis: The oldest one and a troublemaker. He goes to military school.
Reese: Second oldest. Older than Malcolm and Dewey and he is a bully.
Dewey: he is the youngest.
Mom and Dad: They don't care so much about the kids.
Stevie: He is a smart kid, Malcolm's friend and he is handicapped.

Summary of Pilot:
It is a story about a weird family with the parents and 4 sons. The principal character is the one in the middle, in this episode it is about how a teacher discovers that Malcolm is a genius.
In the school, Malcolm met Stevie who was in the special class too, but they didn't have a good relationship until one day the bully tried to fight with Malcolm and by mistake Stevie helped him to beat the bully. So Malcolm became the hero of the day and they started to become good friends.