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Shade’s Children: Week #2

Written by Michael Rogers. 28 comments Posted in: Uncategorized

The discussion on the Sci-fi blogs should be a review of what you’ve read at home. Talk about what’s happening, the characters, the setting, your favorite moment, and of course even things that you are confused or unclear about.  Respond to others.

There should be an average of five posts per person, per week over the next four weeks.  Refer to specific page numbers and use quotes.

Be courteous and respectful.
Happy Blogging.

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  1. William Rozanski

    the universty misson was crazy

    May 25, 2010 at 4:49 pm
  2. Gabriel Commissaris

    Getting very interesting especially at the part were they drive. That would be quiet an experience.

    May 25, 2010 at 5:36 pm
  3. Gabriel Commissaris

    Also it may explain later in the book but what happened to the doctor they meet with in that building.

    May 25, 2010 at 5:36 pm
  4. William Rozanski

    that is an AI

    May 26, 2010 at 9:40 am
  5. Eleanor Frye

    i really love this book!!!!! ive never read a sci fi book before, but this is a great introduction to the genre of sci fi.

    anyways, back to the book. the second section is really good! i love how they describe the ‘meat factory’ as a kaleidascope color, it really gives you a mental image of the factory and what it looks like. plus, i like how the characters each have special and individual powers, i didnt realize that ella could create objects out of thin air until the seminar. i think that its really interesting how they are all special in some way. i am kind of dissapointed that drum got taken away to the meat factory, i kind of hope that they keep him there long enough for the team to come save him. but i do want to know one thing, why did shade not want them to go the meat factory to get drum back? i think that shade is double crossing them, i think this because if you look on pages 192-193 (the last sentence on page 193) shade says this: “….overlord technology will provide me with a body. Then i will once more be a man, or something more….”

    May 27, 2010 at 10:09 am
  6. William Rozanski

    the thinker is cool

    May 27, 2010 at 10:31 am
  7. William Rozanski

    the thinker is coo

    May 27, 2010 at 10:31 am
  8. William Rozanski

    it will not let me say cool

    May 27, 2010 at 10:31 am
  9. Michael Rogers

    Ellie, think about it. What is the one thing Shade does not have? What can’t he do on his own? A new body? Think about the consequences if the team goes into the Meat Factory. Who’s Shade’s best team?
    The book gets better.

    May 30, 2010 at 9:09 am
  10. William Rozanski

    this thinker is a comuperter

    May 30, 2010 at 1:54 pm
  11. Madelyn Kim

    The story is getting much more interesting. It is definately less confusing, but it still is a little

    May 31, 2010 at 11:29 am
  12. Madelyn Kim

    who is leamington?

    May 31, 2010 at 11:36 am
  13. emmigrl13

    i dont get what the thinker is but i’m at the part where drum gets captured and is taken to the meat factory and where ella, ninde, and gold-eye go and save him and they run into a ferret or somethin. but the ferret kills a doggy!!!!! :( i was rly sad @ that prt. :’(

    May 31, 2010 at 11:55 am
  14. emmigrl13

    ya i agree wit maddy. its getting a little more interesting and less confusing but i still am confused, and i still dont really like the book. :/ o well… life goes on…

    May 31, 2010 at 11:56 am
  15. emmigrl13

    shade is really confusing me.

    May 31, 2010 at 12:00 pm
  16. emmigrl13

    also, what page were we supposed to read to? was it 208 or 218? hmmmm……

    May 31, 2010 at 12:07 pm
    • Madelyn Kim

      I think it is 202, but I am not sure

      May 31, 2010 at 7:18 pm
  17. Carolyn Hunt-Gonzalez

    emma it is 208 i think. Also mr. rog, the first question on the seminar questions was the last question on our 1st seminar questions, so im not going to do it. hope thats okkkk

    May 31, 2010 at 12:43 pm
  18. Carolyn Hunt-Gonzalez

    omg question. on pg. 134-135 i dont understand who is talking, we hav never been introduced to a Sam Allen, does anyone know who this is and anything about him?

    May 31, 2010 at 12:44 pm
    • Madelyn Kim

      no
      sorry

      May 31, 2010 at 7:18 pm
    • Mila Lamb

      maybe it’s one of shades other children

      June 1, 2010 at 3:54 pm
  19. Madelyn Kim

    I don’t get the point of the crowns. Also, just to make sure, Drum is dead right? one more thing, I am confused about what page to read to, but I think it is 202

    May 31, 2010 at 7:22 pm
    • Mila Lamb

      I think the crowns are supposed to make them invincible

      June 1, 2010 at 3:53 pm
    • Mila Lamb

      but I think that there might be something like a tracker in them

      June 1, 2010 at 4:01 pm
  20. William Rozanski

    no they are just fualty

    June 1, 2010 at 4:32 pm
  21. William Rozanski

    and it stops there powers

    June 1, 2010 at 4:54 pm
  22. William Rozanski

    thats a hard distion

    June 1, 2010 at 5:08 pm
  23. Mila Lamb

    well i said there “might be” like maybe a tracker or something in there for the overlords

    June 1, 2010 at 5:13 pm