Reading Log - Short Story

PRE-READING

No	Day	Titles	Why I am interesting to read	Questions before I read
1	Wednesday	100 Percent Love	I think the story is love story.	Does the story tell about love story ?
		A carrot, An Egg, and The Coffe-Beans	The tittle of the story is about food.	Will the story tell about cooking chalenge ?
2	Thursday	A Farmer and His Wife	According to the title, the story tells about relationship between a farmer and his wife.	Does the story tell about habitual activity or love story ?
		A Good Boy	The tittle is very simple and I get positive mind.	What did the boy do, so he became a good boy ?
3	Friday	A Powerful Story	The tittle is very interested. I think the story could be sad story.	What is the most powerful thing that told in the story ?
		A Rich Man and His Son	This story give me very hear touching moral value.	Will the story tell about their lifestyle story ?
4	Saturday	Casabianca	I’m curious, because I think Casabianca is name of tunnel in Jakarta .	Is the title typo ?
		An Old Man and A Phone	This story give me very hear touching moral value.	What does happen with an old man’s phone ?

READING

Day 1 Wednesday Date :8 April 2020
Time	21.00-22.00
Title & Page	1.      100 Percent Love       2.      A Carrot, An Egg, and The Coffe Beans
Sources	1.      https://www.advance-africa.com/100-percent-love.html       2.      https://www.advance-africa.com/a-carrot-an-egg-and-the-coffeebeans.html
Characters	1.      A boy and A girl       2.      A young woman and a young woman’s mother
Main points of the story	A boy has collection of marbles. A girl has some sweets. When they were playing together, a boy ask to exchange all of his marble collection with a girl’s sweets. A girl agree and gave all of her sweets to the boy. A boy kept the most beautiful and the biggest marbles, and gave the remaining to the girl. At night, the boy could not sleep because he worried if the girl kept some sweets from him as he did to her,
	A young woman told about her problem to her mother. Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water, and boil it. After the water had boiled she placed carrot, egg, and coffe beans one by one in different pots. In about twenty minutes, she placed them in the different bowl. The carrot became softened and weak, the egg had been fragile, and its inside became hardened, the ground coffee beans changed that water. She explain to her daughter that each of those objects had faced the same adversity, boiling water. But each reacted differently. She asked her daughter which one was her daughter respond.
New Vocabularies found	1. - 2. adversity, arose,
Comments	This short story give the reader implicit moral value. Eventhough the story is very short.
	We can learn to solve our problem by pay attention in what happen with the surrounding.

What character do you like most? why? I like the character mother. The mother is able to solve her daughter’s problem by showing the surrounding

Day 2 Thursday Date :9 April 2020
Time	19.00-20.00
Title & Page	1.      A farmer and his wife       2.      A Good Boy
Sources	1.      https://www.advance-africa.com/a-farmer-and-his-wife.html       2.      https://www.advance-africa.com/a-good-boy.html
Characters	1.      A farmer and a farmer’s wife       2.      An old woman, a large number of school boys, a  boy
Main points of the story	A farmer was angry to his wife and blame her that she is lazy. Knowing that, his wife asked him to exchange the work. He stayed at home and did all of homework, while his wife went to field. He was very happy. In the next day, his wife went to field early morning, he tried to do all of the work but he couldn’t. He realized that his wife was not lazy.
	An old woman wanted to cross a road. She waited long and alone fo help. A large of school boys were going to home and looked at the old woman, but they did not help her. A boy went to the old woman and helped her to cross the road. He said that if he helped old woman, someone also will her mother in her old age.
New Vocabularies found	1.      Lethargically, hen, spin, sty      2.   -
Comments	The farmer or a husband should not blame his wife. He never realize that wife’s worker is harder than him. A good relationship starts from the mutual trust.
	A young people must respect to the old people. Old people is weak and need help.

What character do you like most? why? I like the farmer’s wife. Even though her husband blame and underestimate her. She show to him that her husband was wrong.

Day 3 Friday Date :10 April 2020
Time	19.00-20.00
Title & Page	1.      A powerful Story       2.      A rich man and His Son
Sources	1.      https://www.advance-africa.com/a-powerful-story.html       2.      https://www.advance-africa.com/a-rich-man-and-his-son.html
Characters	1.      A man, a young boy, staff hotel, manager, receptionist       2.      A rich man, a rich man’s son
Main points of the story	A man and his son stay at hotel for several days. After eating in hotel restaurant, a man ask the receptionist to meet the manager hotel. He told the manager hotel that his fourteen years old son was serious ill and probably terminally. His son was very soon to undergo therapy, which would cause him to lose his hair. He asked the staff to be respectful when they came to breakfast with the shaved heads. In the morning, a man and his son enered the restaurant for breakfast. There they say the fur male restaurant staff with shaved heads.
	A rich man’s son has been graduated from college. He asked her father gift a new car. But, he regret that her father only gave him a wrapped gift. He became sucessful man, but he had not seen his father since graduation day. Just then, he received a message that his father had passed. He returned home regretfully. He looked for his father’s important journal, and opened it. And as he flipped the pages a car key dropped from the back journal.
New Vocabularies found	1.      Shaved, undergo       2.      Bound, wealthy
Comments	This is a great story. How big a father effort to make his son happy even he has serious illness.
	Each story has its own moral value. Whether it is explicit or implicit moral value. This story warns me that as children, I must

What character do you like most? why? I like the character of father. Both of those stories tell about fathers' effort to make their son happy. It is crazy sweet and a sad thing.

Day 4 Saturday Date:11 April 2020
Time	13.00-14.00
Title & Page	1.      Casabianca       2.      An Old Man and A Phone
Sources	1.      https://www.advance-africa.com/casabianca.html       2.      https://www.advance-africa.com/an-old-man-and-a-phone.html
Characters	1.      Casabianca, Casabianca’s father       2.      And old ma, phone repairer
Main points of the story	Casabianca and his father was on a French ship. There was a fight between England and France. Casabianca’s father asked him to stay in, while he went out to fight to defeat England. Suddenly the ship caught fire, and the fire spread. Casabianca who still stayed there shouted to his father, but there was no reply. Because her father was dead. The fire went closer to him. It burnt him to death.
	A man went to phone repairer. He asked for his phone trouble. The phone repairer told him that there was no problem in his phone. An old man tears and wonder why don’t ever his children call him ?
New Vocabularies found	1.      Shouted, obeyed      2.      -
Comments	I think Casabianca is too obey with his father. Because at that time, he is on the worst condition. But this story is amazing.
	This is the shortest and heart touching story. Even though the story is very short, but it is so great.

What character do you like most? why? I like Casabianca. He is brave boy, that obey his father in letter and spirit.