lightning thief scrapbook 2

The speaker chose to create a scrapbook about the book "The Lightning Thief." They included symbols like Greek god pins and stickers from the protagonist's camp. They discussed how the author integrated reality and fantasy in the story. The speaker also mentioned the importance of wisdom in the protagonist's journey and included symbols like newspaper articles and pictures. They included symbols representing the pink lotus and celebrity culture. In the final part, the speaker discussed the protagonist's return home and included symbols like a drawing of the underworld and a greeting card. They concluded that the book is important for adventure and moral choices. Hello, today I thought I'd do the Lightning Thief for my scrapbook option. I really like this one, I think it's really creative and could be so much fun. I did mine in full physical form because I thought that was the most traditional for talking about children's literature and included like an objective of what the project basically is. I don't know if this was like the popular choice, but I knew I had to. So if we're going to go over the first thing, The Adventurer's Christening, how he grew from a young boy who had ADHD in New York. He didn't know that he was going to be what he was. He essentially thought that he was going to be just a random guy who just causes trouble because that's what every adult was treating him like until his call to action came. And the symbols I included in my text were, it was written from the perspective of Percy as he's the one that went on the adventure. And the symbols are like pins of Greek gods because I wanted to correlate how we view Greek gods and mythology as something that's just not in our present. And pins are essentially usually like Disney pins, like in a fantasy world. And same thing with the pins. And then I included like stickers from his camp, a Polaroid of his mentor that led him to the call of action, and just a postcard from Long Island because that's essentially the most normal part of his life is Long Island in real. And it's interesting to see how the author integrated the real life with the fantasy world and it creates a stronger call to adventure in children's books that integrates both reality and fantasy. So then for my step two is crossing the threshold and examining allies and enemies. Here Percy Jackson's writing about the adventures he's going on and how he's realizing how wisdom is one of the most essential parts of how he's going to conquer Zeus and Hades and anything that, or any person who stole the lightning bolt. So for the symbols are very important here. I included a newspaper article for one of the battles they got into. That's kind of ironic as we correlated one of the themes of irony that we focused on in this class into my project. And plus more Polaroid pictures and just like small things that we would see usually on a trip like postcards and stamps. And then I, oh and then one of them is a box of Medusa's head, just a picture of it, just a picture of the box and the stamp that it's going to. Because this was one of, it's a symbol for the adventure that Percy went on and how he was able to conquer a fearsome monster with just him and his friends. So then for the last part within the pink lotus I thought it would be important to include just how that was important to the text. Since it's the thing that caused them to be late on time and how time is just so important to the text. And then I included Hollywood stars of Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades, the main three gods, because this is what they, they're on like a celebrity worship base. And to go back to the part where he brought that, where he integrated celebrity culture or like just in person culture like the world we live in now with Greek mythology. I thought I'd integrate celebrity culture with Greek mythology in the same way that the author did. And with the clothes sign of Krusty's because not everything is what it seems and that was an important part of the text as well. And then of course the white lotus, no the pink lotus, sorry, the pink lotus card that's another like piece of merch because it's very superficial. And the pink lotuses were also just like a quick get rich scheme because they were in Vegas so that would be like a good piece of merch to have. And then I wrote it in the perspective that like a 12 year old boy might, if that makes sense. So then for my step four, for the last piece, it's when he finally gets to go home, but he's a new man. He knows that what's out there and what power he has, he has the rest of his life to be worried about that and to think about what's going to happen to him. For symbols I wrote, I made a little drawing of the underworld, a greeting card and it's kind of a call back to my earlier reference from Long Island. Because underworld's not really something we go to. So that's a lot of fun. And I just think that this part of the end of this book really captured the adventure thing that was really prevalent in Lear's text about adventure. And I think Lightning Bolt was one of the most important texts to include in all of this. So my conclusion is that Percy Jackson is really important to the world of adventure. And moral choices were very prevalent in the text. Because if it weren't for the moral choices they had to make between defeating Medusa and defeating Krusty and people who have come against their way, then there wouldn't be the growth that they had in the future. Thank you for listening.