This document summarizes a student's assessment of the book "The Egypt Game" and includes the following key points: 1. The student found asking questions to be a useful strategy for understanding parts of the book, like when April asked others what to do. 2. April is initially portrayed as difficult to befriend but grows closer to Melanie and less reliant on fancy things over time. 3. Examples of literary devices from the book are analyzed, including a simile comparing a character's beard to dry moss and rocks and a metaphor describing a character as "gross looking and unhygienic." 4. Two essential questions are posed about what builds strong friendships and how independence

1. Final assessment on The Egypt Game By Jesus Montiel 7B

2. Ask Questions This was my most useful strategy. I used it when I didn’t understand something. One that we did in class was the one whichwe were acting something that happened in the book. It was connected to what we were doing, because sometimes when April didn’t know something, she asked someone what to do. It changed overtime, when something different appears that Ididn’t understand.

3. April I thought that April was a kid that was hard make friends with at the beginning of the book because she use to live with her mom in Hollywood, her mom is an actress. April use to go to many fancy parties with many famous stars. She doesn’t get enough attention from her mother Dorothea, who normally sent her to her grand-mother Caroline, which didn’t have a good relationship with April either. She arrived at the Casa Rosada. As the time passed by, April met a new girl called Melanie. She was the girl in Casa Rosada until April came. Melanie helped April to be less: bossy, fancy and to be mean less with her grandma. April and Melanie at the beginning of the book didn’t have the same interest, but as soon as April was changing her mind, she was beginning to have the same interests. At the beginning April called her grandma by her first name (Caroline). She didn’t even talk to her. Time later a new girl arrived to Casa Rosada her name was Elizabeth. She had a Chinese look, she was also very diplomatic.

4. April (cont’d) April use to wear an upsweep, until she started the game, and also applied her eyelashes. When she started a new school with Melanie, there two boys (Ken and Toby). They were the two most popular and funniest people in school. They always made jokes related April. Example: April, February!. Anyway, April hated them very much when she met them. In the mid time April got to get better, more patient with people, including Caroline. She got really better because she even let Toby in charge of the game once. She finally changed a lot…. She got very upset when she read a letter from Dorothea saying that she got married without April present. So she started to be on a bad mood and sticks up for her self.

5. Simile He was tall and bent and his thin beard straggled all over his cheeks like dry moss and gray rocks. It means that the author was trying to paint a picture of the professor as a dangerous angry man.

6. Metaphor The Professor was a spying, suspicious gross and bad looking unhygienic man. It means that he always use to see what the kids did in the game and gross looking. What I meant by unhygienic man, was he doesn’t take showers, shaving and brushing his teeth.

7. Personification His gray moss was building more of itself. It means that , the gray moss was like a person constructing more moss.

9. Respect

10. Same Interests

11. Integrity