KINGDOM'S DAWN

The title of my book is Kingdom’s Dawn. The author who wrote this book is Chuck Black. I decided to read this book because it looked easy and it was on my reading log. It is the first book of a four part series

The main characters of this book are Leinad, Tess, The Dark knight, the Vactor Deluge, the king and Lucius. Leinad is a 16-year-old boy from Mankin. He was trained to be a knight by his father. Tess was a young slave girl who worked for an older woman. Tess was the slave girl who was rescued by Leinad off the street. She was dirty and was an abused girl, but a hard worker. The dark knight was the king’s enemy. He was the evil knight who would kill anyone. The Vactor Deluge was a bad, black, killer storm that ate everyone from the water to half way past the mountaintop. The king was the king of the kingdom called Arrethtrae and he was the one who fought Leinad. Lucius was a brilliant swordsman and tactician.

The part when Leinad fights the king makes me feel like he has great skill. I did not really understand the king and why he did not know he could take Leinad and it was only grace that saved the king from being diced in half.

The book begins with Leinad being trained to be a knight. Leinad's parents were going to be in charge on the king’s side. They were an extended family of the king. His father raises him on a farm. His mother died when he was a little boy. The Dark knight, which is the Kings enemy, happens to be Leinad’s brother. Leinad does not know that the king wants him to be the king’s top warrior. Therefore, Leinad is trained with a sword. He thinks he is going to just practice, but as it turns out, he is an immortal Knight. Lucius was a good swordsman who was trying to take the king. Therefore he took 1/3 of his best warriors to try to kill the king. Peyton, Leinad’s father, failed the king, so he was thrown out of the castle and was sent to Mankin to make a new world.

The problem is that Leinad is chose to kill the dark knight, which happens to be his older brother. He does not want to kill his brother but the dark knight army and is going to take over Mankin. The problem is solved when he does harm the Dark Knight but does not kill him all of the way. The reason why he has to kill the dark knight is because if he does not, the Dark Knight will take over the king’s castle.

The next book of this series is called Kingdom’s Hope. I wonder if Leinad kills the dark knight in the next book. There is more to come and I look forward to reading the rest.

DO YOU THINK HOMESCHOOLERS SHOULD GET HOMEWORK?

I am home schooled and I get assigned homework. I think that since we are home schooled, I do not believe we need to do class work and do homework too. I think that is wrong and so not right. LOL! I think I will officially call this situation, “Anti-Homework.”

My mom says we need to do homework, so that we can take what we learn in class and we can show it again on what seems to be 10 homework pages. LOL! I think we should not have homework if we are home schooled. I would rather go outside or play my game boy color for the rest of the day.

Do you think homeschoolers should get homework?

First Day of School

Yesterday was my first day of school. I am now starting tenth grade. I am so excited and wonder what exciting new things I am going to learn. I made my class schedule already, so I already know what class is first. When I picked Language Arts for first hour, I thought it was going to be fun. Nouns, pronouns, adjectives … normal stuff right? But then when I read the first lesson, I said to myself, “This is so hard to do.” I gracefully passed with an 86%, which was good, but I knew I could do better than that.

At the end of the first day of school I was happy to hear that I did not have any homework. So I planned on to just hang around the house. I went out to shoot some hoops and listened to music. I made sure to find something to do, anything to avoid homework at the dinning room table. LOL!

My classes this year are:
1. Language Arts
2. Bible
3. Science
4. Math
5. Spanish
6. Drivers Ed
7. History Geography
8. Study Hall

Jeffrey