A Series of Unfortunate Events - *The Bad Beginning* - Chapter 2 and Prediction for Chapter 3

 Author: Daniel Handler & Brett Hilquist

Title: A Series of Unfortunate Events - *The Bad Beginning*

Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Comedy and Drama

I’ve already done Chapter 1 to this book and thought that I could do Chapter 2. Last time I wrote out chapter 1 and predicted chapter 2. So I’m going to see if my prediction is right.

This is a book about the 3 Baudelaire children. If you like book’s with happy endings then this isn’t the book for you. The children are very unlucky and whenever they think something couldn’t get worse, it gets worse.

Chapter 2:

The Baudelaire children were now officially orphans. Their parents financial advisor, Mr Poe, was now their legal guardian. Until Mr Poe found their new guardian, but not any guardian. It had to be someone who was the closest relative. Violet was devastated, Klaus was demolished and Sunny was too young to understand. The 3 orphans were all sleeping in the same bed. In the room of Mr Poe’s two sons. 

The Next morning Mr Poe had some great news. “I have found you all a new guardian!” Mr Poe gleamed with excitement. The Baudelair’s on the other hand were not too thrilled. Silence spread through the car, before Mr Poe could say anything the children jumped to, conclusions. They stared at a beautiful, bright, sharp, spotless, aesthetic and happy house. There was a lady out front named Justice Strauss. She was a high court judge. “You must be our new guardian!” As I said before, Violet jumped to conclusions. Mr Poe rejected this idea and said, “Actually, children, you're looking for a man named Count Olaf.” Justice Straus looked at them, with fear in her eyes and pointed to the house across the street.

This house was a mansion, for sure, even bigger than Justice Strauss. The only thing was that it was, well, a dump. They turned their heads and waved goodbye to the nice lady. There was an eye that Klaus noticed. It was carved into the beam that was hanging over the front-door. Shards of wood were attached to the door  acting as a “shield” of some sort. The leaves on the once precious tree’s, were now ashes of dust. Mr Poe reached out for the doorbell, but the door swung open before he could tap it. Out came a man with crooked teeth, 1 eyebrow (mono brow), tall skinny legs and the children noticed a tattoo of an eye on the man's left ankle. He gave the children a grisly look. “We’ll Children, this is your new home and new guardian, Count Olaf!... “

Prediction for Chapter 3:

Count Olaf sounds like a terrible man and I’m sure the orphans will hate it at their new home. It won’t be soon before they will be moving houses, but I think that they might go to the kind lady for help.

A Series of Unfortunate Events - *The Bad Beginning* - Prediction and Chapter 1

 Author: Lemony Snicket & Brett Hilquist 

Title: A Series of Unfortunate Events - *The Bad Beginning*

Genre: Fiction

This is a book about the 3 Baudelaire children. If you like book’s with happy endings then this isn’t the book for you. The children are very unlucky and whenever they think something couldn’t get worse, it gets worse.

Chapter 1:

It all begins at Briny beach. The Baudelaire children Violet (The oldest), Klaus (The middle child) and Sunny (The baby)  live with their parents in an enormous mansion, in the middle of a filthy city. Sometimes their parents would let them take the unsteady trolley by themselves, down to the beach. They would spend the whole day there until dinner time, of course. The morning was filled with clouds and a dark sky. The Baudelaire children liked these kinds of mornings because no one was around. Violet was skipping rock’s when Sunny (The baby) shouted “GAAAA!”. There was a tall figure among the fog, with a square ish kind of head. They all backed away until they saw that it was one of their parent’s good friends. Mr Poe, he was their financial adviser. He had some very bad news, which makes sense because the Baudelair children had very bad luck. “ Your Parents have died in a terrible fire … “

Prediction for Chapter 2:

Now that their parents have died they might have to live somewhere else. Maybe they go to an orphanage or live on the streets! Nothing good will happen though, not at this point.

Chapter 1 - Goosebumps Horror land, The Scream Of The Haunted Mask - Home Learning

 Author: R.L. Stine

Title: Goosebumps - Horrorland - The Scream Of The Haunted Mask

Genre: Fiction

Chapter 1 description:

This book is about a girl named Carly-Beth and her horrible history with the one and only, “Haunted Mask”. It’s halloween soon, and Carly Beth doesn’t know what to be, she can’t stand the ugly mask, but also can’t stand the fact that it’s calling her name every night. She’s ignoring it, but ugly green masks don’t like to be ignored… 

Carly Beth was heading to the basement, she opened the basement door and flicked on the light. There was something calling her, but what was it? She knew exactly what it was, it was the horrible green mask that possessed her last halloween. 

It was whispering her name as she glided her hand against the railing. She could hear slight rattles and dim voices. Carly reached for a metal box, it was warm, but felt as if it was sitting on an iceberg. 

She took a deep breath in and opened the box, inside was the infamous Haunted Mask. It was pulling her in and she couldn't resist the urge. She placed it over her head, but pulled it away.

“Not this time, you're not going to ruin my life again …”. She walked away with pride, but did she close the box?

Prediction:

My prediction is that the mask is going to get out, because she never closed the box. I love goosebump stories and they always have so much detail and thinking process. Either way the mask will end up defeated and Carly Beth will go back to her normal life.