Reading Log #1

Reading Log #1 

Title: Naughts and Crosses

Author: Malorie Blackman 

Text type: Novel

Date finished: 20/03/17

This novel was about racism. Sephy was a cross - so she was black - and Callum was a naught - so he was white. They were forbidden to see each other, but they still did. The crosses ruled the naughts, so Callum's dad and older brother were apart of a group that assassinated crosses.


I related to Callum a lot, because he also got discluded from his family and has only one friend. A friend he rarely sees. An example of this is when Callum was always fighting with his parents to let him go see Sephy - the popular cross. I always argued with my parents, so this is why I can relate.

I liked this story a lot because it was really interesting and it talked about racism right throughout the novel. An example of this is when Sephy says "You're a naught and I'm a cross and there's nowhere for us to be, nowhere for us to go where we'd be left in peace... That's why I started crying. That's why I couldn't stop. For all the things we might've had, and all the things we're never going to have." I think what Malorie is trying to tell us, is that racism is unacceptable and people can have friends with the other race. I don't like how the naughts were treated, and wish I can help stop racism.

Sushi

 Why do we need to clean our ingredients?
  - So the vegetables are clean and free from bacteria.

What were two high risk we needed to worry about?
  - Rice and chicken were the two high risk foods we need to worry about.

What two strategies did you put in place?
  - Cooked the chicken to 75 degrees in a hot pan with a little bit of oil, and made sure the rice was cooked because all the water and moisture was gone.

How do you know this is keeping you safe?
  - Because chicken is cooked to 75 degrees to make sure the bacteria is cooked and we don't get salmonella, and in the rice.

Beef Wraps

 Why do we need to clean our ingredients?
   - So we can get the bacteria out of our vegetables that will contaminate our food.

What were two high risk foods we needed to worry about.
   - The beef schnitzel was one of the things in this dish we needed to worry about.

What two strategies did you put in place?
  - Made sure we cooked the beef schnitzel was cooked to 75 degrees to make sure the bacteria is killed.

How do you know this is keeping you safe?
 - Because I know that bacteria is killed at 75 degrees.