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Monday, January 3, 2011

Reading Response Choices for January 3, 2011

Choose one of the following assignments to respond to using your independent reading book or book club book. Please answer in complete sentences. You may use your class notebook to plan out your response (Table of Contents: 1/3/11, R, "blog response - scrap").

Choice A: Write one paragraph comparing and contrasting the beginning of the book to the ending of the book (or the beginning to the middle of the book if you're not quite at the end).

Choice B: Write one paragraph retelling an event in the book from one character's point of view.

Choice C: Write one paragraph summarizing what you read today.

Choice D: Write one paragraph discussing a character's motivations for his/her actions in the book you are reading.

18 comments:

  1. The title of the book that I am reading is The Hero and The Crown by Robin McKinley and so far, I read that there is this girl that doesn't really remember that way her father looked like. All she remember that he had wonderful hair and loves to smile and she lives in the Damarian Hills. This is all I read.

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  2. In the book"Prom Date",the main character is Jane. She has a crush on a boy but does no actions. All she does is try to force herself into talking to him. Also her final action will be to is change her self.

    -Divanur Neshethy 751

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  3. The title of my book is The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. This book is about four children that were sent to London because of the war. They were sent to a doctors office that has a huge house that led the explore around in a very rainy day. While stumbling across a room with only a wardrobe they were disappointed. While the others moved on Lucy the youngest of them all went inside the wardrobe and stumbled across a huge forest that is filled with snow.

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  4. Margarita Montesinos
    Compare & Contrast:
    Perfect:by Natasha Friend
    Isabelle Lee and Ashley Barnum have several things in common & they are: They both have a eating disorder and go to the "eating disorder and body image therapy group" they also both go to the same school (John Jay) and to the same english class with Mr.Minx.
    Contrasting:Isabelle is not popular and Ashley is the most popular girl in school they have 2 different eating reasons that their in the group Ashley because her mom found a gum in her backpack and she thought it was Ex-Lax a thing she saw on television and Isabelle because she was making herself vomit in her bathroom and her sister saw her & told on her.

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  5. In the book "Ghost Huntress: the reason" the main character is a 17 year old girl named Kendall Moorehead. She has psychic abilities. She also formed a group called the Ghost Huntress. She tries to investigate the mayors mansion but gets into trouble. She also finds out more stuff about her past.

    -Lesly

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  6. Jaqueline;
    Character Motives:
    Book: Sugar Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke
    Babs, the mother of Martin Dubinski had motives to kill her new daughter-in-law for a lack of trust. Babs did not at all trust Brandi, since Brandi was a Las Vegas dancer and supposedly had stolen some fancy watch from Babs. Babs also witnessed Brandi stealing the antique cake Regency Period cake knife. Babs had enough motives to confront Brandi, and she did. The result was Brandi's accidental death from a stab on her chest with the knife. Babs was found responsible for the death of Brandi.

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  7. What i read today was the Candy Cane Murder by Joanne Fluke, Laura Levine, and Leslie Meier. I read the story by Leslie Meier and Hannah Swensen tries to get her cat ready for the holidays but she doesnt allow Hannah to put the hat on her. But the cat eats Hannahs leggings and other things and Hannah gets mad so she stops trying and she gives up.

    -Rafael

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  8. Title: Howliday
    Author: James Howe
    Summary:
    The owner of the dog, Harold is going on vacation. This time he is going without him. The dog is going to get boarded. He then becomes happy that he wont stay at Bunnicula's house. Bunnicula is the evil next door "bunny" that is adorable to all humans but is horrible toward the dog. He (the dog) is curious to know what boarding is so he asks Harold and Chester tries to find out where he is going when Harnold said boarding.

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  9. My book is named 16 on the block. That was what I read, I read about Summer (main character) who went to school her first day after coming out from an orphanage since her mother had died. So her sister Trish adopted her on the day she turned 16 (Summer). She started school and met two twins that are popular so for her, her day at school went great and she was adapting to her new home with her sister. But one of the bad things are that her sister is dealing with a dealer who is named Boss and is involved in the streets which also involves Summer into it.

    SOLANGIE

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  10. The book I am reading is called "Sherwood" and the part I read is about Robin being chased by his rival Ralf Fitz Gerald. Robin kills 2 men and injures 2 others. He kills the last of Fitz Geralds men and one that was on horseback. He injures Ralf and an english man he injures Ralf by throwing dirt and blinding him then he stabs him once. Ralf shoots a arrow at him then Robin pulls it out and does the thing I said before. Ralf then pushes him out and takes out the knife and falls unconscious and the last thing he sees is Robin crawling away.

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  11. Choice C: Write one paragraph summarizing what you read today
    Title: The skin I'm In
    Author: Sharon G. Flake
    Summary: the chapter I read was about a seventh grade name Maleeka Madison the Third so sick and tired of people teasing her and making fun of her until one day she said enough is enough!!!A techer comes along name Miss. Saunders that Maleeka thinks that she is gonna mess things up for her real bad.
    Vallery Alvarado

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  12. Jonathan Choice D
    Harold reacted surprised when he heard that he was going to get boarded. I think he reacted that way because he did not even know what the word boarded meant. If somebody were to find out that they were going to get boarded and they did not know what it meant the person might have reacted the same way.

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  13. i fhave bin reading a book name is mount everest this book is about teen agers who are in their hardest adventure of their life time and it is what few can manage to do this book is a series this book has to do with some thing i think i cannot
    acomplish

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  14. The title of my book is 'Stink: the incredible shrinking kid' written by Megan McDonald. This book is about the little brother of judy moody's little brother and his big problem. His problem is that he is short. So he want Judy to help him. One idea that Judy gives him is that she tell him to lay down on the floor and then she would go grab his head and his parents would grab his two legs and stretch him so he could get taller. this is what i have read so far.

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  16. B: I have been reading the book "Diary of a Wimpy kid: The Ugly Truth." What I read in this is that Greg Heffley, the main character, goes to advanced health class where he learns about puberty and smoking. When Greg and his class watches a video about puberty, Rowley faints. Rowley told Greg before that he avoids the bigger kids because he is afraid that he will catch puberty. Later, Greg's health teacher convinces Greg's class to not smoke. Then, Greg's teacher said that even your best friend could offer you a cigarette. When Rowley hears that, he was afraid of Greg for a whole month.
    Jason

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  17. The title of the book I am reading is called To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This book so far is about a girl named Scout who is white and comes from a wealthy family. Her father, Atticus, a wealthy lawyer, felt like everyone should be treated fairly and never wanted his children, Jem and Scout, to be racist like all the other people.
    *not finished with the book*

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  18. Choice C
    Today, what i've read about the book of "Because of Winn-Dixie" written by Kate DiCamillo, is that Opal's dog , Winn-Dixie, who she met at store & decided to keep him, went running to the witch's house. Opal was told by two bold-headed boys that everyone who had enter the witch's house never comes back. But Opal was mostly scared of loosing her best friend, Winn-Dixie, then being eaten by a witch.Once she go in, Opal saw an old lady feeding Winn-Dixie. The Old lady welcomed Opal & invited her to eat a sandwich with her. After all, the "witch" wasn't mean like everyone mentioned to be. Opal, Winn-Dixie & the Old Lady became very good friends & Opal had told her everything about her.

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