Reading Log Blog Due Friday Oct. 14

10/9/2016

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
Readers, tonight is the night for you to put all that you have learned together. Let your book really mean something to you. Flip back to the first pages of your book to read again how it all began. Last week we realized how moving it is to read those initial lines with eyes that made the story’s journey in Tiger Rising. What was just a sign the first time around is now so much more. So if you are near the end of your book, push to finish so you can do this amazing work. However, rereading earlier parts will always pay off even if you are not at the end of your book. Keep in mind all that you have learned to read interpretively. Use the charts below to help you make interpretations. Remember that to do this high-level work, you’re going to think about not just the chapters you are reading but the whole text. Keep reading, rereading, and thinking. Good luck!

24 Comments

sophia

10/9/2016 04:57:14 pm

I just finished my book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Then I fliped back to the very first page, and it introduced all of the characters and the setting. This is important because if you don't know the setting or the characters you will not understand any of the book. The begging of the story always sets the mood, and the setting tells you when and were everything started.

Anna

10/10/2016 03:30:38 pm

I finished the chocolate touch recently, and I flipped back all the way to the first page. It introduced the characters. The main one was John Midas and they introduced how he liked candy so much.........not so much at the end though! The important thing is the characters because if you don't know them then you don't know who, what, when, why, where, the story is taking place. Always know your characters!

Anna

10/11/2016 05:50:36 pm

Yes, I strongly agree with you that you need to know the characters in the beginning of the book to know what is happening in later parts of the book. But think about this, in non-fiction texts can't you flip to any page because there are new facts on each page? What do you think and Why?

Sophie klein

10/10/2016 08:05:22 pm

I recently just finished a book called Dork Diaries and then I flipped to the beginning and it introduced the main character which is Nikki, Chloe, and Zoey. Then at the end it was talking about the talent show that she was really close to winning but didn't win.

sophie klein

10/10/2016 08:09:40 pm

That is really important to the book because nobody would know who was who and what happened to them.

Molly Dorighi

10/11/2016 04:50:51 pm

Which girl was close to winning? How did she act?

Anna

10/11/2016 05:44:27 pm

Sophie, I had trouble understanding what that had to do with the talent show....I didn't think that has to do with any of the characters..... I would strongly enjoy if you could elaborate on that... good try though, I like how you attempted so well on that, I kind of agree thought because after all, you do make a pretty good point that you wouldn't know who was in the talent show or attempting!

Molly Dorighi

10/11/2016 04:28:20 pm

I am still reading the book called The Tail of Emily Windsnap. In the first chapter Emily begged her mom for swimming lessons for the first time. But as I read on she didn't want to swim because of her secret of becoming a mermaid. Later in the book, Emily meets a real mermaid named Shona. She is helping Emily find out where her dad has gone. Some important clues are the key to the files, a pebble, and Emily's mom's journal. I wonder if in the second half of this book Emily's mom gets her memory back and her dad is found. Maybe Emily will then find out why she is a mermaid.

Anna

10/11/2016 05:47:10 pm

Molly, my grandma gave me that book for my birthday and I would like to talk to you if you think that it is a good book for me to read and if you like it...At least it sounds pretty good what do you think? What has been your favorite part?

Sam

10/12/2016 06:08:29 pm

Cool!!!!!

Molly Dorighi

10/12/2016 08:28:25 pm

I love the book so far Anna! My favorite part to this point is a spoiler so I will tell you my second favorite part. I liked when the babysitter came over and snored.

Reese

10/12/2016 03:52:16 pm

I am finished with Story Thieves! So when I went back to the first chapter it introduces Owen at school at his math class and then he goes straight to the library. This matters because if he didn’t go to the library he wouldn’t have seen Bethany climb out of the book which if he didn’t see that then he wouldn’t have gone into the Kiel Gnomenfoot book. Basically that’s what the whole book is about because he travels into the book and then once the book ends he makes himself look like Kiel with magic and then he is in another one of their books which is the newest one.

See you in the next book!

Sam

10/12/2016 06:06:50 pm

I recently just finished a book called Ranger In time Long Road to Freedom when I filled back on the first page it introduces Ranger (a farm dog) that goes back in time and if he didn't go back in time to help Jesse and Sara (slaves) then he didn't reach his goal.

Jake

10/13/2016 06:21:15 am

Hey I just finished stink and I flipped back to the beginning and stink got a f in sports so his parents made him do a sport he did thumb wrestling.

10/13/2016 06:51:21 am

Wow Jake!

10/13/2016 06:57:08 am

Hello once again people of earth. Right now I'm reading a book called my Life as a Gamer. It is about a kid who does really bad in school so gets kicked out, and now he has a ridiculously cool tutor just his type. When his dad asks him to try out video games it changes his life. To be continued.......

sean

10/13/2016 06:15:36 pm

Hello. I am reading a book call Lemonade War. In the book Jacob and Jessie used to be really good friends until he finds out that Jessie is skipping a grade and is going to be in his class. Jacob starts being really mean to Jessie and doesn't want to be her friend.Jacob decides to make a lemonade stand with his friend because he doesn't want his little sister to be better then him. The next day Jessie said that she challenges Jacob to see who could make $100 first. The loser has to pay all the money that they earned to the winner. Jacob felt like he had to do it because he didn't want people to think his little sister is better then him.

Jeremy Bakke

10/13/2016 08:15:58 pm

Hi in my book Hollow city Emma and Jake and the peculiar children go to find the ymbrynes and save Miss Peregrine while Fiona and claire stay behind to get some rest

10/13/2016 09:22:46 pm

Dear Ms.holden I did not get the empowering words question at the end of the unit so do we pretty much write a sentence with an empowering word. I forgot it at school. That's all I remembered from the question it was asking. Anyway reply to me as soon as possible thank you!

Ava: )

10/14/2016 07:19:33 am

Today I am reading a book called the one and only Ivan. Ivan was trying to go to sleep and Bob was there. Then they heard a sob next door and it was Ruby and that is how far it was and I hope it is a great book!!!!!!

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10/14/2016 07:26:12 am

I am reading One Dog and His Boy and it is about a boy named Hal who finds a dog named Fleck at a store, Easy Pets. But it's a rent-a-pet agency, so Hal rescues Fleck. I made it to the part where Hal gets to the cottage by the sea. It turns out that Hal never knew Fleck was rented until his dad, Donald, returned Fleck at the beginning, which started the whole thing.

Scotty

10/14/2016 02:58:56 pm

I am reading Magnus Chase book two, and Imflipped back to the first page. Ultimately it introduced Magnus Chase, son of Frey. It also introduces Valkyrie Samirah Al-Abbis as well as trusty sword/pendant Sumarbrandar, also known as Jack. It starts with Magnus meeting up with Sam and Sam going to find an important person. Then Magnus meets Otis the goat. Otis gets killed, which started the entire story.

Allison Rose Wood

10/14/2016 03:30:51 pm

HI guys I am reading a book called The Tail of Emily Windsnap I think that Shona gave Emily the friendship rock because she really has faith in them finding her dad. I think this is a important part in the book because Emily probably needs a friend to give her a boost in her confidence which I would at this situation.

cooper

2/6/2017 06:57:33 pm

Right now I am reading a book called the land of stories. It is about these two people Conner and Alax find this mystery world in side in book. I think that this world is as old as the first person because there is fries, trolls, and many other cool things!

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