Have you read a book you think others should know about?
BLOG IT!
Share your thoughts on the Grand Ledge Middle Schools’ Blogspot! Submit this form to Ms. Block or Ms. Almo and check www.msblocksclass.blogspot.com a few days later. Your review will be posted!
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Title of Book:_________________________
Author:_____________________________
Requirements: Two paragraph maximum! Complete sentences, written in paragraph (5-7 sentences) form must be used.
Use this checklist and the example on the back to help! DO NOT simply list the following.
____ The book’s main subject is…(Paragraph One)
____The author's main point is…(Paragraph One)
____One of the most interesting things in this book is…(Paragraph Two)
____In my opinion, this book is…(Paragraph Two)
____I say this because...(Paragraph Two)
21 February, 2007
20 February, 2007
Writing As Practice for the Future
Government requirements and standardized tests, such as the MEAP, have encouraged Grand Ledge Public Schools to enhance curriculum requirements for writing. From Elementary through High School, teachers are required to teach more writing skills and are to encourage writing in their classrooms daily.
We have many avid readers at Hayes and Beagle. This blog will give them the opportunity to share what they have read and to practice their writing skills.
We have many avid readers at Hayes and Beagle. This blog will give them the opportunity to share what they have read and to practice their writing skills.
Explaining The Contest
Team participants at Beagle and Hayes are reading a collection of titles chosen by Ms. Almo and Ms. Eger. Throughout the year students have been answering weekly questions and participating in monthly goals. As a way to refresh their memory, students are able to start using this blog to write book reviews and to read other team's reviews!
Assassin, by Anna Myers
Assassin, by Anna Myers
Alternating passages narrated by John Wilkes Booth (http://www.nps.gov/archive/foth/booth.htm) and a young girl named Bella who becomes a seamstress for president Lincoln describe the events leading to Booth's assassanation of President Lincoln. From page one I was hooked. Booth is an actor as are Bella's parents and she is fascinated by his appeal on stage (Ford's Theater - http://www.civilwarphotos.net/files/images/633.jpg). But, when Bella's mother dies, her father takes her to live with a Grandmother she hardly knows and who despises the idea of acting. While Bella adjusts to life with her Grandmother and learns to sew in preparation take over her Grandmother's position at the White House, Lincoln (http://www.gallatindesign.com/websites/presidents/images/biopics/lincoln02.jpg)wins the presidential election, Booth joins the army to get closer to Lincoln and their lives become closer and closer to colliding.
I enjoy historical fiction and think Myers explored the thoughts of John Wilkes Booth well. The intertwining lives of the two characters makes me think of how I may be influenced by others and how it may be hard to avoid pressures of people we admire. Assassin is well written; Myers is wonderful at making the inner thoughts of Booth and Bella seem real.
Alternating passages narrated by John Wilkes Booth (http://www.nps.gov/archive/foth/booth.htm) and a young girl named Bella who becomes a seamstress for president Lincoln describe the events leading to Booth's assassanation of President Lincoln. From page one I was hooked. Booth is an actor as are Bella's parents and she is fascinated by his appeal on stage (Ford's Theater - http://www.civilwarphotos.net/files/images/633.jpg). But, when Bella's mother dies, her father takes her to live with a Grandmother she hardly knows and who despises the idea of acting. While Bella adjusts to life with her Grandmother and learns to sew in preparation take over her Grandmother's position at the White House, Lincoln (http://www.gallatindesign.com/websites/presidents/images/biopics/lincoln02.jpg)wins the presidential election, Booth joins the army to get closer to Lincoln and their lives become closer and closer to colliding.
I enjoy historical fiction and think Myers explored the thoughts of John Wilkes Booth well. The intertwining lives of the two characters makes me think of how I may be influenced by others and how it may be hard to avoid pressures of people we admire. Assassin is well written; Myers is wonderful at making the inner thoughts of Booth and Bella seem real.
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