Complete a Journal Response on your Independent Reading book. Use at least 2 sentence leads from your Reading FOLDER.Remember: A summary of the book is not quite as interesting as your thoughts, questions or other comments about the book. There are times when summaries are important; however this is not the time.
With this in mind please use capital letters where appropriate and correct punctuation.
As you create your response remember to refer back to the BLOG RUBRIC (see below) to earn the maximum points.
Hint: To make your response more original add more to your response than the two sentence leads. Expand your ideas, give details and examples to support the sentences leads you choose.
Be sure to include the title of your book and its author so others who read your comment will understand.
Your Response might start out something like this . . .
Title:
Author:
Sentence Lead Starters: # & #
If you finish early be sure to read previous posts and comments on our blog to see if anyone has referenced a comment that you have made.
As you read other comments do you notice anyone who has read a book that you are reading/have read. If so, what comments do you have for them?
As you create your response remember to refer back to the BLOG RUBRIC (see below) to earn the maximum points.
Hint: To make your response more original add more to your response than the two sentence leads. Expand your ideas, give details and examples to support the sentences leads you choose.
Be sure to include the title of your book and its author so others who read your comment will understand.
Your Response might start out something like this . . .
Title:
Author:
Sentence Lead Starters: # & #
If you finish early be sure to read previous posts and comments on our blog to see if anyone has referenced a comment that you have made.
As you read other comments do you notice anyone who has read a book that you are reading/have read. If so, what comments do you have for them?
49 comments:
Title: The Beast Of Noor.
Athor: Janet Lee Carey.
Sentence Lead Starters: 1 & 2
When I was reading Beast Of Noor I visualized Miles shapeshifting into a bird.
Miles reminds me of wizerds off Harry Potter because Miles can shapeshift like some of the wizerds off Harry Potter.
Title: HOLES
Author:LOUIS SACHAR
Sentence Lead Starters: WHEN I READ THIS BOOK I FELTHAPPY IT HAS FUNNY PARTS AND BAD
TITLE:Mostly Gostly
AUTHOR:R.L.stine
SENTENCE LEAD STARTER #3
A Question i have bout dis book is how did max the main character meet the Ghost tara and nicky?
And i visualized when tara and nicky
picked da bike up wit max on it just to impress tracy the gurl dat goes to skool wit max.This book needs a little detail but the book waz ok i just didnt get sum parts of da story.The author could of started out wit how he met da ghost and could of went on,and on.
Title: Holes
Author: Louis Sachar
Sentence Lead Starters: 7 & 13
When I read this book I felt happy. It has funny parts and bad.
after the book ends he will get out of camp
title:dancing with manatees
14 and 42
I have been read this book for not vary long this book is mostly about sea animals and this little girl goes swimming with her dad to try to find sea animals and when they find one the see that she has a baby and they were so exited that they disided to name them 2 so they did the moms name is Alice and her baby wrinkle and so they seen them 2 wwere sleeping so went ahead and left...and then they did some reaserch and found out that males and female live a part after they have there baby..
My book is about 3 teenagers who are trying to put scary movie chereters back in there places. I deffenetly support the teenageres,and I predict that nina will get her blood sucked by the monster.
Title:MONSTER BLOOD
Author:R.L STINE
Sentence Lead Starters: 29 and 18
If i could be any character in this book i would be the monster because I want to be scary.THe genre of this book is goose bumps because it has a big scary slimeing monster and has some kids and they have a mom that does not believe them that have a monster blood.
Title:Heroes Don't RUN.
Author:Harry Mazer.
Sentence Lead Starters:#1 & 2.
I visulized Adam in the WAR and trapped inthe fire and he can't get out.
Adam in the WAR reminded me when because he got hurt and in WAR people get hurt probably everyday and he was trapped so he was one of the people who had too go to the hospital.
Title: Cirque Du Freak, Tunnels of Blood
Author: Darren Shan
Sentence Lead Starters: #3 & #21
So far it's about a boy That tried to kill the head vimpire and thats the only real instring thing right now.
One question I have is why did Darren want to move stuff with his mind so mutch? because he could alway just pick it up buy him self.
I wonder why Darren Shan hated the spider Mr.Crepsly owened.
Title:
Author:
Sentence Lead Starters: 1 & 14
When i read this book i visualized sym talking to herself when she really
thinks that she is talking to titus oates. This book makes me to read further.
Title: Leven Thumps And The Gateway To Foo
Author:Obert Skye
Responses 1,13:
I visualized the part when Winter froze the bully's.After the book ends ,I predict Leven will get out of Foo.
Title:New Moon
Author:Stephenie Meyer
Sentence Lead Starters #37 #25
To summaarize the text I would say that it is about a girl and a boy who are in love but then he has to move one day and she is really sad all the time now she never talks at all but any way thats all I know right now but if what to know more you need to read the book.
Title:The Dog Who Saved Christmas
Author:Allan Zullo
Sentence Lead Starters:1 and 3
I visualized when the boy savedthe duck from frezzing.A question Ihave about this
book is why did the duck land on the pound when it know it was frozzin.
Title:chicken soup
Author:lennox lewis
Sentence Lead Starters:
(#43)I admire aunt Vikki, because she cares for her son. He was walking home from a friends house in the snow, intell he had a stroke.(#14) This book wants me to read furter, because this chapter was a very interesting story, because it adds a lot of detail into the chapter.
(#1) I vizualized vikki when she heared her son had a stroke in the snow, while walking to his house. I could see her speeding trying to get home to see her son. (#7) When I read this chapter I felt like I was in the book it had a geat snowing scene. It had awesome details. Its a very good book. I love to read chicken soup.
title: dancing with manatees
author: Faith Mcnulty
14 and 42
I have been read this book for not vary long this book is mostly about sea animals and this little girl goes swimming with her dad to try to find sea animals and when they find one the see that she has a baby and they were so exited that they disided to name them 2 so they did the moms name is Alice and her baby wrinkle and so they seen them 2 wwere sleeping so went ahead and left...and then they did some reaserch and found out that males and female live a part after they have there baby..
This book makes me want to go and do some research on all different animals.
My feelings about this book is good because when i first seen the cover i thought this bool is realy boring but now that i read it i makes me want to read more animal books.
tittle: around the world in 80 days
Title:Woodsong
Author:Gary Paulsen
Sentence Lead Starters: 36 & 33
The author is qualified to write this book because he has run dogsled teams in real life. I thought this book was realistic because it dosen't have any parts that couldn't really happen.I admire the main charachter ( who is nameless) because he has many animals and refuses to hunt because he dosen't like to kill anything. This book helped me to realize how many challenges come with dogsleding.
Title:dragon on lonely island
Author:rebecca rupp
Sentence Lead Starter:i like this book because its about dragons and its exciting and its about 2 kids finding a dragon but noone belives them.and this is a good book.
Title:malcom x
Author:Walter Dean Myers
Sentence Lead Starters: 1 & 38
I visualized malcom shining shoes but i dont know why he would want to shin shoes for like a qaurtar he is doing it because the last shoe shin boy bought i car with the money that he saved up and he is a bath room boy to getting tips of a qautar some times not even getting a tip
this book helps me becuase my dad said if i did not tell him about malcom x then he would not give me some money and i like money and it helped me to know more abour malcom
Title: The Story of My Life
Author: Helen Keller
Sentence Lead Starters: 1 and 5
I visualized her putting her hands together and putting them on the ground when helen wanted to go hunt for eggs. Her and Martha Washington always go hunting for eggs. She would always want to carry them back because she thought that Martha would fall and drop them.
If I could talk to Helen Keller, I would ask how it was like being blind. I would also ask her if she like being blind. One thing I would want to say to her is your are a true heroe.
Title:the grate fire
Author:jim murphy
Sentence# if i had to grade this book 1_ 4 i wold give it a 4 because it haqse grate begings and a suprise endind and thats what i like in a book.
Title:What You Don't Know About Mysterious Places
Author:Ryder Windham
Sentence Lead Starters: #2 & #14
In my book there is an ailan space ship that chashs.
This event reminds me of the movie Men in Black because in Men in Black there are ailans.
This book makes me want to keep reading because it telles me facts
about differnt mysterious places.
Title:Granny Torrelli makes soup
Author:Sharon Creech
Sentence Lead Starters: #7 & #2
When i read this book i felt realy happy becuse it realy makes you laugh.
This character reminds me of my brother because they both relat to the story becaue my brother likes to make soup to. I know if you read this book yo.u would be happy to
Title:P.S Longer Letter Later
Author:Puala Danziger & Ann M. Martin
Sentence Lead Starters: #29 & #43
If I could be anyone in this book I'd be Terra*starr. Because she and Eliza*beth want to be great American writers.When the get older. And thats what I want to do I wanna be a great American writer I also wanna write children books when I grow up!!!!!!!!!!1
I admire Terra*star because when ever Eliza*beth is sad she tries to cheer her up. And thats what I do with Brandy and Annie! Friends may move away but you are in each others hearts. So it dont matter if a friend moves away becaes they are always with you no matter what!!!!!!!!
title:leventhumps and the eyees of the want
author:obert skye
Sentence Lead Starters: 23 & 5
i believe the authers purpose for wrighting this story is to entertain the reader. if i could talk to one of characters i would ask leven how it feels to be in foo
Title:The Series of Unfortunate Events The Wide Window
Author:Lemony Snicket
Sentence Lead Starters: 1# & #3
I visualized Capt. Sham Throwing Aunt Josephine out the window When Klaus suspected that he did that.
A question I have about this book why every time the kids go to a different guardian that something always happens bad.I think it is because that they see count Olaf every were they go.
Title: And Not Afraid to Dare
Author: Tonya Bolden
Sentence Lead Starters: #18 & #38
The genre of this book is non-fiction because it tells about events that happend in the past. It tells about slavery and heroes that tried to stop it. It tells about lots of people that made other changes in the past, too.
This book helped me to understand events in the past. It tells me facts about the people who changed the way things were and why they changed.
Title:Missing May
Author:Cynthia Rylant
Sentence Lead Starters: 6 & 1 & 38
This book makes me want to be mad at the author because she just had to make the the kid die and drown. She could of made it to where maybe one of her best friends died. Before i read the book Missing May i visualized that it was going to be about somebody's kid being lost. I thougt it was going to be a sad book. This book helped me to see what it feels like to have somebody that you care about die and drowned. To summarize the book i think it is a very sad book and i woul not mind to read that book over and over again.
title:money hungry
ather:sharon g. flake
setencs lead starters:so fare i"ve in my book i know that theres a girl . she and her mother seem to get along and all she wonts is money so that she can bye bye bye.
Title:gathering blue
Author:lowis lowry
Sentence Lead Starters: 16&1
i visualized that her mother had died and her father was tooken by the beast and my feelings about this book was that i was really sad and really upset
Title:scary stories
Author:ALVIN
Sentence Lead Starters: #1 & #35
I visualized the girl was talking to me.I think the illustrations were real becuase it seems like the pictures were popping out at me.
Title:bud not buddy
Author:christopher paul curtis
Sentence Lead Starters: #21 & #43
I wonder why bud didn't go before.
he could of busted out da window when he gotn out of there or when Todd was beating him up he could of escaped.I kno he could hes quite inteligent.
Also...
I admire bud because wat kid could take being put n an orphanige after his moma dien den getting beat up put n a shed busting out da window riding on trains 2 chicago. not many kids 11 yrs old can do dat!
Title: A hole in the world
Author:
Sentence Lead Starters: #13 & #25
after the book ends, i preadict that i will look for more ofsid hites books.
I think that he will get in trouble in the frist of the after that he gets in trouble agin and gets sent out to the fram his aunt works at.
Title:RED MIDNIGHT
Author:BEN MIKAELSEN
Sentence Lead Starters:#13 #25
After the book ends i pridict that
Santiago and Angelina are going to have a better life in the U.S.
there probobly will be adopted by other people and go to school.
I think that santiago will go the wrong way. Thene get cptured by the solders who distroid his town called Dos Vias.And satiago will esacap.
Tittle:Coraline
Author:Neil Gaiman
Sentence lead starter 1&3
When i was reading Coraline i pictured when Coraline grabed the key of that crazy ladys tounge,sometimes this book can be very creepy.I have a question about this bok because it is so wierd and twisted somtimes.
Title:absolutely normal chaos
Author:Sharon Creech
so far mary lou's life is hectic she just started her summer break and her teacher asked her to right a summer jornal to give to the next teacher she has but i dont exactally think she will be able to turn it in to the new teacher because it has her writings about her boyfriend and tons of private little funny things about her life and her life is chaos right now because her cousin carl ray has come over to her house and is completely taking over her lifeand on top of that shes got a new boyfreind
Title: The Bully
Author: Paul Langan
Sentence Lead Starters: # & # this book is about a new kid moves to a new town and goes to a new school where theres a bully that pushing hem and droping his books because hes a new kid and hes black the new kid use to go to bluford high and hes trying not to get punk.
Title:Tuckets ride
athor:Gary Paulsen
Sentence Lead:When I read This Book I Vizulized Them Rideing There hourses.On a Long Dirt road.
Title:Police Lab
Author:DAVID OWEN
Sentence Lead Starters: #1&7 #
I visualized two wemon being stabed by a merder could Jack The Ripper. I could see him cuting there throts.
When I read this book I felt intreged. I allso wented to read mor about the book.
Title: The two Princesses of Bamerre.
Author: Gail Carson Levine.
Sentence Lead Starters: #6 & #26
6) This book makes me think of why some people read the certain type of book like Mystery and Fairytale, I think that it would probably be under entertaining.
26) My experiences help me to understand this book because, My sister read this book and sometimes she and I read at the same time on the same page and then talk the chapter/pages over. Because, My mom has a book club with her old lady friends and my mom says that it's easier to understand things about the book with other people. =)
Title:Girls Who Rocked The World
Author:Amelie Welden
Sentence Lead Starters: #1 & #10 I visualized when the women doing great things.
The big idea of this book is to tell everybody what women have done in th past and now.
Title:absolutely normal chaos
Author:Sharon Creech
so far mary lou's life is hectic she just started her summer break and her teacher asked her to right a summer jornal to give to the next teacher she has but i dont exactally think she will be able to turn it in to the new teacher because it has her writings about her boyfriend and tons of private little funny things about her life and her life is chaos right now because her cousin carl ray has come over to her house and is completely taking over her life
Title:janets thingamajigs
Author:dyanne disalvo rayan
Sentence Lead Startters 22
i think that the charcter did want to give her thingamajigs to her brother but she didnt because she wanted to make him jelous.but it didnt work because in the end he had the thingamajigs.
Title:My Thirteen Winter
Author:Samantha Abeel
Sentence Lead Starters:7#13#
When I read this book I feel sad because she's twenty-five and she can't tell time and she has troble and she stuggle's dialing numbers.
After this book end I perdict that tell mak another book just as good as this one.
Title:Red-Hot Hightops
Author:Matt Chrisopher
Sentence Lead Starters: 1 & 3
1 I visualized when they told Kelly to shoot when the character froze right up on the court.Then her teamate came and said to pass the ball.The she passed it and her teamate shot and made it.Then they won there game.
3 A question I have about this book is why is it called Red-Hot Hightops becasue the book is about basketball.If they named it Red-Hot Hightops is it becasue thats what they wear on there feet for the game?Another question i have is why Kelly froze up when she went to shoot the ball?Why does she not shoot if she has a free shot to make the ball.This is my last question.Why do they make the book really funny.
Title:GOOSEBUMPS
Author:R.L STINE
Sentence Lead Starters: #23 & #16 My feeling about this book ,caracters is the story is kinda scary.And kinda not.(the caracters)jerry,terri,they have to find a way to get off the island.And find a way to trap the three little ghost in side the cave before they die.And mr.harrison has been tring to trap the three little ghost for many years.
Title:Tornadoes
Author:Looanie Jean
Sentence Lead Starters:1&2
So far my book is talking about tornadoes and how they come about. It tells some stories about tornadoes like when it was a tonadoe in Missouri it tipped a whole 83 ton trin over mainly the thing is like how much tonadoes it is within a year.Theres about 800 of them.... This book is like WOW because its very intersting and it tells u alot and help u learn stuff
Title:Tornadoes
Author:Looanie Jean
Sentence Lead Starters:1&2
So far my book is talking about tornadoes and how they come about. It tells some stories about tornadoes like when it was a tonadoe in Missouri it tipped a whole 83 ton trin over mainly the thing is like how much tonadoes it is within a year.Theres about 800 of them.... This book is like WOW because its very intersting and it tells u alot and help u learn stuff
autherjim murphy
title:the grate frie
Im old most dun now but I stell kinda like this story about a grate fire but I stll wolden sugust this book to any one who hasent read any storys with death blod or dameg in it but any one who has this is a good book.
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