I’ve recently finish a book called The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart. If I had to rate this book on a scale from 1 to 10, I’d rate 10 out of the possible 10. I’ve quite enjoyed this book and I feel as though it appeals to a broad audience of young readers which [...]
I just recently met Laura Amy Schlitz the author of the Newbery Winner Book Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Ms. Schlitz was incredibily nice and it was so exciting considering that my teacher Monica Edinger was on the Newbery Committee.
Ms. Schlitz’s book is a book of monologues and dialogues of children from medieval times. These children [...]
Last week, my class went to see an adapted version of The Tempest By William Shakespeare. This production of The Tempest was performed by The Dalton Middle School. They did a splendid job. My favorite character was probably the student that played Ariel. She did a great job of acting.
One thing I thought took away [...]
Letters From Rifka By Karen Hesse is about a Jewish female immigrant who tries to immigrate to America and gets ringworm.
I think this book is a great example of historical fiction because of the research Karen Heese did about the time this story took place.
Karen Heese uses a lot of simile and some alliteration. For [...]
Every person in my class wrote a story about someone that immigrated. We spent a lot of time working on these stories from interviewing people to writing the final books. My oral history book is about my uncle who emigrated from South Africa. My uncle lived there until 1975. [...]
I studied c15hu’s blog and this is what I learned.
I found out that they did all their writing about what they were learning in school. I learned something very important that was from c15hu’s mistakes. You have to proofread. You can also use pictures sometimes to make things stick out. They wrote very detailed posts [...]
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