Matt

Book Log
Theif || Rick Riordan || JR || 10-24-12 || Neptune || Rick Riordan || C || 9-27-12 || dudes || JR || ? || Haddix || JR || 5-2-13 || Deathly Hollows || J.K. Rowling || C || ? || Goblet of Fire || J.K. Rowling || C || March || mber of Secrets || J.K. Rowling || JR ||  || Planet ||  || E/JR || 5-27-13 ||
 * # || =Book Title= || =Author= || =E, JR, C= || =Date Completed= ||
 * ==1== || Silverwing || K. Oppel || E || 11-8-12 ||
 * ==2== || Touch Blue || Cynthia Lord || JR || 10-2-12 ||
 * ==3== || The lightning
 * ==4== || The Son of
 * ==5== || Airborn || Kenneth Oppel || JR || 1-1-13 ||
 * ==6== || Sunwing || Kenneth Oppel || JR || 11-14-12 ||
 * ==7== || Daniel Dymode || Nikki Grimes || E || 10-10-12 ||
 * ==8== || Guinea Dog || Patrick Jennings || JR || 11-22-12 ||
 * ==9== || My Life as a Book || Janet Tashjigan || E/JR || 10-21-12 ||
 * ==10== || One False Note || ? || JR || 8-27-12 ||
 * ==11== || Golden Ghost || Marion Dane Bauer || E || 11-11-12 ||
 * ==12== || Firewing || Kenneth Oppel || C || 12-20-12 ||
 * ==13== || Darkwing || Kenneth Oppel || JR || 1-9-13 ||
 * ==14== || Bridge to Teribithia || Katherine Paterson || E || 1-29-13 ||
 * ==15== || Redwall || Brian Jacques || JR || Abandoned ||
 * ==16== || The Third Wheel || Jeff Kinny || E || 1-15-13 ||
 * ==17== || Lincoln's Last Days || Bill O'Reilly || JR || 1-10-13 ||
 * ==18== || Swindle || Gordon Korman || JR || 1-16-13 ||
 * ==19== || The Mark of Athena || Rick Riordan || C || 1-10-13 ||
 * ==20== || The Lost Hero || Rick Riordan || C || 1-1-13 ||
 * ==21== || The Emerald Atlas || John Stephens || C || Abandoned ||
 * ==22== || Killer B's || A bunch of sports
 * ==23== || Moxy Maxwell || ? || E || 3-12-13 ||
 * ==24== || Zoobreak || Gordon Korman || JR || ? ||
 * ==25== || Showoff || Gordon Korman || JR || ? ||
 * ==26== || Double Identity || Margret Peterson
 * ==27== || Harry Potter and the
 * ==28== || Harry Potter and the
 * ==29== || Harry Potter and the Cha-
 * ==30== || 100 Scariest Things on the
 * ==31== || Found || Margret PetersonHaddix || JR ||  ||

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Febuary 6 2013 Dear Ms. Sellers,

I am currently working on the book

January 27, 2013

Dear Matt-

If you're ever looking for another warring animal adventure author, check out some of the books by Avi. I think you will find that his series about Poppy ( a mouse) are simpler than __Redwall__, but also quicker reads. My all time favorite Avi animal adventure is one that I mentioned in my sample book talk. It's called __Perloo the Bold__ and ironically I think it may have been on the MCBA list the same year as __Silverwing__. Perloo is a montmer (a rabbit like creature) he lives away from the rest of the montmers in a separate borrow. He is quiet, meek and enjoys books. His life is turned upside down when the Granter (king) dies and names him the next ruler. You see Perloo isn't quite as "bold" as the title suggests and has to find the strength to save his kingdom from war.

I'm curious about what book you might want me to read after __Sunwing.__ I would like to read an MCBA. Is there one that you haven't read that you would particularly like to hear? One of the ones I was thinking of doing was __Because of Mr. Terupt__. This was probably one of the favorites I read over the summer. The book is about a fifth grade class, maybe a little like ours. I made a text to text connection between this book and another favorite old MCBA called __Flying Solo__. Both of these books are setup the same way so that every chapter is told from the point of view of a different character. I like this setup because it lets you as the reader know what the different characters are feeling. Sometimes I find this format hard to follow too as you have to keep track of a lot of different characters instead of just a couple.

Have you ever read a book with this kind of format?

Your friend in reading, Ms. Sellers

PS- I see from your book log that you've been swept up in the Rick Riordan fever too- I would love to talk to you about those books next!

January 22, 2013 Dear Ms. Sellers, I am so exited we found the Redwall series to. I have made many connections between this book and Silverwing/Sunwing. Yes Matthis wants to be a hero. I think Mossflower is the 4th one in the series. Right now I am at the part where Cluny is beginning his invasion of the Abby. Yes I am going to continue on with the series. I think Matthis is a lot like Shade. Rushing out to cut off invaders things like that. The genre or this book is obviously fiction because rats don't invade towns and mice don't talk. Thank you for the complements on my book log.

Sincerely, Matt

January 13, 2013 Dear Matt,

I'm so excited that we hunted down the __Redwall__ series and that you are enjoying it! I can see what you mean about books with short chapters- it makes it much more interesting to have lots of things develop in each chapter if they are longer. Have you been able to make any connections between this book and __Silverwing/Sunwing__? You said Matthis is determined to be a hero- maybe is he at all like Shade? Maybe not, but I would be curious to hear what you think. Do you think after this book you will continue on with the other 20+ books in this series. I believe one of them is called __Mossflower__.

I can't believe we have under a 100 pages left of __Sunwing__ ! I feel like we have been on this journey with Shade and Marina for such a long time. We are so close to him FINALLY fnding his father. I think the author, Kenneth Oppel, must have drawn out the reunion between father and son over the two books to keep us as the readers interested and hanging on to every page. __*If I were Kenneth Oppel, I would have changed one part of the story. I don't like the part where right after Shade frees the owl Orestes from his disc, he is snatched by the cannibal bats.I would have been interested to see what happened if Shade and Orestes got to spend some time together__. I'm excited for the class to see how Shade, Chinook, Marina, and even Goth are all reunited in the story. It will be quite the CLIMAX when all these creatures find each other.

Your friend in reading, Ms. Sellers

PS- Keep up the good work with your book log, it looks great!

Dear Ms. Sellers,

I have been reading the book Redwall. My favorite character is the mouse Matthis. All the mice live in a little town called Mossflower. I like Matthis because he is hard working and determined to be a hero. Another character is the Abbot. The Abbot treats Matthis like he is his son. There is also Cluny the evil rat. Cluny has a band of followers that are traveling with him in a cart pulled by a horse. If I could talk to Matthis I would ask him what it is like to live in a world of mice and rats. I believe that Cluny Is going to go to Mossflower and try to destroy it. One thing that I do not like about this book is that the chapters are to short I don't like short chapters.

Your student, Matt

Dear, Ms. Sellers

In the book __Bridge to Teribithia__ my favorite character is Jess. I like Jess because he is talented and determined. one example of Jess being determined is on page two. It says on page two "He'd gotten up early to every day of the summer to run." Another character is Leslie, Jess's neighbor. Leslie and her family live in a run down house and have no TV but Leslie says they are rich. I think Leslie is carefree. One example of Leslie being carefree is on page 19 "They were all sitting primly dressed in their spring Sunday best. Even Jess wore his one pair of corduroys and an ironed shirt. The reaction didn't seem to bother her." If I could talk to Jess I would ask him what life is like with five sisters. In class we've been reading Sunwing. We just got to the part where Shade found out that his father was still alive and had been the leader of a colony of survivors at Statue Haven. He had been taken by the cannibals just a couple nights before. We know that the cannibals need to sacrifice a 100 hearts to Zotz to kill the sun, so they have been hunting the forest for bats, owls and other creatures. I liked the series so much, that I went ahead and read other books by this author Kenneth Oppel. I enjoy books by this author because they seem different than other books I've read. I like that animals are the main characters and you don't usually find that in longer chapter books.

Your favorite Koury, Matt

Dear member of Room 7, I can’t believe that it’s already December and that we are halfway done with our second read aloud of __Sunwing__. You know I love these stories and love the characters- even Goth sometimes! I think the author Kenneth Oppel does a terrific job making you as the reader know the characters really well. We’ve talked a lot about how Shade is impulsive, and that he often “leaps, then looks” which causes many problems for him and others through the stories. One place where we see him do this is most recently in __Sunwing__. On page 164, “From behind him came a sudden and intense flash of light, and for a split second it was as if the night had become day. “Don’t look back,” Caliban snapped. Shade looked.” This is such a perfect example of Shade. We can all imagine how hard it is not to do something when someone tells you directly not to do it- but I would think that Shade would’ve been so scared at all that he had been through and would be afraid to see what terrible things would be behind him that he wouldn’t look as Caliban told him to. Shade however has a hard time following rules, and thinking things through. Although, I think we can already see signs that Shade is “growing up” in this second story.

Over vacation, I’m getting ready to read the third book in a Sci Fi series that I’ve really enjoyed. This book is called __Reached__ and it’s written by Ally Condie. The reason I am planning on reading it is that I’ve asked Santa to bring it for Christmas, and there’s nothing I enjoy more on Winter Vacation than curling up with a great new book. There are three main characters in this series- Cassia (the main girl), Ky and Xander. ***The genre of this book is definitely Sci Fi as this book takes place in the future where the government- called “The Society”- gets to make a lot of decisions for you. They pick a job for you, and they even recommend who you should marry. You don’t have to marry that person, but they “match” you with the perfect person. (The first book in the series was called __Matched__.)They also tell you that you may only keep a certain amount of special items or artifacts- and paper is a very special thing which most people are not supposed to have.**
 * Can’t wait to hear what you’ve been reading about- write you back after vacation!**
 * Love,**
 * Ms. Sellers**


 * Dear Mrs. Sellers,**
 * I have been working on the book Sunwing. I'm on the part where Shade and the owls are flying to Bridge City. I think it's the best in the series so far. If I could talk to Ishmiel I would ask him what it's like to get captured and almost eaten by cannibal bats. I think at the end of Sunwing Shade and his army of owls will reach the city and start to fight the owls. I like Sunwing but sometimes the action comes to fast like when Shade and Marina where in that room with all the bats in the tube in the "paridise". Shade flew forward and BANG a human had him and he was in the tube. I really liked when the prymid went BANG. I think "King" Goth is dead for once . This book is obviously fiction because vampire bats don't sacrafice other bats . I wonder if Voxaco died or he survived. **


 * Your student, **
 * Woodchuck **


 * September 26, 2012 **
 * Dear Room 7, **
 * I’m very excited to hear all your thoughts about what you’re reading on your individual wiki pages. I’ve really enjoyed all your enthusiasm about Silverwing. Even though this is my thirteenth time reading it, I still get really excited about sharing it every year. ** *The genre of this book is definitely fantasy since I don’t believe that bats and owls have wars or detailed adventures together. I also consider this to be a genre of my own invention- called Animal Adventure ** . I love the character Shade; he’s one of my all-time favorites. ** *If I could talk to Shade, I would ask him if he thinks it was worth it to break the law and see the sun, especially after what happens to his colony as a result. **

Your friend in reading, Ms. Sellers:)