Kassandra

=Book Log=
 * # || =Book Title= || =Author= || =E, JR, C= || =Date Completed= ||
 * ==1== || Silverwing || K. Oppel || Mrs. Sellers || 11/5/12 ||
 * 2 || Guinea Dog || Patrick Jennings || jr || Beggining of the year ||
 * ==3== || Mocking Bird || Erskine, Kathryn || Audio Book || 8/29/12 ||
 * ==4== || Touch Blue || Lord, Cynthia || jr || 9/?/12 ||
 * ==5== || Everything for a Dog || Martin, Ann.M || jr-c || 8/?/12 ||
 * 6 || Mars Worst Case Scenario || Hena Khan || c || 10/8/12 ||
 * 7 || The Golden Ghost || Marion Bauer || e || 11/2/12 ||
 * 8 || My Life as a Book ||  || jr-c ||   ||
 * 9 || Dymonde Daniel || Nikki Grimes || e || 11/12/12 ||
 * 10 || Sunwing || K. Oppel || Mrs. Sellers ||  ||

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Dear Ms. Sellers, Febuary 1, 2013

Ms Sellers I cant believe I have not told you that I'm big time into Greek and Roman Mythology! Laurel and I have read so many of the books together that I forgot some of the gods and godess names! But I remember all the demi gods names in the book the __//**Mark of Athena**//__ such as Annabeth (one of the children of Athena), Percy (the son of Posidon) Piper (the daughter of Aphrodity) Leo (the son of hephesiss) Hazel & Nico (the son & daughter of Hades) Jason (the son of Jupiter) Frank (the son of Mars) and last but not least Coach Hedge(he's not exactaly a demi god but he is an sayter.)

January 27, 2013

Dear Kassandra,

Boy have you been reading up a storm! I"m so excited that you found this Rick Riordan series! Now I'm curious- had you read any of his other books before you got completely absorbed into __The Mark of Athena__? I had read and loved his first book,__The Lightning Thief__, many years ago. I'm not sure if I told you, but when I was your age I was positively obsessed with Greek Mythology. I have my own hard cover copy of the book that I consider to be the best resource for understanding all the back stories - it's called __The D'Aulaires Book of Greek Myths__. One of the things that I love best about this book, and you would particulary like to, are the pictures. They are beautifully drawn and full of color. This book might be a good resource in helping you understand things like demigods (which are people who are basically half god, or less important gods, by the way)

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- don't forget to update your log!

1/8/13 Dear Mrs.Sellers, For the past week I've been working on a new book called //__**The Mark of**__// __**Athena.**__ This book is about greek and roman demigods //(don't ask me to much about demigods because I dont know what they are).// ** The charecter I like best is Annabeth because she is inspiring to me do to her intence bravory and because she is the daughter of Athena my personal favorite. ** This book has alot of adventure, wonder, and lots of action! ** The genre of this book is big time fantasy due to the type of adventure these charecters are having like fighting monsters ,having magical horses, and turning into dragons! ** I cant wait to get further into my book and I'll keep you updated. Your student,

Kassandra Foley 7-8

Dear Mrs. Sellers, In the book __//**The Janitors Boy**//__ my favorite charecter is Jack. Jacks my favorite charecter because the auther descirbed him and his actions the best like and i quote "So all of Jacks churning anger shot strait up through the art-room celing, a flaming tornado of hurt and embarrassment." I would say Jack was acting sneaky when he tells himself the gum crim " is the perfect CRIME!!!"

The book that I'm reading for fun is an MCBA book. Its called __//**Molly Maxwell Does Not Like Playing**// //**The**// **Piano.**__ I wanted to read this book because I love music and the cover of this book said piano so then I said " Why not?" Thats how i started reading the book... now enough about how i found the book I'll skip ahead and summerize the book for you (even though I've bearly read any:( - But i hope to read more soon :)) so Molly is going to be in a kinda serious musical but she dosent look at it like that she looks like it like practice, practice, practice!!! I plan to finish the book and get back to you durning Christmas Break!!!! From you student,

Kassandra Foley 7-8

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 J **


 * Dear Mrs. Sellers,**
 * I'm still in the beggining of the book and I don't really know how scary it really is, I've been so busy reading MCBA books that I haven't been able to finish reading** __//The Stone////Child////.//__ **I think Eddie will unscramble the book because that is always what happends to the main charecter. I love reading scary books and I checked out that book that was titled as** __//3 Scary Stories to Read////Aloud//__ **and LOVED IT!!! I like the part of the book when Eddie and his parents are driving to there knew house and hit as they discribe "A blur of black hair and four long, thin legs. It looked at him with red-rimmed yellow eyes and a gaping mouth full of sharp teeth." Thats what gave me as a first impreshion of it being a scary book,and the title of this book said to me unexpected as in many diffrent changes in the charecter and settings. But so far I'm loving this book and hope to finish it soon. **


 * On** __//Silverwing//__ **I think that K. Oppel could have been a little more discriptive about when Shade & Marina found there hibrination location. I think this bacause the first things they said was "We got lost but we found you" and I think they had alot more of a adventure than getting lost and finding the colony. I also think that you can agree that this book had a lot of turns in the story, for example for one second he's flying with his colony the next he's on an island with a bright wing! I thought this book was unrealistic because first bats don't talk, second owls don't talk, theird bright wings and silverwings dont exist! Although** __//Silverwing//__ **was fiction I still enjoyed it as much as any other book.**
 * -Kassandra :)**


 * 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.**

Can’t wait to hear what you’ve been reading about- write you back after vacation! Love, Ms. Sellers J
 * 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.

November 13, 2012 Dear Kassandra, Thanks so much for your first letter. I'm very excited that you discovered __The Stone Child__. This is a book that several other girls have enjoyed in my classes in the past. I don't remember this book sounding so scary! Do you like scary books? I wonder what will happen to Eddie? If you could talk to Eddie, what would you ask him? Were you surprised by the ending of __Silverwing__? Can you believe that Goth didn't die when he got struck by lightning. I think the author, Kenneth Oppel, makes the stories more interesting by keeping Goth- the bad guy- alive. The author got me interested in the part that we just left on- when Shade flew right in to the giant human building because he heard bat voices calling to them- but were they real voices, and should Shade have just flown in without being a little more cautious? I loved everyone in our class's reaction- could Goth be inside? could he be calling out? I kind of love it as a teacher when I leave people hanging at the end of the chapter and kids say, "Don't stop reading Ms. Sellers!"

Your friend in reading, Ms. Sellers :)

= Dear Mrs. Sellers, = The book I am reading is called __The Stone Child.__ The character I like most is the young boy who discovered that his knew town was full of strange creatures, his name is Eddie. What I like about Eddie is he's not like any of the other people he realises that all the monsters that he sees are from all the books that he loves to read by an authur that lives in that town. He also finds a never before read book that he has to unscramble before his mother finishes her childrens book and creats the worst moster of them all. Yours truly,

Kassandra
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:)