Julia

= Book Log = Dyamonde Daniel || N.Grimes || E || 9/18/12 ||
 * # || =Book Title= || =Author= || =E, JR, C= || =Date Completed= ||
 * == 1 == || Silverwing || K. Oppel || Ms.Sellers is reading || 11/8/10 ||
 * == 2 == || Touch Blue || C.Lord || JR || 9/7/12 ||
 * == 3 == || Falling In || F.Dowell || C || 11/26/12 ||
 * == 4 == || My life as a book || J.Tashjian || E || 8/31/12 ||
 * = 5 = || Make Way For
 * = 6 = || Sunwing || K.Oppel || Ms.Sellers is reading ||  ||
 * = 7 = || Turtle In Paradise || J. Holm || JR ||  ||
 * = 8 = || The Golden Ghost || M.Bauer || E || 11/30/12 ||
 * = 9 = || Bridge To Terabithia || K.Paterson || JR || 12/19/12 ||
 * = 10 = || Because Winn Dixie || K.DiCamillo || JR || 1/23/12 ||
 * 11 || Mia an the Mix ||  || E || ? ||

January, 28 2013 Dear, Ms.Sellers Ok I do notice it does look a little different. Do you know what book were reading next after Sunwing? I love my Winn Dixie book talk book and I cant wait till I have my book talk. The genre of Winn Dixie is relistic fiction. After I do my book talk can you find another book for me to read? My hockey friend keep asking me if I got my report card so do you know when your handing them out? From the awesomest Holmes child, Julia :) January 13, 2013 Dear Julia- Don't panic if your page below looks a little different- I had to do some magic saving to get your page back! 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

January 8, 2013 Dear Ms. Sellers- The tittle of the book Bridge to Terabithia says to me that they discover Terabithia. Wich they do! I think their friendship will stay forvever or long. It dose. Nick is Jess and all the others are Leslie. This situation reminds me of somthing that happed in my own life. Nick and I were little and there is a hill of sand in our backyard. We use to make a house out of it and swing from the trees just like Jess and Leslie in Terabithia. We kind of make a world like they did! From, your favorite Holmes :)

January 8, 2013 Dear Julia-

Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful vacation! Are you enjoying __Bridge to Terabithia__? I like the traits that you picked out about Jess and Leslie. What do you think about their friendship? Do you think that boys and girls can be friends like they are? You asked me at the beginning of the year about playing in the woods behind the swings- and how I had let Nick and his classmates play there when I had him in 5th grade. ***The "world" that Jess and Leslie creates makes me think a little about Nick and Company and the world that they created called - Antari.**


 * Dear Ms.Sellers,**
 * My group and I are reading __Bridge To Terabithia__ by Katherine Paterson. One character in the book is Jesse. A trait for Jesse is dedicated. He's dedicated because on page 2 it said "Of course he was going to run. He had gotten up early every day all summer to run. He figured he would work at it." Another character is Leslie Burk. A trait for Leslie is carefree. On page 20 the evidence is "They were all sitting primply in their spring sunday best. Even Jess wore his one pair of corteoys and a ironed shirt. The reation on did not bother her." I really like our book!**

from, Julia :) :) :)
 * I have been reading __Turtle In Paridce__ by Jenifer L. Holm.*** I think the genre of this book is relistic fiction. I am on chapter 3 and I love it so far! I loved on page 13 how the writer showed a simmily she said "To hear her talk, you'd think the roads are paved with chocolate, like somthing out of that dumb song Shirley Temple sings" and then she took a little part of the song.I cant wait to finish the book.

November 13, 2012 Dear Julia, Thanks so much for your first letter. I'm so glad that you stuck with __Falling In__, even when we discovered that our first copy was missing some pages! I love the sentence that you picked out as being so descriptive- I agree. Do animals talk to humans in this book? I would be interested to talk to animals too- I wonder what things they would tell us? What would your Rocky say? I like your observations about Sunwing. I don't think I can answer all your questions, just yet! I think you're on the right track. 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 Ms.Sellers=

Falling In is good but it got werid in the beginging but then it got good.I wish animals could talk too because i could talk to them. The tittle of the book reminds me of how shade looks at the sun, Sunwing. The character I like the best is Shade because he is adventurous and darring just like me! A qustion I have about Sunwing is, Is Shade ever going to find his dad. I noticed the author put a lot of detail in the book Sunwing. I am so close to the end of Falling in. The setting in Falling In is important because Isabelle Bean falls in to a diffrent world. A qustion that i have about the book is will she end up back into the classroom. This sentence is an example of good writing because it has good details." Isabelle's head jerked up and snapped back so violently she was surprised it didnt fly stright off her neck."

from your fav student, Julia

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:)