Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Book Talk

Today in our Literacy class, we were asked to give a book talk to our peers. A book talk basically is presenting a book you have read and convincing your audience to read it by providing a summary, reading a short passage from it, and prompting questions about what may happen at the end. The class was split into two groups, and I wrote down a list of the books from my group that were recommended:

  • The Westing Game
  • The Chocolate Touch
  • Just Ella
  • Keturah and Lord Death
  • Stargirl
  • Belle Prater's Boys
  • The Hundred Dresses
  • Tristian and Iseult
  • Summer of the Monkeys
  • The Witches
  • Three Cups of Tea
  • The 39 Clues
  • Masterpiece
  • Ella Enchanted

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  1. UnknownSeptember 29, 2010 at 4:15 PM

    My class did this too. Here's the list of books from my group:

    Crunch by Leslie Connor
    - what would happen if we didn't have any fuel left?

    Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhonda Bloomberg
    - nonfiction of an American Commodore's opening of Japan for trade

    Mandy by Julie Edwards (formerly Julie Andrews)
    - a girl finds a secret place and made it her own

    Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
    - if you could live forever, would you?

    Falehaven by Brandon Mull
    - guarding a magical haven, uses a big vocabulary

    The Last Invisible Boy by Evan Kuhlman
    - similar to Diary of a Wimpy Kid - a boy is convinced he is turning invisible

    Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
    - a girl and boy grow up as neighbors - she has a crush on him - written from both their perspectives

    The Endless Steppe by Ester Hautzig
    - historical fiction based on author's life - after WWII, her family is accused of being capitalists and sent to Siberia

    The Legend of Holly Claus by Brittney Ryan
    - the child of Santa Claus growing up in the land of the Immortals


    PS I love this idea, Stephanie.

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  2. gingerSeptember 30, 2010 at 12:23 PM

    steph,
    it's not the chocolate truth. it's the chocolate touch.

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  3. MissyOctober 2, 2010 at 5:37 PM

    Here are the others from the other 1/2 of the class!
    A Corner of the Universe by Ann M Martain
    Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawes
    Ella Enchanted
    Percy Jackson
    No Talking by Andrew Clements
    The Willoughbys by Louis Lowry
    Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
    Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
    James and The Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
    There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom by Louis Sachar
    Island of the Blue Doplins by Scott O’Dell
    The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester
    Mandy by Julie Andrews Edward
    The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

    Missy

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