Complete a Journal Response on your Independent Reading book. Use at least 2 sentence leads from your Reading FOLDER.Remember: A summary of the book is not quite as interesting as your thoughts, questions or other comments about the book. There are times when summaries are important; however this is not the time.
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Title:
Author:
Sentence Lead Starters: # & #
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As you read other comments do you notice anyone who has read a book that you are reading/have read. If so, what comments do you have for them?
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Hint: To make your response more original add more to your response than the two sentence leads. Expand your ideas, give details and examples to support the sentences leads you choose.
Be sure to include the title of your book and its author so others who read your comment will understand.
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Title:
Author:
Sentence Lead Starters: # & #
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As you read other comments do you notice anyone who has read a book that you are reading/have read. If so, what comments do you have for them?
59 comments:
Title:Bat 6
Author:virginia Euwer Wolff
Sentence Lead Starters: # & #
Title:a hole in the world
Author:Sid hite
Sentence Lead Starters: # & #
I wonder why the auther named the book a hole in the world. I thank the book is about family. The title dose not fit the book.
Title:Begging for change
Author:Sharon G. Flake
Sentence Lead Starters:34 # & #39 I agreed with the auther about momas actions in the book. Moma gets hit in the head so she takes someone to court for it. I agreed with the main carictors actions to momas hate letters to a girl in jail.
Title:DEAD GIRLS DONT WRITE LETTERS
Author:GAIL GILES
Sentence Lead Starters:this book helps me r3mber my gramama because its about a girl that has a lot in common wit my granmama #42
this book is about a girl that gets a letter from her sister saying that shes not dead and she cant belive her sister is alive and lives with a girl and they get alone. gail giles the author write shattering glass as well.i think that you should read this book DEAD GIRLS DONT WRITE LETTERS cause its a great book and just to warn you it is very sad.
Title: The Horse and His Boy
Author: C.S. Lewis
Sentence Lead Starters: #1 & #21
I visualized Aravis and Lasaraleen when the characters was hiding behind the couch. They were hiding behind the couch because the Tisroc,Grand Vizier, and the Tisroc's son all came in the room they were in when they were going to running away.
I wonder why the character Aravis still wants to run away. Aravis could've went back to her dad and marry someone and live a good life instead of going through so much trouble just to meet Shasta and go to Narnia. Shasta already left the meeting place so once Aravis got to the Tombs nobody whould be there so Aravis should turn back now.
Title:Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Author:Gary D. Schmidt
Sentence Lead Starters: # 7& #20
When I read this book I feel happy. Because Lizzie Bright and Tuner are such good friends.Also Tuner didnt care what people might of thought about him having a friend thats was a girl and a different race than him.
If I were the authour, I would have changed the part in the story when Lizzie Bright died. The reason for me wanting to change it was because Lizzie Bright was a very amazing person, She was very brave and wise.
Title: The Edge The Sword
Author: Rebecca Tingle
Sentence Lead Starters: #14& #29
This book makes me want to read further because every time Edward does something he almost gets captured or even worse killed by Parilians. Somehow he always seems to get away from the parilians dungeon or fights a ghy and saves everyone in the process.
If I could be any gharacter in this book I would be Edward because he always wants to save people no matter what is going on. He has so much bravery that I would never have and he is always willing to help.
Title:Caesar Stabbed
Author:Andrew Langley
Sentence Lead Starters: #1 & #2
ROME was in turmoil after its leader's murder.Ceasar had been stabbed to death-by men who were once his friends!
I think the Illustrations are cool because it shows like 10 holding daggers about to stabb Ceasar!but I feel sad for that guy because he got stabbed for no reason.Oh well.
Title:tales of the greek heroes
Authour:ROGER LANCELYN GREEN
Sentence lead starter:in this book there is a lot of action.
Title:Bat 6
Author:Virginia Euwer Wolff
Sentence Lead Starters: #15 & #1
This title says to me baseball with 6 people because theres bats in the game of baseball. Six people because you can play baseball with six people.
I visualized a lady with tons of goats when the character was going to run past the goat lady's house but she didn't do it because her friend didn't want to
Title:The Great Gilly Hopkins
Author:katherine paterson
Sentence Lead Starters:#40 & #3
If i could interview the main character i would ask the following questions, why aren't you happy to see your mom. You tried to run away to see her. Now you are going to go back. Your mother loves you and you are going to just give up,that is so dumb. Since you left your mom are you going to live with trooter agin. Here is a question do you love your mom.
A question i have about the book is there going to be another. i love this book so much. i am going to tell all my friends about this wonderful book.
Title:j.b jones
Author:barbara park
my book is about j.b. jones and her mom is geting ready to have a kid and she dont want to have a sisster or a brother what so ever and so she gets mad at her mom and dad and thats what i have read so far...........................
Title: little monkey business
Author:barbara park
Sentence Lead Starters: #19 & #25
i think the illistrater wanted the people to be intertained because if it intertained me or some other people the it will intertain the people.
i think the book junie B.jones book called little monkey business will intertain a lot of other people if it entertains me.junie is a little jelouse because her mom is having a baby and junie thinks she dont get that much attention so she crawls in the baby bed to try to act like a little baby.
after that her mom has a baby and it is a little boy junie loves her baby brother now that he is born and she gets to know him better.i think after her brother was born she is so much proud of him.
Title:The Naked Mole Rat Letters
Author:Mary Amato
Sentence Lead Starters: #1 I visualized fankie the girl walking out of the school and getting caught by the teacher then telling a lie that she has a dentist oppointment. If i were the author,i would have changed the part of the story when she ditch school and lied about it because I think thats telling the reader that its ok to ditch school and lie about it.
Title:Goosebumps Say Cheese and Die -Again
Author:R.L.Stine
Sentence Lead Starters: 10# & 42#
The big idea in the book is greg getting back to normal.Gerg had taken a picture in this evil camar and he become 500 pounds so now he must find a way to get back to normal.
I don't think there is a thing as a evil camar.I just think that it is a book to intertam who is reading it.
Title:Prince Caspian
Author:C.S Lewis
Sentence Lead Starters: #2 & #33
This character (Lucy) reminds me of my cusin Cindy because she is so annoing.My cousin Cindy allso asks so many questions like Lusy and it is annoing.
I thought this book was unrealistic because ther are talking animals and ther are miggits and other creapy animals.
Title:The magicians nephew
Author:c.s lewis
Sentence Lead starter;42
my feelings have changed after reading this book vecause it was boring in the begining and i thoTitle:
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Sentence Lead Starters: # 42thought nothing would happen.
Title:Breakign Dawn
Author:Stephenie meyers
Sentence Lead Starters: #1 & #2
I visualized Bella covered in feathers when she woke up. She asked Edward why and he said that ha bit a pillow or two.
Edward reminds me of Christan because he is nice funny and senceitive.But he also will stand up for hes friends and loves to just be hjim self
Title:Other bells for us to ring
Author:Robert Cormier
Sentence Lead Starters: #6 & #5
This book so far makes me think about when i first started school and how shy i was too everyone.If i could ask the girl in the story anything it would be why was she so shy around everyone but one that one girl named Shirley Temple?What made her different from anyone?
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Title:Do you know the monkey Man?
Author:BARBARA PARK
Sentence Lead Starters:#&#
My book is about a girl named samantha(sam)when she was little her dad took her little twin sister down to the river and he came home saying that sam's sister drounded in the river.A couple years later her parrents split up and then the sister that lived was going out in the grash to help her father move all his stuff out .While she was helping she tripped over a box and the box spilled and she saw papers of her sister...what sister she said. and later down the road she finds her sister and her dad.
Title:the lion,the witch and the wardrobe
Author:c.s.lewis
i just got this book and so far i love it.its so amazing and has alot of deatail
Title:the Beatles
Author:Mike Venezia
Sentence Lead Starters: #1 & #35
I visualized all the beatles joining together as the quarrymen
back in the 60s and 70s where they all met to see John Lennon play it was cool how they never even knew each other until they formed The Beatles
I think the illustrations were cool because they really showed what they looked like in cartoon form that was cool they also showed how they dressed
title:The Shadow club
Author:Neal Shusterman
sentence lead starters:34
i agree with the auther about ther is such a th ange as going to fare in a tip of wor and stuff but whyb is the book about kids in aklub and thangs go bad.
Title:Dynamic Duos
Author:David Moore
Sentence Lead Starters: #18 & #20 The genre of this book is nonfiction because it list things that realy happend. But if I was the auther I would try to make it longer. But I like how it has basketball legend Micheal Jordan.
Title:The hollywood mummy
Author:Sammy keyes
Sentence Lead Starters: #3 & #29
A question i have about this book is why does the mummy haft to be a girl,cant it be a boy, because in most books or movies there are guy mummys not girl mummys.If i could be any charater in the book i would be the mummy, because being a mummy in a story could be like really cool, and the part of a mummy really is not hard.
Title:Criss Cross
Author: Lynne Rae Perkins
Sentence Lead Starters: #15 & #35
The title of this book says to me that they would be siting criss cross or they would be doing something involving criss cross. This book is really about this guy who likes this girl and that girl likes the same guy whom likes her.
I think the illistrations are really neat. They help me when i cant visualize anything about that part. One of the pictures showed really long braided hair curled up that this girl cut off of an old woman because she asked her to cut it for her.
This book is really cool if you ever want to read it im almost done!
Title:Because of winn/Dixie
Author:
Sentence Lead Starters: #1 & #25
When Opal said that Winn/Dixies teeth were yellow and her breath smilled i could see Winn/Dixies smile. what i think will happen is Opal will get atached and then Winn/Dixie will run away.
drums of war.
Edith morris hemingway.
I vizulized a fince post that said fylidelfia on page98.
I fond the book hared to follow when they set up camp on page101.
Title:Fugitiv Factor
Author:Gordon Korman
Sentence Lead Starters:#11 & #14
Some inportant details I noticed were is wher Meg worked.The other inpotan deatail is why ther runing away from the cops.
This book make me whant to read more because it hes so many deatails in it.
Title:Gib And The Gray Ghost
Author:Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Sentence lead starter:#40,#25
I could interview Gib I would ask him why would he want to help this horse.would you really try to help a horse that is wild and dangerous.would rather get hurt or save this horse.
I think that it is kool how he would try to save a wild horse so it would die because in the story it said A handsome dapple gray horse that has been severely whipped and it look starved.I think thats just so nice of him to try to save that horse.I would try to help it if it look liked that.
Title: What Would Joey Do?
Author: Jack Gantos
Sentence Lead Starters: #6 & #29
This book makes me think about my great grandpa who died of lung cancer beacause Joey's grandma is about to die of lung cancer.
If I could be a character in this book I would be Joey.
Title: Captain Underpants
Author:Dav Pilkey
Sentence Lead Starters: #3 & #
A question I have about this book is why did the =2 boys David and Gorge draw pics of a bad towilot and then stuck it in the copier 2000 (whitch can copy any thing).ituirruvggivvgklvklbivlkgicici
Title:thecapture
Author:katheryn laskey
Sentence Lead Starters: 1# & #2
this book is great becaus it has my favoret animal which is an owl
Title:hatchet
Author:gary paulsen
Sentence Lead Starters: #1 & #33
I visualized brian creating his first fire and feeding it wood.
I thought this book was realistic
because it seams like it could happen.
Title:Hope was Here
Author:Joan Bauer
Sentence Lead Starters:Its all about a girl gets fired from her job and goes to Wisconsin to live with her aunt beacause she is no longer making money when she lives with her mom.Her aunt has her own diner and when hope works there she doesnt know how to do what shse need to do their she does what she does when she lived with her mom.One day she went to school and she met a boy name G.T and she likes him and he comes mostly everyday and she treis not to embarrase herself while he's there
Title:THE VISITOR
Aurther:K.A apelgate
I am reading the VISITOR it is about this girlthat has a secret and fi some one told you earth was under a silent attack you would think they are strange right i mean come on and if the same preson came up again would you look for a exit or just stay and don't think about it well this girl haves powers and she has four other friends that are to and they are not allowed to tell anyone about who they are i just started it and if you read it i beat you will find what the top secret is try it out ms. wicklunds room 103
Title:GOOSEBUMPS
Author:R.L.STINE
Sentence Lead Starters:#1 & #16
I visulized that the boys were scaared & shivering .Because the house had ghost's & was honted . Plus the only light that was ther was an onange & red one .
My feelings for the carecters , is i hope the don't die in the honted house or at least move to a diffrent house.
Title: The carnivorous Carnival
Author: Lemony Snicket
Sentence Lead Starters: #43 & 19#
I admire Violet because she is a good leader and a good big sister. Violet is creative and smart. Violet likes to invent things and she is good at it.
I think the illistrations are cool because they look like they were drawn.
title:wanted!
author:caroline B. cooney
sentence lead staters:#&#
i really would like to know why caroline called the book Wanted! I think the name of the book should have something to do about the fact that a little girl would drive without a driver's lisence's she could have hurt her self really bad.the title of the book should be some one help my dad.
Title:Someone To Love Me
Author:Anne Schraff
Sentence Lead Starters: #25
I think thatCindy realy didn't want to go to the basmant of that house. What i think will happen next is she will get in trouble by her mom for drinking with that guy.
Title:Breaking Dawn
Author:Stephenie Meyer
Sentence Lead Starters: #2 & #43
Bella remind s me of me because she is smart and she is a wonder fully plain girl that falls in love with a VAMPIRE!!!!! And that VAMPIRES name is Edward Cullen and he fall in love with her and that is something like what is happening to me but i can't say the name of the guy.
I admire edward because he is nice he has inspiered many Girl and guy all over that have read this book series.But most of all he does what it tkes to save what he disziers.
Title:Robinson Crusoe
Author:DEaniel Defoe
Sentence Lead Starters 10 or 12
I do not no why the lead starder hast to have a good begining.
title:hope was here.
author:joan bauer.
sentence lead starters:# ft #.
i understand why the auther named the book hope was here i think he did because her name is hopeand the people needed hope so he called it hope is here. i like the title because it is catchy.im not far in this book but so far it is awesome you should read it the lexile is 710.read it and enjoy it
Title:Shiloh
Author:Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Sentence Lead Starters:#37
To summarize this text, I would say
Marty a boy is being followed by a beagle. The dog belongs to a old guy named Judd. Judd was hitting the dog while he was trying to teach the dog to hunt. Shiloh the dog is constantly running back to Marty. Judd chains shiloh to keep him from running away.
This dog Shiloh reminds me of a dog that ran away. Just like Marty someone kept my dog for a while then someone returned. He ran away again may more times like Shiloh.
Title:a to z mysteries the orange outlaw
Author:ron roy
Sentence Lead Starters: #13 & 7#
after the book end i think they are going to find the prason who stole the oranges.
what i felt about this book is that it is stuipd and it was not good at the begining but it got batter at the ending
TITLE: the SECRETS OF DROON
AUTHOR: TONY ABBOTT
what happens is this boy erick he created the world of droon in his sleep and all of his friends go in it too because they helped to created it. this evil dragon comes to droon and distroys it.the dragon was looking for erick and to distroy him. there is a princes looking for help and. erick is looking for his old master to help him. Also the master lives in the most worst place where antone can live. he lives on acliff inside of a cave where he has snakes protecting.OH also the snakes breath fire. only the master knows the words to make them stop but the master never told the kids. so erick said a magical wod and lightning came out of there fingers and the snakes fell asleep.That is the part that i have read sofar.
Title: Twilight
Author: Stephine Meyer
Sentence Lead Starters:5 & 7
If I could talk to Edward out of Twilight I wouild ask why he would fall in love with Bella because it seems kinda weird that a vampire would fall in love with a human and because he loves her he riskes his own life for her.
When I read this book I feel scared and happy because Bella talks about her feelings toward Edward and how scared she was for him and in the end when she gets herself into trouble and almost dies. That is one reason why i felt scared and when she went to meet Edward's family it wasn't because she was going to go into a house full of vampires but because she thought that they won't like her.
Title:Stealing South
Author:Katherine Ayres
Sentence Lead Starters: 4# & 7#
The setting of this story is important because of the people trying to find slaves and who ever has a slave will be in trouble.
When I read this book I felt sorry for the slave because he had to get in this little space in the waggon until they got to where they were going.When they got to where they were going they got out and stated talking about how they were going to escort Noah to his family and thats what made me start to smile.
Title: Butt Ugly Martians
Author: Gerry Bailey & Henryk Szor
Sentence Lead Starters: #1 & #3
I visualize that 2 of the martians fell in a puddle of mud. I also imagine that the martians drove away in there butt ugly motor bikes as they call them.
I would like to know how Do-wah &B.Bop got stuck in the mud?
I alos wnat to know what their Motor bikes run on or what type of fuel?
pizathoTitle: Butt Ugly Martians
Author: Gerry Bailey & Henryk Szor
Sentence Lead Starters: #1 & #3
I visualize that 2 of the martians fell in a puddle of mud. I also imagine that the martians drove away in there butt ugly motor bikes as they call them.
I would like to know how Do-wah &B.Bop got stuck in the mud?
I alos wnat to know what their Motor bikes run on or what type of fuel?
Title:Slime Wars
Author:Debbie Dadey with her son,Nathan Dadey
Sentence Lead Starters: #1 I visualize in the book were the kids all louse the slime wars game and the kids all slide into the slime and i visualize that the kids feel in the book because i know how they feel and my brother and i fight all the time and he makes me so mad well at lest i know how the girls feeland if this book was true and i would feel sorry for the girls andi have some Questions for the author of this book how did you come up with the name slime wars? And how did you come up with a book like this it is the most awsome book i have ever read? And do you have any more books like this one i hope u do because this book is cool and if you have any more books like this one it will probily will be alot cooler.
Title:clockwork
Author:philip pullman
I dont know why the book is called clockwork because it seems like it never talks about cloks but i also have not read all of it.but so far it is a good book.
Title: Jackie's Nine
Author: Sharon Robinson
Sentence Lead Starters: 21&31
I wonder why the little rock 9 kept going back to the school if they were just going to keep getting hurt.
The genre of this book is non-fiction because it talks about the little rock nine and gives actual facts about the group.
Title:Fire Star
Author:Chris D'Lacey
Sentence Lead Starters:25 & 1
My Book Is Fire Star witch is the third book in a 4 book series. I think that when ever it is Febuary in the book I think that David will have to fight Gwilanna.
I dissagree with David when He kill Sophie. Because it was his best friends.
Title:Tom Sawyer
Author:Mark Twain
Sentence Lead Starters:21# & 18#
Th genre of this book is Realistic fiction. I wounder why Tom gets into so many fights, he is just going to get in trouble.
title; fruit basket
athor; natsuki takaya
fruit basket is a great book it is funny fruit basket is about a girl named tohru honda who was liveing in a tent becuase her mom died in a car crach and her dad walked out on them she was liveing whit her grandpa but then the house needed some work so he asked her if there was some where she could stay when he whent to florda to live whit her cuzens so tohru lid and is now live in a tint or was in the first book she meets the sohma famley the sohma famley is curesed but i whount roune the rest of the tory you have to read it for yourself or wacht it at justdubs .ciom
Title:Eclipse
Author:Stephenie meyer
Sentence Lead Starters: #2 & # 14
Edward reminds me of Christan York because he is very cute ,strong and will not let anything get in his way.But the great thing between Edward is that there love for something stays strong but if he loves something so much he should never let it go.Christan has a very good sence of humor like Edward.But Christan is not a vampire so there are somethings in comman but most thing are different because Christan is not BLOOD THIRSTY.
This book makes me want to read on because of the way that Meyer describes the chericters are and the way she discribes that setting of the place and when it is happening.
5Title:Twilight
Author:Stepine Myer
Sentence:I love him more than words can describe, #156
How does Bella really know she's in love with Edward?
Title:Twilight
Author:Stepine Myer
Sentence:I love him more than words can describe, #156 #157
If I could be any chareacter in this book I would be Bella, because Bella get's to be loved by a vampire, Edward, who is really hot also how does Bella know she's in love with Edward?
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