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Molly's reading comments for the 2010-11 school year

Your list has some excellent suggestions, Molly. I see nine good ideas here, with explanations, so I am awarding your team 18 house points!
 * Mr. Shaw 6.6.11**

Molly 6.5.11
Here is some advice for the fourth graders who are soon to be fifth: 1. Don't wait until the last night to do homework. If you leave it to the last minute you will not know what to do. Always try to do your homework the day you get it. You may think that in fifth grade there is a lot of homework but it is not as much as it seems. 2. Try to avoid getting oops slips. If you get three oops slips in one month then you will get a quiet room. You won't get oops slips or quiet rooms if you are doing what you are supposed to be doing and working hard. 3. Take your turn. If a teacher or a student is talking don't interupt them raise your hand and wait your turn. 4. Try your hardest and always do your best. Even if you don't know the answer to something at least try and put effort into it. Even if its not right you still tried. 5. Show the 6 pillars of character. If you show the 6 pillars of character you may win an award at the end of the year. The 6 pillars of character are Trustworthiness, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, Caring and Citizenship. You should show all of these pillars around the school. 6. Always offer to help the teacher. If a teacher looks like they might need help with something offer to help to make it easier for them. 7. Walk quietly. When you are in the hallway make sure you are in a straight line walking quietly. 8. Make sure that you are paying attention or you might not hear what the assignment or homework was. Don't start a side conversation with people around you. 9. And last but not least Have fun! Fifth grade isn't all about working. There are a lot of fun times. A, B, C countdown, fifth grade party, government and much more! In fifth grade you can have fun while working. That is my advice for the fourth graders.

** Mr. Shaw 5.29.11 **
Thanks for the thoughtful response to this week's question, Molly. You chose two books that are very different, but have strong connections to your own life. If Number the Stars was meaningful, then The Diary of Anne Frank might also be a good choice for you. Check out Joni's page for more details.

Molly 5.29.11
Right when I read the assignment for this week I thought of **Number The Stars**. It meant a lot to me. I enjoyed reading about the Holocaust. It meant a lot to me because my grandma and grandpa are Holocaust survivors. Knowing that they had to go though that is sad. After reading that book it changed how I thought of things. I used to think, oh it was just war but after I reading Number The Stars made me see how hard it was for most people to live back then and how much they struggled with life. I enjoyed reading it and would recommend it to you. Another book that stood out to me was **Jemma Hartman Camp Extraordinaire**. I enjoyed reading it because I could relate to it. I also go to overnight camp like Jemma. I read it before I went to camp so it gave me an idea of what camp is going to be like. Jemma struggles at camp because her best friend is going to camp with her but her cousin is coming also and Jemma's best friend Tammy is only spending time with her cousin. But Jemma finds a way to make the best of it and have fun at camp. Those are the two books that stood out to me the most and meant a lot to me.

Molly 5.22.11 For this week I will be writing about TV shows. Some popular TV shows are **Glee**, **American Idol**, The Voice and Celeberty Apprentice. **Glee** is about a school named McKinley High School named after William McKinley the 25th President of the United States. There is a club in the school called Glee club it is a singing group. On the next episode they will be traveling to New York for Nationals. Some of the characters are Finn, Puck, Artie, Rachel, Quinn and Brittney but there are more. Another popular TV show is **American Idol**. I have not seen it recently but I used to watch it. There is also another TV show called **The Voice** there are four judges who are Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Blake Shelton, and Adam Levine. For the additions the judges faced backwards in their chairs and listened to a person sing and if they liked their singing they would turn around. If only one judge turns around you are automaticly on that judges team, but if more then one judge turns around the judges that turn around need to give good reasons why that person should be on your team. The auditions are over now over and now two people from each team compete against each other and their judge pick who stays and who leaves. The last show I am going to talk about is **Celeberty Apprentice.** This show is hosted by Donald Trump. (By the way tonight is the finale). There are two teams boys and girls. They are assigned different tasks and they need to work together as a team. They had to open a pizza shop, write a children's book and much more. Each week one team wins and the losing team loses a player. I am not sure who the finalists are though.

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I like google docs. I think it is a good way to communicate with other people for this project and for other purposes. I like that when you are looking at the same document as someone else you can see that they are viewing it and you can chat with them. I also like that you can e-mail though google docs because if you weren't sure of something you could just e-mail a person who could possibly know. I find google docs a helpful and useful site. ======

Maddie 5/14/11 Your wiki entry was really interesting. I never new this about the chicago spots team till I read your wiki entry today.

Molly 5.12.11 Since it is a super free week I am going to write about Chicago Spots teams. First I am going to talk about the Chicago Cubs.  The Chicago Cubs play at Wrigly Field. They first were called The White Stockings. And later on in 1894 they became known as the Colts. The Chicago Daily News becomes first-known entity to pen "Cubs" nickname as the team's moniker. The nickname refers to the amount of young players the team has. The Cubs win a Major League record 116 games, enroot to taking the National League Championship by a comfortable 20 games. The Cubs then went to the World Series where they would take on the cross-town White Sox. Alternating games between the Westside home of the Cubs, and the Southside home of the Sox, the Cubs are upset by a weak hitting White Sox team dubbed "The hitless wonders", by the Chicago papers. Neither team won a home game until the White Sox closed out the series in the sixth game with an 8-3 win. Then in 1936 the Cubs were just five games short to get back in the World Series as they post a record of 87-67 while finishing in second place.  Next I am writing about the Chicago Bulls. They play at the United Center in downtown Chicago. The Chicago Bulls finished the regular season with the best record in the NBA. The Bulls also have the NBA NVP on their team who is Derick Rose. It is the Eastern Semifinals. They are playing the Atlanta Hawks seven times and the first team to win four games they go on to the Eastern finals to play Miami Heat. This is the first time the Bulls are going to the Eastern finals since Michael Jordan played for the Bulls. Now I am going to talk about Michael Jordan. He joined the Bulls in 1984. He gained a reputation for being one of the best defensive players in basketball. In 1991 he won his first NBA championship with the Bulls. In 1999, he was named the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century by ESPN and He was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame on April 6, 2009 and was inducted on September 11, 2009. Michael Jordan's "official" retirement was in 2003. But, he retired from basketball in 1993.

Molly 5.8.11  Joni Mary Elizabeth Bowser was on the Union side during the Civil War.  The book I am reading is called The Clique P.S. I Loathe You by Lisi Harrison. It is the tenth book in the series. Kristen is secretly being friends with Layne Abley? She needs to make up her mind. A) The Pretty Committee or B) The Witty Committee. Massie and the rest of the "Clique" except for Claire don't like Layne and they don't want them to be friends. The Pretty Committee forms a cheerleading squad and Layne is on it. Kristen is not on it because she is busy with soccer. Alicia is still the beta and Massie is still the alpha. The alpha is the head popular person and the beta is the person right under that. Is Alicia going to except still being the beta? She knows that Massie has always been the alpha but Alicia wants to. Meanwhile Massie found a new crush on Dempsey. Dylan likes Massie's old boyfriend. Now is Massie mad at Dylan?

**Joni 5.4.11** I can tell that you have learned a lot about spies so far. What side did Mary Elizabeth Bowser work for?

Molly 4.29.11 My topic for the civi war project is spies. I have learned a lot about spies. Spies during the civil war both took a lot of action. There were more Union spies then Confederate. Harriet Tubman was a spy. She was a spy for the Union. She was known for risking her life. She is also a valuable spy. She hid in swamps and forest and went behind the enemy lines of the South. She got african americans to help her being a spy. She took trips into the South and free slaves. Another spy I learned about is Allan Pinkerton. He was a spy for the Union as well as Harriet Tubman. For a period of time Allan was Washington's personal spy. He died in Chicago and is buried at Graceland Cemetary which is the one we visited in third grade. The last spy I learned about is Mary Elizebeth Bowser. In 1863 Mary joined a spy ring that was organized by Elizabeth Van Lew. There were 12 people in it. As a spy Mary got to read a number of secret military document including lists of troop movements, reports on moving Union prisoners, military strategies and treasury reports. She also overheard important conversations in the dining room about troop movments and other Confederate.

Molly 4.24.11 The book I am reading is called **The Clique Bratefest at Tiffany's by Lisi Harrison.** It is the ninth book in the series. The boys over at the school Briarwood are now going to school at OCD because the main water system that was used to fill the wave pool was punctured. Two hundred and fifty thousand gallons of water tore down the whole school. Massie and the rest of The New Pretty Committee are the alphas of the school (the cool kids). Now they are scared that the Briarwood boys are going to be the new alphas. There are so many kids now that some kids are having school in a trailer. Massie, Kristen,Dylan and Claire are so annoyed. Massie and the rest of the girls are getting so annoyed having school in the trailer. What will they do? Meanwhile Alicia is still having school in the regular building. After Massie and The New Pretty committee have thheir hearts broken by the Briarwood boys they say that none of them are allowed to date and if they do they wil be out of the pretty committee. They are going on what they like to call Boy Fast. Alicia still likes her boyfriend. She knows that if she doesn't listen to Massie she will be kicked out of the npc (New Pretty Committee). What will it be Massie or Josh?

Molly 4.12.11  Chloe, I think you would like **The Clique** series. The book I am reading is called **The Clique Sealed With A Diss.** One cause an effect is that Massie and the Pretty Committee found the special key that unlocks a room in OCD. The effect on that is that they get to go in that room whenever they want. I found one cause with two effects. The cause was Layne's brother Chris wasn't home. The two effects are that Massie lets her stay and that she went to the spa with The Pretty Committee. Another cause and effect is that Massie needs to help Skye and the effect is that if she does it right she gets to keep the secret room she unlocked at OCD and if she doesn't help her correctly then Skye will take the room away from her. Skye is a year older then them. She found the secret key that unlocked the secret room at OCD key last year.

Chloe 4.11.11 I agree with maddie by the way you described claire I can tell she is a hero. I think i might want to read those books

Maddie G. 4/3/11 Claire does sound like a hero on what you said. But I have not read the Clique books so I do not know much about her.

Molly 3.27.11 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #b83fde; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The hero I am picking is Claire from The Clique Dial L For Loser. I think Claire is a hero because she tries to keep her life peaceful and have no fights. She doesn't just do what everyone else does she would stand up for what she believes. In the story it says that Claire stayed when all of the other girls left. Claire is also a hero because she doesn't always have to be a part of everything. Claire is a layed back person. In the book it says Claire is a shy person. For example Claire pretty much never starts conversations because she is a shy person. I think being shy can make you a hero but it could also be a bad thing, but in this book it is a good thing. That is how Claire is a hero.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00bcff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Molly 3.19.11 <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00bcff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The book I am reading is called The Clique The Pretty Committee Strikes Back. Four girls Massie, Claire, Alicia and Dylan and the rest of the girls at their school are heading up to Lake Placid. Kristen couldn't come because she couldn't afford it. Massie, Alicia and Dylan offered to pay for her but she wouldn't let them. When they are boarding the bus Dylan totally freaks out! She finds out her mom is coming on the trip! She thinks that her mom is going to embarrass her to death. Dylan is trying to stay as far away as possible from her mom. While all the girls are having a fun time up in Lake Placid Kristen is stuck at home with her parents who make her work on her school work a lot. That is all I have read so far!

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #b306fe; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I am picking 2 new characters. The characters I am picking are Massie and Kristen. They are alike beucase they both friends with Alicia, Claire and Dylan. In the story it says that they have a sleepover together every friday night. Another way Massie and Alicia are alike is because they both have a secret. Kristen is actually poor and only Claire found out. Nobody else knows Kristen's secret. Massie also has a secret that only Alicia knows. Massie and Alicia want to get rid of Alicia's cousin Nina. <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #b306fe; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Massie and Alicia are different because Massie isn't athletic and Kristen is. Massie isn't involved in any sports. But Kristen is on the girls soccer team. In the book Kristen has missed events because she has something to do with soccer. Massie and Kristen are also different because Massie doesn't like Nina and Kristen does. Nina stole Massie's lip gloss. Nina is Alicia's cousin who is visiting from Spain. Before Nina left Spain Massie found out that she also stole her sisters boots.

Sounds like there are a lot of girls to keep track of in this book! I'm glad to see you used examples from the book to explain your points. Are there any other ways that Alicia and Kristin might be alike?
 * Mr. Shaw 3.6.11**

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ed97df; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Molly 3.3.11 <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ed97df; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The book I am reading is called The Clique Revenge of The Wannabes by Lisi Harrison. The two characters I picked from my book are Alicia and Kristen. They are different because Kristen is really focused in school work unlike Alicia who isn't. The author says that Kristen will be wrapping presents in the mall which is extra credit for school. Kristen and Alicia are also different because they are friends with different people. Kristen's friends are Massie, Claire and Dylan. Alicia is now friends with Olivia because Massie knew that Alicia and Olivia had cheated in the school uniform contest so Massie was being very rude to Alicia and Alicia didnt't like the way Massie was treating her. In the book Alicia says that she is tired of just being known as Massie's friend. Alicia wants to start her own clique. Alicia and Kristen are also alike. They are alike because they used to both be rude to Claire but now they are both friends with her. In the 1st book Kristen and Alicia were mean to Claire. But as you keep reading the 2nd and 3rd books you can tell they are friends with Claire because they hang out together with Claire.

Sydney 3.1.11 I have also read the Clique novels. You have done a great job explaining them.

**Molly 2.28.11**

 * Chloe, the author is //Lisi Harrison// and if the story were told by a boy I'm guessing there would be less drama.**

Chloe 2.27,11
Molly, you did a great job explaining the three books. By the way you described the books I think my favorite would be the second book. It sounds like these girls have lots of attitude. Can you imagine this book but told by a boy? Who is the author?

Maddie G. 2/27/11
You explained the book series really well. I think that I would want to read it when I am done reading my books.

Lily 2.27.11
I think you did a really good job! the way you explanied everything makes me want to read the series. i think i will when i am done with Harry Potter.

Molly 2.27.11
<span style="color: #2d28cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The book I am reading is called The Clique Revenge of The Wannabes.There are two books before this one in the series. The first one is called are about four girls Massie, Alicia, Kristen and Dylan. Massie is freaking out when she finds out that her dads old work partners family is moving into her guest house. Massie and her friends are rude to Claire who is Massie's dads work partners daughter. Massie and Clarie's families think that they are best friends. Read to find out what happens. T Then in the second book Best Friends For Never Massie is throwing a Halloween party at her house. Alicia meets a girl named Olivia there and becomes really good friends with her. Then later in the story all the girls at their school find out that they are going to have to wear school uniforms! The school has a contest for anyone to design an outfit for everyone to wear. Alicia and Olivia win so they get to go to New York and get a whole story done about them. Then in the third book Revenge Of The Wannabes Alicia and Olivia go to New York and get interviewed. Massie is getting mad at her because she is hanging out with Olivia a lot. Alicia is tired of being known as Massie's friend. She wants to start her own Clique.

I like how you put it in an angle the title of the book and the author!
Lily 2.20.11 good jod! nice details for each book!

Molly 2.17.11 <span style="background-color: #2bacda; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** One book that I really love is ** //**Jemma Hartman Camp Extraordinaire By Brenda Ferber.**// **I love it because I also go to overnightcamp. I also like this book because the book was based off the author. Brenda Ferber went to overnight camp so she wrote this book. I also like it because it is from Jemma's point of view. The last reason I like this book is because I can relate to Jemma (the main character) going to camp and having fun and meeting new people.** <span style="background-color: #2bacda; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**I couldn't pick one book so I also decided to pick the book** //**No Talking by Andrew Clemets.**// **I like this book because Dave and Lynsey come up with an idea to have a contest where nobody can talk. It is boys against girls and if you do talk your team loses a point. I find the idea very creative exept once the contest starts all of the kids don't answer the teachers and they are furious. I have liked all of** //**Andrew Clemets's**// **books that I have read so that makes this book one of my favorites.**

Nice work, Molly. I agree that characters in both books were treated badly, but in Willy's case, religion wasn't the reason.
 * Mr. Shaw 2.16.11**

<span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Molly 2.12.11 <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Number The Stars and War Comes To Willy Freeman are alike and different. They are alike because Annemarie and Willy both go through problems and struggles. For example Willy loses her mom and dad and Annemarie had already lost Lisa. They are also alike because people get treated badly because of their religion. Willy gets treated badly because she is african american and Ellen gets treated badly because she is Jewish. Number the Stars and War Comes To Willy Freeman are different because they were in different time periods.Number The Stars takes place sooner to our time period then War Comes To Willy Freeman. They are also different because in Number The Stars they save Ellen's family by sneaking them in a boat to. In War Comes To Willy Freeman Uncle Jack Willy is saved in court and Uncle Jack is let out of jail and they are both free.

**Molly 1.23.11** <span style="color: #33a33b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**The book I am reading is called The Baby-Sitters Club the Summer Before. In the beginning of the book Kristy comes up with the idea of starting a baby sitters club. That would mean that her, Mary Anne, Stacey and Claudia would babysit children together. But then Stacy finds out that she will be moving to Stoneybrook, Connecticut. After that Claudia has her birthday party. A couple of days after Claudia's birthday Kristy's will be coming up soon. Mary Anne wants to make a special day called Kristy Day. It would be the say after her birthday. Mary Anne thought it would cheer her up because she misses her dad and wants to see him. Then a couple of days later Stacey left to move to Stoneybrook, Connecticut. Once she got there she relized that it was so much quieter and calmer then New York. Next Kristy has her birthday dinner with Mary Anne. Claudia couldn't make it to the dinner. They sat outside. Kristy said she wished her dad would have come because she misses him so much. The next day was Kristy Day. Mary Anne was the leader of Kristy Day. Her and some of the kids that her and Kristy babysit also came. They walked down the street with a big banner that said We Love You Kristy.**

Molly 1.14.11 Thanks Joni and Liam! Also Joni, the //Genius Files// sounded very good when Ms. Wiess read us the beginning of it.
 * Molly 1.22.11**
 * Sydney, I am reading the real book.**

Great job Molly! I also think that your effort in trying to read for longer periods of time is a great pursuit. I also think that your comments on Number the Stars are very good.
 * Liam 1/13/11**

<span style="color: #b306fe; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Great job, Molly! I can tell that you put a lot of effort into your last entry. I like how you related yourself or people who are close to you to your most memorable books. I also want to read **Genius Files!**
 * <span style="color: #b306fe; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Joni 1.13.11 **

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ed26ed; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Molly 1.12.10 <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ed26ed; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I have changed and grown as a reader because I try to read harder books and read for longer periods of time. Also on the wiki I describe what I am reading better and write more. I normally like to read. If I don't like a book or don't understand it then that is when I usually don't enjoy reading. The most memorable books I have read would be Number The Stars and Jemma Hartman Camp Extraordinaire. Number The Stars was a memorable book to me because my grandma and grandpa were Holocaust survivors, and Jemma Hartman Camp Extraordinaire was memorable to me because I can relate to Jemma going to overnight camp. Some books I might want to read in the future are ttyl and Luv Ya Bunches. I found out about these books because I have read other books also by the author Lauren Myracle. One other book I want to read has not come out yet but is called The Genius Files by Dan Gutman.

<span style="background-color: #2bacda; color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Sydney 1/19/11 Nice entries Molly! I've read a graphic novel of the Baby-Sitters club. Are you reading the real book or the graphic novel as well?

<span style="color: #2d28cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Molly 1.9.11** <span style="color: #2d28cc; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**The book I am reading is called The Baby-Sitters Club the Summer Before by Ann M Martin. It is about four girls named Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia and Stacey. One conflict in the story is that Stacey is going to be moving. She will be moving to Stoneybrook, Connecticut. She doesn't want to leave her friends behind. Another conflict in the book is that Mary Anne's parents treat her like a baby. She needs to prove that she is no longer a little girl. The last conflict is that Kristy misses her dad a lot and wants him to come back home.**


 * Molly 1.9.11**
 * Yes Joni the other books in the series are Found (which is the first one) and Sabotaged. (which is the one after Sent).**

Joni 1.4.11 Molly, **Sent** sounds like a great book. Are the other books in the series as good as the first one?

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Molly 12.13.10 <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The first book I am picking is Sent by Margaret Peterson Haddix. I would recommend this book to Joni and Tyler. I would recommend this to them because I think that they likes books that put a picture in you head, and Found would defenetly do that! In the beginning a plane at Sky Trails Air lands unexpectedly. Someone goes on the plane to see what happened and there is no pilot. Only 36 babies. After that the real story starts. It is about a boy named Jonah. He and his his friend Chip are adopted. Jonah's parents don't like to talk about his adoption with him. Jonah gets these mysterious letters saying You are one of the missing. The second letter says Beware! They're coming to get you. Then Chip also gets a letter saying You are one of the missing. Now Jonah and Chip are curious. What will happen?

<span style="color: #ff00cf; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">My second book that I am picking is The Kind Of Friends We Used To Be by Frances O'roark Dowell. I would recommend this book to Sloane, Maddie Shapiro and Lexi. I would recommend this book to them because of the characters personalities. This book is about two friends Marylin and Kate. Maryln is a cheerleader and Kate likes to play guitar. Marylin is friends with the head cheerleader Mazie who doesn't like Kate one bit. Marylin and Kate are the complete opposite. Neither Maylin or Kate want to change themselves. Will there relationship work out?

Molly 12.13.10 Chloe and Liam you were correct the lie was line number 2!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">﻿Liam 12/9/10 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Is the lie number 2?

Chloe 12.9.10 Is the lie number 2???

Molly 12.7.10 The book I am reading is Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Ugly Truth. Here are my two truths and my lie. 1. Greg tries out for the Peachy Breeze role 2. Greg takes care of Ms. Groves dog 3. Greg gets a maid named Isabella Guess my lie!

Molly 12.5.10 Good job Danielle! That is correct it is No Talking by Andrew Clemets. Danielle 12.5.10 Is it No Talking?

Molly 12.5.10 Sorry Kayla that is not correct. Good try!

Kayla 12.4.10 Is it The Kind of friends??????

Molly 12.4.10 The main characters name is Dave. There is a contest between the girls and boys. The teachers demand that the contest stops. The boys captain is Dave and the girls captain is Lynsey. There grade is know as the “The Unhushables”.

What's my book?

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Molly 11/21/10 <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I just started a book called The Kind of Friends We Used To be by Francess O'roark Dowell. The character I picked from my book is Kate. One way I would describe Kate is a tomboy. One example is that when she goes shopping for shoes she buys these black lace up heavy boots. Another one of her traits I would say is that she is shy. An example of that is when Marylin goes to talk to some girls Kate won't go over there to talk with them because she is nervous. The last way I would describe Kate is that she doesn't care what people think of her. I am not very far in the book yet but I can predict that she is going to stay the way she is and not try to change herself even though others may want her to.

Maddie G. 11/20/10 Found sounds like a mysterious book!

Molly, you told us quite a bit about Chip, but you are describing plot events. What are Chip's traits and motives? (Please re-read the assignment for Nov. 8-14.) Thanks!
 * Mr. Shaw 11.20.10**

Molly 11/13/10 The book I am reading is called Found by Margaret Peterson. As my character I chose Chip. Chip is a person who is determined. THat means that he doesn't like to wait for things. He is determined because he wants to find out who his birthparents are. He also doesn't give up. I could also say that Chip is curious. He is curious about his adoption and his past. His parents don't like talking about his adoption and birthparents. Since his parents don't tell him much about his adoption he wants to figure it out with the help of Jonah and his sister Katherine. Read to find out what happens!

Maddie 11/4/10 I agree with what you said about Uncle Henrick.

Lexi 11/3/10 Great describing Uncle Henrik and what he did to help the jewish people.

Joni 11/3/10- I think that you did a very good job of describing what Uncle Henrik did in the book that made you pick him as the one to write about for this assignment.

Molly 11/3/10 The character I most admired from Number the Stars would be Uncle Henrik. I admire him the most because he helped the the Rosen family so much by letting them stay at his house and for letting them use his boat to send them to Sweden secretly so they can be safer from the Nazis because there are not a lot of soldiers in Sweden unlike Copenhagen. Well some of the words that I saw on the wall at the Holocaust Museum described it made me think of some of the characters in Number the Stars. I saw the word brave and I thought of Ellen because she stayed without her parents during the war for a while and when I saw the word sister I either thought of Annemarie or Kirsti because they are both sisters to each other. Also that when I was playing the frog game you had to be an up stander and help the frogs on the lilypads and save them.

Molly 10/31/10 Right now I am reading //Found by Margaret Peterson.// I am not to far into it yet but I still can tell you about it so far. It is about a boy named Jonah and his friend Chip. Jonah is adopted. They start getting these weird letters. One of them say "YOU ARE ONE OF THE MISSING" and the other one says "Beware! They're coming back to get you." First Jonah gets the letter that says "YOU ARE ONE OF THE MISSING." And then Chip gets one. They both think that it is a prank. But after Jonah got his second letter that says "Beware! They are coming back to get you" they think that something is going on. Read to find out what happens next!

Molly 10/15/10 I am still reading Thirteen Plus One by Lauren Myracle. Another character in my story is Sandra. Sandra has long blond hair. Sometimes she can be mean to Winnie her younger sister but she still loves her. Sometimes Sandra makes bad choices. Like she tried to sneak into a place without telling her mom or dad. Her problem is that she will be going to college and she is going to miss her sister Winnie and not have someone to be there for her and to support her. I like Sandra, although I would rather be Winnie because Winnie doesn't make bad choices.

Molly 10/15/10 Yes Maddie! I have read Elven, Twelve and Thirteen. Have you read any of them?

Thanks for describing Winnie. What did you mean when you wrote " I think it is probably going to be her without her sister Sandra around to help her? "
 * Mr. Shaw 10.12.10**

Maddie 10/11/10 Have you read any of the other books in the series? If you did were they good?

Molly 10/10/10 The book I am reading is called //Thirteen Plus One by Lauren Myracle.// It is about a girl named Winnie. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She is in eighth grade. She likes to play with her baby sister Maggie. In the book she acts kind of worried but is also sad. She acts worried because her sister Sandra will be heading to college next year so Winnie won't have her around when she starts high school. It will just be her, her brother Ty and her sister Maggie. And she is sad because it is her birthday and her friends don't bake her a cake and neither do her mom and dad so nothing that exciting happened. I like Winnie, I think it is probably going to be her without her sister Sandra around to help her because she will be at college. What will happen next?

Lily 10/3/10 I like how you explained what you are reading. I think you did a good jod. i cant wait to see what happend next!

Molly 10/3/10 The book I am reading is called No Talking by Andrew Clements. It is about a boy named Dave and a girl named Lynsey they are both in class together. Dave is a quiet boy and doesn't like to talk a lot. Dave thinks that girls have cooties and are annoying and Lynsey thinks that boys have cooties and are annoying. Their fifth grade is so noisy that every day a teacher or the principal always has to tell them to be quiet. Dave and Lynsey both don't like each other. Dave says to Lynsey that, "If you had to be quiet for five minutes, I bet the whole top of your head would explode!" So Lynsey is now mad at Dave. Then Lynsey and Dave make a deal. The deal is that they both won't talk for two days straight unless someone at the school is talking to them but you can only use three words. What will happen next? I like this book because it has a lot of details and that it is a realistic fiction so it could actually happen.

Molly 9/22/10 I just finished the book //Jemma Hartman Camp Extraordinaire By Brenda Ferber.// The main character is Jemma. She plans to spend the whole summer with her best friend named Tammy.. But when Jemma finds out that Tammy's cousin Brooke will be at camp with them she gets a little mad. The setting is at Camp Star Lake and Jemma's counselors name is Darby .Brooke is not nice so nice to Jemma because she wants to steal Tammy from her and for her and Tammy to be best friends. At camp Jemma meets a girl named Deleny. People think that Deleny is weird but Jemma gets to know her and they become friends. Brooke, Tammy, Jemma and Deleny all take sailing together. There is a big race called the Star Lake Cup and Jemma plans to do it with Tammy, so Jemma asks Tammy but she says that Brooke asked already and she promised that she would do it with her. Jemma gets mad at Tammy and they have a fight because Jemma and Tammy were supposed to do it together but Brooke's parents are getting divorsed and Brooke is lonely so Tammy offers to do it with her. Jemma decides to do it with Deleny. Who will win the race? The word in my book is sheepish. It is used like this, "Darby had a sheepish look on her face." Sheepish means an embarrassed look.

Tessa9/21/10 Really good details I just finshed the book !!!

Kayla 9/19/10 Awsome details and did you know that I am also reading the same book to.

Molly 9/17/10 I am reading a book called //Jemma Hartman Camp Extraordinaire by Brenda Ferber.// It is about about two girls named Jemma and Tammy and they are best friends. Tammy and her family are going to be moving to Chicago but Jemma lives in Deerfield. They are going to be going to Star Lake Camp in northern Wisconsin together. So the next day they leave for Camp Star Lake. The conflict is that when they are on the bus Jemma finds out that Tammy's cousin Brooke will be at camp with them. Jemma gets kind of mad because her and Tammy planned to spend the whole summer together. But on the bus Jemma planned to sit with Tammy but Tammy says that Brooke wanted to sit with her. So Jemma gives up her seat for them to sit in. Jemma finds a new seat and sits with a girl named Kat. Kat has a twin sister named Annie. They tell Jemma all about camp because they were there last year. Will Jemma and Tammy still be friends? I like the way the author explains things clearly so you understand the book well, and that she based the book off herself. Sydney-9/15/10-I love those authors!

Molly 9/12/10 The book I am reading is called //Ramona and Her father by Beverly Cleary.// It is about a girl named Ramona. The coflict is that Ramona's father loses his job and they don't have a lot of money. Another conflict is that Ramona's Dad smokes and Ramona is worried about him so she tries to get him to stop smoking. They end up being all right and Ramona's father stops smoking and get's a job. My book relates to Rope Burn because they both are in a problem but they both find a way out of it.

Lexi 8/29/10 you did a great job explaining about your book.

Mr. Shaw 8/29/10

Thanks for telling us about **Ramona the Pest**. I see that you're not the only one in our class reading a Ramona book right now. Did you choose this book because you saw the Ramona movie this summer, or were you already a Ramona fan? By the way, please remember to put your name and date at the beginning of each entry, like I have done on mine. Thank you!

Molly 8/29/10 The book I am reading is called Ramona the Pest. It is about a girl named Ramona and she is going to kindergarten with her best friend Howie. Ramona is excited like Howie, but Howie thinks it will be just like Preschool. When Ramona meets her new teacher Miss Binney, Miss Binney says, "Sit here for the present". So Ramona says, "Okay". Ramona decides to tell everyone that Miss Binney is gong to give her a present because she likes her the best. But later that day they were singing the national anthem and they were supposed to stand up but Miss Binney told her to sit there for the present so she doesn't stand up and Miss Binney asks her why she isn't standing and Ramona said because you told me to sit here for the present. But then Miss Binney explains to here she meant sit there for now. Then when Ramona gets home she tells her mom she doesn't like kindergarten as much as she thought. What willl happen next? I like to read a lot because if there is a good part I get interested and keep reading. I like the authors Beverly Cleary and Brenda Ferber.