My favorite book last trimester was My Sister's Keeper by Sarah Picoult. There were many things I liked about it. You can click on the link to see where you can buy it. One of these things was how easy it was to relate to the characters. Since this book is about a situation that hardly anyone has been through, I thought it would be very heard to relate to. But Sarah Picoult describes how her characters, Kate and Anna, feel about having to do whatever it takes to keep them alive. These feelings are not unlike how any teenager feels throughout his or her high school career.
Another thing I liked about this book was the plot. The author kept the reader, me, very interested the entire way through. There were many plot twist that kept me turning the pages such as when their lawyer had a seizure in the middle of the hearing. Also, there was lots of suspense added in each chapter. In the beginning, we know that Kate is in a lawyers office but we don't know why. I became intrigued and had to read to find out. Once I found that out, the book led me to wonder other questions and that carried on until the resolution.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Blog Reflection
My quality of writing since beginning my blog has improved dramatically. For instance, I have grown in preventing spelling errors. On one of my first posts, I spelled argument wrong. This I have corrected because I spelled all of the words right on the last few of my posts. Also, I have have become more specific in the details. Towards the beginning of this project I had done well because I included parts from the text, but the actual details were not specific enough. Since in both blogs I wrote about text to text connections, I can compare them. My first blog only consisted of a four line connection, but my last one was five paragraphs long!
One thing I did struggle with this trimester was finding things to write about. Once I covered the topics on the rubric, I wasn't sure what to do. I found my writing becoming repetitive because I had no other ideas. I overcame this by thinking harder and spending more time planning my blogs. I also looked at my classmates blogs when I was commenting and was inspired by theirs. One strength I had while blogging was including text from my book. I think in most of my blogs there was actual text evidence to prove my point. I did not meet my reading goal because I set it for a year instead of one trimester. I updated goodreads.com pretty frequently, but mostly I used it to find a new book to read when I needed one. Lastly, I have improved as a reader over the course of the trimester because I have noticed the connections, setting, and more in my book so that I could blog about it. I think I will continue to notice these and even if I do not blog about it, it will allow me to better understand.
One thing I did struggle with this trimester was finding things to write about. Once I covered the topics on the rubric, I wasn't sure what to do. I found my writing becoming repetitive because I had no other ideas. I overcame this by thinking harder and spending more time planning my blogs. I also looked at my classmates blogs when I was commenting and was inspired by theirs. One strength I had while blogging was including text from my book. I think in most of my blogs there was actual text evidence to prove my point. I did not meet my reading goal because I set it for a year instead of one trimester. I updated goodreads.com pretty frequently, but mostly I used it to find a new book to read when I needed one. Lastly, I have improved as a reader over the course of the trimester because I have noticed the connections, setting, and more in my book so that I could blog about it. I think I will continue to notice these and even if I do not blog about it, it will allow me to better understand.
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