The City Of Ember

The City of Ember is a dark, poor city. Kids get jobs at 12 years old! A girl named Lina gets the job of a pipe works worker. A boy named Doon got the job Messenger. They traded jobs and now Lina has the job of a Messenger and Doon is a pipe works Worker. They embark on their journey as a messenger and pipe works worker.

This book helps my class with our inferencing and predicting skills. We use the clues in the book to predict what happens in the future and we also inference how the characters feel at times in the story. We predict what will happen in the next chapter.

Cry of the Taniwha Prejudice Example

Reflection

I have been identifying personalities in the book 'Cry of the Taniwha'. This piece of work is about a character named Matt. I found this work easy because I understood the book really well. My next step is to identify more traits about the character to help me understand the story better.

Popplet - Natural Disaster Brainstorm

Reflection:

I have been learning to record my research in my own words. I found summarising the information into my own words easy because my group helped me. I found this helpful for my narrative writing because I learnt a lot of facts about tsunamis. My next step is to use more interesting words to replace boring words.

Understanding a Character's Impact

Reflection

I was learning to understand the characters impact on the story. I felt curious about this learning. The thing that helped me most was was comparing characters because I wrote down lots about Leslie. My next step would be to use there same ideas when I read other books.

Comparing Characters

Reflection:

I was learning to compare characters. I compared Jesse and Leslie from Bridge to Terabithia. I thought this learning was easy because they were both very different to each other. My next step is to learn about who I am more like and what I have in common with these characters.