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T- Tell me something about what you read
EX- Write out an EXcerpt from the book (with citation) related to the most significant or pivotal point in the reading
Example: "My father was crying. It was the first time I saw him cry. I had never thought it possible" (Wiesel 19).
T- Try to understand better by asking a question
Y- How does it relate to you? OR, if it does not relate to you; How did reading this make you FEEL?
EX- Write out an EXcerpt from the book (with citation) related to the most significant or pivotal point in the reading
Example: "My father was crying. It was the first time I saw him cry. I had never thought it possible" (Wiesel 19).
T- Try to understand better by asking a question
Y- How does it relate to you? OR, if it does not relate to you; How did reading this make you FEEL?
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The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins
ReplyDeleteP: That it is fictionalizing the life of photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis
M: That in the book the father abandons his wife. "Absorbed in his myth making, the photographer abandoned his family for years at a time; his wife, Clara, finally divorced him in 1919."
I: That it switches between 3 different point of views
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
P: "the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima."
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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
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Michael Lee
ReplyDeleteT- Greg mortenson gets kidnapped
EX- when he got arrested
T- Why did he have to go through all of that? What was all that about?
Y- I have money like him too!
isnt this supposed to be for the texty? chaos confuses me...
ReplyDeletealso, what does michael mean when he says "i have $ like him"?
T-mortenson goes to a city that housed osama bin laden (is that spelled right?)
E-he gets kidnapped! O M G!
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T-why did he get captured??? i dont understand what happened!
Y-ive heard of all kinds of people getting kidnapped! is there no safe place anywhere?! everywhere theres people, there are killers!
T. Greg gets into a misunderstanding.
ReplyDeleteEX. When he gets abducted.
T. Why did they do that?
Y. Everybody gets into misunderstandings every day, its just a question of how bad its going to end.
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ReplyDeleteT=What!!!!!? Greg Got ubducted!
ReplyDeleteEX=He got to be the most greatly treated prisoner ever.
T=Why did they Ubduct him!? Did they just get bord and think it would be fun to neglect their brains? And ubduct some random person?
Y=I'm gald that has never happen to me.:)
T: The people want Greg to build more schools
ReplyDeleteEX: Gregs baby is coming soon!
T: What was the deal with the whole soccer thing?
Y: i have had a dream that i was being kidnapped
What are Kalashnikovs?
ReplyDeleteGreg gets kidnapped O.o
I hope I never get kidnapped...EVER
T- Greg gets kidnapped
ReplyDeleteE- he is in a wharehouse with all these wepons in it
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T- TO anser kelly they kidnapped him because he was american
Y- were do these people get these wepons to sell to other people
t- greggy gets kidnapped.
ReplyDeleteex.- legless boy crab-walks out of the way of a moving truck.
t- did they kidnap greggy because they know of his plan to build the school or because he's white?
y- i saw that some people in the middle east got kidnapped on the news
T-mortenson goes to a city that housed osama bin laden i think it is cool that he saw him haha
ReplyDeleteE-he gets kidnaped wow i did see that coming
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T-i dont really understand why he got taken haha
Y-is there any where safe on that side of the world for whaite people are always getting taken