Hi Kids!
It's time to crack open a book -- we have a book review project that will take you 6 weeks to complete. First step: choose a nonfiction book of LITERARY MERIT, and start reading! During the month of March, we'll enjoy SSR Mondays -- that's FIVE Mondays in a row where your only responsibility is to read your book, to annotate and take notes, and to discover what it is to write a book review (it will be an argument; describe your book; make your case for/against or negotiate a border; support it with textual evidence; use appeals [logos, ethos, pathos]; use rhetorical moves to convince your reader to read the book or to fling it into the deep blue sea).
To get full credit for SSR Monday, you must read THE SAME BOOK, and make progress, week after week.
This Shelfari page has 63 titles that would be appropriate; Shannon Manquero, our sharp-as-a-tack Library Lady, will help me add to this list as we go along...plus, you have input! If you find a book that you think would be appropriate (AP level), bring it to my attention and I'll give you a thumbs up or down.
Have fun choosing a book to read...there's quite a diverse collection on this Shelfari page. You must have a book selected by the first SSR Monday, which is March 3rd.
Finally: get ready for The Awakening. That is a quick but important little novel that we will whip through in about 3 weeks; we'll check that out the week of February 25.
