City of Ember

Reflection

At the start of this term are class started a book called The City Of Ember.  Our task was to go on to a website called Tagul.  We start it by thinking of words about your topic, then you choose a shape that is related to your topic.  Then you choose your fonts and the layout of the words.  The Book has lots of  question and and instructions on what to do.

We are reading the City of Ember as a class. We are working on inferencing and predicting and summarising for the rest of the class.  I think it's really confusing sometimes because sometimes one chapter is about one character and then another is about a different character.  Sometimes it's about both.   

Cry of the Taniwha Prejudice Example

Reflection 
I have been reading Cry of the Taniwha, and I have learnt to identify the characters personalities and how they act.  I found this tricky finding ideas on Scott Murray and examples of him because the things that people thought about him were really violent and I was trying to remember exactly how he is inside.  It was tricky trying to remember parts of the story.  I most enjoyed how I had to find the information and not copy someone else's work.  Next time I think I could work on a the main character because I think this might be a little easier.

Understanding a Character's Impact

I was learning how to understand a character's impact.  I found it Easy but at the same time it was hard because it was hard writing the obituary but easy getting ideas.  My next step is to use this skill for another novel.

comparing characters

I was learning to compare characters. I compared Jesse and Leslie from Bridge to Terbithia. I thought this learning was easy because I knew lots about Bridge to Terbithia. My next learning step is to maybe do a bit more about Jesse and Leslie.