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Title: Fairest

Author: Gail Carson Levine

DESCRIPTION (SUMMARY):

A young girl named Aza has one of the best qualities in all of Ayortha. Her singing voice. Aza does not, however, have the other quality in Ayortha, which is beauty. Aza goes on a magical journey and soon becomes a lady-in-waiting for the queen. The queen demands many different and difficult orders. Along the way, Aza also meets a prince named Ijori, gnomes, and ogres.

RECOMMENDATION:

I recommend this book to girls and boys, ages 10-13. This book is a fantasy book, so for anyone who loves fantasy and fiction mixed together this is a great book.

You can find this book at Kidsbooks, and Chapters Indigo

BACK OF THE BOOK:

Aza’s singing is the fairest in all the land, and the most unusual. She can “throw” her voice so it seems to come from anywhere. But singing is only one of the two qualities prized in the Kingdom of Ayortha. Aza doesn’t possess the other: beauty. Not even close. She’s hidden in the shadows in her parents’ inn, but when she becomes lady-in-waiting to the new queen, she has to step into the light-especially when the new queen demands a dangerous favor. A magic mirror, a charming prince, a jealous queen, palace intrigue, and an injured king twine into a maze that Aza must penetrate to save herself and her beloved kingdom.

CHERUB:The Recruit

This is the first book in the cherub series it introduces the main characters and is very adventurous and mysterious. James choke lives with his mother but when his stepdad comes with a beer bottle she ends up drinking beer with her medication which ends up killing her. James is forced to go to a foster home in Nebraska because his stepdad doesn’t want James but he took James’ sister so now James can only visit her once a month. James’ roommate Kyle is a neat freak which James hates and they always get into arguments but Kyle ends up being the person who recruits James to CHERUB a secret spy agency for kids.

I recommend this to Boys ages 11-15 girls ages 11-13

you can get this book at the school library, kids books, chapters, vancouver public library and most libraries and bookstores.

Title: The Devil’s Arithmetic

Author: Jane Yolen

Description/Summary:

Hannah doesn’t understand why she has to celebrate every Jewish holiday with her grandparents. Why cant she celebrate Easter instead of Passover? Or Christmas instead of Hanukkah, just like her other friends?

Her grandparents are Holocaust survivors, and her grandfather has incredibly extreme reactions towards any mention of it, and Hannah doesn’t understand why we should remember. Then, when she is asked to open the door for Elijah at the seder, she finds herself in a shtetl in Poland, where everything is different...

She discovered that this ‘Chaya’, that everyone seems to think she is, has just lost her parents, and recovered from the sickness that killed them. She used to live in Lublin, but now lives with her aunt and uncle, Gitl and Shmuel. Suddenly, her life turns upside down, when she finds that the year is 1942, and that her and all her family being transported into a concentration camp, where only she knows what will happen, and how many Jews will be killed. Hannah now understands why it is so important to remember, she will never forget... If she survives.

Recommendation:

I recommend this book to kids from the age of 10-12. It was an easy read, but it gets very sad at some parts. I also recommend this book to people who like historical fiction, because it did happen, just not exactly in Hannah’s story.

Where to Find it:

You can find this book in our classroom library, the school library, and at Chapters.

Back of the book:

When Hannah opens the door during Passover Seder to symbolically welcome the prophet Elijah, she suddenly finds herself in the unfamiliar world of a Polish village in the 1940’s. Hannah had always complained about listening to her relatives tell the same stories of the Holocaust over and over but now she finds herself in a terrifying situation. The Nazi soldiers have come to take the villagers away, and only Hannah can guess where they are going.

Joelle 6a

Dani's Book talk

Dani's Book Talk

A Company of Swans: by Eva Ibbotson

Summary: The book A Company of Swans is about a young women Harriet who finds herself in a number of predicaments and in love. Harriet is brought up in a non-loving family without a mother and with ought many friends. She is set to marry someone who she doesn’t love and is promised a life of misery. Harriet is not happy with this life to be and runs away to Brazil and finds friends, love, and much more. The problem is her old life is catching up with her. Her husband to be is trying to bring her back to the miserable life in England. She to servivee this adventure she has to be cunning, smarts, and keep sane.

Hook: There was no lovelier view in England, Harriet knew this. To her right, the soaring towers of King’s College Chapel and the immaculate lawns sloping down to the river’s edge; to her lefts, the blue and gold of the scillas and daffodils splashed in rich abundance between the trees of the Fellows’ Gardens. Yet as she leaned over the stone parapet of the bridge on which she stood, her face was pensive and her feet- and this was unusual in the daughter of a professor of classics in the year 1912 – were folded in the fifth position.

I would recommend this book to mostly girls’ ages 10 – 14. I would also recommend this to people whom like dancing because it has many dancing references. The book A Company of Swans is available at chapters, kids books, and the class library.

Book Talk

The Battle of the Labyrinth (By: Rick Riordan)

This book is about a boy named Percy Jackson who is a half-blood (half human half god). The Titan lord Kronos is trying to take over mount Olympus. Percy Jackson and his friends must navigate through and underground maze called the Labyrinth, to try and find Kronos and stop him.

Hook: Imagine being 14 years old, half human, half god and you must go on an insanely dangerous quest with only a sword and you have to fight the titan lord. You are wondering how anybody can do this... well Percy Jackson is going to take a shot at it.

I would recommend this book to people in grade five and up. I would also recommend this book to people who enjoy adventure and Greek mythology.

The Battle of the Labyrinth is available at Kidsbooks, Book Warehouse and Mrs. Weintraub’s library.

Book Talk

Book Talk: The Thirty Nine Clues… the Maze of Bones

By: Seth Book

My name is Seth and my book is called The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan.

Summary: This book is about two kids named Amy and Dan Cahill whose parents died and they live with their wealthy grandmother Grace in her mansion. Everything is fine until she passes away as well. All of the Cahill family is brought to Grace’s mansion for her lawyer to explain her will. The lawyer says that there are two options: One is to take 1 million dollars and leave, or two is to get the first clue of thirty nine to make you the most powerful human being in all of history. Which one would you choose?

Hook: Imagine, your parents die and you leave with your grandmother and then she passes away. Then you are forced to live with your weird aunt. Your grandmother leaves a will for you for 1 million dollars. Or one clue to thirty nine more clues, that is, to be the most powerful human being in history. Hard decision am I right? Well Dan and Amy Cahill will have to make it.

I would recommend this book to people ages 10 to 13. I would also recommend this book to people who like suspense, action, adventure and mystery.

The Maze of Bones is available in the school library, Kidsbooks, Chapters and Book Warehouse.

Homework

Finish your essay notes for Monday

Kira-Kira, book talk

Title: Kira-Kira

Author: Cynthia Kadohata

Description/hook:

Katie was six when her parents Asian foods grocery store went broke. Thats when most of her life changed.

She moved to a new city (Chesterfield, Georgia), new school and her parents had a new job working in a chicken hatchery, where the minimum wage was only a few dollars an hour. Luckily, Katie’s uncle Kutsuhisa and the small community of Japanese people were very welcoming. Katie had her very supportive, genius sister Lynn, who thought of everything as Kira-Kira; glittering, and her brother Sammy, who was always fun to play with.

But, when Lynn (katie’s sister) got very ill her mom and dad had to work extra shifts at the hatchery, and only had time to focus on her. Things got very tough in the Takeshima family. The only hope that Katie had left, was to show her family that there is always something glittering; Kira-Kira.

Recommendation: I recommend this book to boys and girls in grades 5-7 who enjoy realistic fiction, a bit of adventure and a story that will touch your heart. It is a very moving narrative about a young japanese girl who lives an extremely hard life. I think you can learn plenty of lessons from this novel and realize how lucky you are.

Where you can find this book: Kira-Kira is available in our classroom library and at chapters indigo.

Plagiarism

Information from: IU code of students rights, responsibilities and conduct, youtube: paulrobesonlibrary.

Plagiarism is taking someones ideas, or words without giving them credit. This can be done without knowing it but it is still plagiarism. Giving credit can be in the form of footnotes, quotes, and others.

There are some ways that you can prevent plagiarism. One of which are putting the source right after the idea, or quotes. Those are just a few of the ways that you can prevent plagiarism. Also when you take notes put them in quotes. Make sure that you are not just putting one or two words different.

Paraphrasing is when you use your own words but keep someone else idea. Most people don’t even relies they do this when writing because it is so commonly used. You still have to put the source on the page. You also can’t just change or switch some words around they have to be original.

Japanese Schools

According to Web Japan, elementary school lasts six years, middle school lasts three years, and high school lasts three years and university for four years. Also, parents enroll their children for their first year of school in the month of April, just after they have turned six years old. According to Wikipedia, there are daycares with similar activities to those in kindergarten for kids three to five years old. According to Web Japan, in an ordinary elementary classroom there are usually about 30-40 children in each class. Children study many subjects such as: Japanese, science, socials, math, gym and arts. Many schools are also starting to teach English. Most schools have computers and easy access to the internet. According to Wikipedia, almost all students choose to go on to the upper secondary level. Though some choose not to. Students that attend the lower secondary level tend to go to public secondary schools. While private schools are more popular for students in upper secondary or university.(Wikipedia and Web Japan) -Salome

Eragon by: Christopher Paolini (Book Talk)

This bok is about a young man named Eragon who finds his life turned upside down and inside out in one night. When he finds a polished blue oval stone he thinks that it mught buy him, his cousin and his uncle some food and clothes for the winter. He's not expecting it to be a dragon egg. When the dragon hatches, he thinks he can hide it, but he's seriously mistaken! There are suddenly strangers in town that are looking for a stone; they are describing it as a polished blue oval stone. Eragon and his dragon Saphira are forced to flee, all they have are the clothes on Eragon's back, stolen meat, stolen hides (for a saddle), and Brom the old storyteller.
(Hook and back of book)
I recommend this book to kids between the ages of 10 and 14. I think girls or boys will enjoy this book. If you like long reads, fantasy, action, and series then you might want to try this book. The fourth book isn't out yet so you might want to consider reading it slowly or reading it next year because it leaves you hanging at the end of the third book.
You can find this book in Chapters, Indigo, Kids Books, the public library, and here at school.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is when you steel someone else’s work and say it’s yours. Plagiarism happens a lot. In schools, work and many more places that you wouldn’t even think of. Plagiarism is an easy way out. Though in the long run it’s bad. It’s both steeling and cheating. Steeling because you steel someone else’s work. Cheating because you make people believe it’s yours. The most famous composer of the 20^th century, Igor Stravinsky made a very clever remark about plagiarism when he said: “bad composers imitate, good composers steel.” What Stravinsky meant to say was that you have to be original, but everyone has a teacher or other source of inspiration.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is when one person uses someone else's idea without clearly stating who's idea it was.

Some ways to avoid plagiarism are:

• Not using other peoples exact words without giving credit.
• Putting quotation marks around the exact words written by someone else.
• Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing is a way to avoid plagiarizing because paraphrasing is when you put certain words in your own words. This will only end in a successful essay without any plagiarism.

Plagiarism and paraphrasing

Paragraphs:
1-What is plagiarism?
2-How to avoid it and strategies
3-What is paraphrasing?

Plagiarism is when you take someone else’s ideas/words and put it down as your own. Plagiarism can also be if you write a paper and hand it in multiple times. You can even plagiarize by buying a paper off someone or using information from a source and then not citing it.

You can avoid plagiarizing by putting quotations on all the text that from a source or you could cover up the text with your hand and try to put it into your own words.

Paraphrasing is when you use someone’s idea but you change a few words. A lot of the time on the internet you go on a website, look at the information and then you start writing that information down but you want it to look like it’s your work, so you change a few words.

Ballantine hall 2006
Indiana University

Some of the information is based on the video
Youtube:paulrobesonlibrary

PLAGIARISM

Information from: IU Code of Student Rights.

PLAGIARISM

Cheating, stealing, thievery. Another word to add to the vocabulary is plagiarism. Plagiarism is when you use someone else’s words or ideas and use them in your essay, speech (etc.) with out properly acknowledging them.

There are a few ways that you could plagiarize, this includes: not citing your your information (not saying where and who you got your information from), NOT using quotation marks if you did not make the information into your own words, and lastly only changing around a few words or phrases from the original text. Plagiarism could get you in HUGE trouble. Any where from failing a test, to getting expelled from school. That is why we need to put plagiarism to a stop!

Luckily, there are strategies and ways to avoid plagiarism. A few ways are: to put quotes on EVERYTHING that is directly from the original text. Cite your information to make sure the original writer gets credit. The last thing is to, paraphrase. Paraphrasing is using someone else’s words or ideas, but putting the information into your OWN words. Do remember when paraphrasing, that if you only switch around a few words or phrases it will still be plagiarism. To avoid doing that, cover up the text that you were reading from, so you don’t see it. Then start writing! When you have finished writing check the text to make sure your information is accurate.

-Hana

What is plagiarism

Information from: IU code of students rights, responsibilities and conduct, youtube: paulrobesonlibrary.

What is plagiarism? Plagiarism is taking someones idea, theory, or opinion without citing it. It can also be facts, statistcs, graphs, drawngs, any peices of informaton that is not common knowledge. It is even consdered plagiarsm if you use something that you wote before and hand it in again. There can be very serious consequences for plagiarism, including failing the paper, the course, even expulsion from the school!

How you can avoid plagiarism is quite simple- cite all informton you get from sources. The best thing to do is state where you got everything from in your notes, so for the final copy it is all there. As long as you are not copying someone's written or spoken words withought giving them credit, then you are not plagiarising.

What is paraphasing? Paraphrasing is using someone elses ideas but putting them in your own words. People mostly use this when they incorporate sources into their writing. Even though it is your writing it is still someone elses idea so you have to cite it or else you are plagiarising.

Joelle 6a

Plagiarisim

What is Plagiarism?

-By: Barbie

This information is from the I.U. code of student rights, responsibilities, and conduct; and YouTube: PaulRobsen library.

What is plagiarism? Plagiarism is using other people’s words and ideas without acknowledging the source of information properly. It is also plagiarism if you write a paper for a class and the next year you have to write a paper on the same topic and you use the paper from the previous year. An example of plagiarism that someone can do without realizing: Let’s say that I go to www.en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Lady_Gaga and copy and paste a paragraph or a few sentences onto my report without clearly saying where I got that information. That is plagiarism.

How do you avoid plagiarism? To avoid plagiarizing give credit whenever you use someone opinion, idea, or theory; whenever you use any facts, statistics, or drawings that are not "common knowledge", and quotations from another person’s written words. To avoid plagiarizing you can also paraphrase.

What is paraphrasing? Paraphrasing is where you use someone’s ideas or theory but you write them in your own words and at your level. Because you are using someone’s idea you still need to give credit though. From my own experience paraphrasing is super useful to learn how to do and once you know how to do it is much easier to write when you are using a source of information!

Plagiarism: What is it and how to avoid it

Plagiarism is using other people`s ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information.

To avoid plagiarism you must give credit when ever you use another person`s spoken or written words you can use quotation marks on any words, sentences or paragraphs. Any facts, statics, graphs, drawings- any pieces of information, that are not common knowledge.

Paraphrasing is when the writer records the information in the original passage accurately. The writer also gives the credit for the ideas in this passage.

Plagiarism

What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism is when you use other people’s ideas and words and you don’t give credit to that source of information. If you don’t acknowledge another person’s ideas, opinions, facts. Statistics, quotations or paraphrasing, that is also considered plagiarism.

How to avoid plagiarism

Here are some ways to avoid plagiarism: if you put another person’s information into your own words and credit the source, that won’t be considered plagiarism. If you put quotation marks in a sentence that shows the reader that the sentences are taken right from the source. Another way to avoid plagiarism is by citing – that is when you put a number at the end of a sentence and when you put the same number at the bottom of the page which tells you the number with the source that you got it from.

Paraphrasing

Paraphrasing is when you take a source, take the information of the source and put it in your own words. However, if you only change a few words or phrases, or change the order of the sentences, that will usually be considered plagiarism.