Maayan's Book talk

Book talk #1

Name: Maayan Fadida

Book: Keeping the Moon

Author: Sarah Dessen

Hook:
Imagine being a girl that never, ever fits in. First it was because she was fat, then it was because of a bad reputation. Then when her Mom is going to be traveling the world for her new career, She’s being forced to go and stay with her weird aunt for the entire summer. What will happen to Colie? Will this be a good adventure or not?

Description:
This book is about a girl named Colie who doesn’t fit in. This summer Colie is being sent to her weird aunt in Colby, North Carolina for the summer because her mother traveling the world for her new career. When she arrives in Colby she gets herself a job at the Last Chance Bar and Grill. There she makes two best friends Morgan and Isabel. They change her into a new girl they unleash the beauty that was hiding inside Colie. Together they have their ups and downs but they were always there for each other. By the end of this adventure she finds out how strong friendship can be and out who she really is inside.

Recommendation: I would recommend this book to girls from the ages 11- 16 who like fiction. This book has some bad words.

You can find this book in our class library

The Lightening Thief book talk By Josha

Book Talk #1 By Josha

My book is The Lightening Thief by Rick Riordan

Short description…

Percy Jackson thinks of himself as just a normal troubled kid that gets kicked out of every boarding school he has ever been to. When he finds out that he is actually a half-blood (half God half human) things go from bad to worse. He finds out that Zeus’s master bolt has been stolen and he is the prime suspect! Join him and his half-blood friends as they travel to the underworld and back encountering horrible monsters along the way.

The Hook…

Imagine stepping into a world where monsters roam and Gods rule. Now imagine that you’re just a normal ‘troubled’ kid and you find out that you’re actually a part of this world –you’re a half-blood!
(Half God half human.) Moreover, you’re being held responsible for taking Zeus’s master bolt!
Percy Jackson is that kid. Journey with him and his friends as they go deep into the underworld and back to try to clear Percy Jackson’s name!

Recommendations…

I’d recommend this book to kids ages 9-13 and to people who like exhilarating adventure.

Where to find it…

The Lightening Thief is available in the VTT library, The Vancouver Public library, Kidsbooks, Chapters, and Book Warehouse.

Homework

Binder check (Monday)

Amazing Race continues on Tuesday!

What I learned

What I learned this writing term of twisted fairies was how to use prper Dialogue, proper Sensory language and proper grammer. I also learned how to mark other people's stories by using the PQP sheet. I had an great and fun expariment with this writing term!!

Rina

Book talk

Book talk
Otherwise known as Sheila the great
By: Neeve Mathews 6B
Have you ever felt like were bossed around by your sister or brother? Well that’s how Sheila felt when she went on a trip with her annoying sister Libby. My book is called “Otherwise known as Sheila the great”. This book is about a girl named Sheila who believes in cooties, who is afraid of dogs and terrified of spiders. Sheila has to go on a trip with her bossy sister Libby , she is not the kind of sister you would want to have. Can you imagine going on a vacation being bossed around being laughed at well that’s all the misery that Sheila had to go through. Even her parents were incredibly bossy they made Sheila go to swimming classes during the vacation. Sheila has always imagined on being a writer, so she attempts to start a camp newspaper. Sheila does not have a good vacation.



I’d recommend this book to grade 4 and up
This book is available in chapters, the school library, and the Vancouver public library.

Homework

Pg. 90 Communicating Skills (Thursday)

Fairy Tale Unit Reflection

I learnt so much in this unit!!! I really liked learning about dialogue. I learnt how to write a proper paragrph. I think that that what i learnt over this period will help me for life. I think that by learning how to write it made all my work easier.

Seth's Reflections

I learned a lot from this writing process. I learned how to use proper dialogue and I also learned a lot about sensory language, how to use it and when. I learned about leads not only for the fractured fairy take but how to make effective leads and what not to do to make it an ineffective lead. I also learned about helping other people with their stories with effective feedback. We learned about conclusions to stories, how to make a satisfying ending for the reader and not to disappoint the reader. We also learned about how to organize a story and to make sure that it is in order so that it is clear to the reader.

Reflections

I learned that writing a story (fairytale) doesn't take just one draft and then your done , it takes time.
I learnedhow to use more sensory
language more,and dialogue. When we first started, I thought it was pretty easy, but as we continued into all our drafts there was much I didn't know. I didn't know that much about
usingsensory language in a way to grab the reader in my story, and I didn't know about how to properly write a good feedback comment.
I also found that the comments people gave back to me helped a lot, too. They gave me ideas of what to add, what to take out, and what was good or bad.
The rubric our whole class put together was also very helpful!

Josha's Reflections

Since we have started this whole fairy tale business I have learned a great many new things. For example, I have learned how to use proper dialogue (Before we learned about dialogue, I never used to pay attention to it), sensory language, grammar, and proof reading. I found out for myself that doing lots of different drafts really helps improve on your writing. I was very surprised when I saw my 1st draft and then I saw my final draft. I couldn't believe the improvement!

-Josha Rafael

Eleane's reflections on her fractured fairy tale

I learned many things from our fractured fairy tales for example:

How to proofread, how to make a distinct beginning, middle and end, proper dialogue, exceptional sensory language, and that you need to make many drafts to even get close to making a significant story!

Thank you Mr. Gelmon for your help through this amazing journey through my 1st 2nd and 3rd draft and hope you can take me on many more adventures through writing!

Looking forward to the rest of the year with you!

Sincerely,

Eleane

What I learned during our fractured fairy tale unit

I learned from my fractured fairy tales unit a lot of thing like how to write stories all over again, proper use of dialogue, using a tone of sensory language, how distinctive the begging, middle and end are and how there are so many different levels of writing you have to do before the finale draft. One of the main things i learned is that a paragraph doesn't have to be 5-7 sentences a paragraph is on one idea and is can be three sentences or twelve sentences. I also learned how to how to proofread. I enjoyed this unit!

-Shayla

Reflections By Izzy

I have learned a lot from all the writing we did leading up to our fractured fairy tales. For example, I learned about proper dialogue, how to use sensory language, how to plan out my stories and how to proofread. I also learned that it takes quite a few drafts to get a story right. The first one is just the start and it helps to have people read your story and give you feedback so you can fix things you didn't notice.

Dani's Reflections

I learned many things form the fractured fairy tales unit. One of the most important skills I learned was dialogue. I found that dialogue is very important in ones story because it can show the personality, depth, and being of your character. I learned the actual rules for dialogue, along with how to use it properly. I learned how to mark others on there work while being helpful to not only them but to myself. I learned how to tell what grade I would be getting beforehand with the rubric system. I thin one of the most important things that I learned was the way to lay out your story, from the reading of other fractured fairy tales to the final draft.

Noga`s Reflections

I think (actually I know) that I learned a lot of amazing things about our unit on fractured fairy tales this term. With Mr.Gelmon all of our grade learned how to write leads and conclusions. We also learned about dialogue, conventions and sensory language. I also learned about how to write our classmates good comments. Not the kind that sounds like you did not even read the story but the kind that you mean it, and you have a feeling inside that you did a great job on it.

This term i have learned how to use some new writing skills. Like, I never knew how to use dialogue, when to use dialogue and the rules of dialogue. I also learned how important it is to use sensory language. I think this fairy tale i wrote was the best thing I have ever written in my life because of all the writing skills I learned. This is what i learned in second term.

-Oren

zenen's reflections

My reflections of this years fractured fairy tale unit. this years fairy tale unit was VERY helpful for learning pretty much all of the writing skills you need to write a proper story. I found that my final draft of my fractured fairytale was one of the best pieces of writing i have ever done. this is because of the huge amount of time we spent planning are fairy tales so in a sense we almost knew what we were going to write before we wrote it. I think that i exelled most in dialogue out of all the parts of writing a story. i think that this was a great project and to Mr. G you should definetly do this with all the other grade sixers to come,

Zenen

Leor's Reflections On Our Writing Unit

As our writing unit started I was thinking to myself "We all know how to write stories, It's not that hard", But as we continued I realized "There is allot to learn about writing that I didn't know before". I learned how to write effective leads that grabs the reader, I learned how to proofread my writing with proper punctuation marks, I learned how to use Sensory Language properly in a sentence, I learned the rules of Dialogue. I learned how to organize my story so that it will have a clear beginning, middle, and end and most importantly I learned how to make an effective conclusion to leave the reader wanting more. We also read stories that had mistakes in all these 6 categories so that we will know what not do to. After our writing unit I definitely feel that I am a writing expert!

Yaakov's Reflections

I learned a lot from the process of making our Fractured Fairy Tales. I learned how to write dialogue correctly, and how to give comments that are important and that really help the writer. Comments that don't just say "Your story was good." or "I really enjoyed the story." I learned that comments aren't only supposed to be compliments. They are supposed to be helpful and they should tell the writer what he needs to fix and what should stay the way it is. I thought that in the end, the process was really worth it.

-Yaakov ;)

Salome's Reflections

I have learned a lot from my fractured fairy tale. I have learned how important it is to have a captivating lead and that we should remember not to make our conclusions random or unclear. I have also learned how to properly use dialogue. During these past few weeks we have done Peer Editing which was quite helpful. Our final drafts reflected on our deep and thoughtful hard work. Salome