Welcome to my reading blog! This is going to be a tool for helping us to talk about one of my favorite things in the whole world....reading!
As we read in class I will post questions that you will respond to. We will be able to respond to each other's ideas and build on conversations about literature. You will have time to blog during class each week.
Our next story is going to be "Lob's Girl." It is a tragic tale with an unusual ending. Please write a response to the question below by commenting on this post. Use your initials so I can see who responds. Please remember etiquette for writing online and be respectful of your classmate's opinions.
Have you ever read a story and something totally bizarre happened at the end that you didn't expect? Please explain the story and tell us how you felt at the moment that the surprise occurred.
If you haven't read any stories like this, please describe an idea that you could use for writing a story with a surprise in the climax. Be creative!
I am anxious to see your responses. I will start the conversation going by telling you about a story that I read this summer with a surprise ending!
Happy Reading!
Mrs. E.
This summer I read a book about supernatural beings. It was a science fiction book. In the story the girl can read people's minds and it is because she is a fairy. She finds out that she has a special fairy gift that she can use for one wish. She keeps it close by her because she knows if other fairys know she has it they will try to get it from her. She is in a difficult situation with the man she loves, and I thought that she would use her secret weapon to keep him around. At the end of the story her best friend Sam has an accident and she uses it to save his life! I was totally not expecting that and I gasped! It was an amazing ending and I can't wait to find out what happens next. :)
ReplyDeleteHey Mrs.Engman,
DeleteI am wondering where you got the book. Because I want to read it.
Bye Bye,
Goober
P.S- Ashley is Goober
Bon jour Mrs. Engman, I have read a book with a surprising ending and it had to do with a French person in WWII. I thought the French guy would be captured but he was killed by his own men in his own army!! I forgot the tittle of the book.
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That sounds like a real twist at the end! I love when I am reading and I am totally convinced that I know what is going to happen and then I am blown away by what really happens. That is good writing! :)
DeleteMr. Engman was wondering if the French man in your story during WWII was part of the Maquis? Did you know that the Maquis were responsible for rescuing thousands of allied airmen during the war? Mr. E. also said they were responsible for getting war changing intelligence to the allied forces. They were the unsung heroes of WWII!
DeleteI don't know if he was part of the Maquis, but I think in the story he was the only actual French person there. I think the other people in the book were Nazis undercover, I'm not sure.
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Last year we read "Walk 2 Moons". It was surprising at the end because we found out that Sal's mom was dead because of the bus acitend and Grams died. It was a very sad story. I do not want to read it again.
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Goober,
DeleteI also thought that story was really sad, and as you know I really had no idea of what had really happened until the end. Even though there was much sadness, I think that we can learn some valuable lessons about strength and how to deal with difficult situations. I love that story, but I think that I understand if you don't want to read it again.
When I read Catching Fire (the second book in the Hunger Games Trilogy) I was so surprised at the end of te book. I could not believe what happened!! I actually freaked out!!!! I don't want to say what happened in case other people are reading it.:)
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Hello, I haven't read Catching Fire but I did red The Hunger Games and I thought I would pass out when they had to kill each other!!
DeleteThe Hunger Game series really kept me on the edge of my seat. The suspense was very intense and at times I was gritting my teeth! The writing was SO descriptive and I really felt as if I were there in the arena--which isn't necessarily a good feeling always!
DeleteJD,
DeleteI couldn't believe when the Gamemakers said that Katniss and Peeta had to kill each other either!! If you liked the first book you should really read the rest of the series its awesome!!:)
Soph
Mrs. Engman,
DeleteWhen I was reading the books I felt the same way! The books are amazing!! I love them!
Soph
I might try them Soph.
DeleteGood JD you will be surprised how much more exciting stuff happens in the other books!! I love them!!:)
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me too! and when i read mockingjay i thought about when katniss was supposed to kill president snow and...... not saying the rest(so other people wont know what happens at the end)
DeleteI'm reading the book Seekers Book 1. It's very well written but there are some sad parts. A bear dies out of the blur! Well the polar bears are walking on the ice and meet water so Nisa(MAMA)and her two cubs Kallik,and Taqqiq have to swim over but they are to scared to so Nisa goes with Kallik but then it happened, Nisa gets ATTACKED BY ORCAS! You have to find out what happens to the 1 month old cubs Kallik and Taqqiq in Seekers The Quest Begins Book 1!
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-ChloCho
ChloCho,
DeleteThe Seekers is a great series for kids. I always love when there is a sense of adventure. I can't believe Orcas attacked the animals! That is certainly unexpected!
ChloCho,
DeleteThese books sound very exciting! I might start reading them after I am done with the book I am reading right now. Do you know if they are at the school library?
Soph
I was really sad at the end of "A Girl Named Eva" It was still really good I read the whole book in one night pink panda showed it to me
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Tex,
DeleteDon't you love it when you get a book recommendation from a friend and then you can talk about it? I've never heard of this story. It must have been good if you read it in one night! When I went to San Francisco this summer I read an entire book on my flight from L.A. to Chicago. It really was like I was in my own world. :)
when I read a book this summer it was really cool but the end was VERY weird at the end. I was like "what is this the wrong book." It was about a boy thats blind and he is a slave and he can pick locks like as if you are great at blinking your eye! He finds this box with three sets of eyes and there is agolden pair,green pair and I think a black pair. The gold pair transports himt o the place that the magic guy made them, the black pair turns him into whatever animal he last saw, and the green pair the first time he puts them in they were about to kill him but his friend,a talking cat thats a knight, knocks them out of him and they make it to their quest place and when he solves the problem it turns out he is the lost king of the kingdom and he has a siter!! I totally thought they were just going to be his new pair of eyes, but they weren't!! I loved this book. Hey Tex I can totally see you reading all night. Must have been a pretty good book!!
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Bugsy,
DeleteWhat an interesting story! I love the fantasy genre because anything can happen. :D
Hey, what about "The Girl Who Could Fly"? Was that not a surprise ending or what??
Wow Bugsy this sounds like a really wierd but cool book!! Do you remember what it was called??
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Hey Mrs.E sorry about the typing I just clicked send when I thought about the proof reading :(
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No problem! I love seeing you all discuss your reading!
DeleteWell last year when we read "Walk Two Moons" I thougt that it was a really strange endind but a great book and I would read it again
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Hey Bugsy that book sounds so good I might read it , do you know If the school library has
DeleteIt? - Shay Dog:-)
Hi, I did too.
Deletesorry about the discontinued message but what I meant to say was I was surprised and I want to read it again.
DeleteShay,
DeleteI've read "Walk Two Moons" about five times (or more!) times and it gets better each time. I think that the first time I read it I was reading so fast I missed a lot of details. Each time I think I understand the characters a little more. I feel like I know Gram and Gramps! I try to make connections between the characters and myself. I love Gram. She is so cute. :)
i read a book and it was called the hunger games. it was very descripteve writing. were i stoped is when the dog like thing apeard. :[ -monk
ReplyDeleteMonk,
DeleteAre you going to finish the book? You really should and read the entire series! The books are awesome!
Soph
HLH my favorite book is Walk Two Moons the exciting part that I like is when they found out who was writing the notes and when Sal's mom is dead and when Phoebe's mom left and she adopted some one.
ReplyDeleteIn Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat at the end Emmy's evil nanny gets truned into a rat.The rat that shrank her was named ratty.-Ratson
ReplyDeletein walk two moons i thought the sad part is when gram died and mom.- monk
ReplyDeletei read a book called " A Horse to Love". it was a good book. and at the end the horse dies. it was sad.. i wasn't expecting that!
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jd what di u read you said that you raed a book but what book te
ReplyDeleteHey Monk,
ReplyDeleteI am also reading the Hunger Game book the 1st one. I'm not there yet. But that dog like thing maybe the loin or the tiger. Because the battle takes place in the game take place.
~Goober
HLH I can relate to the story beacuse Millie my german shepared and she can never leave my side and today the bus was coming and broke the chain to get to me
ReplyDeletehey goober,
ReplyDeleteit might be but i dont know - monk
ok soph i got the book at home i might finish- monk
ReplyDeleteThats good! Thay are really good books!
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ok-monk
ReplyDeletei was camping once and i was at bear islad ind we had a ground squarell that came to us and ate right out our hands -monk
ReplyDeleteWow thats really cool monk! What were you feeding it?? When I went to Florida I saw someone feeding squirrels out of their hand. It was really cool!
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bear island not islad- monk
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