Welcome Moreland Hills 5th Graders!

This blog is dedicated to sharing our thoughts about the books we read and love. All of the fifth grade students and teachers will be able to see the content and information posted. Keep in mind that there are some ground rules that we all need to follow.

This website will be a lot of fun. This is a great way to communicate with each other at all times. We will share thoughts on books, recommendations, and show are strong thinking as readers.

We look forward to having an engaging and fun time!

The 5th grade teachers

Blog Guidelines

1) This blog is for discussions about literacy and books.
2) All comments have to be approved by the teachers-make sure that what you are writing is appropriate for school.
3) Book recommendations, topics, discussion threads, and comments will be both teacher and student driven.
4) We all have our opinions on books-it is fine to disagree with an opinion or comment.
5) Disagreeing is different than disrespectful. Treat everyone and every comment with courtesy and respect.
6) Grading-students that write recommendations and give substantive comments will be able to use their blog entries as a replacement for a journal entry from that week.
7) Names-students will have the option to use their own name or post anonymously.
8) All discussion threads/topics/themes will be teacher monitored.
9) Students will post and comment on book recommendations for each other that they think highly enough of to share with the class.


Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Talent Series By: Zoey Dean

The first book is about a girl named Emily who came to Hollywood and is noticed by a 13 year old girl whose mom is the best agent in Hollywood. Emily is noticed when she sneaks into a Hollywood premiere party to see her all time favorite star. mac the girl whose mom is an agent saw this and pretended that Emily was her client to her competition to win Social chair. Mac is now determind to talk Emily into auditioning for movies. Mac's friends Coco and Becks are doubting her until they hear the response. The rest of this book is about how they convince Emily to stay and try to make her the BIGGEST star!!!!
Book#2: In the second book Mac discovers that her newest best friend Emily is not the only one with talent , but her older best friends Coco and becks do too!!!!!! Mac is now trying to win Social Chair AND make her best friends famous. though out this book there are disasters and non-disasters. two of the biggest disasters can cost mac Social Chair and maybe even Emily's audition. The first disaster is that Coco is kicked out of her position as head cheerleader , and when she tries to get revenge she gets embarassed! Also at the four best friends sleepover something is recorded and is posted for EVERYONE to see. This book does have a pretty good ending.
Book#3: In the third book is probably the best because it is when everything they had been working for happens. In this book Emily starts shooting for her new movie that she is starring in with her star crush and biggest obsession Davey. Everything is going well except for that Emily's nerves are taking over and Mac tries to cheer her up a little. Unfourtuneatly Mac's idea of cheering her friend up turns into a disaster. Then Coco ends up singing at a coffee shop in the middle of no where. She gets a lot of applaud and fans , but her mom will not approve of this if she finds out. Becks gets a modeling contract for a surf brand but her first photo shoot might ruin everything. Also a mysterious firing of a model has Becks even more nervous. This book has fights and happiness but also a good story!

By:Skittle20
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)