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.


Friday, February 5, 2010

The Book Without Words Book Review

The Book Without Words is about a old man named Thorston who wants to live for ever with the power of The Book Without Words. Thorston is very poor and only has a servant named Sybil and a talking Raven named Odo. The only way for Thorston to keep living is if he follows specific steps to achieve immortality. That is where Sybil comes in. Sybil is a 14 year old girl who knows just about nothing about magic but Thorston needs to sacrifice a child for him to keep staying alive. The child that is sacrificed must be the same age as Thorston was when Thorston stole the Book Without Words. Now another old man named Brother Wilifred is looking for the book because when he was a child Thorston stole the Book Without Words from him. Throughout the story, Thorston comes closer to achieving his immortality. Sybil comes closer to losing her life. To find out the rest, you must read the Book Without Words. We highly recommend reading this book.

By infernape9010, gohan, tony=y not383

2 comments:

browns36 said...

It looks like an interesting book. Is it similar to any other popular books? I might try it!

-Browns36 :)

infenape9010 said...

when I read this book i thought it really was amazing how Avi ( author) put this book together its really a good book.