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.


Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Touching Spirit Bear-Book Review and Recommendation

Touching Spirit Bear is about a boy named Cole Matthews, who gets punished and has to go to an deserted island or jail for beating up a boy named Peter. Cole thinks he is unwanted and feels like a piece of trash because his father beats him and his mother never seems to care or help. After Cole steals from a hardware store and brags about it at school, a boy named Peter tells on him. Cole gets angry because of this and decides to beat up Peter. After that, Cole has to either face jail or a deserted island for a year. On the island Cole burns his shelter out of anger and tries to escape, but fails. Cole sees a Spirit Bear which supposedly only live off the coast of British Columbia. The second time he sees the Spirit Bear he tries to kill it, but ends up getting mauled.
After being mauled, he laid helpless on the ground for 2 days. When he was found, he was almost dead. Finally, help arrived in the form of a boat filled with people. Cole was brought to a hospital. Does he live? Does he return to the dreaded island? And most importantly, does he change? READ THE BOOK TO FIND OUT!!!!!!!

We TOTALLY would request this book!!!!!

1 comment:

awesomedragon10 said...

I think this book review is AWESOME! Mostly because I'm one of the people who wrote it. I read the book and think it is FANTASTIC!