B-O-O-K T-A-L-K-S!
Man, in my ten years of teaching, few days have been as fun as the past few. 8th graders on Team 8-2 have been talking about books, book talking, sharing stories, recommending their favorites, and I can only hope the discussion continues. Those book talk days went beyond my expectations...it's how we are going to spend a handful more of our days together.
Was it me, or did 8th graders use some of the most persuasive, creative, and descriptive language you've heard? It was awesome. I can't wait to get them on the iPods...and Ms. Lang thinks we might be able to get them on the school website even! With their author's permission, of course...
Anyway, here's a shout out to all of the kids who gave books talks (all but 5 kids on Team 8-2 at this point). Some of you had only finished one book, some of you weren't excited about sharing it in front of the class, some of you forgot to write as many drafts as I requested, but YOU DID IT!
I love a book talk. Thanks for 140+ of them!
KEEP THE CONVERSATION GOING (good work, Burky, Hannah, Lizzie...and the others too).
Kindly,
Stenson
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- Stenson
- Teaching 7th grade at OGMS was a great gig, but now I'm the Dean of Students at SAMS. Reading and books is still the best part of my job. And the kids are pretty cool too. By the way, in real life, I go by ABS Kujawski.
18 comments:
Sweet!! I thought the book talks were really fun!!! I also liked hearing what others were reading and I am probably going to read some of the books people did. I'm not reading anything new lately, but a few books I do want to get my hands on are The Notebook, A wrinkle in time, tell it to Naomi, secrets of my hollywood life: a novel, As simple as snow, and a few others. If anyone is looking for a great book I recommend Looking or Alaka and The Wednesday Wars. They are great books!!! Oh ya, Lizzie I'll bring Poseur tommrow if your up to it!!! JK!!!♥Hannah
lol
I'm in The Book Thief right now, V good dolls!! Read it read it!! lol, it is a long book but still, good so far. I want to read Wednesday Wars!!! lol, do you have a copy of that one???
V. GOOd conor, I recommend that book. Right now I'm slowly reading Gone With the Wind. It is VERY confusing, but I will keep fighting through it. How is Posuer Lizzie?? ♥Hannah
I know your feeling Hannah! I'm working on Book Thief VERY slowly. But I'm getting there.lol
Yes Lizzie, how is it?
♥<3♥
Conor
I'm reading the Posuer book right now. It's similar to the A-List, but it's a lot more of fashion and designer name brands. I reccomend this book to people who have a little designer smarts before reading it!
Laters,
Liz
im in the book the overachivers, and its a prettty loooong book, but id recomend it if your interested in stressing out for college in 8th grade (: no but actually, its a pretty good wake-up call book about what a dog-eat-dog world teens are living in, soo until next time, danci (:
what?? miss stenson os getting married? cool! I STARTED THE BOOK THIEF!!!!!! MS STENSON AND CASSIE YOUR WERE RIGHT!!! IT IS SOOOO SUPER DUPER AMAZING!!!!! anyway...I started after school, and currently I am at about page 250 and it is sooooo amazing!!! wow. ha. so ya. sooo have a great weekend!!~Hannah
hey guys, its jenn
well, as you may all know, i'm not really in to reading all of the big hard books, i enjoy the short simple ones ALOT better :)
right now i am reading the princess diaries series. they are prtty good books, but i wish i would have read them before i saw the movies, they are kind of a let down. but anyway, just thought i would say hi to ms.stenson and everyone else on the blog. have a good rest of the weekend!
jenn :)
HI! I finished the Book Theif about...two minutes ago and it was so amazing!! It is probably my second favorite book of all time. I admit it was kind of a challenge and I had to reread some parts, but it was really worth it. I recommend it!! Plus I'ts really fun learning about the Holocaust in so many different ways and seeing the views of it from different people. What I liked about the Book Theif is you hear the different views from a jew and a German. :) ~Hannah
hey, yah i was pretty excited when we found out mrs. stenson was getting married!! i think we should buy her a ring from one of those vending machines for her !! LOL, jk. Im still reading the overachivers, i had a reading splurge this weekend and read like 200 min, that might not be alot for some of you, but thats alot for me! anyways, im about 50 pages from the end, so i wanna go try to finish it!
until next time
dani (:
So I read the book The "it" girl. I thought is was really good. So I recommend it to people who like the A-list series and the Clique Series. So ya. ♥Hannah
So I finished 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher, and The Book Theif by Markus Zusak. Both amazing books! They are so good!!
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