Reading ~ CE #3 ~ page 106

I read How to Eat Fried Worms and watched the movie. I thought the movie was better than the book, which is unusual for me, but that the movie was kind of gross as well. I would rather write a movie because I think it would be fun to see the characters come to life. One of the benefits of writing both the screenplay and book would be that the movie would be made closer to what was written in the book instead of going off on another person's idea. Another positive would be the author would see the changes being made between the two scripts and would have some say in both. A negative to writing the screenplay would be that everything wouldn't be up to the author so he may not like those changes.

Reading ~ SP #7 ~ page 106

I swap books with the girls in my homeschool co-op regularly. Beginning last September, we each decided to bring books that we have that the others might want to read and trade.

Reading ~ SB #5 ~ page 106

In homeschool co-op, we have formed a book club. We are reading Follow My Leader by James B. Garfield. Every Friday, our group meets to talk about it from 1:30-2:30.

Reading ~ SB #2 ~ page 106

I learned the meaning of many literary terms at the beginning of this school year. Some of them and examples of their use in things I have read are listed here.

Climax (the point of highest dramatic tension or a major turning point in the action): In Pig Scrolls when he is trying to fight the bad Greek gods that are trying to atke over the world and he succeeds and then dies.

Conflict (the opposition of persons or forces that gives rise to the dramatic action in a drama or fiction): In Pig Scrolls, Thanatos and Cosmos planned to destroy the world like it had never existed.

Figurative Language (whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else): In Midnighters, when Dess is explaining about the animals, she compares the darklings to panthers, snakes, spiders, and lots of other things but adds that each has wings.

Parable (a usually short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle): In the Bible, Jesus uses several parables including the one about the sower.

Setting (the time and place of the action of a literary, dramatic, or cinematic work ): Midnighters happens in Bixby, OK.

Reading ~ T #3 ~ page106

I wrote a book report about Flat Stanley and published it on our homeschool blog.

Reading ~ T #2 ~ page106

I used the Internet to help find information on the trail of tears for a history project.