My eighth graders are currently doing an internet-based research project about other religions. I like it because they’re learning about other religions, but they’re also practicing their internet search skills. Some of them don’t know how to dig around on the internet for information. There are those who don’t know how to do a basic search. Others find one web page and assume everything it says is true. I hope to help them correct those problems. There’s some good learnin’ goin’ on.
All I do is wander around the library while they work at computers. Yesterday I got bored, so I pulled a book off the shelf and started reading. It was a book for middle schoolers – a Newberry Award winner, if you know what that is. It kind of sucked me in. I haven’t read a book in a long time. I read when I got home from school, then I fell asleep. Then I woke up and went to church. When I got home from church, I read some more. And I finished it! Cool…
The book is called “A Single Shard”. It’s about Korean pottery makers in the 1200’s. I liked it.
A book a day! If you were involved with the Read-a-Thon again, you’d be on fire! (Do they still do those?)
I like the font that the title and author’s name are printed in.
Ask Lauren’s brother what that font is called…
You have the memory of an elephant.
The kid’s name was Tree-ear? For real?
How the heck did the author win a Newberry Award writing a book for middle schoolers with a main character named Tree-ear? I mean, really?
Ha! His name was Tree-ear because he was orphaned when he was about 2 and no one knew his parents. He was like these mushrooms that grew on the trees that seemed to grow from nowhere. The mushrooms were called tree ears because they were half-moon shaped.
Sounds like bracket fungus to me! So why not “bracket-fungus-ear”?? (Non-PC response to follow:) Those orientals are a curious people.
There are probably a lot of books in your library that you would enjoy!
A book I can read in 1 day is the kind of book needed in my book club…we do so have trouble finishing our books…maybe I’ll read this book this month & pretend I thought it was the selection.
Hey Brad, how well did you read:
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/quizzes21/lspark/Shard.html
Yay! 100%! I should totally be a middle schooler. I’d be good at it.
No, no….if you were totally a middle schooler, you’d put all your energy into looking up the Cliff or Spark notes about the book, writing your summaries from the book jacket, or otherwise faking your way through the experience – not actually reading the book. Get the with program!!