My 1st Semester Reading Goal

Every year we have a goal, whether its participating more or doing my homework. Now in middle school we have different classes, which probably mean we have several goals, well in RLA we made a goal. For the first semester my reading goal is to read every single night for at least 30 minutes. I decided this should be my goal because on some nights I read less than 30 minutes, some nights I'm really busy, but some nights I'm just too lazy to read for a total of 30 minutes. I think I may struggle with this goal at times because some nights I might have a after school activity and a lot of homework that I don't have enough time to read for at least 30 minutes. Since this year my RLA class has a reading log to keep track of your reading, I will check/fill the log out every night. And if I have read 30 minutes each night then I will think I have accomplished this goal. We all know it's a good way to accomplish something because after actually accomplishing something you will always get to celebrate. For example last year (5th grade) we had a thing called genre pizza, and that was where people read 8 different genres during a time frame, and if you did accomplish it you were rewarded to a pizza party. Well if I do accomplish my reading goal of reading for at least 30 minutes each night I will celebrate by having a fun filled day with a bunch of friends. This will definitely make me want to accomplish this goal.

Fablehaven Book Trailer

This is my new book trailer on Fablehaven by Brandon Mull. This time we had to pick one of our favorite books we read during book clubs, either Fantasy or Historical Fiction. We also had the choice of either working with a person who was in your book club or alone. And of course I decided to work with someone, and that someone is... Milika! Fablehaven is a Fantasy book. I think one thing Milika and I did good on was we put short phrases on the slides instead of long long sentences. Another thing we did good on was we worked together, and we made sure all the important details were in place. One thing I think we should've done was maybe put a little more pictures. I think this book trailer was way better than my first one. Below is the video, hope you want to read the book after watching it!

Unseen!

I can't believe I was able to draft, edit, revise, and publish my Fantasy story in that amount of time. These past weeks I have been writing a Fantasy story for the writing freebie we had. We had the choices of writing a poem, a Fantasy, Non Fiction, a Persuasive, and last but not least a narrative. For the Fantasy writers in my class had less time to draft and publish than the time we got during the actual unit. I decided to name my Fantasy Unseen! You may be wondering why I named my book Unseen! well it's because this book is about these two orphaned girls named Molly and Millie. They go to a science lab as a field trip, and at the science lab they turn invisible. But that's all I'm going to tell you, if you want to read how they turned invisible and know more than read this book to find out!

Book Club Reflection!

Recently, we just finished our book clubs for the unit of Fantasy. I really enjoyed book club this unit, it was fun to read different Fantasy books and getting talk to the people in my group about the book. One thing I think my book club should work on is staying on topic the whole meeting. Another thing that I think my book club should improve on was not getting distracted that easily, for example sometimes some of the people in my group were talking and not listening to what someone was trying to say. One thing that worked well with my book club is that we waited for one person to finish talking, until another person could talk, another thing my book club did well on was that we bounced off each other's ideas. During every meeting my group decided that each person had to share at least one idea, so that made everything fair. I like book clubs because you can share your opinions and you get to talk about what you have just read in a group, unlike reading a book by yourself. I have always come prepared to book clubs, so that was one thing I did good on in book clubs. One thing I should improve on with book clubs is to come to book club meetings earlier, because sometimes I would be the last one to be at the meeting. I can't wait for the next book club.

My New Vocaroo

This is my second Vocaroo of me reading. In my first Vocaroo I was reading a book called "Frankenstein". In this one I was reading a book called "The Castle in The Attic"

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I think I did a little better than the first one.

Reading Frankenstein

Something I did good on was that you could understand what I was reading and that I was reading at a medium speed. I think that something I could work on, is not pausing after I read a few sentences because you could hear me pause after a few sentences.
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