Dear Mrs.Zrihen,
I just started the book called The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry. I got this book from your library, because since I know you have read many books maybe you could have recommended this to me. This book is realistic fiction because it was able to happen in real life, but it is made up, and also I needed this book for the Book a Week challenge that you gave us. It has been good ever since I started to read it this afternoon in your class. A passage that caught my eye in this book was in the prologue when the person was talking about the “the silent boy" named Austin on page 5:
"I wondered, then, as I still do, about the boy who had once given me a kitten and changed my life forever. His name was Jacob Stoltz."
This paragraph was very important to this story because it showed the main idea of the story, a boy who had changed the author's life. I picked this passage because it basically helped the reader understand why she wrote the story and what it is going to include. 2 strategies that I used before reading this book was to make predictions about what might happen in the book like when I first saw the book I thought that it might be about an insignificant boy who had to go to war to help his country, but then afterwards, after reading the synopsis, I found out that it was about a girl who was very interested in a boy who many people thought that he was a foolish and dull kid in her town. Another prediction is that this book would be about the harshness of being left out and many people criticizing you. Another strategy I used was to skim and scan for text features that might help the reader understand the book, some text features were illustrations that explained what was happening in that page next to it. Some strategies I used during reading this book was to confirm my predictions and they were right because Jacob was most of the time alone in the field on a stone. Also I used context clues for certain words that I didn't know about, but since I just started the book I haven't found any yet. The tone of this story is sad and gloomy because of the color schemed cover page and how it's all grey. The mood I felt about this book this was sad because Jacob was always criticized by people. The theme of this book is unknown because I haven't read this book for a lot of time, so I still don't know that much about the book. The angle the story was told from was first person because it said the clue words like "I." The pattern of organization of this book is flashback because it begins in 1987 and then it goes back to 1908-1911. I think the author wrote this book to entertain people. I am in the exposition of the book where the main character, Katy, meets Jacob for the first time. The characters in the part that I have read so far are: Katy, Jacob, Austin, Katy's parents are the main people so far, the oil is: Mr. and Mrs. Smoltz, Mrs. and Mr. Bishop, Paul, Austin's brother, and Jessie wood. There isn't a perspective in this story because the author isn't really support anything specific. The setting doesn’t really say it but other places are mentioned where family members of the author were said.
I would rate this book, from what I have read, a 7 because it was somehow interesting.
Sincerely, JUAN 702
"I wondered, then, as I still do, about the boy who had once given me a kitten and changed my life forever. His name was Jacob Stoltz."
This paragraph was very important to this story because it showed the main idea of the story, a boy who had changed the author's life. I picked this passage because it basically helped the reader understand why she wrote the story and what it is going to include. 2 strategies that I used before reading this book was to make predictions about what might happen in the book like when I first saw the book I thought that it might be about an insignificant boy who had to go to war to help his country, but then afterwards, after reading the synopsis, I found out that it was about a girl who was very interested in a boy who many people thought that he was a foolish and dull kid in her town. Another prediction is that this book would be about the harshness of being left out and many people criticizing you. Another strategy I used was to skim and scan for text features that might help the reader understand the book, some text features were illustrations that explained what was happening in that page next to it. Some strategies I used during reading this book was to confirm my predictions and they were right because Jacob was most of the time alone in the field on a stone. Also I used context clues for certain words that I didn't know about, but since I just started the book I haven't found any yet. The tone of this story is sad and gloomy because of the color schemed cover page and how it's all grey. The mood I felt about this book this was sad because Jacob was always criticized by people. The theme of this book is unknown because I haven't read this book for a lot of time, so I still don't know that much about the book. The angle the story was told from was first person because it said the clue words like "I." The pattern of organization of this book is flashback because it begins in 1987 and then it goes back to 1908-1911. I think the author wrote this book to entertain people. I am in the exposition of the book where the main character, Katy, meets Jacob for the first time. The characters in the part that I have read so far are: Katy, Jacob, Austin, Katy's parents are the main people so far, the oil is: Mr. and Mrs. Smoltz, Mrs. and Mr. Bishop, Paul, Austin's brother, and Jessie wood. There isn't a perspective in this story because the author isn't really support anything specific. The setting doesn’t really say it but other places are mentioned where family members of the author were said.
I would rate this book, from what I have read, a 7 because it was somehow interesting.
Sincerely, JUAN 702
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