They dance in the sky: Native American Star Myths by Jean guard Monroe and Ray A. Williamson Rj #4

Dear Mrs.Zrihen,

I just started the book called they dance in the sky: Native Americans star myths by Jean Guard Monroe and Ray A. Williamson. The genre of this book is folktale and its myth because it talks about Native American’s myths. I picked this book because I wanted to see different constellations and how they related to Native Americans. A passage that interested me when I began reading was:

"The small cluster of stars we call the Pleiades is one of the most important constellations of mythology. Nearly every society or people in the world have told stories about Pleiades"

I picked this passage because it really summarized the whole story about the constellations of Pleiades and how many people made stories about it. Also this important to the reader because it says that many societies know about the constellations and write stories about it. The before strategies that I used before reading this book were to predict what was going to happen in the book by looking at the cover page and the title, like I predicted this book was going to be about different constellations and their characteristics. Another strategy was skim and scan for text features like illustrations or graphs that might help understand the book. For example when a new chapter starts the author draws the constellations. The P.O.O of this story is classification order because the M.I of the story is constellations and it's broken down in to different constellations. The point of view of the story is third person, the clue words I found to know that are "they, he, she, their." The author’s purpose into writing this book was to inform us about constellations and how Native Americans used them. Some during reading strategies I used was to confirm my predictions in the past and I was correct. I also used the strategy of rereading passages when I didn't understand or I didn't pay too much attention. After reading strategies I used was to think what was in the book and ask questions about it. Another one was to visualize what I had read.
The setting in this book was where the Native Americans lived and there weren't any characters because it only described the stars and how people used them. I am in exposition where the author writes about Pleiades. The tone in the story was informative because the author wanted to teach me about stars. While reading the story I felt really interested in the story because of the description of how Native Americans used the stars. There isn't a moral in neither the story nor a theme. I don't think there's also a conflict. I would rate this book an 8 out of ten because it was informative but not that adventurous.

                                     Your favorite student,
                                            Juan 702