Dear Mrs.Zrihen,
I just finished the book called Isaac Newton: The greatest scientist of all time. By Margaret J. Anderson. This was actually a pretty good book for a biography. I would recommend this book to Mikey Rogatinsky because since he wants to grow up as a scientist he should learn from past people to know how they became scientists. Overcoming every obstacle and not caring what people said about him he kept on going.
This is a mix of sentences from different paragraphs from page 1 and 2:
“She named him Isaac Newton after his father, but there was no father... Isaac Newton died in October.
Hannah's boy was born early. He was so small she could have fitted him inside a quart jug. He was so weak that she had to fix a little pillow around his neck to hold his head. On the day he was born, two women who were helping Hannah went over to the neighbor's house to fetch some medicine. They saw no need to hurry. They were so sure that little Isaac would not live until they got back that they rested on the wall"
Even though this was a pretty long paragraph I think this was a very important passage because it told that Isaac Newton was very weak when his was born, but look at him now! He's one of the world's most famous scientists. I think this is a very important passage to the reader because it makes you see how awful most of the lives of great scientists began.
Some strategies I used before I read this book was to see the cover and the synopsis to see what the story might be about to confirm it later on in the story. The prediction I made was that this story was going to be about Isaac Newton and his harsh journey to becoming a scientist. Another strategy I used before reading this book was to skim and scan for text features that help the reader understand what's going on in the story. I mostly found illustrations about places in the story. Some strategies I used during reading were to make predictions about what was going to happen next in the story. The other strategy I used was to look for vocabulary that I didn't know, but I can't name any right now. Some after reading strategies I used were to confirm any other predictions I did and to reread parts I didn't understand.
The genre of this book is biography nonfiction because it's talking about Isaac Newton, but not himself. The topic of this story is to think because since Isaac Newton thought about many things he was able to solve more problems. The main idea of this book was that Isaac's childhoods was bad, but he was able to go forward to inventing new things and explaining others with other scientist's work. This main idea is both stated and implied because at the beginning of the book it states that his childhood was hard, but when you go far more into the story it tells you that he invented stuff. Another title I would give this book is " Isaac Newton: the world's thought man," because he thought a lot in his office and when he was a child.
Some supporting details of this story was that once it said that Isaac Newton invented the telescope with two mirrors to see better this detail is factual, another one is that in the beginning Isaac had a rough childhood where he didn't have many friends and wasn't that liked this detail was sensory, it also states that his father was killed and his mother had left him with his grandma, but he was able to move forward when he went to grammar school where he learned Latin, finally this detail is factual.
The essential message of this story is that you should never give up on you dreams and that if you have a problem keep it in the back of your mind and think about it when you can.
Once Isaac Newton was very good at thinking most of his time into problems and curiosities that were sometimes lethal, and to the effect he was able to know the travel of light and color, the laws of gravity, make a telescope, and how the moon was attracted to the Earth. I would compare Aristotle with Copernicus because they both studied outer space, but I would contrast them because Aristotle thought that Earth was the center of the universe but Copernicus disagreed and theorized that the Earth was actually going around the sun.
Some text features I found in the story were some illustrations of places, like London where Isaac stayed most of his time and joined the social society. Also illustrations of people who were certain people the book was talking about at that time. Another one was italic writing to emphasize on words like book titles, names, ETC.The other text feature were that in the end of the book there were experiments that Isaac Newton did, which helped the reader understand his creativity. The last text feature was that in the end there was a glossary for certain words.
The pattern of organization of this story is Chronological order because it was time order from when he was born to when he died. The author's purpose was to inform the reader about Isaac Newton. There was no author's perspective. The P.O.V is third person. I couldn't find any figurative language.
I went to the library to look about Isaac Newton and it was related to the book. Also the internet and I tried not to go on Wikipedia. Finally, I looked at pictures of the places where Isaac was to see if they match with the ones in the book.
I didn't really see any unknown words in the book.
I could compare this book to me because I always think about what is happening around the world and about problems. I could compare this book to another book " Alexander Fleming: the founder of penicillin." I would compare this book to real life because some people have to think about problems about the world and improving real life.
I would rate this book 10/10 because it was really good.
Sincerely, JUAN 702
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