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The review site for Read To Succeed, James Hamilton Academy's S1 / S2 reading programme
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All you have to do is find the author you have chosen from your sheet, read any info or special instructions, then click on 'Comments'.
You can then type your review or comment in the box, including the book title at the top.
Sign off by selecting 'Name' then type your full name and class in the box.
Feel free to comment on other pupils' reviews too!
You can then type your review or comment in the box, including the book title at the top.
Sign off by selecting 'Name' then type your full name and class in the box.
Feel free to comment on other pupils' reviews too!
Blogger of the Month
Congratulations to the pupils below who were winners and runners-up in October's Blogger of the Month competition!
S1 Winner
Molly Gladman (1Y)
S1 Runner-up
Kelsey Caldow (1B)
S2 Winner
Cassie Wright (2R)
S2 Runner-up
Shannon Alderson (2W)
Guide to a Good Review
You too could be Blogger of the Month!
Some tips for a good review are:
- Include just a little bit of plot summary
- What is your personal response to the book (was it good or bad, exciting or boring, sad or happy?)
- Explain why you felt this about the book. What did the author do to make the story exciting or boring or sad or happy?
- Talk about the characters, what they did and if you identified with them
-Talk about the narrative style - was it written in the first person or third person?
Some tips for a good review are:
- Include just a little bit of plot summary
- What is your personal response to the book (was it good or bad, exciting or boring, sad or happy?)
- Explain why you felt this about the book. What did the author do to make the story exciting or boring or sad or happy?
- Talk about the characters, what they did and if you identified with them
-Talk about the narrative style - was it written in the first person or third person?
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10 comments:
MEADIEVAL LIFE is a good book about medieval life in Europe it has medieval instruments . from life on a country manor to the crouded streets of a developeing town the stonemasons job and day at work . and the birth of a new age.
Investigating Fakes & Hoaxes
by Alex Woolf
Its about investigating crime scenes. It is a very boring book. I did not find it intresting at all. It is very shockingly terrible never would anyone read it.
It is about videogames so if you love games you would want to read this book becuse it tells you information about how to play some of the best games in the WORLD.
The bmw book is a good book if you like cars it is all about cars i would recommend it to people who want to know a lot about cars and who want to find out about the place where bmw make their cars and they tell you all the makes of bmw cars
Here are some of them
1z4 roadstar
26 series coupe
3 m3
4 e23 7 series
5 507 roadstar
6 formula 1 car
7 m1
That is just some of the bmw cars but they make approxminatly 20,000
bmw cars sold worldwide well that is most of the information in the book but if you want to find out all the facts about say the z4 roadster you will need to read the book to get all the facts
it is called
ULTIMATE CARS
BMW
BY ROB SCOTT COLSON
the book i have just read is called planes it is about planes
it is a good book there is a plane in it that can go over 2000 miles per hour (the fastest plane in the world)
Recently i read a book called youth crime and it told me alot of interesting things . Some of these things were what kind of crime that the youths do. Some of the crime is in groups where as some of the crimes are commited indevidually. It told me most crime is made by knive crime and on every page nearly all the crime was to do with knives and why you shouldn't carry ojne because they are dangerous .
recently i have read a book about ultimate cars jaguar you may have already seen my other book about BMW but this time it is about Jaguar i have always read non-fiction books they are so much easier to read weel in this book theyre are lots of cars it also teels you that they won the le mans world cup but i am not going to ruin the suprise but i will tell you some of the cars
1 jaguar
2jaguar xj
3 jaguar xk
4 jaguar xf
5 jaguar e-type
6 jaguar xj-s
7 jaguar xj220
8jaguar Diameler
9 Jaguar Le Mans
well thats all the cars in the jaguar book
I Have been reading a book about famous t.v celebrities and there is lots of different people in it ... some of the people that are in it are Ant and Dec, Billie Piper, Simon Cowell, The Osbournes, Fearne Cotton, David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Richard Hammond, And Tes Daly and Virnon Kay. I was reading about Ant and Dec The things that are in it about them are that they were on different t.v shows like I'm a celebrity get me out of here and Ant and Decs saturday night takeaway and that they have had different awards. it says in 2002 they won an duo award. It also says that they got the best entertainment presenter awards six years on the trot.
Recentli have been reading a book called SHOULD WE NEOGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTSi just tellls you about the 911 attack what was ordered by osama bin laden to strike fear into america and osama bin ladn is the most wanted terrorist and it tells you what terrorism is all about and some names of the people who dont want to negotiate with terrorist the only one i can remember is Nelson Mandela
Recently i have just read a book about The story of Manchester United it is about how Sir Matt Busby and how he rasied man unit ed to be one of the teams in english history and how he retired and then how Sir Alex Fergueson moved in and he made Manchester United the best british team
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