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Willingham claims technology hasn't shortened our actual attention spans,…
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My goal for this week was to finish The Story of Owen and read at least 150 pages in a new book. Thanks to our snow day, I not only read 150 pages, I read all 255 pages of The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds (who on Monday…
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My goal was to read 150 pages and reach page 220 in The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim by E.K. Johnston. I met my goal exactly.
This weekend is much more open, so I plan to finish Owen (82 pages) and read 150 pages…
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My goal for this week was to finish Red Rising by Pierce Brown, which meant reading 220 pages. I met my goal; in fact, I also started a new book, The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of Trondheim, and read to page 70.
As we have…
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I am reading Red Rising by Pierce Brown, and I am currently on page 141. My goal for next week is to finish the book (which has 400 pages total). This might be a bit ambitious, given that this is the crazy season for…
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I finished two excellent books this week: Wildlife by Fiona Wood and Gabi: A Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero.
Wildlife takes place in Australia, among a group of classmates at private school who sends part of their…
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Please post your response as a reply to this discussion. Replies should be posted by class time on Thursday, December 4.
As always, in order to receive credit, your response must include the following:
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I met my goal and then some, reading ten books in the last two weeks. The two best were The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Foley, the story of an Irish-American girl who moves with her mom and new stepfather to Ireland in the '90s,…
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I met my goal of reading all 374 pages of Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley. It's a historical fiction account of the integration of Jefferson High School in Virginia, told from the viewpoints of two girls, one black and one…
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My goal for today was to read all of Blood of My Blood by Barry Lyga, and I accomplished that. I also read Far From You by Tess Sharpe, the crazy brother/sister/best friend /love triangle/murder mystery I talked about in class…
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Please post your response as a reply to this discussion. Your reply should be posted by class time on Thursday, November 6. Look to my response as a model for both length and content.
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