Book Club Post #1

Book Club Book: SPEAK by:Laurie Halse Anderson
Pages:1-95
Summary: My book is about a High School girl named Melinda Sordino. It's Melinda's first year in High School and she's a Social Outcast. She has no friends and is almost always depressed. The first day of High School everywhere she looked, her old classmates and ex-friends were glaring at her, Except the new girl from out off state named Heather. At first Melinda didn't like her every much by then she got used to having Heather around . When she walks to her classes people bump her in the hallways and drop her books. Then the mysterious "IT" shows up at school and melinda can't stand to have him around her. Melinda's grades are bad , her parents keep fighting and when people talk to her she almost never talks back to them or she just doesn't talk at all.

Opinion: Usually when I go to the library and see this book I don't pay much attention to it. When we were picking which book we wanted to read for our book clubs I had wanted to read a different book but then a teacher (Mr.Homan) asked me if I had read the blurb of the book "SPEAK" , I said no and he said that i should because it was an Interesting book and I would probably like it.When I finished reading the blurb I knew that "SPEAK" was the book that I wanted to read for book clubs. I really like reading this book ,( i even saw the movie thats based on the book :D ) the book is written in Melinda's point of view and it tell us what she feel as she enters High School , what she goes through at school and at home .Even though I already saw the movie "SPEAK" , I want to finish reading the book because I want to see what happens to Melinda in the book that didn't happen in the movie. When I read the book I never want to put it down ,I get so caught up in reading that sometimes I don't hear my teacher say that its time to stop reading.

Prompt:How do you feel about this new unit of Study? How did your book Club group perform this week? What role did you get the chance to play this week and how did that go for you? Tell me at least two new words that you learned this week as you read your book.

I love this new unit of study! I like this unit of study because I like to read , when ever I see a book that I'm intresrted in I always pick it up and read it. Also my class did book clubs last year and it was great! But there were only 2 people in my book club and we are both fast readers so by the time that unit ended , we had already read about 3 books. I think that my book club preformed good this week but we need to come together and talk more about our book. Also My other classmate and I are both very much ahead of our other classmates who are in our book club. When we have to talk about our book to the our other book club members I always talk to my friends sakeena because she is already up to page: 126 even though I'm only up to page:95.
She's always careful not to tell me too much of what shes read so that I can read it myself.My other book club members talk to each other because they are they are both up to the same page and sometimes they ask us questions if they don't understand something thats happened in the book . This week our class was learning how to be the Deep Thinker and the Historian. I think that I did better as the Histirion because I was able to fill the worksheet the Ms.Hameed gave us and I understood what I was doing. I wasn't every good at being the Deep Thinker because I wasn't able to put down my book and fill in the sheet, everytime I tried to stop and fill in the sheet something intresting kept happening in the book. I kinda forgot what the new words I learned were but Im going to look them up . =D