Book Fair Duct Taping

For the fall book fair, students voted on which teacher they wanted to duct tape to a wall. The overwhelming response was Mr. Kelly. We had a lot of fun today. Here are some pictures:

Can you survive anything?

You know when you start watch a TV show and you notice yourself gravitating towards those same kind of books?? That is what is happening to me. I started watching Lost, and I seemed to gravitate towards books that were about plane crashes. Both were very good, but almost too intense to read. And, of course, I had to share my favorite plane crash book of all time, Hatchet.

Hatchet Summary

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

 Survive Summary

Jane, a troubled girl, is stranded in an arctic winter terrain after a plane crash and must fight for survival with Paul, the only other boy left alive.



The Raft Summary

Experienced traveler Robie, having decided to take a cargo plane from Honolulu to Midway Atoll after a visit with her aunt, struggles to survive with the co-pilot, Max, after the plane crashes in the Pacific Ocean and they are left on a raft in shark-infested waters with only one bag of Skittles.

Orchards by Holly Thompson

Summary
Sent to Japan for the summer after an eighth-grade classmate's suicide, half-Japanese, half-Jewish Kana Goldberg tries to fit in with relatives she barely knows and reflects on the guilt she feels over the tragedy back home. (From titlewave.com.)

Mrs. Lassley's Review
In an age where students seem to take making fun of each other to a new level, this book might make you rethink what you say. For the first part of the book Kana seems to blame the girl who changed her life, but as time goes on, she starts to see how she might be partly to blame. This is a book that might help all of us think twice about what we say to some one. Very well written book!