Category: Reading

History Keepers

November 5, 2016 / / 0 Comments

I have read many books and I enjoyed most of them, like all the Rick Riordan books and the David Walliams. However, because I love history, the series ‘History Keepers’ stuck out to me with Jake D’Jones and Topaz right to boring Jupiter Cole. The language level is very high, with the use of words like deluge, torrents, archaic and much much more.  This is currently a 3 book collection that is hinted at the end of book 3 to have another book on its way soon. If the author’s website release dates are to be believed then next year we may have book 4. I highly suggest this collection, alongside with the Rick Riordan books and Northan lights.

Wide Reading Project

September 20, 2016 / / 0 Comments

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During the year you will be asked to read a wide range of texts. Using texts studied in class as well as texts you have selected you will also complete a log of the reading process. Overall you will read eight texts including at least six written texts and two visual texts. You will complete log entries on each text and present a report on your findings.

Attached is the outline of your required personal reading project – inside is the guidance you need to make sure your own-choice reading is going to meet the wide reading criteria.

You can always ask your teacher for advice about which texts would be best to concentrate on – and once you’ve read each text, you’ll then be asked to write a journal entry on your blog explaining how it helped develop your understanding of The Individual and Society.

This year everyone in the school will be required to have a ‘book at hand’ – and for English students, it makes a good idea to make that book one that helps you towards this reading project.

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