For the next couple of weeks, our focus will be on researching, taking notes, paraphrasing, and learning! Because it's important to use your own words (paraphrase!) and not plagiarize, our focus this week will be on practicing this important skill.
Here's your assignment: 1.) Write the title and author of your book. 2.) Copy/type a paragraph from the book you're reading at home (be sure to use quotation marks and cite your source! 3.) Below the paragraph, PARAPHRASE the text from your book. Example: I am reading The Watson's Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis. Text: "All of my family sat real close together on the couch under a blanket. Dad said this would generate a little heat but he didn’t have to tell us this, it seemed like the cold automatically made us want to get together and huddle up. My little sister, Joetta, sat in the middle and all you could see were her eyes because she had a scarf wrapped around her head. I was next to her, and on the outside was my mother." (Curtis p.1). Paraphrased Version: It was below freezing and the only way for my family and I to get warm was to sit close to one another on the sofa with a blanket. We would do anything to warm up a little, including snuggling close together. Joetta was so bundled up, the only thing showing were her eyes (From The Watson's Go to Birmingham).
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ARIANNA!!!
4/15/2019 04:03:06 pm
I'm reading Matilda by Ronald Dahl. Text "The Trunchbull, her face more like a boiled ham than ever, was standing before the class quivering with fury. Her massive bosom was heaving in and out and the smash of water down the front of it made a dark wet patch that had probably soaked right through to her skin." (p.167)
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Ryan
4/19/2019 01:20:02 pm
In the book Arctic & Antarctic By: Barbra Taylor it says: In the sea around Antarctica the shallow waters have ice that scrapes against the seabed preventing any life from living there.
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BaCh is the best
4/15/2019 06:40:08 pm
I am reading a book called Middle School Just My Rotten Luck by James Patterson
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4/16/2019 04:01:15 pm
I am reading the book The Land Of Stories The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer.
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4/16/2019 04:15:37 pm
I am reading the book I Am LeBron James By Grace Norwich.
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Cole Da Mole
4/17/2019 08:13:33 am
I am reading a book called the Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict, by Trenton Lee Stewart.
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4/17/2019 04:20:13 pm
In the book I'm reading called, "The Greatest Treasure Hunt In History The Story Of The Monuments Men" by Robert M. Edsel.
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4/17/2019 04:28:18 pm
Oops! I forgot quotes after the second paragraph, and hi in the first paragraph at the beginning is supposed to be him. Sorry!
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Finn
4/18/2019 01:29:58 pm
Right now I am reading the book Restart, by Gordon Korman
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4/18/2019 02:54:36 pm
I'm reading Middle School born to rock
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Lyla Hawkins
4/18/2019 04:01:12 pm
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Claire! Not plagerized
4/18/2019 03:46:06 pm
I am reading The Wide Window,by Lemony Snickets
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Claire!?
4/18/2019 03:49:27 pm
Sorry mine is so small I could not find a right sized paragraph. Most of them took the whole page.
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Aniele Hawkins' beautiful daughter
4/18/2019 04:00:46 pm
I am reading a book called The Land of Flowers from the Thea Stilton series.
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Mia Vanino
4/18/2019 04:00:58 pm
One For the Murphy's by Lynda Mullaly Hunt.
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Will
4/18/2019 04:13:55 pm
Okay i’d Exceeded my daily quota of bizarre. I had to get out of here. I had to get over that wall,
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KIRA PRATT
4/18/2019 05:47:36 pm
I am reading Ranger in Time by Kate Messner.
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Bianca Bird
4/18/2019 06:26:22 pm
I am reading the book A dog's purpose by w. Bruce Cameron
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Elijah Is a Unicorn?!
4/18/2019 07:10:40 pm
I am Reading the book called The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns
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Wyatt J.
4/18/2019 07:39:45 pm
I am reading "The Unwanteds, Island of silence." By Lisa McMann.
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Max yopperman
4/18/2019 07:56:41 pm
I am reading a book called "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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KAITLIN SCHATZ
4/18/2019 07:56:57 pm
I've read the boy in the girl bathroom by Lous Sachar.
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Chase
4/19/2019 06:11:32 am
"Don't spoil you dinner, Hal" Hal said. It's supposed to be a very cod evening, I bet. your parents have cooked up a ice hot meal" Hal smiled and shut the door behind him, leaving the children alone with the real keys to the Library of Records and the quivery feeling in their stomachs
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jackson
4/19/2019 01:35:33 pm
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