Literature Collection Circle EDU337

 Summary: This story is a fictional tale of a boy who believes that his robot is broken when it is switched off and the robot believing the boy is sick when he is asleep. Both characters try and help the other in a humorous tale of friendship and companionship. Genre Evaluation: Boy + Bot is a science fiction novel and combines images and text to attract the reader. The illustrator uses a cartoon version of the boy and also a friendly-looking robot who is the boy's friend and coincides with the plot of the story along with the pictures to draw the reader in using realistic cartoon images. (Galda, Liang, & Cullinan, 2017) Motivational Activity: I would have the class read this book and then as a classroom activity throughout the reading of the novel have the students create their own physical robot made out of wood materials or another form of robot-making kits to inspire them to continue reading the book and enjoy it. (Galda, Liang, & Cullinan, 2017) Boy + Bot is ...

 Summary: A local scientist of the community who has yet to have any major inventions and is often considered a failure comes up with an invention that can make water into food due to a shutdown of the local cannery. In good faith, he creates this invention but something goes wrong and food begins raining from the sky. The idea is good at first but chaos follows the scientist's invention and he must hurry to fix it before it is too late.  Genre Evaluation: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a fictional story and the first book in a series about crazy food events in the sky. The rambling text may put off some younger readers, but kids and adults will enjoy the zany story and detailed illustrations. The book was adapted for an animated movie, and the movie inspired a video game. (Lewis, 2003) Motivational Activities: One way to use this book would be to motivate the child to read the book so you can end the lesson by showing the movie and give them something to look ...

 Ban This Book written by Alan Gratz is a book that shows a young girl standing up against censorship in her school by starting her own banned books library for all of the children at her school. She fights against both ill-hearted adult figures and against herself in an attempt to stand up and fight for what she believes. Ban This Book is a Contemporary Realistic Fictional Book. We can see this as the checklist includes that the story is plausible, which ist would be as the books mentioned have actually been censored or removed from libraries before or currently. There is a well-defined conflict in the novel that Amy Anne is trying to fight against the banning of the books in the library. Finally, we see the characterization of all these characters and the representation of multiple races, genders, and ages throughout the story. An activity which would be great for students reading this book is to find out if any books have been banned in their own school libraries and find out wh...

 In this poem, the author describes being in different situations through a short poem of being outside. She speaks of different months, different situations, but it all comes back to out in the dark and daylight, and concludes with the statement  "that's where I like to be". In this poem, we see poetic techniques like rhyme in the poem used to connect the ending of stanzas in rhyme. We also see the repetition of the title of the poem at the beginning of each stanza with the exception of one.  One motivational activity for the students to use this book could be to have them come up with a similar poem where they must pick two opposites and find the similarities in the two through the use of poetry and connect them at the end of a few lines.