Dirty Bertie and Hermione Granger!

Thank you so much to everyone who helped make this such a fun project.

We hope you enjoyed reading our stories. Thank you to all those who voted and helped decide who the champions would be.

from Bookapedia:
Amelia, Connor, Geneva, Haleigh, Jake, Jasmine, Jen, Jessie, Matthew, Miriam, Sarah, and Suzanne.

The Bookapedia Book Battles has it’s own website now, where you can find everything you need to know about:

• the battles
• the schedule
• the characters
• the stories
• voting!!

Exciting news! Today we worked out the match-ups for the first round of the book battles, and started drafting our ideas.

Today we decided on the characters who will battle it out to be the champion.

We have two groups – picture book characters, and chapter book characters. We hope that this way everyone in the school will be able to get behind a character they know and love, and support them by voting for them in the battles.

Here we go:

Picture book characters

• Scaredy Squirrel
• Clifford the big red dog
• Mrs Wishy Washy
• Winnie the Pooh
• The Cat in the Hat
• Scarface Claw
• Dirty Bertie
• Greedy Cat

Chapter book characters:

• Percy Jackson
• Harry Potter
• Zac Power
• Hermione Granger
• Owly
• Matilda
• The BFG
• Nancy Drew

This term we have started talking about the Book Battle that we are having in a few weeks. There is a lot of planning to be done! Today we chose the characters – more on that in another post

We looked at a website for building trading cards for a character, to help us analyse what the characters are like.

We’ve had a go at making our own comics, with help from Silver Dunlop who owns Company of Heroes bookstore in town. Lots of fun! Silver is coming back next week so we can do some more!

Today we took a look at how our two books (The Giver and The Wind Singer) use colour as symbol.

We looked at the book covers, and the way covers can be used to pull something of importance from the book that is symbolic. Finding symbols in a story is one of the ways we can look beyond the surface details and the more obvious meanings of the words, to find the hidden or deeper ideas and meanings that the author may be writing about too.

We watched some clever little movies about the meaning of colours – how they make us think or feel – and thought about these using mentions of the colours in the books. Click the image here to go to the website.

You can share your ideas about the use of colour in these books in the comments

Today we discussed the idea of freedom, and how this is portrayed in The Giver and Wind Singer.

Both these books present a society where many decisions are made for the citizens, rather than by the citizens themselves.

We talked about whether / how this is different to our society, and if we would like to live in a society like that.

You can click the picture here to add and arrange the ideas we talked about to the Wallwisher.

Today we used Wallwisher to share our ideas about the language of Holes:
braided narrative, irony/oxymoron/opposites, symbols, and genre/characterisation/point of view.