https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz Three cheers for independent reading! en-us 2020-03-24 15:13:01 UTC 2024-06-20 09:13:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Doubleheart.png jwagener https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/472934690 We're going to do some mini-book talks!  Grab your current book and post an entry about it. 
(1) Add the book’s title , author, AND your name at the top of your post. Ex: The Help by Katherine Stockett (John Doe) 
(2) find a significant chunk of text from your independent reading book  that offers "a taste" of the book.  Try to choose something that will engage your classmates. 2-4 sentences.
(3) find a photo to accompany your quote. This should be something that relates thematically to your book, and/or entices the reader. 
(4) Next week, you will get the chance to use your quote and picture to “book talk” your book to the class in two-minutes-or-less. 
(5) To create your post, click on the + sign in the bottom right corner. 

]]> 2020-03-24 15:13:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/472934690 https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/815805039 "My mother's a prostitute. Not the filthy, streetwalking kind. She's actually quite pretty, fairly well spoken and has lovely clothes. But she sleeps with men for money and gifts,  and according to the dictionary, that makes her a prostitute" (Sepetys 1).]]> 2020-10-09 01:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/815805039 https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/821683088 "San Piedro was an island of five thousand damp souls, named by lost Spaniards who moored offshore in the year 1603... Its members were murdered almost immediately upon setting foot on the beach by a party of Nootka slave raiders"(Guterson 5).]]> 2020-10-12 14:06:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/821683088 https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/823312031 "Langdon tried to image the curator's final minutes trapped alone in the Grand Gallery, knowing he was about to die. It seemed logical. 'An accusation against his murderer makes sense, I suppose.'

'My job, of course, is to put a name to that person. Let me ask you this, Mr. Langdon. To your eye, beyond the numbers, what about this message is most strange?'

Most strange? A dying man had barricaded himself in the gallery, drawn a pentacle on himself, and scrawled a mysterious accusation on the floor. What about the scenario wasn't strange?" (Brown 44). ]]> 2020-10-13 01:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/823312031 https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/823358633 "Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference. Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed -- would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper -- the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever, You might dodge it successfully fo a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you"(Orwell 16).]]> 2020-10-13 01:49:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/823358633 https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/823521348 "In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do East Coast family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later his decomposed body was found by a party of moose hunters... Immediately after graduating, with honors, from Emory University in the summer of 1990, McCandless dropped out of sight. He changed his name, gave the entire balance of twenty-four-thousand dollar savings account to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet. And then he invented a new life for himself, taking up residence at the ragged margin of our society, wandering across North America in search of raw, transcendent experience. His family had no idea where he was or what had become of him until his remains turned up in Alaska" (Krakauer 1). 


]]> 2020-10-13 03:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/823521348 https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/823558062 "As a child, being a football player was the only roadmap I had to escape my situation--it was all I thought I had to offer the world. But I became a man in prison and opened my mind to many other paths. I realized after I got out that there were so many other things I was capable of. There was so much more opportunity and more 
that I had to offer the world" (Clarett 248).]]> 2020-10-13 03:46:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/823558062 21jhudson_13 https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/824412571 " I reached the ball forward, trying to stretch over the goal line. I had to break the plane. I had to. And then I was down. I looked at the ball, looked at my hands stretched out as far as I could reach. I was twelve inches short" (Deuker 79).

]]> 2020-10-13 11:35:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/824412571 https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/824499087 "Derek sank to his knees and put his head  in both hands. How could he have messed up so badly? Now his team was 0-2. And worst of all, he'd play two games and hadn't gotten even one hit yet!" (Jeter 88).

]]> 2020-10-13 12:17:07 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/824499087 https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/824579459 "Bruce stood before the bare lectern now with only his bible in his hand. "I want to tell you now what I believe the bible is saying about the ride of the white horse, the first horseman of the Apocalypse'" (Jenkins 67). 

]]> 2020-10-13 12:43:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/824579459 https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/824594638 “The rain fly had been ripped off, two of the four poles were snapped, the front access flap was town completely open, and my sleeping bag was floating in the lake” (Ralston 49).

]]> 2020-10-13 12:47:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/824594638 21tmcewen_67 https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/824644980 “Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?” “Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”]]> 2020-10-13 13:01:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/824644980 https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/824729342 2020-10-13 13:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/824729342 https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/824882250 "I got a call to check it out. Some motorists were complaining about men on horses backing up traffic. I came out of Marco Island and found them about five minutes later. These two guys towing that giant steer" (White 164). ]]> 2020-10-13 13:55:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/824882250 https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/824967859 "'Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?'
Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry's ears even though the bright mist was descending again, obscuring his figure.
'Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?'" (Rowling 723).]]> 2020-10-13 14:14:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/824967859 https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/825077022 "We were like a vacuum back then that sucked people up and then spit them out; a ton of people around us fell by the wayside that way. Some people died, not because of anything we did to them, but as a side effect of being too close to the flame" (Slash 256).]]> 2020-10-13 14:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/825077022 https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/825760353 "Here's the thing I believe about a goal that often annoys people: you can only focus on one at a time. You. Can. Only. Focus. On. One. At. A. Time. If I were allowed to put emojis into a nonfiction book, you better believe there'd be a little aggressive handclap in between each one of those words" (Hollis 95). ]]> 2020-10-13 17:03:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/825760353 https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/825887144 “I had eight other brothers and sisters, all of them black, all of them healthy and full of play. For the most part, though, I preferred to wander off by myself and ponder what it meant that I was a puppy once more. It made no sense. I understood how I would never have been with Ethan if, as Toby, I hadn’t learned how to open the gate, and from my days in the culvert learned that there was nothing to fear on the other side of the fence” (Cameron 260).

]]> 2020-10-13 17:31:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/825887144 https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/826731059      "Kate stood there a moment, staring at her from behind those dork-o-rama glasses. Then, without saying anything, she hugged Tully.
     Tully flinched at the contact; it was foreign and unexpected. She started to pull away, but found that she couldn't move. She couldn't remember the last time someone had held her like this, and suddenly she was clinging to this weirdo girl, afraid to let go, afraid that without Kate, she'd float away like the S.S. Minnow and be lost at sea" (Hannah 35).]]> 2020-10-13 21:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/826731059 https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/827327417 “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.” (Sebold 8).]]> 2020-10-14 03:15:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/827327417 https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/828330725 “When you were the child of immigrants, you weren't just you; your success was also your parents' your cousins', your relatives' still struggling for life in Haiti or India, wishing they were you. It was your job, your preordained celestial existence or whatever, to make the most of it.”]]> 2020-10-14 12:29:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/828330725 https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/828383223 “He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet’s intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.”]]> 2020-10-14 12:46:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/8plcngmvd5fz/wish/828383223