https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g Three cheers for independent reading! en-us 2018-11-13 01:11:48 UTC 2026-01-02 01:52:11 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Doubleheart.png jwagener https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/472958450 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 15:24:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/472958450 21anachtrab_50 https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/821803161 "Remember how I sweated over those essays? Remember how I told dad I wrote the checks for the application fees? Remember how everyone bought the myth that I had been accepted to my safety schools?"(Anderson 73).

]]> 2020-10-12 14:44:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/821803161 21bvasko_69 https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/822731588 "One minute it was the Ohio winter, with doors closed, windows locked, the panes blind with frost, icicles fringing every roof, children skiing on slopes, housewives lumbering like great black bears in there furs along the icy streets." (Bradbury 1).]]> 2020-10-12 19:39:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/822731588 https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823018921 "Louie wanted to give him a religious eulogy but didn't know how, so he recited disjointed passages that he remembered from movies, ending with a few words about committing the body to the sea. And he prayed for himself and Phil, vowing that if God would save them, he would serve heaven forever. ]]> 2020-10-12 22:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823018921 https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823213663 "I was back to surviving Green team. I knew if you focused on the whole thing, you cracked. The only way to survive was getting through the day on meal at a time. Now, hours before the biggest mission of my career, I was just focused on getting to breakfast. It was success one step at a time.(Owen 199)]]> 2020-10-13 00:39:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823213663 https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823391772 Jason Morris
" You have broken my heart. And I don't know how it will ever heal." I don't understand why you are being like this," Carlton groaned in mandarin. " You don't understand? You don't realize how much you have hurt me? How can you be so cruel?" (Kwan 213).]]> 2020-10-13 02:07:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823391772 https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823402466 2020-10-13 02:13:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823402466 21lross_79 https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823404877 “He has been broken beyond repair, wounded beyond healing, abused beyond the point of recovery. He will never know happiness or joy, security or normalcy. He will never know pleasure, satisfaction, serenity, clarity, peace of mind or any semblance of sanity. He will never know trust or love. You poor, sick, sad motherfu*ker”(frey 139).]]> 2020-10-13 02:14:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823404877 https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823406899 2020-10-13 02:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823406899 21rbarbano_93 https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823409376 "I wonder if I'll ever write anything worth anything at all. I turn when I hear Pascagoula's knock at the door. That's when the idea comes to me. No. I couldn't. That would be...crossing the line. But the idea won't go away" (Stockett 89). ]]> 2020-10-13 02:17:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823409376 21jcook66 https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823455223 "'If the gods and Olympus and all that are real...' 
'Yes child?' 
'Does that mean the Underworld is real, too?'
Chiron's expression darkened.
'Yes child.' He paused as if choosing his words carefully. 'There is a place where spirits go after death. But for now... until we know more... I would urge you to put that our of your mind'" (Riordan 78). ]]> 2020-10-13 02:41:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823455223 https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823475278 '"Yes and no. My conclusion," she explains, "is that you display equal aptitude for Abnegation, Dauntless, and Erudite. People who get this kind of result are..." She looks over her shoulder like she expects someone to appear behind her. "...are called... Divergent." She says that last word so quietly that I almost don't hear it, and her tense, worried look returns' (Roth 22).]]> 2020-10-13 02:52:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823475278 21jvalentine_37 https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823775597 "Your charming Mr. Gash–where might he be, Bob?"
"Shearwater Island, last I heard. Hunting for the sicko dognapper." Palmer Stoat said, "Call him off, please."
"What for?"
"I don't want him anywhere near my wife. Call him off until this puppy-slicing freak lets my wife go"(Hiaasen 173).

]]> 2020-10-13 05:48:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823775597 https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823850699 "Every cup that passes through a single person and eventually rejoins the world's water supply holds enough molecules to mix 1,500 of them into every other cup of water in the world. No way around it: some of the water you just drank passed through the kidneys of Socrates, Genghis Khan, and Joan of Arc.]]> 2020-10-13 06:24:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/823850699 21mowsley_79 https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/826019441 "This was my eleventh lie. The Amy of today was abrasive enough to want to hurt, sometimes. I speak specifically of the Amy of today, who was only remotely like the woman I fell in love with. It had been an awful fairy-tale reverse transformation"(Flynn 49).]]> 2020-10-13 17:48:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/826019441 21anadzuhra33 https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/828466493 "I feel like a homing pigeon
longing for my dovecote
Havana is in my heart
city of poets
city of freedom
streets of words
alleys of wonder
busy marketplace
of ideas
written and spoken
shared and daydreamed
embraced or rejected
replaced or loaded
onto the wings
carried home." (Engle 160)

]]> 2020-10-14 13:11:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/828466493 21gsoto_65 https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/829092530 "The body of Mark Forester, a 20-year-old Princeton student, was found in Claymore Creek on Saturday morning. Forester had been hiking the Mayflower Trail with his girlfriend, Tabitha Cousins, 17, late Friday afternoon" Flynn 2)]]> 2020-10-14 15:35:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/829092530 https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/829945078 “I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.”]]> 2020-10-14 18:58:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jwagener/ljtk751xki5g/wish/829945078