Choose Your Novel by Michele Schafer https://padlet.com/mschafer3/oj6jx18o8025 End-of-Year Extensive Reading: ENJOY! en-us 2017-11-22 13:37:57 UTC 2023-09-24 01:15:35 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f913.png The Giver mschafer3 https://padlet.com/mschafer3/oj6jx18o8025/wish/897284831 Read "Utopia or Dystopia?"]]> 2020-11-06 12:10:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mschafer3/oj6jx18o8025/wish/897284831 The Giver: Utopia or Dystopia? mschafer3 https://padlet.com/mschafer3/oj6jx18o8025/wish/897290503 This will help you understand the novel better! ]]> 2020-11-06 12:14:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mschafer3/oj6jx18o8025/wish/897290503 Warhorse mschafer3 https://padlet.com/mschafer3/oj6jx18o8025/wish/897293340 War Horse opens as our little pony Joey is taken away from his mother and sold to a farm. On the farm, Joey is broken in (gently) by a kind-hearted young boy named Albert Narracott. Kind hearts don't run in this family, however, and Albert's drunken father sells Joey to the British army to earn money to keep his farm and family alive—and probably to buy a few bottles of booze, too.]]> 2020-11-06 12:16:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mschafer3/oj6jx18o8025/wish/897293340 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas mschafer3 https://padlet.com/mschafer3/oj6jx18o8025/wish/897295024  Bruno, a nine-year-old boy living in Berlin, Germany in 1943 (during WWII) takes up residence near the concentration camp where his father (David Thewlis) has just become commandant. Unhappy and lonely, he wanders out behind his house one day and finds Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a Jewish boy of his age. Though the barbed-wire fence of the camp separates them, the boys begin a forbidden friendship, oblivious to the real nature of their surroundings.]]> 2020-11-06 12:17:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mschafer3/oj6jx18o8025/wish/897295024 The curious incident of the dog in the night-time mschafer3 https://padlet.com/mschafer3/oj6jx18o8025/wish/897303103 Christopher John Francis Boone

The narrator and protagonist of the novel. Fifteen-year-old Christopher is mathematically gifted struggles for social acceptance and understanding as a result of his apparent autism. He views the world largely in absolutes, dividing his life experience into a series of extreme likes and dislikes. He feels most comfortable with logic and order, making Wellington’s murder an irresistible puzzle for him to solve. He resides with his father and pet rat Toby at 36 Randolph Street.

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