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Create your documentations in a separate Word document, then cut and paste in a blog post.

Basic Documentation

Book Title:

Author(s):

Illustrator/Photographer/Artist:

Publisher:

Copyright Date:

Genre:

Brief Annotation:

Your Rating (1-5) and why:

Readers who will like this book:

Teaching Strategy from Tompkins or Yopp & Yopp (you'll link a strategy to at least 10 of your 40 books) :

Question to ask about this book before a read aloud:

Optional, but noted as extra effort:

1. Interest Level (age):

2. Grade Level Equivalent (grade):
Use book wizard to help with the previous 2 areas


3. List awards

4. Does this book have a book trailer? If so, cut and paste the web address here.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

The Angry Moon

BASIC DOCUMENTATION
Book Title: The Angry Moon

Author(s): William Sleator

Illustrator/Photographer/Artist: Blair Lent

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Copyright Date: 1970

Genre: Folklore

Brief Annotation:
Based on a Tlingit Indian Legend, the book tells the legend of a girl being taken captive by the moon and being rescued by her friend. The story tells how determination, on the part of the boy, and the magic of the grandmother help outsmart the moon and enable the girl and her friend to safely return to earth.

Your Rating (1-5) and why: 4
I liked the vocabulary and sentence structures the author used. The illustrations are difficult for me to understand but I do believe their structure fits with the text and theme of the book.


Readers who will like this book:
• Readers who enjoy legends or other folktales
• Readers who enjoy studying or listening to American Literature based on Native American Ideas or customs
• Readers who enjoy hearing magical ways of rescuing people

Question to ask about this book before a read aloud:
By looking at the cover, what could make the moon so angry?
By predicting, how did the moon and two children get close enough to one another to be chasing each other?

Optional, but noted as extra effort:

1. List awards:
• Caldecott Honor (1971)
• Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Nominee for Picture Book (1971)
• Fellowship, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 1969
• Honor List citation, Horn Book (1971) and
• American Book Award for Best Paperback Picture Book, 1981,
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