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Question- While you read, question what's happening. Searching for reasons behind events and characters' actions can help you get more involved in what you read.
Connect- Connect personally with what you're reading. Think of similarities between the descriptions in the selection and what you have personally experienced, heard, or read.
Predict- Try to figure out what will happen next and how the selection might end. Then read on to see if you made good guesses.
Clarify- Stop occasionally to review what you understand so far, and expect to have your understanding change and develop as you read on.
Evaluate- Form opinions about what you read, both while you're reading and after you've finished. Make judgments about the characters and develop your own ideas about events.
Visualize- Make a picture in your mind of what the text says. Imagine you are looking at what is describe.
9 comments:
I am reading a new odyssey book. at the begining, the hero Odysseus is setting sails on a trip to the whirl pool and to fight the sea monster Scylla!
title- Odysseythe siren of the monsters
3 chapter.
pages-1-38
Author-mary pope
now the witch Circe is warning them about the evil that lerks in the sea of the sirens and the sea monsters.
anonymous said....
title-odssey sirens and the sea monsters
3chapter
pages-1-38
author-mary pope
I am going to tell more about the book i am reading.The hero is takeing a chance to get to his men home.He is ethyer go to the sea monster or go to the rocky cliffs. I am going to read more and find out what one he takes. I think he is going to take the sea monster. that is my opinion. He is taking of a beach.
Now in Odyssey, they take off for for thier adventure. the got past the sirens and the six headed sea monster. now thier on the land of the sun god.But they disobeyed the sun gods commands and killed all his sheep and cattle.
I am at the end of the book. His men all drownd in the river. now he is on a mysterious island, the lsland of clypso. On that island he finds a girl.
name: Odyssey
author Mary Pope
time after the trojan war
i am on the first book.I have read almost every one of them. But on this one his adventure begins! In the first chapters he is he set sails off to to Troy. after the war he is stranded on a mysterious island.
name odyssey
author Mary Pope
They just got on the island and they found plenty of goats and cows. After they ate, the found a mist coverd island. They travel to it. They found a huge one eyed monster. He trapt Odysseus and his crew. They are forced to wait till morning.
My character sketch
The character of the story of Odysseus. He is the leader of his army that survive the Trojan war. His men think that he is bave, bright, and strong. One of the his biggest achievments is deafeting the one eyed monster. He looks very strong! He wears a huge bealt with a bronz sword.
Now they esxaped the evill cluches of the dreaded cyclops. They just left the cyclopses island and Posiden,the god of the sea is realy mad for blinding his son. He is sending huge dangerous waves crushing the crews crickety old ship.
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