Book review - Extinction

Title: Extinction
Author: Lizzie Wilcock

Extinction is about the day the world ended, and Anemone and Mackay were the only survivors. When  they fell asleep at night and woke up the next morning they saw that everything was back to normal. Until they noticed that they had gone backwards in time to the 20th of September, the day before the world ended. They will keep going back in time unless they find a way to stop the extinction of the human race.



I would rate this book 4/5 and would recommend it for people aged 11 and older. If you like this book you should read the next book in the series Extinction 2 or Thirst another book by Lizzie Wilcock.

Have you read this book before?

Memoir

This term we have been writing Memoir. The memoirs had to been on one of our favourite memories at St Francis. My memoir is on the caritas challenge, this my first paragraph.

This year we had the the Caritas challenge which took a lot of planning and work. On the day of the challenge we spent a lot of the time making our shelters in groups of four, I was in a group with Methuli, Jelena and Amber. After we made the shelters we had a dinner rice, rice and more rice. After that we played a few games and then we went to bed.

Have you written a memoir before? If so what was it on?

Book review - Carve the Mark

Title: Carve the Mark
Author: Veronica Roth

Carve the Mark is about Akos and Cyra who both live on planet Thuvhe but were enemies from birth. When Akos and his brother Eijeh was captured by the Shotet people which Cyra is a part of, he heard his fate. Akos's family and Cyra's family were both fate favoured which means they both had a specific fate. Cyra has a gift that makes herself and others feel pain when she touches them, and since she is in the Shotet ruling family her older brother Ryzek uses the power to help stay in control.



I would rate this book 4/5, It would be good for people aged 13+. If you like this you should try the Divergent series which is also by Veronica Roth.

Have you read this book before if so did you enjoy it?

Speeches

One of my writing pieces that I am proud of is my speech. My speech was about why people should read books. This is one of the middle paragraphs and the conclusion.

Reading can help boost your intelligence level, but even though I read a lot I ain’t a genius. Still many people who do read have a higher intelligence level then those who don’t. When you read books they can boost your brainpower but with magazines and newspaper they don’t. If you are reading a book you are more likely to read it properly but with magazines and newspaper you normally just skim read the headlines instead of taking everything in. Also when you read a novel you are more likely to notice when things in the book are related to actual things that are happening in real life or in another book. Some people also think that if children as young as 6 months read with their parents that they will have better literacy skills then those who don’t. When you read you often learn words you have never heard of before such as carbolic acid which is an acid that is used as disinfectant. I don’t think I would of learnt that word if I didn’t enjoy reading so much.

Thank you for listening to this speech, and for tolerating me well I’m talking about books, of course! I’ve been told that when I’m talking about books that I don’t notice if people are listening or not because I’m to distracted from talking about the book! I hope I’ve encouraged you to read more, and if I haven’t you should read anyway. This is a quote from Dr. Seuss ‘The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn the more places you’ll go’.

I hope you enjoyed reading my speech and also make sure to read a lot.

Do you like writing speeches? If so what topic have you written about and why?