Literacy Circles - The Last Tuatara

This term for reading we are doing literacy circles which is when we are groups of six and we each have a role in our group which changes every week. The different roles are the Discussion Director who leads the conversation, the Connector who links the text to either there self, the world or to other books, the summariser who summarises the bit that they had read, the Passage Picker who finds three passages that they like, the Illustrator who draws pictures of a scene and the Word Master who finds three words they don't know and find their definition. I chose the book The Last Tuatara by Des Hunt.

I chose this book because I have read other books by Des Hunt such as Sunken Forest and Project Huia which I have enjoyed. So far in the book Shawn Morris has crashed in Jess and Jason's Dad's farm when he was looking for traces of oil in the area. After he had crashed Shawn rang someone to come and pick him up, so well he was waiting Jess and Jason gave him a tour of the farm. They showed him an old ruined house and also clay statues made by a person with the initials SW. He took a pair of clay Huias which are an extinct type of bird, and well they were on the tour he told them that he was moving in. I didn't expect the book to go like this even though it said on the back of the book that Shawn had crashed his plane and I did not expect him to say that he was moving in.

Have you read this book before?

6 Steps of Making a Quality Blog Post

In cyber-smart we learnt about quality blog posts and the six steps to making one. We each had to make a google slide or a google drawing about and I choose a google drawing. These are the six steps.

Do you do all these things in your blog posts?

Reading Review - The Hidden Oracle

Tittle: The Hidden Oracle
Author: Rick Riordan

Apollo was cast down from Olympus by his father Zeus and was blamed for Gaia rising. He was turned into a teenager called Lester Papadoupolous, he met a girl named Meg who claimed his services because whenever he is sent into the world he has to work for a demigod (A demigod is a child of a god and a actual person). Apollo decided to go to the only place he would be welcome Camp Half-blood, but first he needed a ride. So he decided to go see Percy Jackson  to get one. Apollo has to battle monsters, annoying teenagers and an unknown roman.

I read this book because I have enjoyed many other books by Rick Riordan who writes stories about different types of mythology such as Greek, Roman, Norse and Egyptian. I would rate this book 4.5/5, it would be good for people aged 11+. If you want to read this book it would be best if you read the Percy Jackson series and then the Heroes of Olympus series before you read The Trials of Apollo.



Have you read any of Rick Riordans books before?