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====Post your questions, comments, and quotes for discussion on the read aloud book for 6th grade GOAL for the 2010/2011 school year: //Things Not Seen//. ====

Possible topics:
====Make sure to back your opinions up with examples from the text. For example, "I love this book," is not specific or helpful for discussion. Instead, be specific about what you like. For example, "I love how the author describes the first night that Bobby has to stay alone. It really creeped me out when he was talking about the fluids coming up through the floorboards. I could tell he was really scared. What other books or authors describe as well as this one (Andrew Clements)?" Also, you can ask questions so your classmates can help you understand parts that confuse you. ====
 * ====Characters ====
 * ====Plot ====
 * ====Connections (text to self, text to text, text to world) ====
 * ====Vocabulary ====
 * ====Confusing sections ====
 * ====Author choices ====

5. How do the characters in the book change throughout the course of the novel? How do they stay the same?
====For each 3-week reporting period, I'd like you to make at least 1 post and at least 3 replies to the posts of others. This would be for a low B. Go above and beyond for an A. ====