Anya’s Story
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Hayley’s Story
Posted by: missmorrisblog on: February 3, 2009
Coming Soon…Holiday Recipes!
Posted by: Melissa Morris on: December 15, 2008
- In: 2008-2009| IRLA Class
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Dear Readers,
The students will be putting together some of their favorite holiday recipes (as well as some stories about why the recipes are their favorites) this week. Stop by soon to read their posts and please feel free to comment. There will be 12 posts in all and they should be up by Friday.
Happy Holidays!
Miss Morris :)
We have a new home!!!
Posted by: Melissa Morris on: November 12, 2008
Please visit our new site. We will be connected to the teacher pages on the Grover site as well.
http://teacherweb.com/NJ/ThomasGroverMiddleSchool/MMorris/
Miss Morris 
Spooky Story Contest Winners!
Posted by: Melissa Morris on: November 5, 2008
Congratulations to the Spooky Story Contest Winners!
Most Poetic – Scott B.
Best Plot Twist – Kelsey H.
Most Realistic – Hayley M.
Most Developed Character – Neel K.
Most Artistic – Sergey I.
Best Use of Dialogue – Abby G.
POETRY RESPONSE: Langston Hughes (Dan P.)
Posted by: Melissa Morris on: November 3, 2008
I read two poems by Langston Hughes. He is an African-American poet. The two poems I read were “Dreams Deferred” and “Dreams.” They are about dreams and what it would be if we did not have dreams. The second poem is also about dreams and the value of dreams and how important they are.
My reaction to the poem “Dream Deferred” was that it was a good poem and that it is very descriptive because I felt that I was really there.
For the second poem “Dreams” my reaction was that it was a good poem and that I liked the meaning. The meaning was about how to value our dreams.
These poems are great. I like to read other poems from Hughes. I like poems that have a good topic. I like poems that are descriptive.
BOOK REVIEW: Cindy Ella (Ari M.)
Posted by: missmorrisblog on: October 6, 2008
I read the book Cindy Ella by Robin Palmer during the summer. It was a real page turner; once I started I could not stop.
The story is about a girl named Cindy Ella who lives a very crazy life, with a one year old brother, two mean step sisters, a hypochondriac as a step mother, and a workaholic father. Being in a family with two sisters that think being shallow is not a bad thing, home isn’t her favorite spot in L.A. Also, the fact that she is against prom and all things fashion means that neither is school, but on prom night she finds out that her email pal, Booklyn boy, is a.k.a. John Silver her secret crush from school. So she has a few hours to find a dress, pair of high heels, and to turn from Cindy Ella to Cinderella before her date at eight.
I enjoyed this book, because it was very well written, and it gave a modern twist to the old story of Cinderella. Any girl can relate to ideas such as school, crushes, trust, and friendship. It’s an adventure no one would want to miss out on.
I would recommend this book to others because the characters seemed so alive, that you can imagine this happening in real life. This book is so good you won’t want to go to sleep without knowing what happens next. I would also recommend other books by Robin Palmer.
BOOK REVIEW: City of Ember (Danielle S.)
Posted by: Melissa Morris on: October 6, 2008
The book I read over the summer was called City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. The City of Ember has a sequel; the sequel is called People of Sparks. Jeanne DuPrau has also written The Prophet of Yunwood.
City of Ember was about two kids named Lina and Doon, who both are twelve. In Ember, once you are twelve you have to start to work and drop out of school to make a living for the rest of your life. To decide what they will be when they grow up, the Mayor of Ember comes to their school and lets the kids pick out of a hat and whatever they pick is what job they will have.
Lina and Doon both wanted specific jobs and when they went to go pick the jobs out of a hat Lina got what Doon wanted and Doon got what Lina wanted. So, at the end of the school year they switch jobs.
When Lina got home her grandmother was looking for something. She saw her little sister Poppy eating a piece of paper, and it turned out that there is a secret passage way out of Ember that nobody has ever seen before. They soon discover a new land with a sun, which was so beautiful. They had a wild adventure to get there, but they made it happy and alive. Poppy also came along to experience the adventure. Lina and Doon sent a note to the people of Ember to come to the new land and they realized the city was underground and right under them.
My reaction to the book was that I loved it! I just couldn’t stop reading it. The end of the book was a cliffhanger which made me want to read the next sequel. I never at one point got bored of the book. They just kept putting things in there that I would never expect that would happen.
I would recommend this book to others because it is a kind of book where you make pictures in your mind and you want to keep reading.
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