Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Dear America Series
These books don't exactly qualify for a series but thats alright. These books are dairies. I know that this doesn't sound very cool but all of them are great. You have to have some back ground knowledge or the stories get super confusing. I like these books because it being a dairy you have the same thoughts that the person writing has. Like if someone is stealing and only the one person knows about it then you can feel the frustration they must feel. They are also really good for creating these little pictures in your mind because it's in a form that ( because the person is telling the dairy) lets you ask a ton of questions about what other people think and feel, what the writer felt and what life was like then. It also is really fun to ( because these books are historical fiction) read other books about that time period and make connections. That is what I've been doing with my History of Us book. I keep seeing things or they talk about things that I have found somewhere in the book. They don't really come in an order but you can read them according to the year they are based on. I think that these books are an eight not ten because they aren't really the best ever book but they are pretty good.
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Are the dairies of people coming to America?
ReplyDeleteI really liked your post Annapurna, because it made you get more interested in the book and you used descriptive language.
ReplyDeleteEmily,
ReplyDeleteSometimes like for instance Remember Patience Whipple. She is an immigrant. Or there is the Great Rail Road Race. That one is about a girl moving around America.
Clem,
Thank you! That mainly was my goal to get people interested in reading these dairies.
Are any of the stories true, like the people in the books? I read some of the books and they were good, but I only read the ones in the topics that I like and sound good, like the Titanic one. But are they all good, and wtich one is your favorite?
ReplyDeleteUsually they are real people. What the authors do most of the time is they take their dairy and clean, it up. Take things out, add stuff in. So yes they are real people, and the books are half their dairy, half made up, historical fiction.
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