My Year 8 English Experience

While reading our new class novel ‘The Dons’, I have learnt a bit about different people’s characters, and have had a deeper look into people’s behaviour. One example I would like to talk about is a lady in the story called Zia Rita.
The first thing I will tell you before I start talking about Zia […]

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In English, we have received another class novel. This book is called ‘The Dons’, and I have really enjoyed reading this fantastic book!
When I read books, I usually pick up a main topic in them. After reading The Dons, I felt a post forming in my head. This is the very post that I have been […]

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I’ve just finished reading a great book called “Girl Underground” by Morris Gleitzman. I’ve read quite a lot of his other books and I really enjoy them. I’ve been reading his books that are on the “Premier Reading Challenge” list, hoping that I have a chance of compleating the challenge.
This book has a some strong, clear […]

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Well I have now finished reading Goodnight Mister Tom. Although some parts of the book were slow, I really enjoyed reading it. It’s very well written, and towards the end of the book it gets really sad. I put myself in Will’s shoes and imagined how he must have felt. It’s depressing how he gets beaten […]

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My class have just started reading a novel called “Goodnight Mister Tom”. Every student in the class got a book to read. The story is set around about 1938-1940, so they didn’t have many of the appliances that we have today. They didn’t have any televisions and other things that are normal or every-day appliances that […]

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Today I finished reading a book called “Second Childhood” by Morris Gleitzman. The story’s about a boy called Mark Smalley. His father was always pressuring him to do well in school and be a somebody, but looking at Mark’s grades, the chances of hom being a somebody was very slim. However, things change when Mark, his bother Daryl, […]

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Recently, I read this great book called Two Weeks with the Queen by Morris Gleitzman. I found the book quite sad, but it also is based on things that happen in real life. When Colin found out that his brother Luke has cancer and was going to die, he decided that he had to do something to […]

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