Life As We Know It

Indicator 1: Students can recognize and analyze words.
Indicator 2: Students can comprehend and fluently read text.
(Analysis) 11.R.2.1 Students can analyze how diction affects the interpretation of text.
(Application) 11.R.2.2 Students can read fluently to comprehend grade-level text.

I started reading the book Life As We Know It by Susan Beth Pfeffer. It starts out by telling everyday life of main character, Miranda. Her parents are divorced and her dad and his wife are now expecting a baby. Her and her brother both live together with their mother, and in the summer go visit their father for a certain period of time. Both of Miranda’s friends seem to be coming further and further distant because of different interest and change of each others’ way of life. She talks about school and how every single teacher bombards her with homework all on one day, all due on the same day. This time the homework is about something that’s going on with the moon. Some very rare and spectacular is going to be happening on the upcoming Friday night. It’s all over the news, and now all over her mind because each homework assignment that was assigned to her was about what is going to happen. I haven’t found out what’s going to happen yet, but I am very excited for when it will tell me!
I was kind of disappointed on how little of time I got to read. I have been super busy with basketball season starting, working, and homework that I never got a chance to read outside of the classroom. If I could find a time to read for just 15 minutes a night I would get significantly further in the book and fulfill my accomplishments. By doing this, I could also get the book done much quicker so I could return it back to the library without having to check in out again and again.