Life As We Know It ... 2

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 am continuing to read in Life as we Knew It. For some reason I cannot put the book down! I didn’t think that I would be that into it because it’s kind of a sci-fi book, but I wanted to try it out just to see if I liked it…and I did! They are finding more and more out about all the deaths in other places and things going on in other places besides where they are now. They found out their favorite baseball team is safe and doing just fine, because they got away from the coast just in time before the big happening. Mom does more shopping, even though they don’t need it. She stocks up on warm clothes for the winter, even though it’s only almost summer. She says she’s not letting her kids go cold this winter, and if they end up not needed it, at least they had it.
It was beginning to be normal to not have electricity at all during the day now. Normally just a few hours here and there, just enough to get laundry going and catch up with new stories on TV and the internet. Miranda’s brother will be coming soon, which makes he feel a lot better and that everything will be okay. All her worries have been about him and if everything is alright down where he lives. School is going to start being closed off now, which disappoints Miranda. It was the only thing normal still going on in her life. But they were running out of food to feed the children (without electricity to make anything or back up food stored).
I will continue reading the book, whether it is for 20% or not. I’m not sure what I’m doing for my next project, but I have a few things in mind. I guess we’ll have to wait and find out! :)