Escape!

=Escape! The True Story of the Great Houdini= By Sid Fleischman toc

Interactive Notebook #2, 11/16/10
1. Read through Mrs. Blattner's comments listed under last week's summary. In addition, review Mrs. Blattner's comments on your discussion board. You may have some work to do before you can move on to Interactive Notebook #2--if so, take care of business!

2. Add to your summary: What has happened since you and your partner last composed the bare bones summary? Start a new paragraph below this question and compose a BRIEF review of what has happened since last time. Remember to compose this on one computer with your partner collaboratively. You cannot have more than one person editing this page at a time. Think before you post! All writing should be edited for CUPS (capitalization, use of language, punctuation, and spelling).

Summary, Part 2 of Book:
Write your additions to last week's summary here... (Delete this line of text when you begin!)

3. Passage Journals--Discussion Board: A "passage Journal" is a chance to discuss a small chunk of text from the book you are reading. You and your partner both selected one passage each that either struck you as interesting, surprising, confused you, or even inspired you. Maybe you selected the passage because you like how the author crafted his/her words.

On the discussion board, EACH of you will type up the passage you selected and list the page number at the end of the text. Each of you will create your own "new post." For the SUBJECT line of the post, think of a phrase that captures what the passage is about or the moment in the story. For the MESSAGE of your post, type up the passage and page number for your book. Then, go back and REPLY to your OWN message and write about your thoughts on the passage. After, comment on your partner's passage as a REPLY to their post. Remember to click on the DISCUSSION TAB on this page to begin. Then click the "NEW POST" button:)

-What came to mind when you read this? -Is there something interesting about how the author crafted his/her words? -What surprised you? -What confused you? -Did this passage increase tension in the story? Why? -Is this a defining moment in the story--Explain. -How did this passage make you feel? What did it remind you of? Explain. -Did this passage remind you of other things you have read? How so?
 * Here are some "think abouts" to get you thinking about your passage and your partner's passage: **

Interactive Notebook #1, 11/5/10
There once was a boy named Ehrich Weiss, born in Budapest. He was a regular little boy, but his family was very poor. It had many mouths to feed, so he ran away. He did card tricks and coin tricks for small sums. He had always wanted to be a magician, and so he started training and cleaning up his act. He was a very active kid, and he won a lot of running medals. When he got older, he got his brother dash to help him, and he changed his name to the well know title Harry Houdini. When he was 20, he met a beautiful lady named Bess, and they got married shortly after. After that his luck changed. He started throwing off shackles instead of playing with cards. Pretty soon he hit it big, and he became the famous man we all know. Soon after that he started doing even more dangerous stunts. One of them was flying in his airplane, another was jumping of a huge building in a straight jacket. He truly is a great magician. He does magic tricks for everyone in strange places. He jumped into ice caked rivers, escaped from tanks of water, nothing could hold him. He was proud, he a had a huge ego for a short man. He liked to be the center of attention, although at first he had some troubles with his act. He barley had enough money to feed his wife and himself. They lived second rate for quite some time, until a real time bussiness man came with a proposition. He made them big money, but things happened, and proud Houdini was back in the streets.
 * Summary:**

Mrs. B Says: I caught a few spelling errors--be careful to edit your writing before you post. In fact, wikispaces will underline misspelled words in read:) It sounds like an interesting read!