In class we read the book Happy Like Soccer after listening to the book all of the kids wrote a reflection, here is mine… Continue reading →

Patricia Polacco is an author that writes her book using slightly altered stories from her childhood. Our teacher Ms. Boyer read us books by her and after the books we wrote about her journey through the book Thank You Mr. Falker, in the end I came up with this.

In the beginning of the book Thank you Mr. Falker Trisha was excited when her grandpa drips honey on the cover of a small book that she is holding. When this happens she is carrying on a family tradition that he uncles, mom, and now her. The tradition is that when ever you turn five you get honey spooned onto the cover of a book because honey is sweet just like knowledge but knowledge is like the bee that made the honey, you have to chase it trough the book. Knowledge is very important to this family so the tradition means a lot to them. When Trisha started school she could not read very well. I know this because in the text it says that “while everyone was moving onto their second and third reader Trisha was still on her first, she started to feel dumb.” So Trisha became sad because she though when she couldn’t read she was stupid. Later in the book her grandma is walking with her in the woods and comforts her and makes Trisha feel good about herself. But soon after that there is a major bump in the road, her grandma dies and that made Trisha very upset because she loved her grandma very much. And to add to the badness of the situation Trisha’s mom gets a teaching job in California so Trisha will have to move with her from Michigan to California. But Trisha doesn’t think it will be too bad because maybe the kids there won’t know that she is dumb and she will get bye fine. But that all changes when the kids realize and think she is dumb. When Trisha starts fifth grade a new teacher comes, she feels better because it didn’t matter who the cutest or smartest kids were to the new teacher named Mr. Falker. Trisha starts to like him and he liked her and Mr. Falker is really nice to Trisha. But the nicer he is to her the meaner Eric was to her. Trisha became sad because he was so mean to her and one day Mr. Falker caught him being mean and sent him to the principals’s office never to be seen again. Even though Eric left Trisha still felt dumb but Mr. Falker wanted to help teacher her to read so he and a reading teacher named Miss Plessy helped Trisha out every day after school this did not only make Trisha happy she felt confident and at the end of this book she stays happy.

Here is my epilogue to the classic story, The Wizard of Oz if you don’t know what an epilogue is, it is an ending that you chose.

After Dorothy came back from Oz she lived happily with her dog Toto, aunt Em and her uncle Henry. She lived for many years filled with adventures such as the time she traveled to Treasure Island or the time where she met Frankenstein and she even met King Arthur and the Nights of the round table. Dorothy even traveled with Peter Pan to Never Land and fought Captain Hook. But Dorothy’s greatest adventure was when she came back to Oz and met all of her friends. The Scare Crow was a different story, he had become rich with power and became an evil ruler who all the Emerald City residents hated. They once tried to set him on fire during a bonfire ceremony. Sadly their attempt was successful.