Blurb:
"It’s the start of fifth grade for seven kids at Snow Hill School. There’s . . .Jessica, the new girl, smart and perceptive, who’s having a hard time fitting in; Alexia, a bully, your friend one second, your enemy the next;Peter, class prankster and troublemaker; Luke, the brain; Danielle,who never stands up for herself; shy Anna, whose home situation makes her an outcast; and Jeffrey, who hates school.
Only Mr. Terupt, their new and energetic teacher, seems to know how to deal with them all. He makes the classroom a fun place, even if he doesn’t let them get away with much . . . until the snowy winter day when an accident changes everything—and everyone."
We won't give away the whole story, but this book has generated a lot of discussion in our classroom about different themes, including our own learning environment, relationships and growing up. It was fascinating to notice the characters change as the story went on.
One day we sent out this tweet and the American author himself retweeted it overnight!
This week we used Google Forms to gather our opinions about the story.
Here are a couple of the findings...
After we each voted, our overall rating for Because of Mr Terupt was 9.3/10.
A number of Room 14 children have already been looking to track down the second book in the series through the Christchurch City Libraries website.
I think that all of us would want to read the second book because the first one was quite emotional and we all were into it. In the next book i reckon another accident is going to happen.The first book was also fun because we got to do activities like Dollar words and the questions we had to answer at the end of each chapter.
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty fantastic to see the results of the because of Mr Terupt survey. I think everyone would want to read the next book "Mr Terupt falls again" because it looks like he as had another accident or something like that .
ReplyDeleteI raelly liked the story it was a bit diferent bit it was cool its my thing. It looked like a lot of people like mr terupt and all of us want to read the other book.
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