The+Saint's+Bones+(MI10)

== = = =Day 1 Response Questions:=
 * ===Have you ever been new to a school?===
 * ===How might the freshman students been feeling now that they are in a new school building?===
 * ===How does the experience parallel that you will be feeling next year in middle school?===
 * ===What are you nervous & excited for?===
 * ===What "stories" have you heard about middle school from older siblings / friends?===
 * ===Why does a school setting make this book more interesting / easier to read compared to a different setting?===
 * ===Depending on your answer, is that why J. K. Rowling has had so much success with the Harry Potter series - placed in a "fantastical school setting?"===

BY:DIRTBIKERACER1212

No. Except when I first went to Laingsburg school, which has been my whole life. Probably the same, same teachers, just different school.I am very excited for middle school. I do think I will be a little nervous though.I am nervous of the teachers, and exited about the new school. About the teachers being mean, I haven’t heard any stories. That it is a holy school.

Bballer4life
==== I have been to a new school before when I went into the elementary school. They are probably nervous because of all the bullies and magic there are there. This will be just like the story because I will feel new and nervous. Maybe even scared. I’m nervous because I don’t want to get detention or get yelled at on the first day. I’m only exited for the fact that we can get the choice of different lunches, everything else I’m nervous and scared about. Both of my sisters have told me that all the middle school teachers are really mean and give tons detentions. The school setting makes people want to keep reading because it’s hilarious, scary, and even suspenseful in some parts. Yes, that probably is why she had more success with her books and that is why so many children love her books. ====

No I have never been to a new school, just Laingsburg. They Probably felt shy, or maybe freaked out a bit from the teachers! I am a little scared and i will probably be shy. I am not excited for all the homework and those are the stories i have herd. All about homework. I think it makes a good setting because we all went to school. Yes i think it is.

By:Judo_Flow

=Grape Ape 9= = Technically I have been to a new school, I went to preschool at my church in East Lansing when I was three, but most of the wolf pup kids don't give the new kid pressure as much. I am sure the Freshman were scared to death as dangerous as that school is! Middle school scares me a little bit because, like, getting to class on time and remembering what room each class is in. I am exited to get better lunches, the lunches we eat now sort of,well don't taste so good, I'll leave it at that. Fred4life told me about open showers, that scares me! The setting of the story really makes it more exiting, There are some bullies and hilarious things that lurk in those halls. Everybody likes Harry Potter because, again it's the farthest thing from a bland/normal book. I didn't enjoy Tuck Everlasting as much because it was almost the opposite. =

sun-shine6 No and yes, I went to a different kindergarden and preschool but I’ve been here ever sense. They are probably nervous and scared. They might be happy, too. I’m pretty nervous for middle school and the freshmen probably are, too. I’m also exited to see how I do in the new area. I’m exited to get harder teachers and switch classes more often. I like the idea of more food selection, too! My brother always tells me about his day and what happened. He says that people laugh at people when they mess up. It sounds kind of harsh. Everyone goes to school so it’s more relatable. Yes, people all go to school and fantasy is mostly funny.

** B-MAN **
 * No, I have never been to a new school accept Laingsburg Elementry. A freshman might feel different because you were the oldest in the last school but now your the youngest in school or you may say to yourself the teachers are way harder this year. Well it will be way different being the oldest then the youngest and how Noah was getting beat up I don’t think that will happen to me. I am nervous that the teachers are going to be very strict and I am happy for way better school lunches. I have heard that you get a lot of lunch detentions and that the teachers are super strict and the lunches are way better. It is better than a diiferent setting because you get here a lot more people like the teachers and that there are people to get the kids busted in something. No I don’t think thats why I think it is because they are all wizards and you don’t see many wizard books. **

**__Day 3 Response Questions:__**

 * ==**The emergence of a few new students leads the reader to predict what powers they might have. If you were a character in the novel, what superpower would you want to have?**==
 * ==**Explain & give reasons why.**==
 * ==**Making Connections are important when reading, it helps the reader to be more engaged with the text. One type of connection is text to world. This type of connection draws the real world (real life, movies, songs, t.v. shows, etc.) in parallel with the novel. Describe two T-W (Text to World) connections you've made so far in the novel.**==

> > **I would want to have swiften because I could do a lot more, and help my dad do more stuff. What if you were the strongest kid in the class, how cool would that be. We go to school and we kind of have different “powers”, they are just skills. When he lifted up the car and saved the ladies life, it reminded me of my favorite episode of Sponge Bob.** ** By Judo_flow ** =Grape Ape 9=

=I would want to be a Swiften. I could wake up at like 7:50, and still get to school on time, and save gas. I could connect to one time in my life when there were these two kids at the soccer field who told me and my little brother that they were going to cut our fingers off with their pocket knives. That kind of reminds me of the fight in the locker room. The second one would be when I came to LES and didn't know where anything was. I bet all the freshman felt that way.=

B-MAN I would want to have super strength as my power because I would look all buff and I could pick up cars and all sorts of super heavy things. It reminds me of when I got the movie Sky High and a kid named Will didn’t have a power than he figured out he had super strength whan he got in a fight.

=**By: dirtbikeracer1212** = =**I would want either strongness our be able to fly. Fly because it will get me to places faster.It seems very fun and exiting. strongness so I could lift anything and not get hurt, I would be Mr. Incredible!** = = **Lifting up the car to save the ladies life reminded me of one episode in Family Guy where Stewie had majical powers.When the kids were fighting, some one kicked someone in the butt and got there foot stuck. Stewie got in a fight with a todler and did the same thing!!!!!!!!!!** =

Bballplayer4life
== I would want to have the swiften because then if I was running late I could get there in time so my dad wouldn’t get mad at me. I would also love it because then I would be able to sleep in for school. One connection I could have is when they were bulling Noah Apple and it relates o my school like when people make fun of others. Another is like some people who are trying to do something and somebody who thinks they are cooler butts in. Just like Noah trying to find his class and Truck and his “boys” were not helping him they were hurting him. ==

sun-shine6 I would want to be able to disappear, because you could sneak up on people and no one would ever see you! I would go to school and scare people for jokes, I would use it when I was in trouble or any other time that I needed to use it! Well, I go to school and the setting in the book is in a school. I’ve stood up for friends and the guys in the book helped their friend when he needed it. They stood up for him and got the bullies expelled!

**__Day 5 Wiki Response Question:__**

 * In reading, strong readers often make connections to help make their book more interesting, exciting, and desirable to read. One type of connection is a text to text connection. This means that the reader is connecting some aspect of the current book they're reading to another book they've read. List three (3) text to text (t-t) connections you've made so far about your novel.**

=// By:DIRTBIKE1212 //= =// When Leonard saved Nelke from getting mugged it reminded me of Football Hero,. When Ty saved Clarise from also getting mugged. Another is when Max saved Fang from the Erasers. Their is one more in Maximum Ride when Angel saved the flock from the white coats. //=

By: Judo_flow When Leonard saved Nelke it reminded me of Maximum Ride when Max saved Angel from the white coats. Also more from Maximum Ride. The football game reminded me of one of the Junnie B. Jones books when she had to play football and stunk really bad. I read this book but i don’t remember the name and it was about this kid and he would always get beat up. It reminded me of when Jay beat up Noah.

Bballplayer4life
==== One t-t connection I had is when they were playing football and Junie B. Jones tried to play football and she was the worst one on the field. Another one I would have is when the coach was yelling it reminded me of the book Suite life of Zack and Cody and the boys had a very good and mean basketball coach. Next is when they have people bullying Noah Apple and it reminds me of the book Cheaper by the Dozen and when the kids go to a new school and there are lots of bullies. The kids stuck up for each other when they got bullied, so it reminded me of when the teacher stuck up for Noah in the locker room. ====

B-MAN
== A conneaction I had was when Jerry Flanagan got hit after a fair catch it reminds me of a book called The Express because they were hitting Ernie Davis after the play was over. Another conection was whaen the zombies came and you could not kill I read a book with Avery called zombie survival and it said how to hurt or kill a zombie. Another one was whaen they went to the Irish pub and drank a lot of cream ale it reminds me of a book I read called Summer Ball and a kid and his friend went to a pub and had a lot of ginger ale. ==

sun-shine6 When Isaac kicked the ball and the winds ruined the play but then more winds saved the play, it was a miracle! One miracle I’ve read about was in the book, The Cay. Timothy died but then Phillip buried him and then was rescued! Another miracle was in a book, Throwing Like A Girl. She was really nervous and then she met a friend who taught her about soft ball! The last text to text connection is in the book, Dive Trilogy. They escaped the shark who killed another person.

Grape ape 9 When Rhino made that cheap shot, it reminded me of in Mike Lupica’s comeback kids when Jimmy Dolan made that cheap shot. When the freshman were first coming in to the school, and felt lost, it reminded me of how in the Darkside, how lost Jonathon Starling felt when he walked in to the Darkside. When Jerry Flanagan got hurt, it reminded me of in The Express when Ernie Davis got hurt. Both of those players were the best on the team.

__Day 7 Wiki Response Questions:__

 * Connecting prior knowledge and experience to reading deepens comprehension. I would like you to explain one type of connection that you've made with the book you've been reading.** __List__ and __explain__ the __type of connection made__ & __answer how this helped you to understand the story better__.

sun-shine6 One connection I made was a text to world. In the story, the guys play against the varsity football team. The freshman team made a bet that if the varsity team won, Jerry would be off the team. If the freshman won, the freshman coach would stay with the team until their senior year. Then with luck, the freshman won! That has happened in school to me one time. At lunch, I made a bet that I would go to recess and run track, which I don’t usually do. If I won the other person had to buy me a candy bar. I won and I got a candy bar! This connection helped me understand because I was able to feel the nervousness that they felt inside.

B-MAN
=== A conection I had was text to world. It was about Jerry Flanagan about the late and I wathed the movie The Express and Ernie Davis would always be getting hit hard and they would not even let him score a tuchdown in West Virginia because they hit him even harder after a play. ===

BY:DIRTBIKERACER1212 Text to world when in the beginning of the book at the assembly when the priceable new when people were talking when they weren’t suppose to.... If Fred for life 6 were here he would no how they feel! But it seems my parents always catch me doing something I’m not suppose to so I also know what he thinks and feel!

Grape Ape 9 One connection that I made with the book that made me mad, was when the varsity team was cheating, It reminded me of the game @Potterville, where the officiating was awful. The official in the Freshman vs the Varsity game was the assistant coach for the Varsity team, so I can connect with them being on the wrong end of hometown refs.

I have a text to world connection. When they had the assembly in the beginning of the book and he got yelled at for talking, I have seen that before and those people have been stared at. I also have once! So I know how it feels and when it said that it totally reminded me of that one time. By:Judo_flow

Bballplayer4life
==== I have made the connection of all the problems in my own life. Like the book each of the characters (my family) work together to figure everything out. So while I am reading and a problem occurs I think of how our family works together to fix everything that happens to us. Even though the book isn’t real, and my life is. They are still a lot alike. ====

**__Day 9__**
**As the novel is coming to a close, it is reaching it's climax. The climax is the most exciting part of the novel. What is happening in the book to lead you to think you are at the climax? Describe the action, how does it keep the reader's interest? What predictions would you make at this point?**

= = =//By:DIRTBIKE RACER1212 A prediction that I would make is when they find where the body was, they get into a fight with the other guy who wants to find it. I want to know if they find the body!!!!! The kids are searching for the priest body that is underneath the school.They have been getting up at night and serching for it. I want know if they find it, or will the other people find it before. //=

= = sunshine I think we are at the climax because the Gang has been into a land that they weren’t supposed to be in. The evil General Beel has been talked about a lot and s army has done a lot of things. The kids have made up a code and it changes every week! They always talk in that code on the internet. Well, things keep happening and they never get time off. The nuns are always watching them and the kids are getting freaked out. I think they will meet General Beel and then save the day. The kids will defeat him and everyone will be happy! The kids will then take on a new adventure!

B-MAN
== The things that are happening are that zombies are breaking into the school and they are describing the way they look like. They said they have half an eye and a bunch of holes in there body and cloths and if you try to hit them you’ll go right through them. A prediction I have is that more zombies will come and all the kids will have to help with there powers to take the zombies over. ==

Grape Ape 9
Right now is really exiting because zombies are breaking in to the school and they are nasty looking, as the author describes. It is the most exiting part so far in the book in my opinion. Honestly, I think this book could go anywhere.

Judo_Flow They are doing a code in the story and on the back has Leonard’s code. I think in the book it will tell you the codes in a different part of the book, if you can figure out the code you email it to the author and if you get it right you get a free copy of the next book! What keeps me interested is mostly the action. Its really exciting! Like when they had a fight with the zombies!

= Bballplayer4life, = = It is getting really exiting because they are searching for Father Peirres bones. They are also going into Minn’O’too trying to find the bones. It is leading me to know that it is towards the end because every detail is coming together and now I am able to figure out the end. It keeps me interested because it is almost riveting because it never stops getting exiting. I want to get the second book when it come out!:) The prediction I would make is that they will find the bones and that Providence will be killed by Beel because that is what she saw in her “vision.” There is also a chapter called “Beels Plan!” =