Young Adult Blogger

  To teach this book would be hard in many ways. The lessons in it are hard to teach to start off with because the themes in the book can be sensitive. Some of the themes are racism, prejudice, identity, individuality, and poverty. I think to teach a book you would have to do an activity with sixth graders. Fifth graders might understand some but not all. I think a fun activity would be for them to do a rap battle. I think it would be fun for them to create their own name and identity and as if they were famous rappers.  Think of a fun rapper name - school appropriate of course. We know that Bri's dad called himself lawless, Bri was being called Lil Law but decided she wanted to be her own person so she just stuck with her name. Pick an identity - would you want to be someone who raps for fun or would you want to do it as a famous star? In the book, Bri's dad starts off in the rings battling people but was on the way to becoming famous. Think of someone who you would want to...

Why or why not would this story make a good television series? On The Come Up  by Angie Thomas  would make a good TV series. I know the author wrote The Hate You Give and that turned into a movie. I haven't seen the movie or read the book though. I was planning on doing that last year but never got around to it. I'm glad I'm getting a chance to read a book by Angie Thomas though. This book has some very good lessons and realizations. I think this could be turned into a movie or a TV series. I think a TV series would be better though because you can have more lessons. I feel there are always lessons to learn about what life is like in a different place than you grew up. I never had to grow up with no food or worry about shelter. We know that in the story Briana was struggling to live. Her aunt had a job but let go and her dad had died a well-known rapper. For her, that was her escape from reality. A TV series would be able to take all the lessons that we have seen so far an...

Chapter 1 talks about how the protectorate functions. As a parent, you tell your kids about the witch who eats kids. The kids fear this and therefore the Grand Elders have more power over the protectorate. The first chapter didn't necessarily make me want to keep reading the book. It was more reading the author's perspective of the book that made me want to read it. The first chapter made me confused. I was wondering why they were talking about a witch and why people were saying it was real when no one had seen it. The people in the protectorate aren't sure why they have to sacrifice the youngest child either. I wonder why it's the youngest though? Maybe it's because they don't think they will remember the protectorate. The people also think the children died but they went on to live a better life. The people in the protectorate live in sorrow because they had to give up their son or daughter to be sacrificed. I'm sure if people knew what was happening they ...

 In "The Girl Who Drank the Moon, Glerk is a creature who lives in the bog with Xan, the witch, on the other side of the forest. As I read the book I've been finding quotes that sort of apply to our lives today. I'm calling the wise words of "The poet, the bog, the world and me." That is what Glerk tells Fyrian after he would tell her a poem. Luna had no idea where the words came from but Glerks wrote them. It is also said the Glerk is older than magic, so he thinks he can handle it better when Luna blows up.   One Poem that stuck out to me was: "Patience does not run  Nor blow, nor skitter, nor falter. Patience is the swell of the ocean; Patience is the sigh of the mountains; patience is the shirr of the Bog;  Patience is the chorus of the stars, infinitely singing"( Barnhill 136).  I'm not sure why this stuck out to me but I know that patience is important to people in life. People who don't have patience will blow and skitter and falter. I th...