Books are the plane, and the train, and the road.
They are the destination, and the journey.
For your final blog post for ENG 1D, make a recommendation to next year's grade 9s. Which book(s) did you read this year and which ONE book would you recommend to another grade 9 student and why? (be sure to name these books by title and author and consider adding images of their book covers as well somewhere on your blog or in your blog post).
Consider the following:
- How has this book in particular engaged you as a young reader?
- Which important lessons did you learn from the character's growth?
- How did the book connect to the course theme of the hero's journey?
End your post with a final statement about your connection to reading and to literature this year (what were your challenges, triumphs, eureka moments?) You can use a borrowed quotation (like the one above by Anna Quindlen) to inspire your final closing thought.
And....you are done!
Here is a GREAT sample:
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road.
They are the destination and the journey.
They are home.
During this year, I read several amazing books in English class that each have certain qualities that make them more so unique than others. Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Synchro Boy by Shannon Mcferran, The Stone Frigate by Kate Armstrong, and 90 Days of Different is a book written by Eric Walters were the novels that I read but, the one that I would recommend to future enriched English students would be 90 Days of Different.
As a young reader, this book engaged me right off the bat by introducing a character that I could relate to a girl in high school. This not only got me hooked in but also interested in how similar or different her life would be in comparison to mine. When this character is introduced, she is a boring, predictable, simple girl with an enormous amount of room for character growth, and reading the book, there were some very clear and obvious changes that occurred throughout her own "Hero's Journey". There were many important lessons that could be taken from her growth in the novel, but I think the most important would be: don't be afraid to live. Live every day like it is your last and take advantage of the new and unique opportunities you get. This story truly was about taking risks and going outside one's comfort zone, which is something that ultimately takes us directly back into the hero's journey. This quest is about facing tests, ordeals, finding friends and mentors, and going up against life-changing ordeals, all of which are things that can be found in this story. You can never truly live unless you take a risk, and that was exactly what the book, 90 Days of Different, was all about. C.N. - 2020
