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The first book report I ever did was on this book in fourth grade. I had never done a book report before and had no idea what it entailed, finally assuming that it simply meant that I was to describe each and every event that happens in the book. I ended up filling an entire single-subject Mead notebook with pencilled cursive, basically rewriting "Ribsy" by Beverly Clearly in my own words. Apparently my teacher didn't understand the concept behind a book report either, or maybe she just felt bad, because I got an A. Subsequent book reports incorporating this process were not nearly as successful.
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Aug 28, 2008 12:08PM
I wish i could remember my first book report, but i remember spending summer breaks writing them for fun, and not that they were assigned. I NEVER was very good at written, but verbal I did well.
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My first book report was on "Stage Fright" by Ann M. Martin. I stood behind a podium and delivered it.
Ribsy! What a great book.I have no idea what my first book report was on. I seem to remember something about The Indian in the Cupboard, but I think that came later in elementary school. There was also a very dramatic book with a pink cover about a girl whose mother was dying of cancer that all the girls fought over, but that was 5th grade. What year do kids generally start writing book reports, anyway? Is it a skill that usually requires at least 4 years to cultivate?
Was that like "Six Months to Live" or something like that? I remember a young person dying of cancer book that was really big with the ladies back in 4th grade, and I recall a pink cover. Doesn't really narrow it down I guess...
I think so! Or maybe I'm getting that confused with a lifetime movie...
"Six Months to Live" and its sequel "I Want to Live" were popular Book Fair purchases. Nothing in adulthood is as cool or exciting as Book Fairs.
That girl must have gone through the wringer to die in 2 books! I tried looking it up and "13 is Too Young to Die" sounded right, but for some reason I really thought it was the mother. Maybe I was just projecting.
Annie: the next best thing to Book Fairs is Wordstock Portland is still small enough that it seems like a big event.
I guess the only solution if for you to come here in November and join in the fun.
Jermey: I love that you call 4th grade girls "the ladies"
I remember having to do a couple of book reports in the third grade. No idea what the first one would have been, though I remember an early one being a particularly so-bad-it's-good 60s sci-fi book for kids called Inviso-Man.And book fairs ruled. I miss them to this day. Those and monthly book order forms, but Liam's pre-school teacher said they'll be sending those home for us every month once he starts going, so we're all pretty excited for that.
Right on, Bill. Books orders are the best. And book fairs. I run a book fair every year. The kids go ballistic.
I don't remember my first book report either. I loved getting those Scholastic books. We didn't have book fairs when I was in school though.
I used to practically wet my pants with excitement whenever they handed out book order forms at school, which they did pretty erratically, evidently whenever the teacher remembered it. It was certainly not monthly. I generally got whatever novelization of a then-popular film was being offered. Due to this, I can tell you that the novelization of "Spacecamp" actually makes way more narrative sense than the film itself, but sadly it does not contain any of the swears.
Loved Spacecamp! I sat in the front row.
I liked it a lot when it first came out, then I tried to watch it again a few years ago and I could not follow it at all. I'm almost positive I was way more intelligent when I was a kid. I haven't felt at all smart since about eighth grade.
The SpaceCamp novel did indeed fill in some plot gaps, and had some fairly cute pictures of Lea Thompson to boot, so I re-read that one pretty frequently, as I recall.
That may be the funniest source of pre-adolescent titillation ever.
