by guest blogger Mrs. Young
The fifth grade book club met weekly last semester to discuss Hoot by Carl Hiaasan. We reviewed story elements and discussed how these played out in the book. We spent a lot of time analyzing characters and making predictions because Hiaasan's writing style left us with many unanswered questions at first. We liked how the different story lines eventually intersected and all of the characters ended up meeting each other. This answered many of our questions and our predictions were often right! We also discussed being led by your brain or by your heart (a quote from the mom in the book) and how that applied to the characters and to us. And we learned interesting facts about burrowing owls!
We celebrated our time together by decorating cupcakes like owls and watching scenes from the movie to compare and contrast with the book.
1 comment:
I am sure that you are aware that Hoot took place in Florida but did you know very close to Nick's grandparent's home in Cape Coral Fl there was a lot with burrowing owls. Great book
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