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- When the author mentioned that the spirit bear was from British Columbia, it reminded me that I am live in British Columbia. (PLEASE NOTE THAT
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- When the author wrote about an aluminum boat and how they were traveling across rough waters, it reminded me of my grandfather. He is no longer with us, but when my grandfather was around, he often took me boating along the west coast to go bird watching. I have many wonderful memories of him. We often saw bald eagles and even saw different types of bears on the shore. I think that I may have even seen a 'SPIRIT BEAR'!
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ReplyDeleteWhen the author talked about how the boy does drugs it reminded me of when I did a project on drugs. I learned alot of amazing facts about drugs and I learned that drugs are very dangerous. They can kill you very easily especially in your younger years. I will always have good memories of how I did such a great job on that project.
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A connection I made was when the author said that Cole was on the island and had to wear very thin clothes in the cold wind. This reminds me of when I play soccer. The jerseys are very thin and a lot of the time the wind can be freezing, especially in the winter. Although I do still have tons of fun.
ReplyDeleteWhen we were reading the book today and the boy cole wanted to kill all these animals and hurt them. well that reminded me on when we doing are collages and we put alot of pictures on animal crualty.Animals are people like us and they should be treatde the same.
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ReplyDeleteA personal connection I made while I was hearing the story was how Cole got into a fight with another kid who made him mad. Cole reminds me of a teenager in the high school my brother goes to who gets into lots of fights. The teenager gets mad really quickly, like Cole, and he also is really aggresive in fighting. Lots of people in highschool are afraid of him.
ReplyDeleteA connection I made was when the author said that Cole wore thin clothes during a windy day. It reminds me of one day when I wore shorts and a thin shirt thinking it was warm outside, but as soon as I stepped outside it was very windy. I wanted to change but I was getting late so I had to wear those clothes outside.
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ReplyDelete@ Sam Fisher - Remember to capitalize the first word in all of your sentences. Also, don't forget to separate your ideas into different sentences. Don't combine too many ideas with 'and'. :) Feel free to repost.
ReplyDeleteMy connection of the book we are reading in class whitch is touching sperit bear and on of my connections is when the book said cole was standing in the very cold wind out side and sometimes I forget to put more thicker clothes on and I have such thin clothes on that it gets really cold and I bet thats how cole felt too and that is one of my connections to the book. :)
ReplyDeleteone of the connections i made was when the author was talking about Cole having thin clothes on and being cold. This reminds me of when i was at my aunts in the summer, we went down to the ocean. There was a high wind and it was freezing and I had very thin clothes on also i wasn't able to go back and change.
ReplyDeleteOne of the connnections I had with this book, was when the author said that Cole had to wear all his clothes reverse. I can connect with this because in grade 2, I accidentley put my shirt on backwards to school, and I was humiliated, just like Cole was. That is one of my 3 connections I had with this book. :)
ReplyDeleteOne of my connections is to the part of the book where Cole thought " if these fossles think I'm going to live here alone for a year their crazy!". I connect with this part of the book because my papa (grandpa)always jokes when we go to visit him. He says "how are the fossles doing?". He means my parents. That is my text to self connection.
ReplyDeleteOne of the connections I had with this book is when the elder said" don't walk through stinging nettle or (another plant)". I connect with this because when we went camping my mom told me don't touch stinging nettle except I didn't know what stinging nettle was and touched it multiple times and I was hruting very much.
ReplyDeleteIn the book they talk about the spirit bear being beautiful, strong and other thing like that. I connect with this because when I went camping my dad bought a National Geographic book on the spirit bear, also known as a Kermode bear. They are black bears that aren’t albino, but they are just born with white fur. They are extremely rare but in the book the photographer found one and spent 5 days with it.
ReplyDelete@ Mickey Mouse - Be sure to edit/proofread your work prior to posting it to the blog. Also, it is a good idea to split up longer sentences into smaller ones by using periods.
ReplyDelete@ Chelsea Somers - Be sure to edit/proofread your work prior to posting it to the blog! :)
@ Cleopatra - Do your parents laugh when your grandpa calls them 'FOSSILS'? :) Be sure to edit/proofread your work prior to posting it to the blog to avoid spelling errors.
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@ Ammit the Devourer - The photographer spent 5 days with a 'SPIRIT BEAR'? That must have been amazing. How far away from it was he in order to get his photographs? If you have the book, please bring it in to class to share with your classmates. That's great that you already knew what kind of bear the 'SPIRIT BEAR' was! :)
ReplyDeleteA personal connection I made to this book is when Cole slammed someones skull against the sidewalk because when I was in grade 3 someone slammed someones skull into a shelf.
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ReplyDelete@ Amy Fleming - How did it make you feel when you heard what happened in the book compared to when you actually saw this happen? Did it evoke the same feelings? Please elaborate on your connection. :)
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ReplyDeleteAMY FLEMING'S REVISED POST: When I heard that someone got their skull slammed into the sidewalk by Cole, it made me feel sad! I find it hard to understand why Cole would be that mean and hurt someone else on purpose. I know when I saw my friend have his skull slammed into the bookshelf at my old school, I saw how hurt he was with all the bleeding was and I remember how sad it made me feel. I don't agree with bullying and there should be strong consequences to stop the bullying. No one has a right to hurt others.
ReplyDeleteAs we read the book I started to think about the title "the spirit bear"and as I thought about it a connection came to mind. It was the fact that the spirit bear lived in b.c and was a beautiful shade of white. I thought and thought then reposed that I had seen a spirit bear and not just one but many, spirit bear statues have been scattered all through out bc. They are then painted on based on there surroundings for eg. Ice rink- bear had Ice skates. And so the story of the spirit bear lives on to our modern time.
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The part with the elder made me think of a connection. The elder was wearing light clothing while, steering a boat through cold winds. It reminded me of when I visited San Francisco. I was wearing thin clothing in the freezing weather.
ReplyDeletet-w I read on the news that there was a boy that slammed his friend into a curb just cause they where arguing then it turned into a fist fight.
ReplyDeletet-s I remember going to my cousins house and there was a grizzly bears in there back yard just sniffing around
t-t cole in this book reminds me of the boy in the book i am reading always getting in fights committing crimes and hates people around him
(REVISED) I can connect with Cole having to put his clothes on reverse, because one day in grade 2, I accidently put my shirt on inside out, and it was very humiliating, just like it was for Cole. That is one of my 3 deep connections i had with this book! :)
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ReplyDelete(REVISED) One of my connections were when the book said cole was in his thin shivering cold clothes outside in the cold breeze and I connected with that because one time I was in my shivering ,cold ,thin clothes and I bet cole felt the same as me and that was one of connections I connected with the book :)
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I made Text to Self connection. I felt same as Cole when he was shivering because of the freezing cold wind. When I went up the icy cold mountain, my hands didn't move and I wasn't able to talk because I was too cold.
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ReplyDelete(REVISED) I made Text to Self connection. I felt same as Cole when he was shivering because of the freezing wind. When I went up the icy mountain, my hands didn't move and I wasn't able to speak because I was frozen that time.
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ReplyDelete(revised) One of the connections I made was when the author was talking about Cole having light clothes on and being cold. This reminds me of when I was at my Aunts in the summer, we went down to the ocean. There was a huge wind, it was freezing and I had very thin clothes on.I also wasn't able to go back and change.
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ReplyDeleteA connection I made was when the author wrote about Cole being on the island and having to wear very thin clothes in the cold wind. This reminds me of when I play soccer. The jerseys are very thin and most of the time the winds can be freezing, especially in the winter. Although in the end I still do have tons of fun playing.
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(REVISED) I remember going to my cousin's house on a sunny summer night. Then my family knocked at the door and my aunt told us to go look out the back window. So we did so there was two grizzly bears sniffing around and wrestling
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I made this connection in the book because they talk about the grizzly bears in BC in a sentence of the book.
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ReplyDeleteAs we read the book I started to think about the title "the spirit bear" and as I thought about it a connection came to mind. It was the fact that the spirit bear lived in B.C and was a beautiful shade of white. I thought and thought then remembered that I had seen a spirit bear and not just one but many of them. Spirit bear statues have been scattered all through out B.C. They are then painted and based on there surroundings for e.g.. By an ice rink = bear has Ice skates painted on him. So the story of the spirit bear did live on to our modern time.
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Katniss E.
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(REVISED) A self connection I made while I was hearing the story was how Cole got into a fight with another kid who made him mad. Cole reminds me of a teenager in the high school my brother goes to who gets into lots of fights. The teenager gets mad really quickly, like Cole, and he also is really aggresive in fighting. Lots of people in high school get into fights with him, like how a kid had to go to the police station because he attacked the bully with a knife! This is also a world connection because there are so much bullying in schools around the globe. *I changed sentence structure and added more detail to the connection, *I also added a connection to my writing (world connection).
ReplyDelete(Rivised) A connection I made was when the author said that Cole wore thin clothes during a windy day. It reminds me of one day when I had to go to the park, I thought it was pleasant so i wore shorts and a t-shirt. But as soon as I stepped outside, it was very windy. I wanted to change but I was getting late so I had to wear those clothes to the park.
ReplyDelete* I used a little more detail and used a thesaurus for some words.
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ReplyDeleteWhen the author talked about how the boy does drugs it reminded me of when I did a project on drugs. I learned alot of amazing facts about drugs and I attained that drugs are very hazardous. They can kill you very easily especially in your younger years. I will always have great memories of how I did such a great job on that project.
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(REVISED) When I heard that someone got their skull slammed into the sidewalk by Cole, it made me feel depressed! I find that it hard to understand why Cole would be so cruel and hurt someone else on purpose. I know when I saw my friend have his skull slammed into the bookshelf at my old school, I saw how hurt he was with all the bleeding was and I remember how sad it made me feel. I don't agree with bullying and there should be strong consequences to stop the bullying. No one has he right to hurt others. After seeing my friend get hurt I felt so down I bought him something for him. *I changed some spelling like mean to cruel and improved sentence structure. Also i added another sentence.
ReplyDelete(Revised) When we were reading the book and Cole smashed someone's head into the ground. Well that was a text to self for me because i saw someone on the street fighting someone else and he did the exact same thing to the kid. One other connection I made was that text to self and it was that Cole said whenever he sees a bear he is going to kill it well that reminds me of the time i went hunting with my dad and we were trying to find a nice bear. For my last connection is again text to self and its about when Cole was stranded on this island in very thin clothes and i remember when i was little and it was freezing.
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