I chose the book Chasing VerMeer because my family recommended it to me and i was a mystery(which are my favorite kinds of books!) It is by Blue Balliett. So far it is a really great book and is really exciting to read. I am about on page 100:)
Summarize thingy-ma-jig: There are two children named Petra and Calder and they are best friends. They only became friends though, because of some very strange happenings that all seem to be connected to them. At school they were suppose to find a strange and mysterious letter, and the next day Petra hears her parents talking about a letter and were arguing. Calder also had a coincident happen to him as well. He got a strange letter from a friends that had moved away. His friends said that he think that his neighbor was kidnapped because he was there one day, and gone the next. Calder also found a painting from him grandmother before she died by an artist named Vermeer called "A lady Writing". Just after that, the original painting of A Lady Writing got Stolen! In the newspaper it said that the thief left a note, and it said that he(or she) toke the painting because they thought that it wasn't really painted by Vermeer They think that Vermeer didn't paint most of the paintings. He(or she) also said that he thanked all of the people that got the 3 letters and helped him. At school Petra and Calder saw that there teacher broke their arm, and she was always very nervous. Was she part of this?
Prediction: I predict that Petra and Calder will be the ones that find out who took the painting. I think this because often in stories the kids solve the mystery.
Connection: A connection that have for this part of the story has to do with Calder and Petra becoming friends because they were brought together by the weird things that were happening. They became friends for a reason, maybe to save the painting. This is like how God has a plan all of the time.
Question: A question that I have for this part of the story is How did the thief find out about the Vermeer paintings? I think that the thief might have some inside information from museums or something.
For your focus question: respond to any topic in your book in either compare and contrast, cause and effect, PERSUASION (new), or problem and solution paragraph (do one you haven't done yet)
Focus Question: Many effects happened when the thief stole the Vermeer painting. One of the effects was how sense many people saw that note that the thief left, they were interested in the paintings. They wanted to know if something was really up with the paintings. Another effect was how the museums were getting a lot more money! Sense (as i explained in the first effect) people were more interested in paintings, the museums would get more money. The last effect was how the schools were doing more projects about art. These are some of the effects of the Vermeer theft.
Connection: A connection that have for this part of the story has to do with Calder and Petra becoming friends because they were brought together by the weird things that were happening. They became friends for a reason, maybe to save the painting. This is like how God has a plan all of the time.
Question: A question that I have for this part of the story is How did the thief find out about the Vermeer paintings? I think that the thief might have some inside information from museums or something.
For your focus question: respond to any topic in your book in either compare and contrast, cause and effect, PERSUASION (new), or problem and solution paragraph (do one you haven't done yet)
Focus Question: Many effects happened when the thief stole the Vermeer painting. One of the effects was how sense many people saw that note that the thief left, they were interested in the paintings. They wanted to know if something was really up with the paintings. Another effect was how the museums were getting a lot more money! Sense (as i explained in the first effect) people were more interested in paintings, the museums would get more money. The last effect was how the schools were doing more projects about art. These are some of the effects of the Vermeer theft.
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