RJ #7 Biography of Barack Obama

                                                                                                                                                    10/11/11

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,
     I am in the middle of reading Biography Barack Obama by Stephen Krensky. There was one passage that really stood out. It was a quote by Barack Obama on page 39. '' It's a choice between dignity and servitude...... A choice between right and wrong.'' I picked it because it pops a thought in your head about doing the right thing. The quote shows how Barack Obama looks at life; that is very important for the book.
     There were 2 reading strategies that I used before reading my book, predicting what the pin on the back cover means, and trying to think of all the things Obama has done for this country. The 2 reading strategies I used while reading were reading slowly so I could understand it better, and looking at the pictures to help me understand what was happening. The 2 reading strategies I used after were checking if my prediction came true yet, and summarizing what I read so far in my head.
     The genre of this book is a biography. The topic in the book is family. The main idea is that you should never give up on your dreams. The main idea was implied. It would be impossible to give this book another title for it is a biography of a person. 3 supporting details were that he was the only black kid in his 5th grade class which shows courage, he was on his high school basketball team, and he got into college. Those are all factual details found in the book. The essential message in the book is that you should never give up on your dreams no matter what your race. A cause in the story is that Barry studied and the effect is that he got into college. 5 different text features were quotes in bold and in big font, pics of Barack before and after college, captions which explain who the people are in pictures, a map of Africa, and the flag of Kenya. They all have the same meaning. Independence. The pattern of organization is chronological order because the book starts out in his childhood and works its way up through his life. The author's purpose is to inform us what happened in Barack's childhood. The author is obviously for Obama. The author's point of view is 3rd person. 3 citations are http://www.barackobama.com/2008/11/, http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/inaugural-address/, and http://www.newsweek.com/id/167582. I did not encounter any new words for I understood everything so far. This book relates to me because our family would love to go to Hawaii, also it relates to another boigraphy I read about Abraham Linclon because they are both presidents, and it relates to the world because Barack Obama is now our president. I would be afraid of being assasined if I was him.
     I would rate this book a 3 out 5 because it was not that interesting.


Sincerley,
Isaac Paley