RJ #13 Guys Read Funny Business

                                                                                                                                               11/22/11




Dear Mrs. Zrihen


I am in the middle of reading the book Guys Read Funny Business by Jon Scieszka. The book is made up of multiple stories and in the first one there was an interesting passage on page 27. ''Why don't you pick on someone your own size?'' The line shows that someone is being bullied and his friend is standing up to the bully. That tells me the moral of that part in the story is to be brave. I totally agree.
     I used two reading strategies before the book which were predicting what it would be about. I was totally off. I also looked at the painting on the front cover to help with my prediction. I used two during reading strategies which were reading slowly to make sure I understand what's going on, and I reread parts I didn't understand. The two after reading strategies I used were scanning what I read for any unread text, and checking my prediction which didn't come true quiet yet. The genre of the book is a memoir. The topic of the book is so far future even though there are multiple stories. It is because it talks about fictional stories that are gonna be possible later in life. The main idea of the first story is a kid who lies just to get attention. The main idea is implied and stated at the same time. It's hard to explain. If I could give the first story another title it would be ''The Swirly Slide that Ended With a Lie''. Three supporting details for the main idea is ''There is no sweepstakes, I made it up and I don't even think that factory even exists in real life.'' They are all factual. The essential message in the story is don't bribe your friends to give you attention, that makes you a bad person. A cause in the story is Ernest lying and the effect is him almost losing a friend. In the story a similarity is everyone in the class loves chocolate milk and a difference is that Ernest can't have chocolate milk but everyone else can. Some text features are a painting on the front, black and white illustartions and italicized words. They all impact the text by making it come alive. The P.O.O in the story is Cause and Effect so far because at the beginning something terrible or great happens and at the end a result of that occurs. The author's purpose is to entertain the readers with interesting memoirs. The author in the stories is not really biased towards anything. There is no figurative language. The author's point of view is 1st person because it is a memoir. The only sources in the story are the authors because it is a memoir. I personally believe this is a fifth grade book and I understood every word in the first 50 pages. This book relates to me because I would get angry at my friend if he made up a huge lie like that. This book relates to a book I recently read called Scary stories because they are both made up of multile stories. This book relates to the world because people do lie to their friends all around the world. If I was in Ernest's shoes I would be ashamed of myself and I would know of my wrongdoing.
     If I could I would rate this book a 7 out of 10 so far for it is very suspensful.


Sincerley,
Isaac Paley