Book 2 and Assignment

This week we started on a writing assignment for the short story unit. At the beginning I did not know which prompt to pick but in the end I ended up choosing the first one. Then it was sort of hard to remember all of the short stories that we read and then pick one that could be used with the prompt. I decided to quickly scan some of the short stories that we read. And I think that I ended up picking one that fit the prompt I chose. What was a little more difficult for me was coming up with a good thesis statement that went with the prompt and the short story I chose. This week we also had to choose another book for our independent reading. For my independent reading I chose to read The Pesthouse by Jim Crace. I ended up choosing this book after going through the list of books we could pick from. I first picked out the books that had titles that sounded interesting to me. Then I looked up a short summery for those books and pick out the ones that were interesting. Finally I looked at how long the books were and chose from one of the shorter ones.