RJ#13

#13                                    Readers Journal                                    11/22/11                                                                                                                                                                                                I just finished a breathtaking book. The book that I read is called A Child Called IT by Dave Pelzer. This book was a memoir because it is about a specific part of a person’s life written by that person.                                                                                         I used many strategies before, during and after I read this book so that I would understand the book better. One strategy that I used before I read this book was to look at the picture on the front of the book to predict what the book was going to be about. I predicted that this book was going to be about a young child writing about there childhood because a memoir is a person writing about what they experienced at a specific time in their lives so I knew it had to be about the author.  Another strategy that I used before I read this book was to create a purpose to read this book.  One strategy that I used while I was reading this book was to visualize the most intense and emotional parts of the book. Another strategy that I used while I was reading this book was to reread the parts of the book that I didn’t understand. One strategy that I used after I read this book was to reread the most interesting parts of this book. Another strategy that I used after I read this book was to reflect on what I read and put it in to a readers journal.

            I was able to find many non-fiction elements in this book. The topic of this book was self-help. The genre of this book is non-fiction and the sub genre of this book is memoir. The main idea of this book is that David went through a brutal punishment when he was a child. Some cause and effect relationships that I found in this book were that David played in the grass and then his physico mom found him doing that and then she took him inside the house and burned his hand on the stove. One thing that I compared were his life when he was a child and when his life now. For example when he was little he got mistreated and now he is treated very well. The P.O.O is chronological order. The P.O.V is first person.                                                                                                                                     This book was really inspiriting. I would rate this book a nine out of ten because it was too sad. I would recommend this book to young adults because I don’t think that children would be able to handle this book in an emotional way.                                                                                                                                                                        Sincerely,                       

                                                                                Roxanne Fine