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Given the nature of the 2011 summer reading program, you had significant autonomy in selecting the books you would read. While you were responsible for completing a proposal, you were not given other assignments to complete over the summer. As indicated on your proposal form, you are required to write a letter to your 2011-12 Language Arts teacher that demonstrates your thoughtful reading of your book. We have chosen to break this down further into three focused "Power Paragraphs" for two reasons, one, to introduce you to the idea of a power paragraph, and two, to assist you in covering all aspects of the assignment.

__ Prompt for Paragraph One - A Reflection of Your Choice __ I proposed __The Lightning Thief__ by Rick Riordan from the Percy Jackson series as my summer reading objective because my good friend from Atlanta told me about it in middle school and said it was better than Harry Potter. I absolutely loved this book because of the way that the Greek Mythology is taken from ancient times and adapted into a more modern setting in New York and that it’s just simply based off of Greek Mythology. When the monsters start to chase after him like Medusa while she’s disguised as a teacher in the museum Percy’s class visited original story of Perceus had gained the weapons he needed to defeat the Crackin. The modern adaption of a very old tale that anyone can grab your attention with was plotted well into everyday situations and is why I enjoyed the book so much so this book kind of gives you some motivation to stand up and fight.
 * *Must be posted to the WIKI by midnight on Wednesday, 8/24 **

__ Prompt for Paragraph Two - A Discussion of What You Gained by Reading Your Book __ When I was reading The Lightning Thief it gave me a mentality that anything that's bad in your life, something good will come out of it like the saying "When God closes a door, he opens a window" because you never know if you're something special. Yet at the same time to not be so negative about everything because you can overcome any obstacle thrown at you. Percy's life in the begging of the book is very dull and twisted but little did he know that he was something very special; a Demi-God like when he easdrops in on his professors conversations and is unaware of what he is. Percy feels like a screw up because he gets kicked out of his school again and then later finds out that his fathers a God and then defeats a minotaur with no recelection of this, that shows me that you can come out on top of any situation.

__ Prompt for Paragraph Three - What to do With it... __ Anyone who likes modern fiction or has a fascination with Greek Mythology should absolutely check this book out at the library immediately. I think anyone boy or girl would like this book because it has the great action adventure any guy would love and the mild romance with Percy's love interest Annabeth. I think anyone generally any age would like this book, but i think an age where people would not like this would be at least very elderly. This book has a great transition from a classic retelling of a story into a brand new enviornment, from all over Greece to modern day New York. Kids who have a hard life with their family, problems in their home life, and are misunderstood troublemakers might find this book as a great escape because Percy is so relatable because he doesn't know who his father is, he loses his mom, he's got ADHD, Dyslexia, and has been kicked out of school again. The perfect reader for this book is anyone who loves any of the traits from the paragraph above, because it ties multi-genres together in to make an epic series come to life told time and time again.


 * Scoring: Your three paragraphs will be given one overall grade, and the timeliness of your posts will be reflected in your "timeliness" grade. **

// An outstanding response to the prompts will include the following: //
 * A strong topic sentence that clearly establishes the focus on the prompt Good job getting to the prompt right away
 * Evidence that clearly supports the topic sentence Be sure to use evidence from the reading to support your points
 * Correct use of internal citations and a properly formatted MLA citation for your book (put this citation at the end of paragraph one)
 * Strict adherence to the Power Paragraph format Be sure to include only the most relevant, specific details
 * Mechanics are clean and do not detract from meaning Leave yourself time to edit/polish your work, better yet, ask someone to read it over for you!