Book 11

 Book 11:

Title: Scooby-Doo and the vampire revenge 

Author: James Gelsey

# pages: 1-59

English	French
braids	tresses
staggered	décalés
stretched	tendu

Comments:

Advantage                Desadvantage
many images              The same principle of story

understable story        short book

no difficult words

Book 10

Book 10

Title: The invisible fran

Author: Jim Benton

# pages: 1-101

English	French
toenail	ongle de pied
crept	glissé
unaware	ignorant

Summary:

This is the story of Franny, a mad scientist who invented various machines. At school, there were presentation of Franny, she has totally failed his presentation was an experience. So the next day, she brought a robot they created last night. But his caramades class were able to modify the robot. But due to a technical problem, the robot went crazy and attacked Frenny. Soon after, his caramades Frenny have been saved by destroying it. Finally, all the material Frenny the robot by an oven for cookies.

Book 9

Title: Who Was Harry Houdini?

Author: Tui T. Sutherland

# pages : 1-70

Vocabulary :

English	French
these	ces
crowd	foule
across	à travers
himself	lui-même

Summary:

Who says Harry Houdini is just only magician? It is false. Indeed, he was movie star, detective, illusionist and hero. The real name of Harry Houdini is Enrich Weiss but, he was inspired by the name of Robert Houdin and appointed by his family nickname was "Ehrie". So it was called Harry Houdini. It was born in Hungary in March 24, 1874 and he come in United States in 1876. However, he is known for its magic and being the best magician in the world. He was formerly a pilot because he has always loved Wrignt brothers through their famous invention, the airplane. In addition, his name was engraved on the Hollywood Walk of Fame because he made a success with his film, The Master Mystery. Anyway, discovers the illustrated biography of Harry Houdini!

Book 8

Title: Chocolate Fever

Author: Robert Kimmel Smith

# pages: 1- 47

Vocabulery:

English	French
under	sous
covered	couvert
lumps	grumeaux
stood	se
bushy	touffu
whole	ensemble
darted	s’élança
corner	coin

Comments:

Advantage	Desadvantage
interesting topics	More images
It’s not too long	Improvement drawings images
The text of pages are a nice size	No summary at the back cover
The words are understable
The images good illustrate  the text
The table of content is a great addition
Litterature circle question is a good addition

Reading period March 1st 2012

Title: Wheel of Misfortune
Author: Kate McMullan
# pages: 1 to 33

Vocabulary :

English French
lads         les gars
sunset coucher du soleil
unruly indiscipliné
yard         cour
sputerred pulvérisé
wailed gémit
cots         lit
lunge fente


Comments: I don’t like this book but, he has of advantages.

Advantage ☺ Desadvantage ☹

Advantage:

• The book is not too big nor too short
• Lack of images
• The chapters are not too long

Desadvantage:

• Often (for me) incomprehensible because the book with names and places that hadweird names
• Good addition to extras like the description of the main characters
• Sometimes there were acronyms and I did not understand what it meant
• It was boring to read

Book 6

Book 6:

Title: Georges Marvelous Medecine

Author: Roald Dahl

# pages: 25 (Number of pages of the book: 88)

Vocabulary: 

English	French
aren’t	ne sont pas
either	soit
bated	retenant
firecracker	pétard
pondering	méditant
stewing	ragoût
polish	polonaise
throat	la gorge

Comments:

The book is good except that there was some defect such as:

Advantage	Disadvantage
There was a lot of illustrations	Sometimes the pictures was not very nice
The book was not huge but enough	The book was often strange
Chapters was not too long	Sometimes it was incomprehensible words

Book 5

Book 5:

Title: Star Wars: The return of the Jedi 

Author: Ryder Windham

#pages:

Voculabary

English	French
onslaught	assaut
saft	L’arbre
those	ces
bandaging	bandage
stunned	assommé
stacked	empilés
fallen	tombé
guess	deviner
shimmering	chatoyant
younger	jeunes
hurtled	fonçait
wounded	blessés
reaches	atteint

Summary: 

Princess Leia is trying to save Han Solo in the palace of Jabba the Hutt, but it is captured. Later, the Jedi Luke saves his friends and goes in search of Darth Vader, his father. So it's a lightsaber fight but helpless, is not capable. Then his father Darth Vader kills the Emperor Palpatine's master. Finally, to celebrate their victory, Luke and his friends make a party.