INDEPENDENT TEXTS:
What Students Are Reading?
Welcome to Biblionasium
This year students and teachers will use the digital platform Biblionasium as a way of logging and recommending their Independent Reading book choices. Click on the links below to be directed to the following pages:
"Agyeman's Reads" (Mrs. A's book recommendations):
Student Portal (Log in to access your bookshelf):
"Agyeman's Reads" (Mrs. A's book recommendations):
Student Portal (Log in to access your bookshelf):
Digital Book Check Out
Sign out books from the Lansingburgh Media Center using this handy app. Read books anywhere from your computer, smartphone, or tablet. It's fast, quick and simple! Follow these steps:
STEP 1: Log on to www.soraapp.com STEP 2: Choose Questar III BOCES STEP 3: Choose your district (Lansingburgh Central School District) STEP 4: Type in your student ID number STEP 5: Sign out up to FIVE books |
CLASS TEXTS: What We Are Reading?
A Long Walk to Water by: Linda Sue Park
A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay.
Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a survivor, and his story goes on to intersect with Nya’s in an astonishing and moving way. A tour de force from acclaimed author Alan Gratz (Prisoner B-3087), this timely and powerful novel tells the story of three different children seeking refuge.
Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world... Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America... Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe... All three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers, from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end. |