Jamie Elliott Blog 3– Series Book

Tell us about your series. What do you like or dislike? Who would like this series? What resources are available related to this series. How could you use it in a classroom?

I am reading the Legend series,by Marie Lu and I absolutely love it. It is a mixture of The Hunger Game and Divergent series, and I think these books are really fun and engaging for students of a middle school grade level. I like that this book is written in the viewpoints of 2 different people, with completely different social classes, upbringings, and  opinions (at first). The book also utilizes different color and styles of fonts to differentiate the person who is talking/ their viewpoint.

I think that there are always different ideas of how to use a book in a class, this could easily fulfill a reading requirement for California Core Standards. I also think that there are mini projects that kids could do, book report style. Recreating a landscape from the book, changing or adding a character/ scene. When I read this book, I was thinking about all different ways that it could have ended if one scene was altered, or one character was included, etc. I think that books like this really get the creative juices flowing in a students mind!