Welcome to Roding Reads, YOUR weekly newsletter on all things reading. Send all your pictures and writing to: ajones@rodingvalley.net. This week held Holocaust Memorial Day, a day of remembrance that were murdered by Nazi persecution during the Holocaust.
Roding Caught Reading Picture Request We challenge you to send in what you are reading. It can be a comic, the newspaper, the next hot read or a favourite you’ve read more than once. Get your family involved or go solo. Send them to us!
Miss Bleakley—Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Miss McInerney:
In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on Coriolanus’ charm and wit.
Eleanor Oliphant, a social misfit with a traumatic past, becomes obsessed with a singer, whom she believes she is destined to be with. With themes of isolation and loneliness, we see Eleanor transform...
Book of the Week: The Tattoist of Auschwitz A heartfelt story of love in a period of sheer darkness, inspired by Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew who was imprisoned at Auschwitz in 1942 and forced to tattoo numbers onto the arms of thousands of incoming prisoners. One day, Lale comforts a trembling young woman waiting in line to have the number 34902 tattooed onto her arm. Her name is Gita, and in that first encounter, Lale vows to somehow survive the camp and marry her.
#PoetPerch Why not unleash your inner poet and write a poem for us all to enjoy?
Accelerated Reader How to log on to Accelerated Reader:
Click here or go to RVHS website and click the link for Accelerated Reader at the bottom of the website, under Key Information. Username: first letter of first name and first four letters of last name.
#ArtyParty Why not design an alternative book cover for one of your favourite books? Bring a bit of colour to our newsletter!
WARNING: Amazing Roding Work Ahead! We want this section to feature any and everything book-related that you write. - Read a great book recently? Write a book review and send it in. - Recommend your fellow Year 7s, 8s, and us teachers, a new book - it’ll make our day!
Send your work to us at Roding Reads by emailing: ajones@rodingvalley.net
Writer’s Corner
By Tom H-M, 7 Argon: A short story. This has Frankenstein vibes, for sure. Great work, Tom!
A superb prediction, well justified. Amazing
Animal Farm prediction — Bandy T, 7 Beryllium
effort - Well done, Bandy!
Mr Jones will come back and have a war with all the animals, and he will win because that’s what happened in the Russian Revolution, I think. Also, the cat is a spy and telling Mr Jones what is happening on the farm because he always disappears at work time so Mr Jones will know when to attack. Mr Jones will attack at night or when it is the meeting because that’s when nobody will see him enter and he can attack all animals at once. He will also bring help, like more farmers and they will try to kill the animals. Also the pigs are very suspicious so I think they will become corrupt and wont lead the animals well enough to win the war. They also took the puppies and never gave them back and Napoleon has been suspicious since the beginning. The pigs also can’t agree on anything in the meetings, and they do no help with work on the farm only tell the animals what to do.
Check out Audible Stories It is also worth nothing that, for as long as schools are closed, Audible is making its extensive collection of children's audio books available to stream free of charge: https://stories.audible.com/start-listen. It is definitely worth a visit!