Roding Reads Issue 7

Welcome to Roding Reads, YOUR weekly newsletter on all things reading. Today is International Family Day, and truly there isn’t much that’s more important than family. Send all your pictures and writing to: ajones@rodingvalley.net. We’d love some featuring your family too!

Roding Caught Reading Roding, we need YOU! Get caught reading, and send us a picture, along with a few words about the book, to feature next week.

Ms Taylor—Dickens: The Great Theatre of the World

Mr Ball—Family Story Time

The essence of Charles Dickens is captured in a sparkling biography that explores the importance of theatre to the life of the greatest storyteller in the English language.

My wife took this as I read a book that my son demanded I read to him. It was forced into my hand and then he climbed onto my lap!

Book of the Week: Little Women Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women.

Here are talented tomboy and authorRead it here: to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful http:// Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other www.gutenberg. and their struggles to survive in New org/ebooks/514 England during the Civil War.

Games Corner All the words you are looking for are family-themed. Why not find them with a family member?

This week is a special one, centered around family.

Take some time with your family, take a picture and show us!

Please remember to quiz books on Accelerated Reader when you have finished reading them! This is still an expectation!

A General Knowledge Quiz for the family - Answers next week!

1. Who directed ET, Jaws and Jurassic Park?

2. What name refers to a boot, a football team and a female?

3. Which three ingredients are typically used to make pancake batter?

4. Where would you find Mount Kilimanjaro?

5. What is a baby goat called?

6. What film and book franchise would you find Bella Swan in?

7. Who is the famous singer that used to date Selena Gomez?

8. What is the capital of Russia?

9. How many colours are in the rainbow? Can you name them?

10. What’s the name of Miley Cyrus’ Disney character?

Quiz Answers 03.04.20 1. Victory in Europe Day 2. King George VI 3. Poland 4. 1939 5. Neville Chamberlain

6. 75 7. False 8. Winston Churchill 9. VE Day 10. Channel Islands

Writer’s Corner - Read a great book recently? Write a book review and send it in!

- Why not write a letter to an author about one of their books? - “I loved your book BUT…” and pick something you would have done differently. We will then send these to the authors, and publish them in the Writer’s Corner. You never know…we may even get a reply! Everyone loves an #EvenBetterIf moment!

Remember, send it all to us at Roding Reads by emailing: ajones@rodingvalley.net Over the weekend I finished reading Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk. The book is a collection of first hand accounts from rescued soldiers and rescuing personal. It is a fantastic and moving insight into that successful evacuation.

#ArtyParty

Mr Allen

It’s not all reading and writing here. Why not design an alternative book cover for one of your favourite books?

Bring a bit of colour to our newsletter!

Miss Pinches - Queenie

#WritersPerch A War Photography Diary Entry by Campbell Willson, 9S Tim Collins: April 20th 2011, Syria Last to leave the warzone, as usual. Anyway, I started the day same as the last three weeks by getting up and being escorted from my bedroom to the SUV which consisted of an always closed window (if I opened it I was “in danger” according to my translator), four walls (infested with bugs and insects and mould stuck to them), and a small mattress which was extremely dirty. The mattress didn’t have a frame so it was just lying on the floor. Once the guards put me into the SUV I sat there roasting with my camera gear ready to immortalise more and more people in the unfortunate position of being shot at by endless waves of soldiers. I was of course putting my own life at risk just by being there but I was not anywhere near as brave as those on the frontline were, I was taking photos remember. I am privileged.

I don’t get shot at intentionally. I just take photos. However, some things there I can’t erase. Some of the photos they won’t leave me alone like I am an enemy soldier to them and they will not stop giving me this grief and harming me until I surrender to it. The photos constantly swirling round and round in my head when I’m finished and alone with just me and my own thoughts it’s torture.|| I like to think that what I am doing is fine that it is ok and that the people would be happy if they were in photos and seen all around the world fighting for their country. I tell myself that it’s just part of the job and if I’m not going to do it who will, it’s just business. I’ve got to do what I’ve got to do. But in my subconscious I know what I’m doing is wrong, the tone in my voice when I speak about it shows it.

I’m nervous to say what I do for a living and how I make money. I see them when I wake up when I go to sleep when I’m alone I see them everywhere but they are not actually there because I know they are dead. Their ghost slowly fading away and being replaced by another. Or being combined with each other as a bullet rips off half their face and replaces it with half of another person I pictured but didn’t help. The blood of the victims slowly drain onto the floor or on me and as I look down not only am I drenched in it but also my camera is. My camera the tool that has sent me onto this mentally unstable path and lead me to a life haunted by the ghosts of many upon many people that could have been helped but instead I decided to picture their struggles. To show them to the outside world to give people an insight. Instead, all that happens is the faces of everybody I have seen dying have been scorched into my mind with a hot rod never to be forgotten and forever to torture me as they were tortured themselves.

By Alicia Stokes, 7T