The book Aliens ate my Homework got Lexile measure of 730L which is the range of 520L and 820L for third graders. Bruce Coville wrote Aliens ate my Homework with his wife Katherine Coville. Katherine main part was the illustration in the book; she is the artist while her husband is the writer. Together they created the series of Rod Allbright and the Galactic Patrol, one of their many series. Bruce and Katherine wrote many more books that include unicorn’s, ghost and aliens. Rod Allbright Alien Adventures series was not the only aliens series they did; they also wrote My Teacher is an Alien series and the Sixth Grade Alien series. Aliens ate my Homework is about a boy named Rod Allbright who has a bigger problem than his school bully. They are aliens in his room and are eating his homework; on top of that they have recruited him to help them on their secret mission. Keeping them a secret will become difficult for him because Rod cannot tell a lie. However, it helps that no one actually believes him when he tell his teacher aliens ate his homework. Rod will have to help his new friend find and captured a dangerous …show more content…
criminal, while keeping his family safe. Text Set: The following books will support the understanding of book Aliens ate my Homework.
Goldsmith, M. (2001). Space mysteries. Austin: Raintree Steck-Vaughn. This is a nonfiction book about facts of space. It teaches the reader about the unknowns of the universe, the big bang, galaxies, planets and its moons. It explains the danger of earth, which include asteroids, black holes and more. It even mentions life in the universe and if they are aliens in space or even in earth. It explains on how we are listening for aliens and looking to see if their life on mars. This is a great book to read before reading Aliens ate my Homework because it gives some background information on outer space and even aliens. It get them thinking about the possibility of other life forms. Harper, C. (2014). Sasquatch and aliens Alien encounter. New York: Chisty Ottaviano
Books. This book is a diary of a boy named Morgan Henry and his new friend Lewis. He meets Lewis when he was in forest looking for a perfect stick to make a slingshot and find hanging on a tree by his underwear. The boys soon run into an alien in the forest and run to tell the town about it. Morgan first tell his father, who has always been a believer. However, no one else believes them. Nerveless, the boys go on a mission to bring proof of the aliens except they find something else. They find that Morgan neighbor has the alien; expect it not an alien it’s a robot. Mr. Lee is really a costume maker for movies but he doesn’t want anyone to know so his fans don’t bother him. He pleads with the boys to tell everyone that they didn’t really see an alien. However, when there trying to tell them it was a mistake they somehow tell them it was really Sasquatch they saw. Mr. Holland, the reporter, had always tried to find proof of Sasquatch and he wants them to take him where they saw the Sasquatch. The boys don’t want to disappoint him so they make a costume of Sasquatch and take picture. Instead Mr. Holland finds a footprint of Sasquatch that results in getting them in the newspaper and not having to lie anymore. This a great book for children because it shows them not everything is what it seems. The world is a mysterious place; there are some things that can cannot be explain, only what people choose to believe. Ibbotson, E., & Large, A. (1999). Which witch? New York: Dutton Children's Books. This book is about a powerful dark wizard names Arriman, who after years of taking care darkness and evil is getting tired and lonely. Until one day a gypsy tell him that someone is coming to take over for him. They start to believe she meant his son, so he calls witches to come and compete in order who will be his wife and bear him a son. One of those witches is Belladonna, who falls in love with him, there just one little problem, she is a white witch. She didn’t believe she had chance until she meets an orphan boy named Terence Mugg and his worm Rover. Belladonna believes that Rover is her familiar and with him she can do dark magic, giving her hope to win the completion. However, when Rover get stolen, Terrence and Arriman people came up with a plan to cheat for Belladonna to win. It works and she finally get to meet Arriman who falls in love with her at first sight. Belladonna then realizes she can’t do dark magic with Rover, which means she can’t be with Arriman. However, Terrence soon realizes there was no way the plan they came to help Belladonna could have worked, the only way it could have worked if he is the dark and power wizard Arriman was waiting for. This result in Belladonna and Arriman being able to marry and live happily ever after. This book is a great example to show the other types of fantasy book they are. McCarthy, M. (2006). Aliens are coming!: The true account of the 1938 War of the worlds radio broadcast. New York: Knopf. This book is about the true story that happen on October 30, 1989. During the 1930’s most of the people entertainment and news were the radio and one day before Halloween the radio announce a meteorite landed in a small town in New Jersey. Except it wasn’t a meteor, it was a spacecraft with aliens on board and they were attacking the town. People were in a panicked, people were evacuating until an officer went to the farm where they said the landed and found nothing. It soon realized that it was a show on the radio with actors and sound effect with the soon to be famous director Orson Welles doing the radio play of The War of the World’s. This a great book to read because it shows how long aliens have been part of our history. It also shows not to always believe in what you hear. Sauer, T., & Fujita, G. (2015). Your alien. New York: Sterling Children's Books. The book Your Alien is a picture book about young boy who finds a lost alien who crashed to earth. He keeps the alien and takes him to school, letting the alien explore new things while he also starts seeing ordinary things in a new way too. Soon the boy realizes there is something wrong with his alien and tries to make him feel better. He soon realizes his alien is misses his parents; which get him to turn on all the light on the house and some extras too hoping to attract some attention. The alien’s parents find their son and give the alien what he need, a hug. They wave good bye and soon he realizes he needs a hug too, which cause his parents to enter and give him a hug. This is a fun book to start with to get the students attention on aliens and showing sometimes aliens can be just like us too.
This book was a good read for me, but I also read book reviews to help me keep track on what I am reading. These book reviews just made a better understanding of what I was reading.
Racial discrimination is a heavy topic for most people. It is an issue that affects many households across the world. Discrimination against immigrants is a particularly important issue in the story of racism. This type of discrimination is present in the biggest, smallest, richest, poorest, most powerful, and least powerful places. It is even present in stories, and verbal communications. Even if discrimination can be a hard topic to discuss, it needs to be talked about so that our society will never have to worry about racism again. In the story “Invasion from Outer Space” by Steven Millhauser, I believe that the yellow dust represents racial discrimination towards immigrants.
For the Science Reader project, I read Black Holes, Wormholes, and Time Machines by Jim Al-Khalili. Interested in time travel and the secrets of space, I chose this book with hopes of better understanding our universe.
There are many different topics that are related to aliens. For example; crop circles, abductions, strange lights, mysterious marks on the body, and forced sexual experiments are all attributed to aliens. Sagan spends the next half of the book explaining how these claims are irrational and giving are more logical reasoning other than aliens. Crop circles are just teens playing a prank on farmers. Abductions are mass hallucinations that are implanted in people's heads by social media. Strange lights are planes or natural astronomical events.Mysterious marks are people who unknowingly mutilate themselves. The forced sexual experiments are stories made up by rape victims who are in denial. After Sagan had fully disproved every potential alien theory, he went on to talk about a very old type of pseudoscience, witchcraft. Witchcraft is a classic example of a small group of people taking advantage of the easily moldable minds of the a group of people. The punishment for being a witch was being executed. So, if someone didn’t like someone or wanted them dead they would just say they were a witch. There was no
In the beginning of the book, it foreshadows an atomic war on Earth. Humans have broken out into violence all over the Earth. Humanity had to put up with constant bombing and constant chaos. The skies were always red, and there is always pain that flows through the air. Humanity thinks about ways to escape all the chaos to go to a place that might provide a peaceful environment. One place comes to mind; this place is secluded and no brutal environment. It is called Mars. They need a rocket to get Mars. Two astronauts finally go on this expedition. It is considered the first attempt to a new peaceful place.
Aliens, robots, rockets, shrunken heads that talk, and planets being sold, are some sort of science. It also adds in science references and terms dealing with space, like the...
The essence of the book is about perspectives. one of the most common ideologies about perspective is how one views a glass of liquid is it half full or half empty. This is supposed to speak volumes about how one sees life. of course there is more to perspective than how one sees a glass of liquid but it is one of the easiest ways to put perspective into
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It is a fiction book. It is for young adults. I enjoy reading these types of books and typically read them more than other types of books.
Peters in Chapter six, “Machines, Animals, and Aliens,” talks about 20th century and new technology that has influence in communication. Movies, television, phones and internet. He follows the idea of analyzing how these new mediums effect the communication and gave a new form and understanding to that. Peters claims that “the chief challenge to communication in the twentieth century is contact with beings that lack mortal form” (pg 227). He talks about Rene Descartes and his idea of communication, “communication a distinctly human capacity that distinguishes us from animals and machines” (pg 231). Then Peters talks about Alan Turing, his computing machine and intelligence test, and asks question of “how can you tell a human from a fake?”(pg
1. Subject: Bill Bryson is writing about science and the discoveries we have made into knowing about the universe, and the earth's existence.
Things like time travel and parallel universes are prominent in the story. The characters Leo and Jaya both use the time machine to meet famous inventor Nikola Tesla to help solve a problem involving the fate of time itself. In the end they succeed over the madman successfully thwarting his plans. The Wells Bequest would probably appeal to many teenagers. It is recommended because it shows action well and that would keep readers interested. Also, it has great imagery. It allows the reader to clearly see a picture of the scene in their mind. The author also did an excellent job in showing each character's individual quirks. This makes it so that readers will genuinely attach to each character. Some things however could have been executed better. For example, the author took too long before getting to the main juice of the story. This led the reader to experience boredom before they could really get into the plot. As stated before, this novel is science fiction because it displays multiple events and attributes that are scientific in nature yet dance around with fictional
Even though it is science fiction, the characters are engaging and understandable. The story focuses more on the characters situation than the aliens trying to take over, with
As you can see we have been temporarily blinded from the truth by fictional things that are easy to believe and that we want to believe. There are so many incorrect theories and ideas and most of them are just plain ridiculous. Astronomy can be a very complicated subject, but it is very necessary to understand what really happens in our galaxy and out in the huge frontier we call space.
I would recommend this book to everyone because it is interesting and it made me reflect about whom I am, and what I am doing with my life. It made me think about all the risk that I did not take because I was afraid of what others think. It made me realize that sometimes I need to be selfish with what I want. It gave me the pleasured to rethink about all the things that I did not say because I thought that it did not worth it. Sometimes it is difficult to understand all those things without being close to death. This book teaches me how can I be happy and be crazy because sometimes what we really thing is insane could be the most normal thing for others. It thought me to not be like everyone else if not to be different because that is only thing that could make us happy.