Fiction: Burning Up, Caroline B. Cooney 1. Make a connection (text-to-self, text-to-world, text-to-text) Explain the content (what is happening in the book) of the text and describe the connection you have made. When appropriate, use additional resources (books, the Internet) to illustrate the connection. Burning Up is a book written by Caroline B. Cooney who writes about 15-year-old Macey Clare. Macey has just been given a school assignment in which she has to write about a significant event that happened in her town years before she was born. Besides her school assignment, Macey has Saturday Group which she dreads. Although Saturday Group is volunteer work, Macey seems to feel guilty because of her mood, but the best part of Saturday Group is that she gets to spend time with Austin. In all seriousness, Macey and I can relate because we always put our loved ones first in our lives. When Macey was going to Saturday Group she saw “gallons of paint and a cardboard box of brushes, masking tape, rollers, pans, rags and extra old t-shirts” (Cooney 25). She knew that what she …show more content…
Although the book contains a massive amount of words, there is one thing in particular that stands out to me and that is, pictures. For a 32 paged book about the Solar System; you would think there would be word after word, but its not the case in this book. In every page of the book there are small graphics explaining how new planets are found, how stars are made, etc. “Five planets formed in the cooler, outer part of the disk-- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are formed from the lumps of ice and freezing gas found there” (8 Kerrod). Kerrod shows 2 graphics explaining how each planet is formed and where it is found in our Solar System. As a reader having a small caption explaining what each graphic is showing is helpful. It also helps me understand the process of how our Solar System became what it is