What did i learn?

The new skills that i have learnt from completing this unit of work are how to summarize chapters and find quotes. We had to summarize every chapter as we read the book and this taught me how to summarize things. i can use this skill in the future when i am telling a story, talking about a book or giving a description. Finding quotes is a very important skill to learn for the future because i need to know how to support my opinion with quotes.

My Opinion

I thought the book was a bit boring. It is not the sort of thing i am interested in. I liked how they didn't really tell you about he got the silver donkey in the first place but you just got to thing about it and make your own decisions. I didn't like how when Pascal thought of the plan they didn't really explain straight away, they only told you us at the end what the plant actually was. To improve the book i think they could of added in another problem because the only problem was that his brother was dying and he couldn't help him. It would of been more interesting if there was more problem in the story. Overall i didn't really enjoy reading the book, though some parts were good.

Summary of The Silver Donkey

The Silver Donkey is about a soldier that has escaped from the war and says that he needs to help his little brother John, that is very sick. John lives across the channel and the soldier needs to find a way to get across, the only problem is, that the soldier is blind and the channel is 240km at the maximum and 40km at the minimum wide. Marcelle and Coco are two little girls that find the soldier asleep next to a tree in the woods. The soldier tells them the situation he is in, he also shows them the silver donkey which is a good luck charm to him. Coco is quite fascinated about this and admires the silver donkey a lot. They bring him food and blankets and try to think of a plan to get him across the channel. They make a promise that they wont tell anyone about him because then he would be forced to go back to war. Marcelle and Coco decide that they are not smart enough to think of a plan, so they ask for help from there older brother Pascal. Pascal thinks of a plan for Fabrice (a older friend) to use his sail boat to sail across the channel. They go ahead with the plan and the soldier arrives safely home to help his brother. Coco goes wondering in the woods and finds the silver donkey buried in the soil she is so happy for him to of passed this onto her.