Hello Team,
Are next read aloud and novel study is going to be The Cheat by Amy Goldman Koss
Just examining the cover what do you think this book is going to be about? Any predictions on the types of characters, teachers, problems that might happen.
Read the review/summary below and check out the authors website and then post your predictions.
Summary:
Memorizing the letters out for the geography midterm was the easy part. Put the letters to the tune of Row Your Boat, "Animal animal cat boy cat." Memorize them in a poem form. Whatever it takes. When you have the all the answers, that's the easy part. Getting caught, now that's when it gets sticky. And so it is in to hot water for Sarah, Dan, and Rob, who were all given the test by a student that only Sarah knows. Each sees the ramifications of their actions in different ways and have to struggle, or not, with what it means about them, personally.
The link to the Authors website:
http://www.amygoldmankoss.net/cheat.html
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ReplyDelete@ Mr Cheney for our visualization for rebound should I sketch it or do I have to color it?
ReplyDeleteI think this book will be great but it will have a fast climax. This is because Mr.Cheney told us that the book is short. I have never read any other books by this author,...in fact, I never even heard about this author. I hope this author has written creatively like Eric Walters in Rebound. By looking at this cover, all the kids or teens look like they have been in trouble many times.You can see the attitude expression on their face like they got a bad lecture from someone. It also looks like they got beaten up or they got injures because they have bruises or I think that's mud on their face. I read the link and it says they cheated on a mid term exam for Geography and also got caught that's why it seems interesting to me. I wonder how stressed they got at home and anywhere else.
ReplyDelete@:P
ReplyDeleteyou can sketch or shade
whatever you're choice is
i think this book wil be realistic because, the summary and the link says that these teens cheated on their midterm exam, which clearly happens in every day life. they wnat the short cut, or the easy way to get around. also the tricky part is to get caught, which happens, and its certain that the teachers and ofcourse parents will be disappointed. another fact is that they teens faces look lik ethey have been struggling, so these students might have chosen to cheat to get the easy way around. this book does seem short so i dont think it will have very descriptive details like rebound. i am curious to know if cheating is symbolic for something in this book.
ReplyDelete@ mario i dont think that the bruises your talikng about are bruises, i think its just the way the colour of the layout, book cover is
ReplyDelete@ mr cheney i can imagine this happeneing in french when its test time !
ReplyDeleteI think that the book cheat is going to be about how one person get the the answer question to a test that his going to be given to them and sends it to a friend in his class and the friend sends it to everyone in the class.so after they write the teachers surprise by there mark and the friend have keeping it a secret and realize that have done something wrong which they shouldn't have done
ReplyDeletei think that the book will be about a girl that cheated other people in many ways and in the end the girl will learn a lesson when she gets cheated by someone
ReplyDelete@mario
ReplyDeleteso do you think that every small book has a quick climax because in some small books the climax is alot.
@sana
ReplyDeletedo you think that a book will have such a small problem like cheating on a test because i do not think a book will be good with a story like that.
@tulsi we will have to read the will have to read the book to understand what cheat is symbolic of.can wait to read the book seems interesting
ReplyDelete@mario what makes you think that they have bruises on there faces because I don't think they are briuses.
@tulsi
ReplyDeletei think that this book has a small story about cheating on a exam so i think that it will be descriptive also that is true i also do not know how it can be symbolic.
@mario
ReplyDelete" I wonder how stressed they got at home and anywhere else." what do you mean by that how are they stressed at home.
@am17 first of all I think cheating is not that much of a small problem and I also meant that they will make up more lies on top lies just so they can't get away with cheating on the test.
ReplyDelete@am17 if you read the link you will understand what Mario is talking about
ReplyDelete@sana
ReplyDeleteya ok i got it
@tulsi
ReplyDeleteso do you think that they will get away on cheating the test.
yoshi=aqib
ReplyDelete@Tehreem, a touch of colour would be sharp, but not essential. Were you visualizing the book in black and white?
ReplyDelete@tulsi
ReplyDeleteso what do you think cheating can be symbolic for.
Nice to see you back Aqib
ReplyDeletea midterm is of much more significance then a test. In high school, like grade 7 and 8 use to have, is exams and midterms. The results of the test were worth HALF of your grade.
I like the detailed investigation Abeeshan of the characters faces!
@Tulsi, glad were already exploring symbolism, perhaps its the geography midterm that is symbolic!
ReplyDelete@sana
ReplyDeletedo you think that Sarah, Dan, and Rob cheat all the time and they have a bad reputation meaning do you think that they are the bad people in the school.
@mr.cheney
ReplyDeletei think that it is pretty dumb for people to cheat on something worth 50% of your marks because if they get caught i think the punishment is getting a 0 on the exam which can make them fail geography.
@mr.cheney
ReplyDeletewhy does Sarah, Dan, and Rob act like this in this particular subject geography.
@tulsi
ReplyDeleteso do you think that there parents care about them because what if the parents are drug addicts or they party everyday maybe if that happens the parents would not care.
@mario
ReplyDeleteso do you think that just because the book is short it will not be fun and interesting like rebound
@mr.cheney
ReplyDeletedid you read this book to your class last year
I did read it last year.
ReplyDeletewhy do people cheat? unfortunately because it works, if it didn't work people wouldn't do it.
It takes strong morals and values to stay away from the simplicity and convenience of cheating.
well cheating is not good because it can lead in to major problems like if an engineer cheats on his or her exam and aces it he can build a building and it would collapse because he learnt nothing.
ReplyDeletealso if you get away you are lucky but if you do not you will suffer bad consequences which is why they say "honesty is the best policy".
ReplyDelete@mario
ReplyDeleteonce again they can be stressed at home because there parents could be drug addicts or they can be party people.
I think that there are a group of friends who cheat/use other people. or mybe they have cheated in a exam, quiz, tournament,or maybe a test. and in the end they will get cheated, like what goes around comes around.
ReplyDelete@aqib
cheating has nothing to do with honesty
@ aqib
ReplyDeletethey might also be stressed for other reasons like how david was
@tulsi
ReplyDeletebut maybe they can be bruises maybe they do get beaten up.
@tulsi
ReplyDeletethey can also be bullied
@aqib
ReplyDeletewhy do you think only the girl will cheat the others.
and change your pic to yoshi
@ tulsi
ReplyDeleteso the bruises are from the cover, okay
The Three Amigos of Grade 7 are taking over the blog. Perhaps now you have broken the mold of complacency and taken an engaged approach to homework.
ReplyDelete@ aqib
ReplyDeletewell if it is a small book how would there be a lot of detail, it most likely be lack of detail and lack of detail is a quicker scene and a quicker scene is a quicker climax. This is most of the time plus this is my prediction so I think it was a good guess dont you think?
@ mr.cheney
ReplyDeletewho exactly are you talking about?
The Mario Brothers theme team
ReplyDelete@ Sana
ReplyDeleteyea Tulsi already explained it to me i thought the book layout of the bruises were supposed to be bruises.
@ aqib
ReplyDeleteas the summary from the link said that they are having hard time for one mistake at home and anywhere else so that means they are hated by their parents thus they are under pressure.
@ mr.cheney
ReplyDeleteohh okak thanks then
@ aqib
ReplyDeletecheating leads to more cheating because you got away with it the first time so your more motivated by that and your pears. Which leads to stealing then when you grow up it becomes worse.
@ mr.cheney
ReplyDeletethank you for mentioning my prediction
@ aqib
ReplyDeletei said i hope it will be interesting and fun Like not NOT LIKE like REBOUND.
Sorry if that confused you.
@ aqib
ReplyDeletewho knows! if the parents were like that
good prediction though
@ Mr.Cheney yes we have well for sure I know i have took some action for the blog
ReplyDeleteand just like fundraising and trips etc, it takes one to get a few to follow.
ReplyDeleteand yes you have blogged more in the past 3 days then all year, but stay strong and consistent.
thankyou
ReplyDelete@ mr.cheney
ReplyDeletehow long is the can food drive?
the cover looks scary
ReplyDeleteIts over in less then 3 weeks
ReplyDeletewhy would they be scared? tell me more.
ReplyDeleteokay, now by looking at how much time we have, we can't go small to big in 3 weeks I don't know about that. I think since Mr.Cheney has experienced this many times, we should go with his idea:go big from the start like the previous clases he had.
ReplyDeleteOUR MINIMAL GOAL IS 1000 right?
I think they would be scared because the title is called the cheat so i think that someone cheated like tricked them to do something and they got cheated like scammed.
ReplyDeletenobody likes to be scammed, especially by friends.
ReplyDeleteI think they all got scammed like there all friends and some other people scammed them
ReplyDeletehmmm clever thoughts
ReplyDelete@ Blueranger
ReplyDeleteyah you cleverly kind of switched most people's idea
I like that prediction I also think that will happen too.
does it relate to rebound like when David gets called names and racism
ReplyDeleteI think that this book as it said in the summary is about a test that only Sarah knows and the others don't want to fail but try to study but just always end up slacking off so they decided to cheat and Sarah agreed because she doesn't want to be the stupid person , she doesn't want to be the goody two shoes .....because a lot of people tend to be called snitch and stuff like that. So when they decided to cheat they need to find out how because the teacher is very cautious so they have to be very sneaky!
ReplyDelete@vinay
ReplyDeletemaybe, it might be a group of friends who get called losers by everyone, and they take action
i think that this book might be about cheating, but not test cheating. i think this because the title says "the cheat". not cheating. so its only once they cheat5 in the book. and it wouldent make sense to right about a girls cheating on 1 test
ReplyDelete@ luigi
ReplyDeletethan how does that relate to the title cheat?
also maybe "the cheat" sounds more better than "cheating" when looking at a title choice
finally it wouldn't make sense to write a book it about people cheating on a test but maybe the geography test was symbolic like the wheel chair in Rebound.
@luigi Or it relates to rebound they go to school and places and they get made fun of or like you said losers and they make it stop some how like David came back at the end
ReplyDeletewho's Yoshi,luigi,and Mario prabhjot is mario i think or luigi???
ReplyDeleteThis story seems interesting. I have never read any books from this author or ever heard about her. I think this story is about these kids that are given a test from a student only sarah knows ( as said in the summary ) and these kids have to struggle to prove themselves right from something they were accused of. I know you might be thinking "but what does that have to do with the title"? well sometimes some books title's have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! to do with the story and so maybe this book is one of those books.
ReplyDeleteI think this book about a few kids who cheat and when they get caught , they have their own problems to deal with.Like how their families would react or what will happen to them and how they will be looked after everyone knows they have been cheating.
ReplyDelete@Peach, me either , other than when we read it last year i have never heard of the author before
ReplyDelete@Luigi, If it isn't test kind of cheating then what kind of cheating could there be?
@ Blueranger, I think they would be called names if the students found out because no ones wants to be caught cheating but yet people still do it rather then studying because its faster.
@abeeshan
ReplyDeletebut i dont think a book will be interesting if they talk about cheating on 1 test, it could be something else like a tournament, or cheating other. @peach who are you
its a midterm...not a test
ReplyDelete@ luigi
ReplyDeleteyes I agree I was just trying to explain why I think the author chose cheat instead of cheating
@ sonali
ReplyDeleteyosh is aqib
mario me abeeshan and
luigi is prabhjot
Well I think think that this book looks very interesting. I think that it is about 5 kids who run away from home and they have like this big adventure ahead of them. Or, it could be something similar to Rebound.
ReplyDelete@DubstepLover
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think they will run away?
Is it because you seen other books that have that scene?
@prabhjot
ReplyDeletei think it does because you are not being honest about what you are doing also if someone finds you would lie and then you will not be honest.
@mario
ReplyDeleteya i got mixed up and still do you think that it will be fun like rebound.
@mario
ReplyDeleteYES you are right it gets worser when you get older.
@prabhjot
ReplyDeletethen tell me how else can they be stressed.
@mario
ReplyDeletethat is true but you see maybe there will not be alot of places where you can show detail.
@mario
ReplyDeletei do not think one mistake at home can make the parents hate their children.
@aqib
ReplyDeletethey can be stressed like being made fun of people with no friends, or like david how nothing was going right
@aqib
ReplyDeletewhat if that one mistake was setting the house on fire?
@aqib
ReplyDeletehow does cheating get worse if your older? what if you were 60, then what would you cheat on
I think this book is about a group of friends that cheat on a big test, either because they didn't know what to do or couldn't bother studying for it maybe because it's a lot of stress. I don't think they are going to get caught,because I think the author wants to show us how hard it is to get away with that and what the consequences the characters will have to face.
ReplyDelete@Luigi so your saying that the characters are going to cheat to be liked by their peers
ReplyDelete@shelby
ReplyDeletehow would it make sense if the authors messsage would be that its hard to get away with cheating?and you said they wont get caught to show its hard to get away with it
@Mario I agree I think it does get worse when your older because it's more homework, studying for test etc
ReplyDelete@shelby
ReplyDeletei did not say that
@shelby like i said to aqib, picture you were60, what could you possibly cheat off
ReplyDelete@Luigi what I mean is that it's hard to get away with cheating because your very paranoid about someone like a teacher finding out, so why bother putting yourself through all that streaa when you could just study or ask, so it's kind of like karma
ReplyDelete@shelby oh ok
ReplyDelete@Luigi you said they could be stressed by being made fun of. So I said they are doing cheating to be liked by their peers
ReplyDelete@Luigi *stress
ReplyDelete@shelby
ReplyDeletebut would you go telll all your peers you cheated, when there might be a possibility to go to the teacher?
@Luigi what I mean when I said cheating gets worse when your older I meant in high school and college
ReplyDelete@shelby
ReplyDeletei dont think anyone would cheat in college because if they find out,they would take the money you already paid, and expell you
@Luigi i don't mean your actually going to go tell your friends that you cheated i meant that when finally get it back and you did good you will begin to get noticed by your peers
ReplyDelete@Luigi, cheating in University is almost epidemic.
ReplyDelete@ Shelby, nice to see you black on the blog
ReplyDelete@shelby do u think it relates to rebound where David gets called names and made fun of could these people on the cover are going through this in the book
ReplyDelete@Yellowranger i agree because if a child starts cheating at a young age , then they would continue it on forever and it would become there habit and maybe someone will notice or maybe not.
ReplyDeleteGood blog this weekend.
ReplyDeletegreat to see you being consistent Vinay,
Team 7 has really dominated the blog the last 4 or 5 days. Especially the Mario Team.
For those that have had moments of greatness try to work on consistency. The grade 8 students that dominated the blog last weekend have been no where this weekend.
We will start tomorrow by reading the 1st few chapters.
I didn't get the summary, but I think this book is about
ReplyDeleteHow these kids are in a big situation and are planning something.
A way to cheat someone, but their plan backfires and they end up getting cheated on.
i think the book has so far been really good and very interesting.Although the book is very iteresting i think it will be different and maybe a bit hard to understand. As well there is so far allot of humour which is great in this book.And as allot of us have commented it is very "realistic."
ReplyDelete@rohan I agree I think it will be confusing because its coming from different perspectives
ReplyDeleteTo me i think that the book may be about someone cheating on someone else or something like that since it has those characters because 3 of them could be the couple and ther person that was cheated on and the other three could be like the best friend or the brother that wants to beat the dude up or something like that
ReplyDeleteThe book this far has been interesting. I think it is going to be very suspensful. I like this author's style better than the traditional writing style. I can better understand the character because they all explain thier thoughts and I understand thier actions. It sounds like a good book thus far and I'm excited to seee how it plays out!
ReplyDelete@RedRanger I think the books about cheating on the midterm not cheating on others with relationships.
ReplyDelete@mr.cheney how many perspectives are there throughout the book.
ReplyDelete@Luigi its not possible to cheat in college because first of all you would get Expelled and with that record you wont get into anyother colleges.And they have personal answer questions and they have like questions that you would have to write long answers and its hard to cheat when you have to remember so much
ReplyDelete@ButterCup i think i would know that but it was my guess from before so i would have to write it
ReplyDeleteI thought this book was about people cheating and about one perspective but this book is with a lot of perspectives not just like the regular type of book. The Author is really creative because he puts more characters into the book each character has different problems b
ReplyDeleteI also think by thi far is that the book is about how when people try to cheat of tests it would backfire on them.(e.g how the girl tried to cheat and he realized allot of her answer were wrong almost all.
ReplyDelete@BlueRanger i dont think this book is going to be similar to Rebound because Rebound was about inequality while this books seems like its about doing the right thing
ReplyDelete@stanley do you think of having different perspectives would make it harder to understand?
ReplyDeleteSo far of what we've read, I think the cheat will be a interesting novel, with the author's unique stype of writing and the character's difference in personality, it will make it enjoyable.
ReplyDelete@shelby good prediction, it probably will have a strong message just like rebound.
I checked out the website and the story line seems realistic to me. Its about a couple of kids trying to "survive" in school. When they get into trouble by getting caught for cheating. The realisticness of this event is that in middle school theres always going to be students that have gotten to the point that they dont want to study and focus at school, they find that hard, easier to just cheat.
ReplyDelete@Olga nice prediction, but what do you think the moral of the book would be based on that event happening?
ReplyDeleteI think that the characters are going to cheat multiple times before they get caught.
ReplyDeletewhat if one of the characters got caught cheating when he really wasnt, when he was helping out a friend and that friend is influencing the person to do "bad" things for him/her.
ReplyDeleteI think a couple of freinds gave each other cheats because after one person gave one the "anwers"(or animal,cat,,etc.)and they probaly passed it on to each other,But i wonder if they would get caught because who will they caught from and who would notice they all the anwers?
ReplyDelete@Deadmau , That could happen too because the book does look pretty short but i think more would happen later on as the story goes on.
ReplyDelete@RedRanger oh. It is possible to cheat in college. When we cheat, we are well aware of the consequences but continue to cheat. Cheating is possible anywhere, participation just decreases because of the consequence.
ReplyDelete@Buttercup, I agree because everyone uses cheating bcause its easier and it saves alot of time and i think everyone could realte to that even if they wouldnt addmit it, theey would have done cheating at some point of their life.
ReplyDelete@Rohan, I think some of the answers arte wrong because even Rob noticed some of them werent right even when he knew one of the answeres because it realted to his dad.
ReplyDeletethe begining was quite interesting, and is the whole story based on a test answers?
ReplyDelete@malav
ReplyDeletei agree it was interesing. but if it is all about the midterm it wouldent be as fun to read
@donna
ReplyDeleteim pretty sure they would seperate the desks for no talking, they did that for EQAO they might do it in the midterm too
@Thamil and Nicole, I commented on this earlier in the post. But assured cheating does not stop in university. In fact cheating and plagiarism is a HUGE problem.
ReplyDeleteAnd this type of behaviour continues in the work world everywhere.
Cheating works, thats why people do it. A few are caught and some have strong enough values to not cheat, but many do.
@donna
ReplyDeletebut the books name is THE Cheat, so it only means one time.
@aqib
ReplyDeleteit's basically half your mark plus it's important to get a good mark
The book was so far good. It was a little confusing I'm not used to the characters because there is a lot going on in each perspective. So it was confusing,I couldn't catch up with "who did this or who felt this". I'm sure I'll get used to it. Fortunately, so far there was some jokes and humour which will keep me more engaged to the book.
ReplyDelete@ Rohan
ReplyDeletegood to know the book seems realistic to people I also agree.
@abeeshan
ReplyDeletei agree, it was quite hard to catch up on who they were. also while doing the work i only knew 1 person, i needed to ask everyone to find out
@ buttercup
ReplyDeletewhy do you think the book is suspensful?
also, I agree that the author is very detailed with the character's thoughts and feelings.
I personally think that maybe the author wrote a book like this because she maybe cheated on something big like a midterm as well, and must of got caught. That's why I think she is so detailed.
@ prabhjot
ReplyDeletesame, it was hard to answer the journal response
I wanted to read it again by myself so maybe I understand it better. But since I had explanations by some people, now I don't need to read it again.
@ Rohan Having more than 1 perspective is going to be complex and a bit harder to understand, not harder to understand but maybe a bit confusing.
ReplyDelete@ Mr.Cheney, but don't they easily get caught for plagiarism in universities?I think i heard that somewhere because the universities professors could tell if its been copied or actually written itself.
ReplyDelete@Mario,There are a lot of perspectives and i think that's why it makes this book so unique because it shows everyone's different reactions to one situation.
@ Jan101
ReplyDeleteyea exactly, I connect this to the time Mr.Cheney told us that everyone has difficult times in life and you that you can't live life always happy. And how everyone is feeling something different and sharing the same feeling and plus to understand how they EXACTLY feel is showing empathy.
even copying other students work from previous years is a problem, students selling essays at university is a problem.
ReplyDeletecheating is big business.
@ Mr.Cheney
ReplyDeletejust curious: would you get caught if you get you copy of previous students' work?
do the universities or the teachers have a sample or something from previous students' work from last year,if not how would you get caught?
@Mr Cheney
ReplyDeleteDid I miss a read aloud? And theres a post on the Math blog
@ Tabish yeah you missed the read aloud.
ReplyDelete@The sauce boss, we started reading THE CHEAT and we got our first glimpse of most of the characters,
ReplyDeleteCheating is big business and often tough to catch, ill go check the math page.
ReplyDeletethe like read aloud was like really like way lame like.
ReplyDelete@ MrCheney Hahaha
ReplyDelete@Mario,i agree how would the teachers know its been copied form another previous student?Maybe they have them safe and if one of them seems similar they get caught or something
ReplyDeletegood to see you blogging Stanley, go add your thoughts to the can food drive
ReplyDeletewoow blog looks good
ReplyDeletei thought i was on the gym page at first.
ReplyDeletenice new template.
@ luigi
ReplyDeletesame.
i dont think it would be that good if its all based on a midterm test.
but so far, it pretty good.
@ tabish we have just started reading the cheat.
ReplyDeleteso far, there was a guy that gave a girl named sarah, like all the answers.
and like she told a few of her firends, and some people are cheating on test.
there was more to the story, and theres one girl named katie that keeps saying like.
it is pretty funny, and it gets old a bit as well.
yes, I like, the like new like look, for the like Blog, Rebound was like so done and it was like so time to like get a like new background.
ReplyDeletesigned Ruby
nice new font for mr cheneys class 2012.
ReplyDeleteoops tabish its ruby not katie.
ReplyDeletemr cheney is there any other funny character?
hahaha
ReplyDeleteThe title of the blog matches the title of The Cheat
ReplyDeleteFunny like Ruby, nope
funny for other reasons, yes.
Signed Derek Jeeter
Nice Background
ReplyDeleteYes Olga, please add some other comments!
ReplyDeleteFine. Well thanks Donna. I think no, but things like that do happen. I read a book once, and I remember the moral of the book was the event happening. What do you think?
ReplyDeletei made a bunch of grammar errors...
ReplyDelete@luigi true but what if the book title is talking about only one of the cheats that was made.
I think the author is trying to say that there will always be a consequence for every mistake a person makes.
ReplyDelete@Donna
ReplyDeleteNice (:
I think that the author means that what goes around comes around.
thats what i was trying to explain. :(
ReplyDelete:O really?
ReplyDelete@mr cheney will we loose marks for expressing emotions in our comments by using brackets and colons...?
ReplyDelete^^ Good Question :)
ReplyDeleteno you won't lose marks...but I don't understand all of them
ReplyDeleteThus far this book sees confusing but reallly funny and true I agree is what goes around comes around Jack as you can see really likes Sarah and gave her the test answer which gave it to rob who gave it to Dan and now everyone is getting in trouble. I wonder what else Jack would to for Sarah with a toothpaste simile. Would Sarah be the one to tell on jack
ReplyDeleteI never read a book like this when characters changing on the time it seems interesting and what different people can sound think and act like.
ReplyDeleteJack=Jake
ReplyDeleteYes, It would seem easy and realistic for Sarah to save herself by turning in Jake, she clearly doesn't like him very much.
@mr cheney
ReplyDeletei dont think sarah will turn him in because it doesent seem like she would do that
@word nerd i didnt notice the new font for mr cheneys blog 2012 until now lol
ReplyDelete@mr.cheney hahahaha ruby is so funny like totally like she's so like awesome like i just can't like describe her like ahahaha that like like like part is stuck in my head and it won't come out for a while ( it'll stay in there )
@ mr cheney
ReplyDeletei agree with luigi.
i dont think sarah is a type of person that waould tatle tale.
she also had said that.
she said shes not a snitch and wouldnt tell on others.
You know enough about Sarah?
ReplyDeleteSaying something and doing that are two completely different things
ReplyDeleteThat is true...we have learned about this all year
ReplyDelete