Booktalk slideshow for 8th Grade EXCEL language arts.

1. Open Up Your World
Read Non-Fiction

2. Why Do We Read
Non-Fiction?
To Expand Our Knowledge
To Have Our Own Experiences
Validated and Confirmed
For Help
To Connect with Other Human
Beings
Because Truth is More Amazing Than Fiction

3. QuickTime™ and a
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In Afghanistan...
★ 20 percent of children die before age 5.
★ The average life expectancy is 44 years old
(compared to about 80 in the US).
★ 90% of the world’s heroin is produced here.
★ Only 28% of the adult population knows how
to read & write, and only 13% of women.

4. And Picasso Painted Guernica
by Alain Serres

5. Practical (and hilarious!)
advice on how to survive...
★ Wildfires
★ A Jerky Teacher
★ Getting Lost in the Woods
★ A Snakebite
★ ...and More!
Pro Tips Like...
“Many seabirds hunt during the day and fly
back to land at dusk. Toward sunset, let your
BB (best feathered friend) use its all-natural
GPS to lead you to dry ground.”

6. North Korea &
South Korea at Night
QuickTime™ an d a
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Why is North Korea
dark?