华人孩子写作差？看看孩子如何学习写书评？

My mother didn’t want me to like Alice. She was just like any other friend who might tell me something about another girl to ensure her friendship with me.This kind of more grown up thinking is the start of adulthood. In It All Comes Down to This by Karen English, Sophie discovers that her father may be seeing another woman behind her mother’s back.She also realizes that she may have to spend her entire life being accused ofthings she didn’t do just because of the color of her skin. These arethe discoveries that bring Sophie headlong into the start of adulthood.Following along as someone bridges the gap between being a child and being anadult is fascinating because there isn’t a soul out there who hasn’t had thosemoments.

我妈妈不想让我喜欢爱丽丝。她就像任何一个其他朋友一样，告诉我一些关于另一个女孩的事情，以巩固她和我的友谊。这种更成熟的思维标记着成年的开始。在卡伦·英吉利斯的《一切归结于此》这本书里，索菲发现她的父亲可能和另一个女人约会。她也意识到，她可能不得不一辈子因为一些自己没有做过的事遭到指责，而这根源仅仅是因为她的肤色。这些思索标记着苏菲一头扎进她的成年时期了。跟随书里的某个人物从孩童时期迈进成年，这个过程很吸引人，因为没有哪个人还没有经历过这样的时刻。

2. 故事的摘要

在第二段，我会总结这个故事是关于什么的。我不会在此处浪费太多笔墨，因为我认为作者才是讲故事的那个人，我所要做的仅仅是是向读者介绍这本书。事实上，我经常告诉学生们，只要他们标出资料来源，就可以从书的封面或是亚马逊网站上复制书本摘要。以下这个段落就来自亚马逊。

It’s1965, Los Angeles. All 12-year-old Sophie wants to do is write her book and hang out with her friend Jennifer. But she’s the new black kid in a nearly all-white neighborhood; her beloved sister, Lily, is going away to college soon; and her parents’ marriage is rocky. There’s also her family’s new housekeeper to deal with. When riots erupt in nearby Watts and a friend is unfairly arrested, Sophie learns that life—and her own place in it—is even more complicated than she’d once thought.

1965年，洛杉矶。12岁的索菲想要做的就是写书，或者和她的朋友珍妮佛一起玩。但她是一个新来的黑人孩子，在几乎全是白人的社区里；她心爱的妹妹莉莉很快就要去上大学了；她父母的婚姻也很不稳定。还要应对她家里新来的管家。当附近的瓦茨爆发骚乱，一个朋友被不公正地逮捕时，苏菲意识到，生活——以及她自己在其中的位置——比她曾经想象的还要复杂。

3. 与更大的世界联系起来

最后，我会在书评里分享为什么我认为这本书能与我身边更大的世界联系起来：

I’m a 48-year-old white woman who grew up in New York City with ahousekeeper/nanny who was African American. Margaret was the light of mychildhood. She talked to my mother when I couldn’t say what needed to be said.She bought me a blue jar of Noxema and showed me how to wash my face atnight. She made fried chicken every Friday afternoon before she went home forthe weekend. Sophie, the main character in It All Comes Down to This by Karen English had a housekeeper too. Thedifference is that Sophie and Mrs. Baylor are both black.

我是一个48岁的白人女性，在纽约长大，有一个非裔美国人做我的保姆。玛格丽特点亮了我的童年。当我说不出该说什么时，她会跟我妈妈说。她给我买了一瓶蓝色的Noxema，还教我如何在晚上洗脸。她每个周五下午回家过周末之前都做炸鸡。苏菲，卡伦·英吉利斯的《一切归结于此》的女主角，也有一个女管家。区别在于索菲和贝勒夫人都是黑人。

This book made me want to hear other African American voices andbe wide open to really listening. This book speaks to coming of age, but alsoto coming to understand how race changes the way we live in our world. As aresult of reading English’s book, I ordered several other books about and byAfrican Americans.

这本书让我想要听到其他非裔美国人的声音，并敞开心扉去真正地倾听。这本书谈到了成年，也谈到了理解种族如何改变了我们在这个世界的生活方式。由于读了卡伦·英吉利斯的这本书，我又订了其它几本关于非裔美国人的书。

以上就是我自己写书评的三个段落框架。我用它教三年级、五年级的小学生，也用来教中学生。他们都很喜欢它。我也教过老师，看看他们是否能用这个框架来反思他们的阅读。他们也都很喜欢。

每个人都告诉我，他们有多喜欢分享自己对一本书的个人感受，而不必像往常一样进行一些枯燥的总结。

原文出自网站We AreTeachers, “How I Teach Kids to Write Strong Book Reviews Using 3 SimpleSteps”。