Reading Journal Essay
Over the course of this year I have read two historic based books, Johnny Tremain and George Washington’s Secret Six. Johnny Tremain is a Fiction book about a young silversmith's apprentice named Johnny Tremain and how by burning his hand he learns to do other things besides being a silversmith and how he gets caught up in events from the American Revolution. George Washington’s Secret Six is a Non-Fiction book and is about how when everyone thought the American Revolution could soon be over Washington rallied a little known top secret group called the Culper Spy Ring and how they help Washington win the Revolution. Out of the two different approaches my books used, I preferred getting my information from the Fiction book(Johnny Tremain) compared to the Non-Fiction book(George Washington’s Secret Six) because I like the style better, it was easier to follow, and it was more exciting to read.…show more content… For example: “Boston slowly opened its eyes, stretched, and woke. The sun struck horizontally from the east, flashing upon weathervanes-brass cocks and arrows, here a glass-eyed Indian, there a copper grasshopper-and the bells in the steeples cling-clanged, telling the people it was time to be up and about”(Forbes,#1). Where as, George Washington’s Secret Six is about George Washington and his soldiers. “Lieutenant John Simcoe, The man who had ordered the beating of Woodhull’s Father, decided that the townsend family’s house fit his purposes quite nicely proceeded to set up his headquarters in the main part of the home, sequestering the family to just a few back rooms and the shop”(Kilmeade,#88). This shows why the style is better for me because Johnny Tremain seems more upbeat than George Washington’s Secret
