Lost in the Antarctic, a nonfiction book tells us how the crew of Endurance persevered through one of the hardest journeys of that time. The story starts in 1914, and the protagonist, Shackleton wanted to explore the Antarctic. Shackleton is a very empathetic person; he cares about his crewmates. That is also why he is the leader of the ship, Endurance. During the journey, they encountered so many problems. Their ship sinks, and they are trapped on an island, and hunger. Can they overcome these problems; can they get out of the Antarctic? Read the book to find out more.

This page of my notebook is just FREE notes. I just took notes on what I thought was important. During one of the lessons, we talked about how taking a lot of notes is very helpful. Sometimes at the start of the story, you may not come to a very important, or attractive sentence, paragraph, or a section. But when you come closer to the end of the story, you might come to a moment where you go, hmmm, I think this happened before. But when? If you had taken a lot of notes, you may have that part in your notebook. If you don’t have that part written, you may have to find that part. That is why taking free notes, on no topic is very important. That is also why I took free notes in my notebook. On this page of my notebook, I took notes on cause and effect throughout several of the pages. The pages are 127 to 148. It is really helpful to take notes on cause and effect because it could really make you understand the book better. Every effect always has a cause. If you can understand how the cause and the effect relate to each other, you can understand more about what is happening in the story, and why these characters are doing what they are doing on these couple of pages.

 

On this page of my notebook, I took notes on cause and effect again. But the different part is, the cause and effect are not only on a couple of pages but the whole book. This method can help you understand the whole book better. It also helps you understand the format and structure of this book. It also helps you to make further predictions on this book. For example in my book, the ship sunk, and it affected the food on the ship. The food on the ship also went into the water. Now I can predict, without food, they might face hunger. See, that is a prediction. If I only know the ship had sunk, I have no idea what is going to happen.

On this page, I took notes on quotes that support the central idea. This method for me is the most important one. It really helps you to identify the central idea. It shows what the author wants to communicate to the audience/reader. And we can see how the author communicates his ideas to us. As a reader, knowing the central idea is so important. (Also, it helped me a lot with my summative.) If you think the central idea, and the theme is very important for a book, then this method is also very important for note-takers.

Overall, I enjoyed Lost in the Antarctic so much. This book is written by Tod Olsen. The image of the book cover came from amazon.

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