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When Marion Copied: Learning about Plagiarism
Marion Hedgehog finds she is not the only student in her class who copied sentences from the Internet for her class report.
- GenresPicture BooksFiction
48 pages, Hardcover
First published March 31, 2006
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March 13, 2013
Junk.
Dude, you wrote a copyright book and didn't cite anything? Come on. You could have at least thrown a list of resources / additional sources, a glossary, samples, or something in the back.
It's written as a teaching tool, so I'll overlook the animal kids gossiping at lunch about a girl who copied part of a poem a month ago as she sits forlorn at the table behind them. It's silly, but I'd give you it if it ended there. Problem is, the book lives here. The plot and dialogue stay on this message-y, unnatural path for the whole book.
Yes, it hits buzzwords. Yes, there aren't many plagiarism picture books. But, it's boring. Most pages are full blocks of text I'd feel goofy reading. The present tense is odd. Plus, Berg hits two pet peeves: 1) Rarely using invisible said as your verb (echos, cries, replies, interrupts, continues, etc) 2) Graycie instead of Gracie. Ugh.
I think kids would rather listen to you explain plagiarism terms than listen to this book.
At the end, the kids pledge to never plagiarize then ride off into the sunset: "Me either!" echo Jules and Marion as the three hurry hand in hand into the media center." (unpaged)
Yep.
Dude, you wrote a copyright book and didn't cite anything? Come on. You could have at least thrown a list of resources / additional sources, a glossary, samples, or something in the back.
It's written as a teaching tool, so I'll overlook the animal kids gossiping at lunch about a girl who copied part of a poem a month ago as she sits forlorn at the table behind them. It's silly, but I'd give you it if it ended there. Problem is, the book lives here. The plot and dialogue stay on this message-y, unnatural path for the whole book.
Yes, it hits buzzwords. Yes, there aren't many plagiarism picture books. But, it's boring. Most pages are full blocks of text I'd feel goofy reading. The present tense is odd. Plus, Berg hits two pet peeves: 1) Rarely using invisible said as your verb (echos, cries, replies, interrupts, continues, etc) 2) Graycie instead of Gracie. Ugh.
I think kids would rather listen to you explain plagiarism terms than listen to this book.
At the end, the kids pledge to never plagiarize then ride off into the sunset: "Me either!" echo Jules and Marion as the three hurry hand in hand into the media center." (unpaged)
Yep.
December 8, 2011
Marion and her class learn about the perils of plagiarism when they turn in assignments that have been copied from the same source.
September 18, 2019
Informative, but pretty dry. The illustrations look like the book would be suitable for K-2, but the content is more geared towards upper elementary.
April 13, 2008
Great book for teaching about plagiarism! Explains how to use the internet for research in a simple story :)
September 26, 2011
Great book to use for introducing the concept of plagiarism to elementary students.
September 7, 2013
I use this book to lead into the research process with 3rd graders, empasizing how important it is to cite your sources.
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