Choice Unit--Day 4

Today we took a quiz on last night's reading. Then, we worked on responding to some questions in notebooks. If you were absent, please complete the following:

Create a notebook page entitled, “Response Questions.” Respond to each of the following questions in a minimum of 2-3 sentences.

Author
1. Explain two important ideas that your author has tried to convey so far.
2. Review the opening of the novel. What does the author do to “hook” the reader?

Characters
3. Who are the main characters? Describe each of them.
4. Are any characters like others you have “met” in other books? How so?

Plot
5. What is the most important event in the book so far? What makes you identify the event as most important?
6. What theme is emerging in the story thus far?

Setting
7. Where and when does the story take place? How do you know?
8. Think of a place like the one in the book. Where is it? Describe it.

Mood
9. What feelings has the reading brought out in you thus far? What about the book makes you feel that way?
10. Has the mood of the story shifted at all? Where and why?

Style
11. How does the author keep you interested in the story?
12. Describe a scene that lingers in your mind. Find that scene in the book. What about the writing causes the scene to be particularly memorable?

5/8 Quiz Make-up
Identify a quote from your most recent reading that helps develop an emerging theme. Type out the quote, including page number. Then, discuss the theme you think is emerging and how you think this quote helps develop that theme.
THIS RESPONSE MUST BE TYPED.

Homework: Read your assigned pages; also, consider working on the individual quote analysis and final project which are due the week of 5/18.