Term+Two+Reading+Assignments

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=** Books: **= October: Continue with book using last quarter instructions November: //Adventures of Huckleberry Finn// December: Free Choice

=** Requirements: **=

November
 * Huckleberry Finn project
 * Log book on Goodreads and write review
 * 5 Goodreads posts (2 original, 3 responses)

December
 * 3 response journal entries
 * 5 beyond basic reading posts (1 in each category)
 * Log book on Goodreads and write review

=**__ Reading Response Journals __**=




 * Label the start of your entries with the book title and author’s name. Each time you start a new book, you need to label it in big letters.
 * EXAMPLE: __Switched__ by Amanda Hacking


 * Each entry needs to contain a date and pages you read that night
 * EXAMPLE: October 21st Pages 35-50


 * Pick one literary element to analyze. Copy the appropriate organizer for the element you are analyzing.


 * PLOT**

Fill out the plotline for all that you have read thus far—starting from the beginning and ending at whatever point you are currently at in the novel.

Copy the plot line, and then describe each section in detail. You may use a bulleted list or sentences to write the events that occur in each section.


 * CHARACTER**
 * Directions:** Fill out the chart describing characters—analyzing only character traits revealed in this session of reading. You must fill out all 4 rows, but you don’t have to choose a different character each time; it can all be about the same character. In the way column list which way you are analyzing: appearance, words, actions, feelings, or opinions from other characters. In the description column, describe the appearance, words, actions, or feeling etc. In the learned column, analyze what personality traits that revealed about the character.


 * Example and Chart (need to complete all 4 rows)**


 * **NAME** ||  **WAY**  ||  **DESCRIPTION**  ||  **LEARNED**  ||
 * Ms.Madsen || Actions || She passed out missing report lists to all her students and called home if they didn’t turn it in. || She cares about her students’ success in life, and she wants to help them succeed. ||
 * Ms. Madsen || Words || **“**Anyone want to teach me how to Dougie. I am down.” || She is open to trying new things, and she likes to joke around and have a good relationship with her students. She doesn’t take life too seriously as she is willing to have fun too. ||


 * CONFLICT**
 * Directions:** Describe three conflicts that happen in this session of reading, list what type of conflict it is, and then describe how it was resolved. If there is no resolution yet, just write no resolution.


 * Example and Type (need to complete all 3 rows)**


 * **DESCRIPTION** ||  **TYPE**  ||  **RESOLUTION**  ||
 * Students are not completing their missing work, and they are getting further behind. || Person vs. Self ||  ||


 * SETTING & MOOD**


 * Directions:** Describe a component of setting—time, weather, location—and then describe the mood that setting creates **and** how it affects the story/characters.


 * Example & Chart: (need to complete all 2 rows)**
 * **COMPONENT** ||  **DESCRIPTION**  ||  **MOOD and how AFFECTS**  ||
 * Location || Small family cottage with a stove fireplace and a broken bed in the corner.

Cupboards are mostly bare. || Distraught and hopeless. The characters are struggling to live on a daily basis. Every time they try to do well, they are knocked down. They try to stay happy, but the cold and the lack of food is wearing on them. ||


 * THEME**
 * Directions:** List two themes (lessons) learned in today’s reading, and describe the situation/event in the novel that taught the theme.


 * Example and Chart:**
 * **EVENT** ||  **THEME (lesson learned)**  ||
 * Mary dies, and on her deathbed, her friend tells her she was the one that spread all those rumors about her. Mary tells her friend that she knew all along and forgives her. || When you and your friend get in a fight, take care of it right away instead of letting it ruin your friendship until it is too late to repair it. ||

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