Extra+Credit

Each paragraph is worth ten points extra credit, but ONLY if it is done correctly. These paragraphs should be about the novel you are reading at home.


 * 1: Theme: Describe the event in the novel that teaches the theme, state the theme, and apply the theme to your life.


 * 2: Conflict: Describe in DETAIL one conflict in the novel: what type is it? how do the characters attempt to solve it?


 * 3: Plot: Describe the exposition (what information do you learn in the exposition), the rising action, and identify the part you believe is the climax and explain why that is the climax.


 * 4: Characterization: ANALYZE a character using 3 of the ways. Do not just identify or describe the character, but analyze what that way reveals about the character.


 * 5: Point of View: Whose point of view is the story told from? If it is an outsider telling the story, how would the story be different if an actual character was telling the story. If it is a character telling the story, how would the story be different if an outsider was telling it.


 * 6: Setting: Describe the setting in very descriptive detail. Choose only ONE central setting and describe.


 * 7: Connection: Make a text to self connection or a text to text. Be very specific. What specific event are you connecting to a specific aspect of your life? Or what specific event in the novel are you connecting to a specific part in another book, movie, or song.


 * 8: Recommendation: Would you recommend this book to someone else. Why or why not? Be specific.


 * 9: Cause and effect: Point out and describe three cause and effect relationships in the novel.


 * 10: Context Clues: Find 6 words that you do not know. For each word write down the sentence, write down what you think it means, write down the dictionary definition, and then use the word in your own sentence.

BE THOROUGH!!!!! If you do not think about what you are writing, and just write the easy quick answers, without any thought or time, I will be able to tell and your paragraph will not give you any extra credit. Be as thorough as you can. Be as specific as you can. Really analyze and think it through.