Quarter One Book Report Assignment. Hint: START NOW

You guys have a nice long time before this book report is due. Read a book from the recommended reading list. Keep these ideas in mind as you do your nightly reading journals, and the essay will practically write itself: 

• Inferences you can draw vs. what the text says explicitly
• Theme
• How the story develops
• How characters change
• Author's choices

Grade 7+8: Book Reports

Due October 2

COMPLETELY FINISH at least one book from the recommended reading list (in your library folder, also on the blog) with your nightly 30 minutes of reading. Challenge yourself to read different types of books, and explore your interests across genres.

On book club day, bring:

1. a healthy snack to share
2. a handout about your book with
1. the title
2. your rating
3. author
4. genre
5. brief summary
6. central image
3. a typed essay from one of the choices below.
4. NO LATE BOOK REPORTS WILL BE ACCEPTED

Choose your book report essay from this list:

(Based on Common Core Standards for Literature for grade 8)

First Quarter Key Ideas and Details.

1. What is this book about? Give examples from the text that clearly explicitly explain what the book is about. Also describe what you think the book is about based on inferences from the text. This means, things that are never explained directly, but you can tell are important. For example, J.K. Rowling never writes, “This book is about growing up different,” but we can infer it from reading.

Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

2. What is the central theme or idea of this book? How does this theme develop throughout this book? How does the theme relate to the characters? To the setting? To the plot? Present proof from the book with page numbers.

Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.

3. What moves this story forward? What specifically is said, done, or experienced that keeps things moving?  Describe and quote (with page numbers) specific events or dialogue that propel the action, tell you important things about a character, or force characters to make decisions.

Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character or provoke a decision.

Grade 9+10: Book Reports

Book Club Date: Thursday October 2, 2014

COMPLETELY FINISH at least one book from the recommended reading list (in your library folder, also on the blog) with your nightly 30 minutes of reading. Challenge yourself to read different types of books, and explore your interests across genres.

On book club day, bring:

1. a healthy snack to share
2. a handout about your book with
1. the title
2. your rating
3. author
4. genre
5. brief summary
6. central image
3. a typed essay from one of the choices below.
4. NO LATE BOOK REPORTS WILL BE ACCEPTED

Choose your book report essay from this list:

(Based on Common Core Standards for Literature for grade 9-10)

Q1: Key Ideas and Details:

1. Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

2. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

3. Analyze how complex characters (e.g., those with multiple or conflicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

Grade 11+12: Book Reports

Book Club Date: October 2, 2014

Each month, you should COMPLETELY FINISH at least one book from the recommended reading list (in your library folder, also on the blog) with your nightly 30 minutes of reading. Challenge yourself to read different types of books, and explore your interests across genres.

On book club day, bring:

1. a healthy snack to share
2. a handout about your book with
1. the title
2. your rating
3. author
4. genre
5. brief summary
6. central image
3. a typed essay from one of the choices below.
4. NO LATE BOOK REPORTS WILL BE ACCEPTED

Choose your book report essay from this list:

(Based on Common Core Standards for Literature for grade 11-12)

Q1: Key Ideas and Details

1. Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

2. Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.

3. Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).