Q2: Grade 7+8: Book Reports
Book Club Day:________________________
COMPLETELY FINISH at least one book of your choosing 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:
a healthy snack to share
a handout about your book with
the title
your rating
author
genre
brief summary
central image
a typed essay from one of the choices below.
NO LATE BOOK REPORTS WILL BE ACCEPTED
2nd Quarter: Craft and Structure
How did the author use words and phrases? Find examples of really excellent or interesting words and phrases and describe how they affect the meaning of the story, the feeling of the story. Pay special attention to analogies (“like” or “as”) and allusions (shout-outs to other stories, books, movies etc.)
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
Choose TWO books to compare to each other. How are they structured? Are the chapters short or long? Does the story follow a nice linear timeline or does it jump around in time? Does the conflict come at the beginning or the end? How does the structure of these two books change the meaning and style of the books?
Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style.
What are the points of view in your story? Who is the narrator? What kind of narrator are they? Do you trust their point of view? What does the point of view in your story accomplish? Does the point of view lead to suspense or humor?
Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.
Q2: Grade 9+10: Book Reports
Book Club Date: Thursday October 2, 2014
COMPLETELY FINISH at least one book of your choosing 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:
a healthy snack to share
a handout about your book with
the title
your rating
author
genre
brief summary
central image
a typed essay from one of the choices below.
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)
Q2: Craft and Structure
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g. how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it sets a formal or informal tone).
5. Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g. pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.
6. Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
Q2: Grade 11+12: Book Reports
Book Club Date: October 2, 2014
Each month, you should COMPLETELY FINISH at least one book of your choosing 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:
a healthy snack to share
a handout about your book with
the title
your rating
author
genre
brief summary
central image
a typed essay from one of the choices below.
NO LATE BOOK REPORTS WILL BE ACCEPTED
Q2: Craft and Structure
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful. (Include Shakespeare as well as other authors.)
5. Analyze how an authorʻs choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g. the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.
6. Analyze a case in which grasping point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement).
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