Reading

Reports for as You Read

250 word short answers: SHORT ANSWERS--Due every Friday

Week 1: ONE of these is due at the end of week 1.

• Predict: Before you read, make a list of three predictions for the book (characters or setting or conflict, etc.). As you read the first chapters, describe which predictions have become accurate, which are likely to be wrong, and which could still occur.
• Picture the Setting: The first pages of a book are usually full of detailed descriptions of the setting. Explain the setting and include at least six specific items from the text.
• Biography: Describe the early life of the book’s subject. Include date of birth, early influences, location(s) the person lived, who his/her family were, his/her education, etc.
• Everything’s Normal: Fiction begins by telling what is normal for the hero (Nemo has bad flipper and overly protective dad; he lives in an anemone in the ocean). So, what’s normal for your hero?
• Non Fiction: What social issue does the book state is wrong? What does it say about it?

Week 2: One of these is due at the end of week 2.

• Who are you? Name three characters in the book so far. Describe what they look like, what they care about, and why they are a part of the story.
• Cause and Effect: Identify six events in the story. What caused each event? What was the consequence of each event (what did each event lead to)?
• Play-by-Play Action! Describe an exciting event as if you were a sports broadcaster
• Biography: Describe that person’s adult life and public life. What work did they do? What did they become famous for doing? What were his or her most important acts?
• Non Fiction: What solutions does your book offer to the problems it discusses earlier?

Week 3: One of these is due at the end of week 3.

• Contact: Write a letter to a character in the book. Include your reaction to what happened in the book, to his or her choices, and what he or she should do now.
• Profile: Find the single best description for one character from the text. Rewrite it word for word. How does that text show that character’s appearance, abilities, or values.
• Only here: How is the setting required for the story? Could this story happen in another place?
• Biography: What do you think of him/her? How’s the world different because of them?
• Non Fiction: What does the author suggest will happen if the book’s warnings are ignored?

Week 4: One of these is due at the end of week 4.

• So what? What’s the point of this story? What life lesson is the author showing us?
• A New Me: Characters change through the story. Describe how one character changes.
• Required Reading: Pick one brief event. How is that one brief event needed for the story? What becomes missing if it’s removed? How important is it?
• Biography: Would you want to have this person’s life? What would be the nice things about it? What would be the unwanted things about it?
• Non Fiction: What assumptions did the author make? What points of view were not included?

Week 5: DUE on MONDAY AFTER week 4.