Independent Novel: Honors 2

Realize that reading is thinking ー read actively not passively. Don’t read while you are doing something else. You are expected to complete the following:

• Character Trait: What is the title of your novel? Who is the author? / Provide a 1-2 sentence summary of today's reading. / Next, consider the main character and what you know about this character so far. Does this character remind you of yourself? Someone in your life? How? How are the characters, setting, and problems like those in other stories you have read? Were you reminded of anything in your own life while reading today? What and how? What does this story make you think or wonder about?   

• Rhetorical Appeals: Is your character a representation of ethos, pathos, or logos? Include text evidence.

• Character Traits: Who is the main character in your book? What is this character like? Tell the character’s name, age, appearance, friends, personality, and problems… Start out: The main character of my book is…

• Conflict: What is the problem or conflict of your book? Which characters are involved? How do you think the problem or conflict might be solved? Start out: The conflict or problem in [title of novel] is…

• Text to Self: Would you like to live like the characters in your book? Explain how they live (the situation) and why or why not you would like to live like that. Start out: I would/would not like to live like my characters because…

• Text to Self: If you were the main character in your book, how would you handle the situation he or she faces in the story? Be sure to briefly describe the situation before telling how you would handle it. Start out: If I were the main character in my book I would…

Tone Words: What are three words to describe the tone in today’s reading? Provide at least one specific piece of evidence the author uses to create this tone.