Below, you can find the different options for your book reports (personal outside reading). You MUST write the book report after you have read the entire book. You may do a reader response, etc. instead of book club meetings (must be due BY book club time to show have done the reading). Email me with any questions. Have fun reading!
Book Report / Novel Summary
Author Last, First Name. Title of the book. Place of Publication. Company: Date.
Reason, Type and Setting: Explain why you selected this book. Explain what type of book it is? (For instance, Western, adventure novel, teen romance, action, mystery, etc.) Where does you novel take place? In what time period does your book take place?
Plot: Give an account of the books major conflicts and action. Describe the parts which interested you. Don’t include every detail, just main ideas. The plot is all about the action which takes place, the story told. The plot of a book is composed through the conflict or points of interests that call for resolution. Recount your book’s plot in this section.
Character: Select a character. Describe your character’s physical appearance. What qualities does he or she possess? What roles does you character play in the plot? Why did you select this character? What interest you about the character? How did the plot change the character in the end?
Evaluation: Did you like the novel? Was it interesting? Did the book entertain you? Did it inform you? What main point about life and values did the novel make? What did it teach you? Would you recommend this book for others? Why of why not?
How does this book compare to real life? What situations, problems, current events, or issues does this book remind you? Is this book important for others to read? Why or why not?
Put yourself in the plot. Compare yourself with the main character. Would you have acted in the same way? What other conclusions might work for the book? How would you have wanted the book to end?
Author, Context and Trivia: What others books did this author write? What do you know about that author? What other books like this one have you read? How does this one compare to those others? If you have never read a book like this before, say so. Do you plan to read more of this author or type? What have you not mention in the report above that you feel might be important? Make you case in this section.
Reader Response
Quote and Comment: Select a quote of interest. Copy it down and record the page number. Comment upon the quote. What does it remind you of? Why is it significant? How is it connected to other things? What difference does it make? What if things had been different? What evidence does it present?
Photo Copy Mark Up: Go to copy machine and make copies of ten pages of your reading. Take a highlighter and highlight the important passages. With a pencil or pen make comments in the margins. Ask questions about the text. See the above question for comments you might make in the margins.
Reciprocal Teaching Response: Before you begin reading, write these four points down on a sheet of paper. Leave some space after each.
1. What is this going to be about?
2. What don’t I understand?
3. Draw a conclusion.
4. What is going to happen next?
Repeat as necessary.
Quote and comment: Select an important quote from the text you are reading. Place you selection in quotation marls and provide the page number. Comment upon your selection. Why did you choose it? Why is it important?
Quote and Comment using the Habits of Mind: Who said it? (Perspective) How do we know that it is true? (Evidence) Why is it important? (Significance or Relevance) How is it related to other things? (Connections) How could it be different? (Supposition)
An example of using Montaigne’s The Apology:
“Preachers especially know that the feeling that comes to them as they talk even makes the preachers themselves believe what they are saying.”
Who says? Where is this person coming from? Who is Montaigne anyway? What did he do? Why is he important? (Perspective)
How do you know? How does Montaigne know this? Is Montaigne a preacher? Has he talked to preachers about this? Would you admit to him that they talk themselves into what they are saying? (Evidence)
“The same horse moving in the same way seems to me now rough, another time easy”
What is this connected to? This reminds me of people I see on and off. Sometime they look bigger than at other times. I don’t think they are just gaining weight either. Maybe there health has changed? (Connections)
“The passion caused when we resist the pressure and violence of authority, or caused by danger, or caused by a desire for reputation, has led some men to accept death… when later, when relaxing with friends they wouldn’t be willing to burn the tip of their finger.”
Who cares? Why is this important? How true. What are the passions won’t lead us to. When we get mad we can get into trouble, only conclude later that it wasn’t even worth it. We need to always be control of out passions? (Significance or Relevance)
“When I pick up books, my soul is sometimes struck by passages which consider beautiful and great.”
What if? Could this be different? I wonder if Montaigne would be the same way is he did not have any books. Would he still be filled with wonder if he couldn’t read? What influence did books have on him? (Supposition)
Other Types of Readers Response:
Chapter Summary
Dialectical Journal
Reading Log
Close and Recall
1 comment:
Book report? what kind of project is this? it's so bland and it lacks any REAL educational value.I thought this was High Tech High, not some crappy state-sponsered public school. This is also a bad time to inform us about this book report, especially when we have the novel to write. ya just had to make it a little harder for us didnt ya?
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