[LIT] Novel projects

[macwendy at cox.net]

Here's one activity I used.  More to follow.

HONORS English							Name _________________________
Book Bites								Period 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  

			BOOK BITE EVALUATION ~ 100 POINTS
DIRECTIONS:	Answer all questions in complete sentences.
			Spelling, capitalization and punctuation will count.
			You may use your book.

1. Title of Book and Author:  ____________________________________________________

2.  Brief Summary of the plot of the story.  ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3.  What is the CONFLICT in the novel?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. The MAIN CHARACTER is also known as the PROTAGONIST or the HERO.  Who is the main character of your novel?  What are his or her traits?  You must name at least 2 of them and give examples from the story to support our opinion.

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5.  The ANTAGONIST is the BAD GUY of a story or novel.  Who is the ‘bad guy’ of  your novel? What are his or her traits?  You must name at least 2 of them and give examples from the story to support our opinion.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6.  What is / are  the MAIN CONFLICT (S) of your novel? What are the EXTERNAL CONFLICTS?  What are the INTERNAL CONFLICTS?  
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7.  How does the MAIN CHARACTER overcome the obstacles he or she faces?   How do his or her CHARACTER TRAITS help them?  Give examples.

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

8.  In your opinion, what was the best part of the book?  Why?  (You may not say ‘the end of reading it’.) 
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

9. In your opinion, what was the worst part of the book?  Why?  (You may not say ,’ reading was the worst part.’)
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

10.  In a novel there could many THEMES.  In your opinion, what do you think was the MAJOR THEME and what did you learn about yourself, the world or life from reading this book?

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PLEASE READ OVER YOUR ANSWERS FOR COMPLETE SENTENCES AND FOR SPELLING, GRAMMAR, CAPITALIZATION AND PUNCTUATION!
 
---- Ashli and Paul Andersen <andersen7279 at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Mrs. Mac,
> Can you share you discussion prompts with us?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ashli
> 
> 
> On 7/3/07, ReadersnRacers at aol.com <ReadersnRacers at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > Mrs. Mac wrote:
> > > With my honors classes I use high level novels and conduct Book Bites.
> > > Students are given 4 weeks to read a novel. The 4th week I hand out a
> > list of
> > > 15 to 20 discussion / prompts for the students to prepare for Book
> > Bites. On
> > > the day of Book Bites we all volunteer to bring our favorite finger
> > > munchies. We use the prompt / questions and discuss the book for that
> > period. I tell
> > > them I will be choosing one of these questions for them to respond to in
> > a
> > > Response to Literature writing. It will not be a traditional book
> > report, but
> > > we will address conflict or theme as well as symbolism, connections and
> > > evaluations. Since it was my first year I already want to change and
> > adapt this
> > > Book Bites to my Basic Classes using the stories in the Holt . . the
> > better
> > > ones, what few their are. My problem is finding enough novels for all
> > the
> > > students. Perhaps I could do Literature Circle Book Bites and have group
> > novels
> > > in the same genre or author or theme.
> > >
> >
> > Pam writes:
> > This is a really cool idea.   I think I'm going to see if I can tweak it
> > to
> > fit my kiddos.   I'm also going to share with our gifted teacher.
> >
> >
> >
> > Pam Tempest
> > Team Neon-6th Gr. ELA
> > Hudson Middle School
> > http://nlcommunities.com/communities/tempest
> >
> > "The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as
> > that every child should be given the wish to learn." John Lubbock
> >
> >
> >
> >
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