Fourth Period - BQ 3: Discovering Subtext

Prompt: 

Choose two questions from the Discovering Subtext question list (found on the side panel of the blog where all the links are located) and answer them in-depth. 
Make sure you answer these questions about your chosen novel - not just any book.

Format:

First and Last Name

Q: question one written out.
A: answer to question one

Q: question two written out
A: answer to question two

Due: Monday February 4^th by midnight

Notes: Review grading rubric (my advice to you: edit, edit, edit). Don’t forget to COMMENT on the prompt and to RESPOND to a peers comment. You might comment on similarities and/or differences between your answers or comment on some element of their answer that is unique and interesting to you. These are only suggestions, though.

Second Period - BQ 3: Discovering Subtext

Prompt: 

Choose two questions from the Discovering Subtext question list (found on the side panel of the blog where all the links are located) and answer them in-depth. Make sure you answer these questions about your chosen novel - not just any book.

Format:

First and Last Name

Q: question one written out.
A: answer to question one

Q: question two written out
A: answer to question two

Due: Monday February 4^th by midnight

Notes: Review grading rubric (my advice to you: edit, edit, edit). Don’t forget to COMMENT on the prompt and to RESPOND to a peers comment. You might comment on similarities and/or differences between your answers or comment on some element of their answer that is unique and interesting to you. These are only suggestions, though.

First Period - BQ 3: Discovering Subtext

Prompt: 

Choose two questions from the Discovering Subtext question list (found on the side panel of the blog where all the links are located) and answer them in-depth.  Make sure you answer these questions about your chosen novel - not just any book.

Format:

First and Last Name

Q: question one written out.
A: answer to question one

Q: question two written out
A: answer to question two

Due: Monday February 4^th by midnight

Notes: Review grading rubric (my advice to you: edit, edit, edit). Don’t forget to COMMENT on the prompt and to RESPOND to a peers comment. You might comment on similarities and/or differences between your answers or comment on some element of their answer that is unique and interesting to you. These are only suggestions, though.

Fourth Period - BQ 2: The Protagonist

Note: BEFORE doing this assignment, you must have read the first two chapters of your novel. (The first few pages of a novel won’t tell you very much about your protagonist – two chapters will.)

• Review my grading standards before posting. Remember, once you hit submit, it is final.
• Don't forget to put your first and last name at the top of your post and to comment on another classmate's post. 
• Comments should focus on similarities or differences you perceive between your protagonist and your classmate's protagonist or something that intrigues you about your classmate's protagonist.

Prompt:

Answer the following questions in paragraph form – no need to separate each answer by a space.

1) Who is the protagonist of your novel? (name, two characteristics, and his or her occupation [student, detective, etc.])

2) What is one thing you and the protagonist have in common?

3) What is one way in which you and the protagonist differ?

4) What is one quote spoken by your protagonist that you think represents them well from what you’ve read?

Due: Friday February 1 at midnight

Second Period - BQ2: The Protagonist

Note: BEFORE doing this assignment, you must have read the first two chapters of your novel. (The first few pages of a novel won’t tell you very much about your protagonist – two chapters will.)

• Review my grading standards before posting. Remember, once you hit submit, it is final.
• Don't forget to put your first and last name at the top of your post and to comment on another classmate's post. 
• Comments should focus on similarities or differences you perceive between your protagonist and your classmate's protagonist or something that intrigues you about your classmate's protagonist.

Prompt:

Answer the following questions in paragraph form – no need to separate each answer by a space.

1) Who is the protagonist of your novel? (name, two characteristics, and his or her occupation [student, detective, etc.])

2) What is one thing you and the protagonist have in common?

3) What is one way in which you and the protagonist differ?

4) What is one quote spoken by your protagonist that you think represents them well from what you’ve read?

Due: Friday February 1 at midnight

First Period - BQ 2: The Protagonist

Note: BEFORE doing this assignment, you must have read the first two chapters of your novel. (The first few pages of a novel won’t tell you very much about your protagonist – two chapters will.)

• Review my grading standards before posting. Remember, once you hit submit, it is final.
• Don't forget to put your first and last name at the top of your post and to comment on another classmate's post. 
• Comments should focus on similarities or differences you perceive between your protagonist and your classmate's protagonist or something that intrigues you about your classmate's protagonist.

Prompt:

Answer the following questions in paragraph form – no need to separate each answer by a space.

1) Who is the protagonist of your novel? (name, two characteristics, and his or her occupation [student, detective, etc.])

2) What is one thing you and the protagonist have in common?

3) What is one way in which you and the protagonist differ?

4) What is one quote spoken by your protagonist that you think represents them well from what you’ve read?

Due: Friday February 1 at midnight

Discovering Subtext Questions

Discovering Subtext Questions

These questions will help you start analyzing your novel.

 

Characters

• Who are the main characters in your book and what is their function? Why are they the main characters? 
•  How do they change and how does their change affect the other characters/story line?
• What is their flaw? What does that flaw say about the human condition?
• What gender, age, and race are the characters? Does the genetic make-up of the characters tell us something about a point the author is trying to make?
• Who is the antagonist? Why are they in the novel? Why are they portrayed the way they are? How do they act as a foil character?
• What is the protagonist good at? What does he or she like to do? How is he or she challenged? How does he or she grow/is he or she challenged?
• Look at what the characters do. Then, ask yourself this: what would make YOU act the way they did?

Setting

• Where is your story taking place? What is the time period? How do these two things affect your reading of the story? 
• Does the setting help you relate to the story better or worse?
• Why does the story take place when and where it does?

Conflict

• What is the conflict? Why did the author choose to focus on this conflict?
•  Consider the conflict. If the conflict had been different, would the ending have been different? Why did the author choose to end the story how he or she did?
• What does the conflict tell us about our lives?

Other Elements

• What symbolism occurs in the story? 
• What imagery is present? How does this help you read, interpret, and understand the story?
• Are any themes blatantly obvious? (war, friendship, love, prejudice, change, etc.) How does the author shape this theme? What is the author trying to say about this theme?
•  From which point of view is the narrator speaking? How does this affect your reading? How does this point of view shape the story?