Independent+Reading

Before Reading: Target: Use before reading strategies to preview online books.

Go to the Grand Island Public Library Homepage GI Library Click Tumblereaders for Teens

== **Instructions**: Find at least 5 books that you would like to read. You can choose from Teen Fiction, Classics, or Graphic Novels. Try to include at least one book from Teen Fiction and one Graphic Novel. ==

Use this graphic organizer to record your thoughts about the books from the website.

During Reading: Target: Use during reading strategies to analyze the text. This will help you reach a deeper level of understanding.

Download this document and save it in your independent reading folder. You will use this document while you read your choice books.

After Reading: Target: Use after reading strategies to help you think about what you just read.

Go to the discussion board and respond to one of the prompts. Remember to respond in five or more complete sentences. Put the title of the book in the subject line. You will respond to each prompt at least once.

INDEPENDENT READING PROJECT

**New options for IR Projects** Write a paper describing the goals, dreams, and motives behind a main character in the novel. 5 Paragraph essay Include specific examples from the book Explain how you know the goals, dreams, and motives

Write a scene that could have happened in the book, but didn’t. Explain the effect it would have had on the novel. Written in narrative format Write the explanation on a separate sheet of paper Use the SEE formate for the explanation

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Create a photo presentation that captures the main events of the novel. Create a soundtrack that could be used if the novel were ever produced as a movie. <span style="color: #ff5b00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Bonus points to actually make the CD and play it for the class <span style="color: #ff5b00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Explain each song choice and the events in the book that match the song

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Pick the ten most significant quotes and explain why they are so crucial to the novel as a whole. <span style="color: #ff5b00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Use examples from the text to explain why they are so crucial

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">List and explain three symbols and three themes that you noticed throughout your novel. <span style="color: #ff5b00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Use examples from the text to explain symbols and themes

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Gather a large collection of current events that reflect incidents that closely parallel the novel. <span style="color: #ff5b00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Print articles <span style="color: #ff5b00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Point out connections between the events and the text

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Think about the kinds of mementos you would put in a scrapbook for your character, cutting out pictures from magazines or drawing the mementos he/she would have in a scrapbook—and create the scrapbook. <span style="color: #ff5b00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Write an explanation of your choices

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Write a diary that one of the story’s main characters might have kept before, during, or after the book’s events. Remember that the character’s thoughts and feelings are very important in a diary. <span style="color: #ff5b00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Must include 5 diary entires <span style="color: #ff5b00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1 before the book starts <span style="color: #ff5b00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1 during the book <span style="color: #ff5b00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">1 after the book <span style="color: #ff5b00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">2 other entires <span style="color: #ff5b00; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Present the entries in logical time order to follow the book.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Create a personality folder for a colorful character in the novel. Using a file folder, create a montage of pictures portraying the character’s personality on one side. On the other side write a detailed explanation of the illustrations/pictures.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Create a Board Game based on this book. For your presentation, you will explain the game to us. Then we will put it out as a free time activity.

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