[--: Friday Reading Professions :--]

Notebook of journals on your outside reading.

Always head each entry with :Title, Author, Number of pages you have read since your last profession

Date

Topic
1-9-04 Based on what you read, what inferences can you draw about the author. (Do not give biographical accounts -- draw conclusions based on the theme, characters, plot and conflicts).
1-16-04

Seniors:

  1. Use the words “tension” and “combined”
  2. Talk about how what you read this week deals with love and death
  3. Relate a personal experience that this week’s reading reminded you of…

Freshmen:

  1. How did what you read this week relate to anything in the news?
  2. Needs to include either the word "epic" or "hero"
  3. Connect it to someone you know who is a hero
1-23-04

Seniors and Freshmen

  1. Compare the setting of the book to this school or your own house.
  2. Compare a character in the book to someone you know personally
  3. Use the words "family," "destiny," and "time"
01-30-04

Seniors and Freshmen

  1. Relate something in your book to Eatonville
  2. Think of another author (Shakespeare, Vonnegut, Doglas Adams, Stephen King, etc). How would your book be different if that person wrote it?
  3. Turn your book into a haiku:

Example: STAR WARS

Consumed by hatred,

A young boy becomes a man,

Seeking redemption.
2-6-04

Which one of the following shapes is your book most like and why?

 
2-13-04

If your book were a teenager...

  1. What clothes would it wear?
  2. What music would it listen to?
  3. What grades would it get in school?

Support with details.
2-20-04 If your book were a full course meal, what would it be like (a candlelight dinner with strolling violinists under a cloudless moonlight sky with a gorgeous date in a diaphanous gown gazing longingly into your eyes, sighing and speaking that international language, the language of...oops, sorry. Became a romance novelist for a second. You get the picture.) Support with details from the book.
2-27-04 1 noun and 2 Adjectives describing the book
3-26 Compare setting of Brazil or Sam's dreams to a character in your book -- Freshmen -- talk a bout a crime a character in your book has committed
4-2-04 Three facts about author
4-9 Compare an event or character in Gulliver to an event or character in your book -- Freshmen -- compare Doodle to a character in your book