Outside Reading Topics
Choose one of the following prompts and respond. Your answer should be about a page in length. You may repeat each prompt only once a month (wait three weeks before you can do the same prompt again).
1. Character attributes paragraph: In a well-developed paragraph, give a full description of a prominent character from the novel. Use quotes, and be sure to include character traits, opinions and actions not just physical description.
2. Emotional response: Copy a passage from the book that made you feel a strong emotion. What emotion did you feel? Why do you think the passage made you feel? Was it the writing style, plot, or something else the author did? Do you like reading stories that bring you in emotionally or does that make you uncomfortable?
3. Dialectical response: Pull a quote or passage from the book and respond to it. Tie the quote to your life. Tell a story about a time when you experienced something similar to one of the characters. If you disagree with or do not believe something in the book, then explain your opinion using evidence from your life or the world around you (friends, family, media, etc.)
4. Journal Entry: As a character from your story, write a journal entry describing what is going on in your life. Discuss in detail how you are feeling, your thoughts on the future, your fears, and your dreams.
5. Become one of the characters in the book and write a letter or poem from that character’s point of view.
6. Illustrate a scene or draw a map or symbol that reflects your book. Briefly explain your illustration.
7. Comment on the author’s technique: choice of words or the way he/she tells a story. Do you admire the way the author writes? Why or why not?
8. Before you finish the book, make a prediction about how you think it will end. What makes you think it might end this way?
9. Find and read a review of the book you are reading and discuss your reaction to it.
10. Describe a character in your book… from the perspective of another character.
11. What is the primary problem in the story? How did the character solve or respond to the problem? How would you have responded to it? Would there have been different consequences?
12. Have you read any other books by the author you are now reading? If yes, how does this one compare? Are their similarities? Differences?
13. After you finish the book, describe what you think will happen next with the principal characters. What evidence did you use from what you read to help you make your prediction?
14. Did the book have a special message or “truth” that affected you? Will you make any changes to your life as a result of that? Explain.
15. Would you like the protagonist for a friend? Parent? Teacher? Enemy? Tell why or why not?
16. What would it be like if the protagonist in your book came to Samohi for a day? What if you walked a day in the shoes of the protagonist. Explain what you think that day would be like.
17. Describe how the protagonist changed from the beginning of the book to the end.
18. Write a personal entry about a concern, idea, success, or situation in your life now. (maximum 1 per novel)
DUE EVERY FRIDAY!!!
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