Summer Reading Blog Post #3

Poetic Pondering… Response Three (10 points)
**Remember - creativity and originality count in order to receive full credit for each response!  Your response should not be similar to any others posted by your classmates!**

First, list your novel’s title and the motif on which you will focus. Then,  select words, lines, and phrases from the novel that you think project strong images and relate specifically to the chosen motif. Arrange these lines and phrases into a "found" poem that is at least ten lines long.

EXAMPLE: from Spite Fences by Trudy Krisher (1994, Delacorte):

Fist slammed into George Hardy’s face

Glasses slid to his chin

Shattered into a spider’s web.

River of red blood

Running from his nose.

It was the red color of the fence

The red color of the earth

on which I stood

It was red

The color of my life this summer

The color of Kinship.

Summer Reading Blog Post #2

Drama! … Response Two (10 points)

**Remember - creativity and originality count in order to receive full credit for each response!  Your response should not be similar to any others posted by your classmates!**

First, list your novel’s title and the character on whom you will focus.  Then, select an event in the story that is crucial to the development of the plot. Choose one character’s opinion about the event and write about it in the form of monologue (one person talking to him or herself). Your monologue should be a minimum of ten lines long and the character chosen should be different from the character chosen for the first blog post.

Summer Reading Blog Post #1

For the Life of A Child… Response One (10 points)

**Remember - creativity and originality count in order to receive full credit for each response!  Your response should not be similar to any others posted by your classmates!**

First, list your novel’s title and the adult character on whom you will focus.  Then, try to determine what he or she would have been like as a child. Write one brief story (at least one full paragraph) from his or her childhood to give the reader an understanding of why a character thinks or acts as he or she does in the novel. Be creative and specific! Your story should be in line with the book’s overall theme and the events and character traits evident in your character's life as an adult.

BONUS (2 points): Explain how this incident affected the character through the course of the novel.