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to read You have real Independent Novel Study Choose a fictional story of at least 100 pages. It can be science fiction, romance, mystery, adventure or a biography. It can be a classic or current book. It must be a paper copy that you can show in class. You may select one of the following literary novels or another of your own choice: fiction Ocharacters The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Their Eves Were Watching God by Nora Hurston The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane House of Spirits by Isabel Allende Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquival Blindness by Jose Saramago The Fault in Our Stars by John Green The Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Mistress of Spices by Chitra Divakaruni The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 2). Setting 3. plot 4. theme s). Point of vie 1. Identify title (underline it), author, and copyright date of your novel. 2. Identify Publishing Company, Place of Publication (one city only) and Date of Publication (most recent date). 3. Write a short 1 or 2 paragraph biography of the author. Pick only 3 or 4 pieces of important information. 4. Study the Setting by telling where and when the story takes place. Next give two examples which show your where and when taken from your story. Remember, if you copy the examples, you must use quote marks and give the page number in parenthesis after the quote. Number them. 5. Name three important characters and in a few words identify their role in the story. 6. Describe a main character's thinking and feelings in the beginning of the story. Then explain what happened to the character and how the character has changed (in his/her heart and/or mind) by the end of the story. 7. Write a 2-3 paragraph summary of the story briefly discussing the characters, setting, and plot. Be sure to include situation at the beginning, several examples of rising action, and the conclusion. 8. Evaluate your novel by explaining what you liked about the story and what you didn't like. You must give examples from the story to explain your opinions. If your example is a quote, show page number in parenthesis (#) after your quote. You must give at least one negative and one positive evaluation. 9. Identify the theme of your story by answering one of the following questions: a. What is the meaning of the story? What can a reader learn from the story? b. What can you learn about what people do or what happens to people based on the experiences of the characters in this story? 10. Choose 10 college-level vocabulary words you found in your novel. Copy the sentence you found each in. Underline the word. Put quotation marks around the sentence and put the page number in parenthesis after the sentence. Identify the part of speech of your word as it was used in the sentence (N, V, Adj, or Adv). Write a short definition of the word as it was used in the sentence. See the example below: "A good example of his blustering spirit seemed to have evaporated.” (86) def: acting in a loud, boastful way, POS Adj Independent Reading Journal Purpose: Writing allows you to explore in greater depth your thoughts about what you read. Although discussion is helpful in checking your comprehension, writing is an important part of reading. It helps you "see" and thus better understand what you are thinking. Procedure: Choose 10 different reading selections in our Joining a Community of Readers textbook. Now follow the directions below for each journal entry. Ten entries are required. Journal Response Directions: 1. Copy a significant sentence from the reading you are responding to and put inside quotation marks. At the end of the quote, put in parenthesis the author's last name and page number where the quote was found. 2. Summarize the reading selection. Include title, author and thesis in your opening sentence. Then discuss the major and significant minor support the author gives for his thesis. (1 paragraph) 3. Compare what is said the reading to something that you know about. This could be something that happened to you or to someone you know. It could be something you heard about or saw on TV, or compare it to a film, play, story, or article you read. Maybe the messages or themes are similar. (1 paragraph) 4. Using critical thinking skills, describe your feelings or attitude (thoughts) about what you have read. For example, what conclusion do you make about what you have read? Do you agree with the writer's point of view or attitude about the topic? How did something you read from the reading selection make you feel? How can you use the information in the article to improve or change your life? (1 paragraph) Here is an example of a journal entry I made taken from a June 2005 Reader's Digest article. Journal Entry #1 1. "You can't define pork-barrel politics any better. Since 9/11, federal money for 'first responders' like local police, fire and emergency personnel has totaled more than $12 billion - and paid for lots of things that won't keep terrorists awake at night." (Berlau 108) 2. According to John Berlau in his article "Homeland Insecurity", billions of our homeland security tax dollars (FEMA) since 9/11 are being wasted and misspent funding many small community projects not related to disaster relief. Berlau sights multiple instances of little towns receiving multimillion dollar grants to purchase 10 air-conditioned garbage trucks (Newark, New Jersey) to $30,000 defibulators for high school basketball games in Lake County, Tennessee. Berlau feels part of the problem of the wasteful distribution of security tax dollars is because homeland security money is evenly distributed among the states and not focused on major cities. 3. I have seen many local projects in Cupertino collect lots of money because no one wanted to be responsible to just say no when it comes to spending the taxpayers' money. For example, the city is trying to develop a ditch behind my house as a possible nature path. They want to install paved walkways and lights along a very narrow, steep drainage ditch behind my back fence in order to offer the local community more access to nature. The real reason the City Planning Commission is pushing this project is because the money (taxpayer funds) has already been set aside by the Creek Management Commission. Think of all the misdirected taxpayer FEMA money being used for politician's pet projects (.e. pork-barreling), as in building a half-billion dollar bridge in Alaska to connect an island (population 60) to the mainland when the money could and should have been directed to strengthening the levees in New Orleans (population 600,000) 4. Developers and local politicians are constantly trying in Cupertino to find ways to spend public funds. It makes me angry that taxpayers have to be so much on guard to protect our interests against our own elected officials. These politicians seem to listen more to developers than to the people who elected them. I hate the fact that taxpayer money is seen as free money by politicians.
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Reading – The Great Gatsby Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby is a romance novel that was written by Scott Fitzgerald. The novel was
first published in 1925. The most recent publication of the novel was made in 2018 by Penguin
Books in New York. Fitzgerald was an American author and fictional writer. His works have
been identified in illustrations of the Jazz Age. Despite the fact that he never received much
acclaim during his lifetime, he is today considered to be one of the greatest American writers of
all time. Other popular novels or books that were written by Fitzgerald include The Beautiful and
the Damned, This Side of Paradise, and Tender is the Night. Each of these books have been
translated into many languages and this is an indication of the prowess of the author as a writer.
The setting of The Great Gatsby is in New York and Long Island. The two areas are
known as West Egg and East Egg respectively. Long Island was home to the rich and wealthy in
New York. The wealthy spent most of their time on leisure and do not care about how they are
socially perceived by other people.
The three major characters that I ...


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