Welcome to the MMS Summer Reading page! Here you can post reactions to the summer list, tell us what you’re reading, and see which hot books everyone’s talking about!

Posted: June 19th, 2008 under school.
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For each book read, you must respond to at least two of the following questions:

1. Select a quote from the book and relate it to yourself, to another text, or to the world.

2. How are your feelings and the feelings of a character in your book alike? How are they different?

3. What literary techniques did you find? flashback? foreshadowing? figurative language? Find examples of two of these techniques and share.

4. Did the author create different moods? Find passages in the text that reveal two different moods and share. Point out the words, phrases, and actions that helped create the mood.

5. How does the title relate to the story?

6. Why did you select this book?

7.  Did this book change your thinking in any way? How?

8. What is the conflict in the book and how is it resolved?

9. What problem(s) do you and the main character or a minor character have in common? Compare the way you deal with these problems to the way the character dealt with them.

10. Find a quote and explain how it connects to a theme, event, or character in the book.

11. After reading this book, are there any lingering questions you still have about any aspect of the book?

Posted: June 17th, 2008 under Blog Questions.
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