CHOOSE FICTION

Write the one sentence that you

think is the most meaningful in
3 After you’ve finished reading the short story or novel chapter,
complete three of the following tasks on a separate sheet of paper:

Write a sentence of 25 words

the entire story/chapter.
Defend your choice.
1 2
In the voice of the narrator, write
a diary entry from the day after
the last event of this
story/chapter occurred.
or fewer that clearly and boldly
Imagine you are an
editor assigned to
states the theme of this story/ give this text a
Write an
chapter. Then, describe three new title. What
explanation
specific elements from the text title would
that would
that support your theme. you create?
convince your
boss that your
title is the right one
for this story/chapter.
3
What is one choice a character If something in this story reminds
made in this text that you would you of a song, poem, film, or
change? How would this different other piece of media, describe
choice alter the path of the story? the connection. Include as much
detail about the related work
as you can to help your reader
understand the connection.

4 5
If you could interview the author, Write a paragraph of at least
what three questions would you five sentences that could be
ask? seamlessly inserted into the
story/chapter. Be sure to include
a paragraph number and/or
explanation to show where your
passage could be stitched into
the text.
7 8
If you could interview one of the Which character changes the
characters, which one would you most over the course of the short
choose? Write three questions story or the novel so far? Defend
related to the events of the story/ your choice with specific details
chapter that you would ask that from the text.
character.
10 11
6
Create a Venn diagram to
compare/contrast this text with
a different story we’ve read
this year. Your diagram needs
nine distinct entries. Explain
the significance of the three
similarities. Previous
1 1 1 text
Today’s text 2 2 2
3 3 3
Similarities
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Choose three high-level
vocabulary words from the text
and write them on your paper.
Based on their usage, write a
guess as to their meaning. Look
up the words in a dictionary and
write the actual defintion. Was
your guess correct? Finally, write
a new sentence correctly using
each of the words.
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