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8th Grade Summer Reading Outline

Print Three!

Due Dates and Requirements: Completed outlines for the three novels are to be brought to school on Tuesday, August 6th, 2019.

• Your outline must be completed in its entirety. Be sure to provide textual evidence to support your thoughts and ideas. The outline will be used to write a literary analysis.

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| |Title: |

| |Author: |

| |Biographical information about the author – State at least five facts you have found either from the book or through Internet research.|

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| |MLA Citation: |

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| |Characters: Round characters - A round character is a major character in a work of fiction that encounters conflict and is changed by |

| |it. Round characters tend to be more fully developed and described than flat or minor characters. Flat characters - A flat character is|

| |a minor character in a work of fiction that does not tend to undergo substantial emotional change or growth. Flat characters are also |

| |referred to as "two-dimensional characters." They are the opposite of round characters. |

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| |LIST AND DESCRIBE THE MAIN, ROUND CHARACTERS IN THE NOVEL. (NOT MORE THAN 4) ALSO, IDENTIFY THE PROTAGONIST(S) AND THE ANTAGONIST(S). |

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| |Setting: There are four major components to the setting. Identify and describe each of the following: |

| |Time frame: When is this all happening? Is it set in the past, the present, or future? |

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| |Location: Where does it take place? |

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| |Is the setting integral (essential to the story) or backdrop (the story could take place anywhere)? How can you tell? |

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| |Physical description of the setting |

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| |Time management: Does time go fast or slow in the novel- what period of time does the story take place over. Does the author use |

| |flashbacks? If so, what for? |

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| |Conflict: Most stories are built around a central conflict, or struggle between opposing forces. Usually there is one central conflict|

| |in a story. Many stories, however, have more than one struggle. Stories can involve two types of conflict: |

| |External (interpersonal) conflict: in the form of another character (man vs. man), society (man vs. society), nature (man vs. nature), |

| |or something that the character has little control over (man vs. fate). |

| |Internal conflict involves the character’s struggle within him/herself (man vs. self). |

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| |Identify and describe in detail the conflict(s) in this story. |

| |Internal or External. If External, which type. |

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|5. |Point of View: refers to who narrates a story and how much that narrator knows. In a story told from the first-person point of view, |

| |the writer chooses to have a character within the story narrate it, using the first-person pronouns I and me. This method of |

| |storytelling lets the reader see and know only what that character, the narrator, sees and knows. In a story told from the third-person|

| |point of view, the narrator is not a story participant. Third-person narrators can be classified as omniscient or limited, depending on|

| |how much they know. In the omniscient point of view, the narrator is all-knowing and so can describe every character’s thoughts. By |

| |contrast, a narrator in a third-person limited point of view possesses limited knowledge, often confined to one or two characters. |

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| |What is the point of view in the novel? |

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| |How do you know this? |

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| |Why do you think that the writer choose a specific narrator or view? |

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|6. |Theme: is the story’s central idea. Theme differs from the subject of a story in that the theme is a message about life or human nature|

| |that a writer wants to convey. Themes can be directly stated (explicit), but more often readers must infer (implicit) themes from clues|

| |in the key story elements, such as: |

| |The story title |

| |How the characters change and the lessons they learn about life |

| |Conflicts in story action |

| |Words or phrases that express important ideas such as courage or freedom |

| |Remember: Themes are stated in sentences because they are messages that the writer wants to get across. Single words such as “death” |

| |are topics. You need to ask yourself, “What message about “death” is the writer trying to convey?” in order to come up with a possible |

| |theme. |

| |Use a chart like the one below to gather the clues that help reveal a story’s theme. |

| |List the Key Elements: |

| |What Clues do you gain from the specific elements: |

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| |Title |

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| |Characters |

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| |Conflict |

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| |Words and Phrases |

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| |Possible theme(s): |

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