Third Quarter Independent Reading Group Project



Quarter 2 Read Group Poster Project

Literary Analysis

This project will involve six parts (please read the directions FROM START TO FINISH):

1. Essential Question: First your group will come up with the essential question of the novel – a question posed that is the most important to the story. Spend about 30 minutes sharing insight into the novel. Then formulate one question for the group. You will then answer this question in a well-developed, multi-paragraph, written response (one page typed, single spaced, double spaced between paragraphs.) Please include the question at the top of the page, bold and centered. This should be mounted on construction paper that matches the spot of color and posted on the back of the poster board (see below).

Sample “essential questions”:

• Why do humans strive for peace in times of conflict?

• Are first impressions important?

Your question should be INSPIRED by the novel you read. What is a question that your group believes is worthy of contemplation/analysis? If stuck consider how the following topics were addressed in your novel and try to formulate your essential question from there:

-Gender

-Class/Wealth

-Freedom

-Justice

-Relationships (family, friends, love interests)

-Change/Growth

2. Illustration: On the provided poster board, illustrate an aspect of the story that spotlights one essential story element (plot, character, setting, theme, point of view, symbol). The entire illustration must be black and white (pencil/ink/shading) with a single spot of color representing a prevalent theme from your book.

3. Explain Illustration/Color Choice: On the back of the poster board/illustration, provide a paragraph explaining your illustration. The paragraph explains the illustration and use color.

(Night example: To represent the memoir, you could draw a flame to represent fire as a significant symbol from the plot, and color the center of the flame RED. The color red would then be used throughout your poster, and could represent the cruel abuse of power that led to death during the Holocaust.)

Directions for presentation:

- Paragraph is typed, single spaced (your choice of font and size)

- Back this with construction paper that matches the spot of color from the illustration.

- At the top of the paper, include the title – Illustration – bold and centered.

4. Thematic Statement: Using examples from the book, write a four SEE-Set paragraph supporting a theme from your novel. This will include a thematic statement followed by evidence for support. Hint: You thematic statement could be the answer to your Essential Question.

Directions for presentation:

- Details are typed, single spaced but double spaced between each detail

(your choice of font and size)

- Back this with construction paper that matches the spot of color from the illustration.

- At the top of the paper, include the title –Thematic Statement—bold and centered.

5. Imitation as Inspiration:

Steps:

1. Identify a sentence or short paragraph from your Quarter 2 Read novel that, for whatever reason, strikes you as particularly powerful.

2. Read the short excerpt several times, generating a list of stylistic features that characterize the writer’s voice.

3. Create an original sentence/short paragraph that imitates the author’s writing style/voice. Your sentence or paragraph can be about ANY school appropriate topic as long as it represents the style of writing.

Directions for presentation:

- “Inspiration” sentence/paragraph and new “Imitation” sentence paragraph are typed, single spaced (your choice of font and size)

- Back this with construction paper that matches the spot of color from the illustration.

- At the top of the paper, include the title –Imitation as Inspiration– bold and centered.

Example:

Imitation as Inspiration

Inspiration: A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin.

Imitation (your original writing): An enthusiastic teacher, all in bright blue, with a large gradebook in his hand. A man with no book, and with broken pointers, and with an old cast wrapped round his wrist. A man who had been stained with dry erase board markers, and covered in copy machine ink, and pinched by drawers, and cut by baper, and stung by staples, and torn by pencil sharpeners; who jumped, and chattered, and giggled and gorped; and whose tongue walloped inside his mouth as he seized me by the brain.

6. MLA HEADING: On the back of the poster board, in the upper left corner, include MLA Heading. Be sure to use the first and last names of each group member (in alphabetical order based on last name).

Directions for presentation:

- Heading is typed, double spaced

(your choice of font and size)

- Bold the last names of each group member.

- Back this with construction paper that matches the spot of color from the illustration.

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Check Boxes When Each Component is Completed

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