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1- First Impressions ~Why did you chose this book? What caught your attention? Have you ever read anything by this author before? Anything in this genre? 2- Characterization ~ What clues do you have to a character's personality? Do you like the character? Why? ~ What do you think the character will do? ~What are the character's problems?~ How will they be solved? What would you differently? ~ What feelings are you experiencing as you read? How did you feel when something happened to the character? How would it feel to be one of the characters? ~ What personal experiences have you had that helps you to better understand these characters? ~ What do you feel about this character? Setting? Incident? 3- Seeing the Storyworld ~ What impressions are you forming in your mind of the people and places in the story? What pictures do you have in your mind's eye? ~ Are you able to see in your mind the characters and the places of the text/story? Or only in some places (parts of the book)? Does seeing actual pictures in the etxt help you to make a mental picture? How and when does the clarity of your visualization change? Where are you seeing the story from? What sort of vantage point or perspecticve do you seem to have? ~ As you read this story, do you see it happening in your imagination? Are you unaware of images, but seem to have a sense that you are 'seeing' it another way? Describe that way. ~ Where did the story take place?WHat was it like there? ~ Did it matter where the story happened or could it have happened anywhere? What did you think of the setting as you were reading? ~ How are the characters related to each other? To important objects? ~ What is the setting like? Can you describe it?If you were going to make a picture or a movie of a scene, where would you do it? What would you include? What sort of music would you play as a soundtrack? ~ What character interests you most? Is that character the most important? ~ Which characters didn't you like? Why? Bored you? ~Did you ever get to know what the characters were thinking about? Did you agree with what one character thought about another? Questions for 4-9 on "Notes 2" |