DUE Monday June 14th
- Which two titles from our Must Read list are you considering and why?
- You may select any two titles, even if they're titles you did not review for our In-Class Activity.
- State what you admire in each category: art, story, characters, and tone of the book.
- For each of your books, find a review somebody else has written about the book, cite a quote from their review in your report.
- Use good grammar, write in complete sentences.
- Your report for each book may be short, approx. 6-12 sentences per book including your outside source quote. You'll probably have anywhere from 2/3 a page to a full page of writing.
- You may use bullet-points to write your likes and dislikes.
- Minimum 1-page of your writing
- Maximum 2-pages of your writing
- Times or Times New Roman font, 12 point, double-spaced
- Remember, whatever you write here, you can “scaffold up” and use this 1st Report for your upcoming June 24th Mid-Term paper.
FAQs
Do I need to have read the book or both books to do this report? No, you need not have read the books yet. But think of this as a "report about a review." You're reading somebody else's opinions about the book, and you're reporting on that. Another way to think about this: if you see the book cover, the art, and know a little about the story, just based on that, would you or wouldn't you want to read this book and why? A quick review based on what you have seen about the material, but you have not yet read the book.
Is this a full book review? No, you're writing a report without having read the book yourself. But, use somebody else's full review to help support your own opinions about the book.
Do I need to use outside sources in this 1st Report? To earn the full 25 points, you need one outside source for your 1st book, and a separate outside source for your 2nd book. If you do not use another person's quote/opinion about the book, you're looking at a 20/25 at most for this work. See below.
Worth 25-points
Weighted ×5, earning a 5 earns you a 25 (5×5=25).
- a
5 is excellent (5×5=25), for writing that addressed your likes/dislikes
of art, story, characters, and tone, and you have little to no
spelling/grammar issues, complete and appropriate use of borrowed
information (state where you found your direct quote)
- if a 4 (4×5=20), it's above average, addresses most of the topics or maybe does so incompletely, with some spelling/grammar issues, incomplete or no use of borrowed information
- a 3 (3×5=15) isn't awful, but it only addresses some of the topics, with frequent spelling/grammar issues, missing a majority of borrowed information and incomplete borrowed information, doesn't meet the page count requirement
- you score a 2 (2×5=10) because it might have very little content addressed, too many spelling/grammar issues, lacks borrowed information, doesn't meet the page count requirement
- earning a 1–0 (1×5=5 or 0×5=0) is for unsatisfactory, incomplete, or inappropriate work, zero (0) no work, doesn't meet the page count requirement