Independent Reading Log January 2018--3 15 pts. Date _________________________ Start Page ____________________
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Diction, metaphor, font—all are writer’s tools. Characters can also be used as tools. Some characters, like Pastor Dan, for instance, may function mainly to move the plot along. Pastor Dan acts a catalyst. Without him, it is unlikely that Lev advances on his journey of personal growth. Other characters may deliver important information. Shusterman uses CyFi to add to the unwind rules—e.g., people can typically only receive brain bits; money allows a privileged few to circumvent the rules. Still others are used to develop other, more important characters. Choose a character in your book who is NOT a protagonist or anatagonist. Write a THESIS that advances a claim about that character’s function in the text. _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ • • • • • •
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Did you include the book’s title? Did you underline the book’s title? Did you include the author’s full name? Did you pin down a character at work in the text? Is your description of the character (tool) precise? Do you pin down an effect of the tool? (the precise function of the character?)
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Is your description of the effect precise? Is thesis written exclusively in third-person? Do you use nouns before introducing pronouns? Did you adhere to the conventions—e.g., start sentences with capital letters; end with periods?
Provide no more than two sentences of context that helps the reader better understand and appreciate the evidence. _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ • • • •
Did you provide 1-2 sentences in your own words (context)? Is your context limited to 1-2 sentences? Does your context provide information that is essential or valuable in helping the reader understand/appreciate the evidence? Does your context avoid redundancy?
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Is the language of your context specific and precise? Did you maintain third-person language in context? Is the context written exclusively in third-person? Do you use nouns before introducing pronouns? Did you adhere to the conventions—e.g., start sentences with capital letters; end with periods?
Provide quoted evidence that supports your claim ____________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ • • • • • • •
Did you enclose your evidence in quotation marks? Wherever your book uses quotation marks (dialogue) did you insert additional ‘ ’? Did you spell ALL the words in evidence correctly? Do you identify the page number on which you found your evidence? Did you place the page number ONLY inside of parentheses at the end of the evidence? Did you place your period—not inside the quotation marks—but after the ( )? Did you limit yourself to TWO sentences of evidence and/or the words of one speaker ONLY
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ONE MORE TIME… Choose a character in your book who is NOT a protagonist or antagonist AND about whom you did not write in your last log entry. Write a THESIS that advances a claim about that character’s function in the text. _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ • • • • • •
Did you include the book’s title? Did you underline the book’s title? Did you include the author’s full name? Did you pin down a character at work in the text? Is your description of the character (tool) precise? Do you pin down an effect of the tool? (the precise function of the character?)
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Is your description of the effect precise? Is thesis written exclusively in third-person? Do you use nouns before introducing pronouns? Did you adhere to the conventions—e.g., start sentences with capital letters; end with periods?
Provide no more than two sentences of context that helps the reader better understand and appreciate the evidence. _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________
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Did you provide 1-2 sentences in your own words (context)? Is your context limited to 1-2 sentences? Does your context provide information that is essential or valuable in helping the reader understand/appreciate the evidence? Does your context avoid redundancy?
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Is the language of your context specific and precise? Did you maintain third-person language in context? Is the context written exclusively in third-person? Do you use nouns before introducing pronouns? Did you adhere to the conventions—e.g., start sentences with capital letters; end with periods?
Provide quoted evidence that supports your claim ____________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ • • • • • • •
Did you enclose your evidence in quotation marks? Wherever your book uses quotation marks (dialogue) did you insert additional ‘ ’? Did you spell ALL the words in evidence correctly? Do you identify the page number on which you found your evidence? Did you place the page number ONLY inside of parentheses at the end of the evidence? Did you place your period—not inside the quotation marks—but after the ( )? Did you limit yourself to TWO sentences of evidence and/or the words of one speaker ONLY
