Questions to answer for YA Lit Unit

After reading your novels, I'd like to hear your thoughts on the following questions. Create a new post for each answer. To receive credit for your answers, include the title and author of the novel, and type your first name only. You may create up to 4 posts for extra credit:

• What was the author's purpose for writing this novel? What are the author’s possible social motives for telling this story? To illustrate a point? Dramatize a problem? Impress an audience? Something else? How are these motives illustrated through character’ thoughts, conversations, and other behaviors?

• How is my understanding of this text shaped by my own social attitudes, values, and experiences? By others’ reactions?

• How do I feel about these characters? Close or distant? How do they feel about each other and about themselves? Did my relationships with certain characters change in the course of the story? Why?

• What is my overall reaction to this text as I read? Do I feel detached? Spellbound? Skeptical? Trusting? Fulfilled? What are the sources of this reaction?

Blog Etiquette for Ms. Heiss' YA Lit Unit

Blogs can be a fun way to think about what you've been reading. Here are some basic guidelines for posting on a blog:

• Use appropriate language. No profanity or personal attacks.
• Identify the book and title you are discussing.
• List your first name only to receive credit for your responses. Do not give out personal information such as your name, email, telephone number, or location.
• Responding to each other's posts is what makes blogs interesting. You may disagree with what the person is saying, but do so with respect.

Please join this discussion and respond as many times as you would like to. Individual responses are graded on a 10 point scale: 10 point responses will answer one of the questions posed completely, use standard conventions of English, give specific examples from your text, and show that you have given the question some critical thought.

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