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Home Reading Report Guide

This document outlines the requirements for a home reading report on a novel. Students must analyze the book through both a structuralism approach and critical approach. For the structuralism section, students must provide details on the title, characters, and plot elements. For the critical approach, students must answer 15 questions analyzing various aspects of the book like themes, characters, and how it compares to other works. The report is due by June 3rd and should be 8 to 15 pages using Arial 11 font on short bond paper.

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Home Reading Report Guide

This document outlines the requirements for a home reading report on a novel. Students must analyze the book through both a structuralism approach and critical approach. For the structuralism section, students must provide details on the title, characters, and plot elements. For the critical approach, students must answer 15 questions analyzing various aspects of the book like themes, characters, and how it compares to other works. The report is due by June 3rd and should be 8 to 15 pages using Arial 11 font on short bond paper.

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HOME READING REPORT FOR SUMMER 2019 LEVEL 10 ENTRY

I. ANALYSIS THROUGH THE STRUCTURALISM APPROACH.

Directions: Write a 5 to 10 sentence entry details for each of the following:

1. Title and Author


2. Setting and Characters
3. Elements of Plot

a. Exposition
b. Rising Action
c. Climax
d. Denouement
e. Resolution

II. ANALYSIS THROUGH CRITICAL APPROACH. Answer the ff. questions in 3 to 10 sentences:

1. How does the title relate to the book?


2. How believable are the characters? Which character do you identify with?
3. What makes the protagonist sympathetic, or unsympathetic?
4. Why do certain characters act the way they act? Does she have an ax to grind, a political ideology,
religious belief, or psychological disorder?
5. What does the character mean when he says "..."? How does the author use certain words and phrases
differently than we would normally use them? Does the author make up new words and, if so, why?
6. Are the plot and subplots believable and interesting? What loose ends, if any, did the author leave?
7. How is the book structured? Flashbacks? Multiple points of view? Why do you think the author chose to
write the book this way?
8. How does the arrangement of the book help or detract from the ideas it contains?
9. What types of symbolism do you find in this novel? What do these objects really represent? How do
characters react to and with these symbolic objects?
10. What themes - motherhood, self-discovery, wilderness - recur throughout the book?

Thinking outside the book

11. What is the author's worldview?


12. Does this book fit into or fight against a literary genre? Does this book typify a regional (southern,
western) novel?
13. Does the book address broader social issues? Does the author take a stance on, for example, anarchy
versus capitalism? How is a particular culture or subculture portrayed?
14. Where could the story go after the book ends? What is the future of these characters' lives? What would
our lives be like if we lived in this story?
15. How does this book compare to other books you've read? Would it make a good movie?

DEADLINE: JUNE 3, 2019

Paper: SHORT BOND PAPER

Font Size: Arial 11

No. of Pages: 8 to 15 pages

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