Writing Your First Book Review

Hey everyone. I hope you had a wonderful, reading-filled weekend.

Today you're going to write your first book review. 

BUT FIRST: A QUIZ

There are two questions today. So I'll give you ten minutes instead of seven. (And you all thought I was the mean one.)

Book reviews:

Today you will work to write a book review for your group novel OR your independent reading book. 

1. Write your book review in your English Journal. DO NOT move on to step two before finishing step one.
2. Log in to your Goodreads account
3. Find your book and click "edit review." (If you can't find it, ask someone at your table. If you're still stuck ask one of the adults.)
4. Rate your book. Copy and paste your book review into the box.
5. Make sure you hit "Save."

Novel Inferences

Happy Wednesday!

We will read at the bell.

Yesterday you practiced making inferences about characters with passages from other texts. Today you will be able to make inferences and discover more information about the characters from your own novel.

You will need to click on the link that corresponds to your own group below. It will open a view-only file. You have a couple choices:

• Have one person make a copy that you all share and work on together (remember that I can see who edits it and when!)
• Each person can make their own copy and you can work individually or with partners to choose passages and write descriptions.

No matter which option you choose, you must share it with me.

Period 4

Group ONE

Group TWO

Group THREE

Group FOUR

Group FIVE

Period 6

Group ONE

Group TWO

Group THREE

Group FOUR

Group FIVE

Group SIX

Moving Forward

Source: teenfictionbooks

Hello and welcome to your new seats!

Get comfortable. You're going to be here for a while.

No computers today. Weird, right?

Get your books out!

You've just joined a group that you're going to spend a lot of time with over the next few weeks.

• Introduce yourselves (make sure you know everyone's name).
• Together, create a list of books that you all have in common (meaning every single person at your table has read that book).

I'm going to be giving each table a list of books. 

1. Read the synopsis for each book on your synopsis sheet, and begin to explore which titles you are all interested in reading.
2. As a group, decide which book you will all read together.
3. We're going to the library to check them out (this is why you need your ID)

When you return from the library, discuss your reading schedule with your group. You will need to have your book completed by Monday, October 6th.