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8th Grade Language Arts 

8th Grade Language Arts

 

You should be reading a minimum of 75 pages per week for Personal Choice Reading.

 

Reading Responses are due every other week. They will be collected on Monday and are worth a grade! 

 

Read the assigned amount of pages (75) and complete one of the following prompts in response to the week’s reading. Your response must be answered in a paragraph of approximately 15 sentences. You may not answer the same question twice. Keep track because I check! Begin each response with the title of the book and author’s name in the first sentence of the paragraph.  

 

 Response Prompts for Fiction 

o   Copy down a quote from a character and tell why you think it is meaningful. What evidence from the text helped you know it was meaningful?

 

o   Describe your favorite part and explain why it was your favorite.

 

o   Make a prediction about what will happen in the story and give evidence to support why you are predicting this.

 

o   Write a letter to a character or the author.

 

o   Compare this book to another book you have read. How is it similar? How is it different?

 

o   Describe a turning point in the book. Why is this event an important part?

 

o   Pick a character and explain why you would or would not like to have them as a friend.

 

o   Why do you think the author wrote this book?

 

o   Pick an event in the book and explain why 2 different characters acted differently.

 

o   Describe a story problem that is important to all people, not just the characters in the book. 

Response Prompts for Non-fiction 

o   Explain why you chose to read this book.

 

 

 

o   What information in the book surprised you? Why?

 

 

 

o   What is the most interesting thing you have read? Why?

 

 

 

o   What text and graphic features does the author use in the book? How do these features help you understand better?

 

 

 

o   Summarize what you have read.

 

 

 

o   What question would you like to ask the author? Why?

 

 

 

o   Would you like to learn more about this topic? Why?

 

 

 

o   What is the reason the author wrote a book on this subject? What was his/her purpose?

 

 

 

o   Pick out a part where you feel the author has used great sensory details. Why were they so convincing?

 

 

 

o   To whom would you recommend this book? Why?