Independent Reading - English Language Arts - Level 2

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Reading Response - Connect and Dream


Make connections and point to what's important.

Read half-way through your book, and stop 2 or 3 times to write about your book in the same Doc:

  • Say how a part of your book is similar to or different from something in your life or that you've seen in the news.
  • Write about a theme in your book or a hard-to-answer question. Speculate about the answers.

Use Guides: Responding to Lit. Post this as a Discussion.

Your goal is to finish your book or article(s) before the 3 Tasks of this Challenge are completed.

You can do this in one sitting or you can do it 4 times for thirty minutes each time or 6 times for twenty minutes each. But it has to be focused, uninterrupted reading. No multi-tasking during your reading time. 

After you've read your book or your article for at least 2 hours open a Google Document and plan to write for about 30 minutes.

Begin by freewriting about your text. Write non-stop for 5 or ten minutes about anything that comes into your head about your book or article.

Then turn to the Literature Response Guides or to this guide, "General Response to a Non-Fiction Article.

Share your Doc with a teacher and a couple of peers, and ask them to make a couple of comments. Do not publish it on Youth Voices yet until you have read half of your book and written about it 2 or 3 times. Also make your document public.

In the Post Comment button here (on P2PU) add a link to your discussion post on Youth Voices. Do this before you click Yes, I'm done .

Although it's important to understand what the literature guides are asking for, we encourage students to break out of the overly structured guides and create your own kinds of response.

However, we do ask you to keep in mind the following guidelines:

  1. Begin by doing a freewrite: your first thoughts about this section of the book or article. You'll need to revise this writing before you publish it on Youth Voices.
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  2. Be specific about your response to your reading, and give an example from the text. Quote from the text.
     
  3. Quote a second section from the text when you make connections, ask questions, track elements of the text, or compare it to other things.
     
  4. End by predicting what you think might happen next, and say how you feel about continuing your reading

Task Discussion


  • Deanf said:

     

    Journal 1.9.13

     

    Today in my journal entry, I’m going to tell something about myself. As of now, I’m 19 years old and still trying to finish high school. That’s something I’m not so proud of, but things happen. The good part about it is, I’m still here and still trying my best to finish. The main part of this journal entry is to tell you about my future.

     

    My plans for the future jumps around and seems to be kind of a blur to my own vision. My plans at the moment are to enlist in the navy after I graduate from here. Only to get away from the streets, and to better my life. I want to provide a better life me and my family. My family means everything to me. My family consist of me, my mother, sister, and my girlfriend whom I love so dearly

     

    I hope to eventually engage to my girlfriend, and soon after that get married. After I complete my training for the navy. I would like for her to come and stay with me. Then together we will plan and work on a better life for the two of us and possibly a third party to our new small family. If this is the path I choose. I hope it works out for me and I will continue to strive for the best, for me and my love ones.

     

    If that path does not come into play as I would like it to. I would like to go to college and still work on a better future for me and my love ones. My gym instructor told me about a college that is looking for new athletes for their college team. She promised to look further more into that for me. I am really interested in that path also. To play for a college team was always a big dream for me. If that is The path I happen to consider I will strive for the best and hopefully get into the N.B.A.

    on Jan. 9, 2013, 10:58 a.m.

  • karina said:

    Something Girl is scared!

    on Dec. 19, 2012, 12:29 p.m.

  • Anthonyf said:

     

       
    The Night We Became People Again: Our Busy Lives | The story,“The Night We Became People Again” reminds me about how busy our lives are and we never have time for our family and just to love everyone around us and be proud of who we are and all that... Added on Thursday, December 6, 2012 - 11:06, with 0 comment(s)
    on Dec. 6, 2012, 11:08 a.m.

  • ZoeC said:

    http://youthvoices.net/discussion/life-funny

    on Nov. 7, 2012, 7:15 p.m.