Independent Reading Portfolio
Making Connections - Describe a connection you made to another text, a personal experience/memory or a connection to a current event, news or historical event through reading your novel.
Symbolism - Identify, explore and illustrate an example of how the author uses an object or idea to represent something else in a figurative way.
Word Solve - Demonstrate how you were able to explore and deal with a word that has connotative meaning in terms of the context of your novel.
Conflict - Discuss the central conflict in your novel using the conflict word bank, and explore how conflict drives the plot.
Allusion - Identify and explore an example of where the author makes a reference to another text, a movie, a person, event, place, etc.
Foreshadowing/Flashback - identify and explore an example of who the author uses either foreshadowing or flashback in your novel.
Questioning - Explore a question you found yourself asking while reading your text, the answers you came to and explain the process you used to discover them.
Motif - Identify a recurring theme, symbol, allusion, metaphor or verbal pattern within the text.
*Instructions: 1. Define Motif in your own words.
2. Choose an anchor passage and copy it out.
3. Write at least 1/2 page, typed, single-spaced explaining the motif and its importance to your novel.
4. Create a Word Collage (example in the PowerPoint).
Socio-Cultural Context - Explore the social and historical context of your novel, paying close attention to key events or happenings that influence the author, characters or plot; use at least three pages from your novel as evidence.
Symbolism - Identify, explore and illustrate an example of how the author uses an object or idea to represent something else in a figurative way.
Word Solve - Demonstrate how you were able to explore and deal with a word that has connotative meaning in terms of the context of your novel.
Conflict - Discuss the central conflict in your novel using the conflict word bank, and explore how conflict drives the plot.
Allusion - Identify and explore an example of where the author makes a reference to another text, a movie, a person, event, place, etc.
Foreshadowing/Flashback - identify and explore an example of who the author uses either foreshadowing or flashback in your novel.
Questioning - Explore a question you found yourself asking while reading your text, the answers you came to and explain the process you used to discover them.
Motif - Identify a recurring theme, symbol, allusion, metaphor or verbal pattern within the text.
*Instructions: 1. Define Motif in your own words.
2. Choose an anchor passage and copy it out.
3. Write at least 1/2 page, typed, single-spaced explaining the motif and its importance to your novel.
4. Create a Word Collage (example in the PowerPoint).
Socio-Cultural Context - Explore the social and historical context of your novel, paying close attention to key events or happenings that influence the author, characters or plot; use at least three pages from your novel as evidence.