Reading Notes

As a guide, I provided them with the following rough outline, which was displayed on the board.
Create questions as you read regarding the following:

• Characters
• Jobs
• What can we infer or intelligently assume about this person because of their profession?
• What mental, physical, or social skills and/or others does this job require?
• Personality
• Who does this person remind you of?
• Why does this person behave this way?
• How is this person received by others?
• Weirdness
• What characteristics does this person possess?
• What does this say about this person?
• What can we intelligently assume or infer about this person as a result of this weird habit or quirk?
• FOR EXAMPLE:
• What do scars symbolize?
• What does a person in all white or all black symbolize?
• What does a person's style of dress tell about them?
• Mood
• How do you feel when you read this?
• If the author is rumored to be "crazy" or mad, then what does this mean about the style of writing?
• What does the author say or how does he or she create this feeling in you?
• EXAMPLES: One of my favorite books is "Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors". It is the story of a rugby team that crashes into the snow-capped Andes Mountain range in Chile, South America and how they survive for an impossible 72 days, with no "food" in -20 degree and below weather! The author does an excellent job in it of conveying or passing on a mood of frigidity or absolute cold. Literally, though I read the book in the summer, whenever I read the book, I would have to wear a coat or jacket, because I would start to get chill bumps.
  
• Setting ~ Where
• Why is this story set here, in this place?
• What does this do for the story?
• Hurt or help?
• Accent or distract?
• Ironic or appropriate?
• FOR EXAMPLE:
• Most times you don't see scary movies occur in well-lit areas, with pleasantly warm sunny days, but on dark and stormy nights
• Motives
• Why do characters do the things that they do?
• Methods
• How do characters accomplish the plans and plots they devise or think up?
• Details & Specifics
• What does the author say?
• What does the author leave out?
• What does the author emphasize or highlight?
• What does the author downplay or marginalize?