What's+the+Point?

//**Think it Through...What's the Point?**// //**Directions**: As you read a book, make sure you are thinking it through, even in your writing about a book. When you write, you are striving to not just share a summary of what you read, but rather what you were thinking about what you read, and how you read.// //As you read, try to comment on what you were thinking and on what you think the characters were thinking.// Step 1: (First 1/4 of book) Talk about miscues that made it difficult to read, or connections you had, predictions, questions, insights that made you deepen your comprehension of the book. Pose one question for others to answer. Share one strategy that you used most while reading. What's your point in reading this book? Step 2: (1/4-1/2 of book) How are things changing and what's the point of that? Have you noticed changes in the setting, characters, writing style, your interest in the book? How has your understanding changed? Has your perspective changed at all? Have your strategies changed? What's the point of the strategies you used? What things were you thinking about while you were reading? What was the point in thinking what you were thinking while you were reading? Step 3: (1/2-3/4 of book) How is the action building? How are the characters and relationships changing? What was the point of the main event in the story? What were the characters thinking? What conflicts (internal and external) are the characters experiencing? Step 4: What's the point of this text? What's the author's purpose? What was she or he thinking? Why did they write this? What were they thinking before, during and after writing the book? What do they think their readers will get out of reading the book? What is the point of the way the book was organized? What were you thinking as you neared the end and finished the book? What ways does this book connect to other books you have read? How does this book connect you to other people?