INDEPENDENT READING PROJECT MR. LARKIN H English 9

Directions 1. For your final project, you will present six key elements of your independent reading text. 2. Each element requires text to support your presentation on the literary device/topic. 3. At the end of the project, you will construct a reading quiz on your chosen text. 5. The grading rubric is based on process and product.

Element #1 Setting Where does the story take place? Provide text that brings to light the setting of your text. Be prepared to explicate why it is meaningful to the setting of your story. Look at setting and TKAM: Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer's day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.-Scout (11)

Element #2: Point of View What is the point of view of your narrative? Ist Person 2 nd Person 3 rd Person Review the following passage from A Separate Peace: “He had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality as he.” Point of View: ______________

Element #3 Visual-Text Match Up Find some visual that brings to life your text. Also include some text that matched up with your visual: Caesar: "I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament." Julius Caesar (III, i, 60 – 62)

Element #4 Theme What issues, lesson learned or topic of discussion is explored in the text? For example: Julius Caesar: Ambition A Separate Peace: Jealousy To Kill a Mockingbird: Injustice Find some text that brings to life a key theme.

Element #5 Vocabulary Select five words from your text and provide their definitions below. Julius Caesar imminent (adj.) - likely to happen presently; threatening constancy (noun) – steadfastness; Faithfulness mettle (noun) – courage and fortitude; spirit orator (noun) – an eloquent and skilled public speaker insurrection (noun) – the act or instance of open revolt against a government

Element #6 Clever Connector Good literature should connect to our lives. Using your clever connector from your project packet, select some text that reveals how your text relates to something we are experiencing today: “Harrison Bergeron” : Is technology a good thing or a bad thing in 2010? “You haven't made everybody equal. You've made them the same. And there's a big difference.”

Text Assessment Put together a reading quiz for your text. You can use any format you wish. Think about: Vocabulary Essay Prompts Grammar Exercises Reading Comprehension Passage Identification

Grading Rubric Poor 1 Satisfactory 2 Accomplished 3 Exemplary 4 Score Description of identifiable performance characteristics reflecting a beginning level of performance. Description of identifiable performance characteristics reflecting development and movement toward mastery of performance. Description of identifiable performance characteristics reflecting mastery of performance. Description of identifiable performance characteristics reflecting the highest level of performance. Use of Class Time on Project Overall Presentation Use of Text for each literary topic Understanding of Text Reading Quiz

To Review.. Each class we will explore one element in class. You will know which element we will workshop before class. The rubric I will be using reflects process as much as product. Use the class time on the project wisely-it will impact your score. Save all projects to your student drive. There is no excuse for “lost” projects. I will check your project’s progress periodically over the next week. We do not have a lot of time in computer lab. It is your responsibility to access your project outside of class and work on content and read while we are in the classroom. Have fun with it. Questions??