You must complete 1 task
every week - you may complete the tasks
in any order
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Literary Luminary:
Locate 5 significant sections of the text. The idea is to select something interesting,
powerful, funny, puzzling, or important.
You decide what passages, paragraphs, lines, etc. are worth discussing. Copy out the selections and explain why you
chose it. You need to analyse the
sections using PEE/PETAL.
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Connector:
Find connections between the novel you are reading (or have read)
and the world outside. This means
connecting the reading to your own life, to happenings at school and the
community, to similar events at other times and places, to other people and
problems that you are reminded of, or to other literary works. You may see connections between this work and
other works on the same topic or other works by the same author. There are no right answers here whatever the
reading connects you to you should write it down. Write a minimum of 5 connections. Make sure you explain in detailed paragraphs the
connections and use examples.
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Vocabulary Enricher:
Find a selection of important words while reading your novel. If you find words that are puzzling or
unfamiliar, mark them while you are reading, and then later jot down the
definition, from the dictionary. You may
also run across familiar words that stand out somehow in the reading, words
that are repeated a lot, words used in an unusual way, or words that are key to
the meaning of the text. Mark these
words, too, and explain the significance. Select a minimum of 10 words and write PEE/PETAL paragraphs
explain the effect of the words.
Consider how it was used, the dictionary definition, connotations and
synonyms.
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Write
a newspaper article about one of the most dramatic events in the text you’re
studying.
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Write a monologue from the point of
view of one of the characters in your text.
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How has the writer structured the
text to interest you as the reader?
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Research the time and place your text
is set in. What does this research add to your understanding of the text? How would modern-day audiences react
differently to the people who originally read this novel at the time? Include examples from the text.
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Choose an alternate setting and time
for the text you’re studying and rewrite the opening accordingly.
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Create a graph that shows the action
of the text you’re studying. Where does the action/tension go up or down?
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How are men and women presented in
the text you are studying? Use examples from the text.
