Name:________________________________________________ Date________________ Period__________ Independent Reading Book Report Guidelines (Fiction)

Rationale: You are required to read independently for a grade in Mrs. Beerwinkles class because practicing SSR has been proven to improve self-disciple, vocabulary development and your own personal store of knowledge. In order to receive full credit for independent reading, you must show that you truly engaged with the SSR book and understood what you were reading. Directions: Carefully and thoughtfully complete the following information about the book that you just read. Remember that the boxes are expandable, just hit enter at the end of a line to go to the next line in a box. Also, be sure to write down the information in your reading log and book log.

Your book report final word count must be 1064 words for English II and 1300 words for English III. (The document itself has 564 words.) BOOK INFORMATION: Title of Book: [type here] Publisher: [type here] Number of Pages: [type here] SETTING: Time (past, present, future, fantasy): Textual Evidence for Time: [type here] Place (urban, suburban, rural, wilderness, etc.): [type here] [type here] Textual Evidence for Place: [type here] Author: [type here] Copyright Date: [type here] Number of Words: [type here]

Influence the setting has on the plot and characters (2-3 sentence concise explanation): [type here] CHARACTER: Who is the Main Character? Character Trait #1: [type here] Character Trait #2: [type here] Character Trait #3: [type here]

Quoted Evidence (action, dialogue, other characters reactions) [type here] Quoted Evidence (action, dialogue, other characters reactions) [type here] Quoted Evidence (action, dialogue, other characters reactions)

Beerwinkle 2013 (adapted from Laurie Blois)

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Character Traits that you may want to use:

able adventurou s ambitious bold bossy brave bright busy cheerful compassion ate conceite d consider ate cooperati ve courageo us creative curious dainty daring dark demandin g disagreea ble dreamer energetic excited expert fancy friendly funloving funny gentle handso me happy hardworking helpful honest humble humoro us fun-loving funny gentle handsome happy hardworking helpful honest humble humorous imaginativ e impulsive independe nt intelligent inventive joyful keen lazy lighthearted lovable loyal messy mischievio us neat patriotic pitiful plain pleasing poor popular pretty prim proper proud quiet reserved respectf ul responsi ble rich sad selfconfident selfish serious short shy simple simpleminded smart strong studious successf ul tall thoughtf ul thrilling timid tireless ugly unselfis h wild witty

PLOT: Conflict: (Select 1) character vs. character character vs. self character vs. nature character vs. society character vs. fate Climax: [type here] Resolution/Denoue ment [type here] THEME: Write a theme statement for this book. Remember that a theme must be stated in a complete sentence. Theme is the message the author hopes to convey to readers.
Beerwinkle 2013 (adapted from Laurie Blois)

4-5 Sentence explanation with details specific to the conflict [type here]

2-3 Sentence Concise Explanation [type here] 2-3 Sentence Concise Explanation [type here]

[type here] Explain in what way the book has changed your mind about an issue or idea, or how reading the book has made you view something in a different way. [type here] OPINION: Give a review of this book. Begin with a topic sentence, write two or three supporting sentences, and provide a closing sentence in which you reiterate your opinion(s) about the book. Your opinions must be specificgeneralities indicate that you did only a cursory reading of the text. [type here]

Beerwinkle 2013 (adapted from Laurie Blois)