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Literature Close Out Questions

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Instructions: After you finish reading the text, complete this worksheet. Use this sheet as
a TEMPLATE (i.e. write on notebook or loose-leaf paper) for your readings.
1. Situation. What is the text about?
2. What is the narrative point of view? Who is the narrator?
3. Setting.
4. Why is the setting important to the plot?
5. Characters. Identify main ones, including name, age, features, and quirks.
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6. Plot. What is unique about the plot (i.e. the way the action develops)?
7. Ideas. State in one or two sentences the theme of the book.
8. Quotable quotes. Give us two. (This is not dialogue.)
9. Vocabulary. Three words you learned here, and a sentence from the text using each.
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10. Your turn. What is really unusual, gripping, awe inspiring, weird, funny, heroic, moving,
disgusting, or coming about the book (anything but boring!). Or what about the character(s) or
situations in the book do you identify with?