Directions:  Complete these questions to organize your thoughts about the book you read this summer. Your answers must be legibly written or word-processed and in complete sentences.  These answers should be submitted to your new English teacher at the beginning of the new school year for extra credit.
   

1. What is the title of the book?
2. Who is the author?
3. What is the primary setting¹ of the book?
4. Describe any additional settings, if applicable.
5. Describe the main character(s)².  Include their names, and identify a characteristic of their behavior that makes them interesting.
6. Descrive the primary conflict(s)³.
7. Discuss a message or theme⁴ from the book.  Include examples from the book as support.
8. Explain why you would or would not recommend this book to others.

¹setting: the time and place of the events in a story

²main character: the protagonist(s) and antagonist(s); it is not necessary to discuss minor characters

³primary conflicts: the problem(s) or struggle(s) between or among opposing forces that trigger(s) the action in literature (e.g. person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. nature, person vs. society, etc.)

⁴theme: the underlying idea or statement that the author is trying to convey