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Comment/Response Guidelines and Samples

1) Be sure to write a thought response to the text that can include information about...
 * Characters
 * Setting
 * Plot/Events
 * Theme
 * Author's message
 * Writing Style
 * Connections
 * Images
 * Questions

2) Please read previous comments that other students wrote and add any reactions to their comments.

3) It's always best to add support to your response. You can do this by adding quotes from the story to back up your comment. Be sure to put those quotes in quotation marks and add a page number to the end of the quote.

Examples:

Schooled by Gordon Korman

In the story, the author Gordon Korman uses different points of view to tell the story. I really liked this format because it gave me a first person look into all the important characters in the story. Sometimes if only the main character is telling the story, the story is one sided. I enjoyed Capricorn's point of view the best because I liked him as a person. (Dukhan, Westdale)

I also liked how the story had different character's points of views. However I liked the Zach Powers perceptive the best because in books, you never get the bully's point of view. Their story is always told through the victim's eye but Gordon Korman turned that around on us with letting us get into Zach Power's head. I think that at the end Zach really came around to understand how victims of bullies feel. (Lovely, Westdale)