Alternative Independent Reading assignments

Your 5th IR assignment is due on Friday, 2/5 - if you have received a grade of 90 or better consecutively on 2 or more assignments, you are now ready to move on to the alternative IR assignment for IR #6 moving forward.

I'd like to offer you the chance to write a literary analysis paper instead where you pick an aspect of the novel, establish a controlling idea and support your ideas with specific references to the text.  This will prepare you for not only meeting and exceeding state standards in literature analysis and critical thinking, but it will begin to prepare you for college level writing.

You may, of course, continue to do the regular reading assignments should you not want this challenge, but if you do, I will post models and links and I would encourage you to come in for extra help.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1111880/how_to_write_a_literary_response_essay.html

http://crutchfieldsclass.blogspot.com/2009/05/literary-response-essay-526-per-56.html

http://crutchfieldsclass.blogspot.com/2009/05/example-of-literary-response-paper-per.html - sample