"'Thus, to greatly abbreviate a complicated series of occurrences, there was a very long and very bloody war, which both sides later regretted. At the beginning the elves fought only to defend themselves, for they were reluctant to escalate the fighting, but the dragons' ferocity eventually forced them to attack for their own survival. This lasted for five years and would have continued for much longer if an elf called Eragon hadn't found a dragon egg.' Eragon blinked in surprise. 'Ah, I see you didn't know of your namesake,' said Brom." (50)
This paragraph shows tremendous foreshadowing. Now, having neither read the book already or seen the movie I am not sure of what will happen. But, that said, naming the main character of the story Eragon and having him find a dragon egg then later hearing that the first dragon rider's name was Eragon was a dead giveaway. Plus, both Eragons found the egg mysteriously, connecting the two and their fate even further. So far so good for this mythical dragon tale, and I can't wait to finish it.
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Responding to Reading
A good reader is continually responding to, and interacting with, what they are reading. In order to encourage this practice, I expect you to post responses to your independent reading book throughout your reading. See "How to Respond" below for directions. You will also be required to post comments or questions on at least three other classmates' posts.
How to Respond
Pick a quote from your reading.
1. This doesn’t mean it has to be dialogue!
2. Shorter ≠ Better: it’s actually harder to respond to and interact with shorter quotes.
3. Cite the page number correctly: “Blah, blah, blah” (34).
4. There are no set requirements for what types of quotes you pick; they just have to be meaningful in some way to you. Maybe a passage actually makes you stop and think about something. Maybe it includes ideas related to a theme you’ve noticed or can relate to. Maybe you just like it.
Respond to it.
1. After you’ve picked a quote from the text, you need to think about it.
2. Some examples of stuff to include: inferences, predictions, reflections (what the passage stirs in your thinking), associations/ connections to other reads or the real world, your feelings towards the author’s words (mood), questions about the reading with attempts to answer how the author would, literary devices/figurative language you discover, remarks about author’s style, tone, etc.
3. Some examples of ways to respond: just write (informal reflection), write a poem expressing your thoughts, write an opening/closing argument for a trial that you’d put a character on, write a letter to the author, write a top-ten list, or another format of your choice.
4. The main goal is for these responses to be thoughtful and reflect your engagement with your reading. Translation: I should be able to tell you’re reading and understanding and thinking about what you’re reading.
5. Responses will typically be approximately 200 words.
6. You might want to write your responses on Word or another word processing program before you post (it catches your silly mistakes). Also, be sure to include the name of your book in the subject line!
Comment on Classmates’ posts
1. Skim through your classmates’ posts.
2. Choose a post that you find interesting. Maybe you’ve read the same book and you want to discuss something you liked or didn’t like about the book. Maybe you thought his/her post was thoughtful and/or creative and you want to give him/her mad props. Maybe you have a question about something he/she said. Maybe you’re thinking about reading that book and want to know a little more about it.
3. Comments will typically be approximately 50-100 words.
4. Oh, and be nice to each other! Absolutely no jerkface-like comments!
1. This doesn’t mean it has to be dialogue!
2. Shorter ≠ Better: it’s actually harder to respond to and interact with shorter quotes.
3. Cite the page number correctly: “Blah, blah, blah” (34).
4. There are no set requirements for what types of quotes you pick; they just have to be meaningful in some way to you. Maybe a passage actually makes you stop and think about something. Maybe it includes ideas related to a theme you’ve noticed or can relate to. Maybe you just like it.
Respond to it.
1. After you’ve picked a quote from the text, you need to think about it.
2. Some examples of stuff to include: inferences, predictions, reflections (what the passage stirs in your thinking), associations/ connections to other reads or the real world, your feelings towards the author’s words (mood), questions about the reading with attempts to answer how the author would, literary devices/figurative language you discover, remarks about author’s style, tone, etc.
3. Some examples of ways to respond: just write (informal reflection), write a poem expressing your thoughts, write an opening/closing argument for a trial that you’d put a character on, write a letter to the author, write a top-ten list, or another format of your choice.
4. The main goal is for these responses to be thoughtful and reflect your engagement with your reading. Translation: I should be able to tell you’re reading and understanding and thinking about what you’re reading.
5. Responses will typically be approximately 200 words.
6. You might want to write your responses on Word or another word processing program before you post (it catches your silly mistakes). Also, be sure to include the name of your book in the subject line!
Comment on Classmates’ posts
1. Skim through your classmates’ posts.
2. Choose a post that you find interesting. Maybe you’ve read the same book and you want to discuss something you liked or didn’t like about the book. Maybe you thought his/her post was thoughtful and/or creative and you want to give him/her mad props. Maybe you have a question about something he/she said. Maybe you’re thinking about reading that book and want to know a little more about it.
3. Comments will typically be approximately 50-100 words.
4. Oh, and be nice to each other! Absolutely no jerkface-like comments!
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2 comments:
Well I hope it's better than the movie. I'd like to read the book. So when you get to that point when you feel it's a "must read", then tell me. Atleast from reading your quote and watching the movie, it feels like they chopped about five-sixths of the story off, filled it with gobbs action, a touch of magic and mythical creatures just to adapt it to the film. By the way, good use of literary elements in your response. I like how you connected those facts.
At first I was skeptical of watching a movie with a magical dragon in it, but my boyfriend read the book and had watched the movie and insisted that it was amazing. I watched it and now realize that it was surprisingly very good. He is now insisting that I read the book as well…
I like this quote because I think that it really describes the whole basis of this novel.
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