DHAFER

__**First Steps**__

Don't forget to write the title and author of the book you are responding to.

Write at least 2 text connections for every chapter you read. (it can be text-to-text, text-to-self or text-to-world) as well as generate at least 2 questions.

__**THINK ABOUT IT**__

As you read the books you have with you now, think through the following questions and answer them. Revisit the questions and see whether your responses change. Date each response you make.

1) What do you expect to happen in the story? Were your predictions accurate? Why?(Applicable only to works of fiction)

2) What are some ideas which are explored in the story? How does this fit with your thinking before you started reading the story? Have any of your ideas changed? If so, how and why?

3) What are your thoughts/feelings about the setting and the characters? Why?

4) Do your feelings/thoughts about the characters change as you read the story? How? Why?

5) If you were the author, what changes would you make to the story? Why?

6) What questions would you lie to ask the author and/or characters?

Response 1 28/12/2010 6:48 p.m. Book:The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Chapter 1 1) I predict that Mary will be sent to somwhere else after her parents and her servants died as she still has to be taken care by someone else. 2) I explored the ideas of using different characters in different settings to make the story more creative. It did not get into my mind before this as I would not really use other settings and types of characters to always be safe and to also not to get to far out from the main idea. Now I know that I can explore using very different combinations to interest the reader. 3) I think the fact that the setting is put in India is not that realistic in this time but it may have been mansions where british officials settled when India was under the British rule. Secondly I am confused why Mary's mother does not take care of her although she is such a well-mannered mother. 4) So far my perception of Mary as a selfish, plain girl has not changed as none of the things she has done has shown me she is changing. 5) I would add some mor tragic descriptions of the cholera outbreak and a deeper undersanding of how Mary felt during it. I t is the turning point of the chapter so I would do it 6)Why did you choose the setting and characters? Why did you not use other choices?

Book:The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Response 2 31/12/10 3.38 p.m.

Chapter 1-9
1) I predict that Mary would explore the secret garden and know the secrets of it 2)I explored the ideas of using different types of descriptive words. It fit with my thinking before as I had learned that in many other books.None of my ideas has changed so far. 3) I think the story is flowing well as it has the right storyline 4) I think I would change that Mary gotte key so easily as it makes the story mundane. 5)Why did you make there so may rooms in the Misselthwaite Manor? = = = = = = =**A picture speaks a thousand words.**=

Write how these pictures relate to what you are reading. Again, your answers may change as you read more of the book or simply as a result of time passing by.



The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Chapter 1 Response 1 28/12/10 6:57 p.m. The first picture of the birds remind me of how Mary went wandering around the morning when the cholera outbroke like the birds flying out in the yard The candle reminds me on how Mary was alone in the nursery and in the banquet hall like the dim light on its own in the picture