Grading Category: Progress Binder Placement: Independent Reading

Point Value: 30 points

Independent Reading Log January 2018--3 15 pts. Date _________________________ Start Page ____________________

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Themes are sort of rules or big ideas, messages that writers promote in their texts that also have applications outside the text. A text can have multiple, multiple texts, but in order for the message to qualify as a theme, the message should have multiple instances of support. Choose ONE of the following: • Friendship • Loyalty • Love • Justice What message does your write seem to convey about the abstraction you circled above? Advance that message in the form of a thesis. _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ • • • • • •

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Did you include the book’s title? Did you underline the book’s title? Did you include the author’s full name? Did you pin down a theme at work in the text? Is your description of the theme precise? Is thesis written exclusively in third-person?

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Do you use nouns before introducing pronouns? Did you adhere to the conventions—e.g., start sentences with capital letters; end with periods?

Provide no more than two sentences of context that helps the reader better understand and appreciate the evidence. _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ • • • •

Did you provide 1-2 sentences in your own words (context)? Is your context limited to 1-2 sentences? Does your context provide information that is essential or valuable in helping the reader understand/appreciate the evidence? Does your context avoid redundancy?

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Is the language of your context specific and precise? Did you maintain third-person language in context? Is the context written exclusively in third-person? Do you use nouns before introducing pronouns? Did you adhere to the conventions—e.g., start sentences with capital letters; end with periods?

Provide quoted evidence that supports your claim ____________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ • • • • • • •

Did you enclose your evidence in quotation marks? Wherever your book uses quotation marks (dialogue) did you insert additional ‘ ’? Did you spell ALL the words in evidence correctly? Do you identify the page number on which you found your evidence? Did you place the page number ONLY inside of parentheses at the end of the evidence? Did you place your period—not inside the quotation marks—but after the ( )? Did you limit yourself to TWO sentences of evidence and/or the words of one speaker ONLY

15 pts. Date _________________________ Start Page ____________________

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ONE MORE TIME… Choose ANY theme at work in your text—it may be the same theme as last entry, or it may be something different. Advance that theme in the form of a thesis. _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ • • • • • •

Did you include the book’s title? Did you underline the book’s title? Did you include the author’s full name? Did you pin down a theme at work in the text? Is your description of the theme precise? Is thesis written exclusively in third-person?

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Do you use nouns before introducing pronouns? Did you adhere to the conventions—e.g., start sentences with capital letters; end with periods?

Provide no more than two sentences of context that helps the reader better understand and appreciate the evidence. _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________

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Did you provide 1-2 sentences in your own words (context)? Is your context limited to 1-2 sentences? Does your context provide information that is essential or valuable in helping the reader understand/appreciate the evidence? Does your context avoid redundancy?

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Is the language of your context specific and precise? Did you maintain third-person language in context? Is the context written exclusively in third-person? Do you use nouns before introducing pronouns? Did you adhere to the conventions—e.g., start sentences with capital letters; end with periods?

Provide quoted evidence that supports your claim ____________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ • • • • • • •

Did you enclose your evidence in quotation marks? Wherever your book uses quotation marks (dialogue) did you insert additional ‘ ’? Did you spell ALL the words in evidence correctly? Do you identify the page number on which you found your evidence? Did you place the page number ONLY inside of parentheses at the end of the evidence? Did you place your period—not inside the quotation marks—but after the ( )? Did you limit yourself to TWO sentences of evidence and/or the words of one speaker ONLY