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15. I have had alot of climax in my book , my first climax was in chapter six when Maisie ( the main charachter) just came back from her moms that lives nine hours away and she has been there for a year and she has not seen her best boys friends in awhile. when she comes back the boys are kind of like boys, because before Maisie left they were not really boys because they did not like girls and they were into video games, but now one of the boys has a girl friend and they dont really like video games they like to do sports and ect. I think this part was a climax because Maisie and the guys have changed and they think diffrently then before. Then in chapter eleven it got good again because Maisie was starting to just hang with shakes and kevin and Chris were starting to get jealous and Maisie and Chris where falling in love, and Kevin and Chris were making up plans to split them up. Then in chapter thirteen it got very climaxy because Maisie was sitting in the back of the bus with shakes and ( Maisie was in grade nine and the grade tens were not there so Kevin and Chris sat write infront.) On that bus ride Maisie got assaulted by Kevin, Chris and shakes. Then it got climaxed again on chapter fifteen because everybody knows what happened on he back of the bus but somebody told it a different way. Finally it got really to a climax because Maisies step mom found out and her dad and now they are sueing the school.

16. What I think the author could of done to make the story better is maybe to let Maisies Friends tell the story to because in the story it just says Maisies opinion but maybe Shakes has a different opinion on what happened and what was going through his head at the time and maybe Shakes had no choice. I wish I could hear Shakes opinion and Kevins and Chrises and what they were all thinking from the beggining and the end.

Reading Response Prompts

1. Tell what like or dislike about the book and why.

2. Tell about parts of your book that puzzled you or made you ask a question.

3. Tell what you noticed about the characters, such as what made them act as they did or how they changed.

4. Write about something in the book that surprised you or that you found interesting.

5. Write your predictions and about whether your predictions were right.

6. Ask for help in figuring out meaning of your book.

7. Tell about the connections that you made while reading the book. Tell how it reminds you of yourself, of people you know, or of something that happened in your life. It might remind you of other books, especially the characters, the events, or the setting.

8. Write about the author’s style and how it makes you feel.

9. Write about the language the author used and why you think the author wrote this way.

10. Write about the author’s craft – what was effective about the way the author wrote.

11. Write about anything else that you may think of that deals with the book.

12. Do you relate to any of the characters in the book? Explain how and why.

13. If you abanded the book, why did you?

14. Name 3 examples of signals that went off in your head while you were reading and explain them.

15. Explain what happened at the climax and explain why you think that is the climax.

16. Tell what you think could be changed in the book to make it better for readers.

Reading Response Rubric

Level 3 (B Range)
In your response you:
- have written at least one post a week
- demonstrate that you have read a variety of fiction and non-fiction materials
- reflect on the books you read effectively- relate to the books you read
- retell only the most important information in your responses
- explain your interpretation of a written work clearly, supporting it with evidence from the work and from your own knowledge and experiences clearly.
- demonstrate that you are a critical thinker that examines characters, plot, setting and literary - devices effectively

Level 4 (A Range)
In your response you:
- have written more than one post a week
- demonstrate that you have read a good variety of fiction and non-fiction materials
- reflect on the books you read very effectively
- relate to the books you read very effectively
- retell only the most important information in your responses
- explain your interpretation of a written work clearly, supporting it with evidence from the work and from your own knowledge and experiences clearly and concisely.
- demonstrate that you are a highly critical thinker that examines characters, plot, setting and literary devices effectively

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