Rebel Angels – Weekly Reading Response Blog

by: Chiralli Patel

In the first book A Great and Terrible Beauty Gemma, Ann, Felicity and Pippa all went to the realms. Once they took the magic out of the realms Circe’s assassin could enter the realms and use illusions on Gemma to gain her power. At the end she defeated the assassin but her friend Pippa wanted to stay in the realms forever because if she came back then she would have to marry a fat old man called Mr.Bumble who was very creepy. Through all that the Rakshana (protectors of the realms) sent Kartik to keep an eye on Gemma and if she went in the realms he had to report back to them so they could solve the problem.

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

What I dislike about the book is the main character: Gemma. She is horrible she makes everything so dramatic, she overreacts about everything, it’s so unneeded. She is so easily swayed by her friends to make bad decisions which do not only put her but possibly all of England. Ever since her friends persuaded her to take magic out of the realms in the first book everything went wrong. The magic used to be controlled by the ruins then Gemma and her friends took it out of the realms and it wasn’t controlled anymore, everyone who could enter the realms could use them.

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

Since Kartik let Gemma go into the realms and didn’t tell the Rakshana in this book he has to “woo” Gemma and get her to find the source of the power the temple. Once she finds the temple she has to say “” that will bind all the power to the Rakshana but when Kartik was telling her what to do he did not mention that part. After all of that he has to kill Gemma as orders from the Rakshana!

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

I don’t think I relate to anyone in the book. Even though they are teenagers they are from the Victorian age. Back then everyone had proper manners, went to balls in big ball gowns most of the girls just wanted wealth. If you laugh they think something is wrong with you and one of the girls had epilepsy, she had to hide it because if anyone knew they would all shun her.

4 comments

this is the third book right??

cpatel8831 says:

March 27, 2012 at 3:12 pm

no this is the second book, the third book i think is much longer.

you gonna read the third??

it depends on the ending and i might read like 10 books before i read that one

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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