- READ the passage you have selected to show why your book represents "choice and challenge."
- LISTEN as your team members explain the connection between the passage you read and "choice and challenge."
- SHARE your own explanation, noting the connections.
After everyone has shared his/her book, the team is to discuss the following:
What makes for "choice and challenge" in literature?
- in character
- in conflict
- in setting
Post the following summary of your discussion as a comment on this blog:
- Your team members' names and the titles of their books.
- A description of what makes for compelling literature, including the ideas and examples that came from your team discussion. Be specific.
- character
- conflict
- setting
- character
8 comments:
Kelvin Baided: Persey Jackson & the Olypians
Kellyann Barsatan: Through the looking glass & what Alice found there
Micah Bulosan:
Character: He has a strong background that goes well with the story line. A character has to have a personality that catches the readers mind. "Persey, Alice"
Conflict: A good conflict has many small problems or challenges that seem to get in the way of the character. "Something that goes wrong or what we don't expect"
Setting: A good setting needs to make sense. It has to have the right technology for the time era. "Like you can't have a a computer in the renaissance age"
1. Team Members
Destrie- The Hiding Place
Dary- The Weight of Silence
Thea- This Lullaby
Jonas- The Contender
2. Description:
From our group discussion, we agreed that compelling literature is when you feel as if you were in the story too. Also, compelling literature sort of allows the reader to express their emotion. You can feel angry, sad, or even happy depending on what’s taking place in the story. They also need to have the Elements of Literature such as the character, the setting, and a conflict. In our group, the character in Destrie’s book is Corrie ten Boom. The conflict that is going on is that all the Jews are being sent away to concentration camps, and Corrie took in a Jewish baby, and it’s mother. Although her and her father are aware that they could be killed for taking the Jewish baby in they still protect the Jews. The setting of this story is in Haarlem, Holland.
Angela, A Northern Light
Arleen, Persuasion
Amber, The Last Song
Marissa, Farewell to Manzanar
Setting:
In older background, it makes for a harder challenge. All of our books were set in the past, and it references older things that we can't understand. For example in Persuasion it is written in old english.
Character:
In some books the characters personalities are more defined and developed. This leaves us to think and try to understand that characters reasoning. This makes it more interesting and a challenge.
In Persuasion most of the characters backgrounds and personalities are described in the first chapter. Elizabeth is beautiful and unmarried her ater takes pride in that, but she is scared that her beuty might be short lived and may end soon.
Conflict
There may be more than one climax in the book, and there can be more than one problem. One of the problems in A Northern Light is that she's trying to get the courage to ask her father if she could go to New York for college.
Charina: Dreamland
Cynthia: brave New World
Michelle: Children of the River
Daphne: NONE BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO TURN IN LIBRARY BOOK ON TIME!!!!!!!! :D
CHARACTER: Good background that fits into the story. They also have a personality that fits the story as well.
CONFLICT: A good conflict has many smaller conflicts that lead up to the bigger conflict. And there is a lot of twists and turns.
SETTING: It needs to be in the correct time and place and the character and conflict fit into that time and place.
Samara:Pigs In Heaven
Austin:Lovely Bones
Jisel:A Child Called "IT"
Cody:Wild Meat and The Bully Burgers
Literature: The literature of the story is where it it not easy, like little kids big, or Dr. Sueses. It is a challenge to read. Comparing Dr. Sueses stories to Harry Potter books. Harry Potter has a bigger literature.
Character: The character of the story has a good background. The character is known throughout the story and flows with the line of the story.
Conflict: The conflict of the story has prolems. It makes the story more interesting and better to understand. The confict has you think what the problem of the story is. It doesn't just give you the poblem.
Setting: The setting of the story can be a challenge because not all stories give specific details about the setting.
alistNiki- Love Walked In
Character: Cornelia (about the age of 33-45) & Clare (12 Years old)
Conflict: Helpless romantic who hasn't found love until 'the day' he walked into the coffee shop. Clare and her mother have a good connection and she loves her very much but there is a part of her that wants to discover more to life. Cornelia and Clare's paths cross later in the story.
Setting: Somewhere in the city that takes place probably in the modern days of the 1990's
Setting:
Alexis: Marly's Ghost
Character: Marly (16 years old), Ben (narrator)
Conflict: For this passage, Marly is dying. Her loved ones are supported her as she was taking her last breaths of life and speaking her last words.
Setting: Marly's house
Justin- Angels and Demons
Character- Robert Langdon
Conflict- Robert Langdon has to stop the plot of the secret society the illuminati because they are very dangerous and there plan could be catastrophic. For this passage the conflict is the illumanty's clues for Langdon.
Setting- In a city.
Kirsten Essenberg- Dragonflight By: Anne McCaffrey
Kiana Guillermo- Too late to say goodby By: Anne Rule
Kiara Guillermo- The story of the stone By: Cao Xueqin Gao E
Desha Garcia- The choice By: Nicholas Sparks
Our books are challenge books because they have challenging vocabulary. They're not easy reads, and you have to pay attention to every word to be able to comprehend the story.
Character: What makes good characters are things like when they are born into roles they dont want, or have obstacles they need to overcome. An example of an interesting but and at the same time true character would be Jennifer Corbin because she was an ordinary girl next door but behind closed doors and online she was a woman warrior with magical powers who could beat anything.
Conflict: What makes for a good conflict are small subproblems that keep getting in the characters way that prevents them from reaching their goal. One of the problems in Too late to say Goodbye is that a case police needs to solve is over 16 years old and most evidence was lost.
Setting: Settings need to match whats going on in the story.
Kaimi- " The Incredible Journey" by " Sheila Burnford"
Raena-" Burned" by Ellen Hopkins"
Character: The books that were all reading is challenges for us because its not like the other books that usually read. The characters in the books were reading have different personalities compared to the teenage romance and mystery books we like to read.
Conflict: The conflicts in our books the characters go through more challenging conflicts. Like dealing with abusive families and harder stuff to relate to from the animals point of view which make it a stretch in literature.
Setting: The books we usually read give off a more calm or mysterious background. One novel we shared the settings was a teenager dealing with living in a abusive home which gives the reader more emotion towards the setting.
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