H English 9
INDEPENDENT READING PROJECT
MR. LARKIN
Directions
1. For your final project, you will present six key
elements of your independent reading text.
2. Each element requires text to support your
presentation on the literary device/topic.
3. At the end of the project, you will construct a
reading quiz on your chosen text.
5. The grading rubric is based on process and
product.
Element #1 Setting
Where does the story take place?
Provide text that brings to light the setting of your text. Be
prepared to explicate why it is meaningful to the setting of
your story.
Look at setting and TKAM:
Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In
rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on sidewalks, the
courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog
suffered on a summer's day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in
the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men's stiff collars wilted by
nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps,
and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet
talcum.-Scout (11)
Element #2: Point of View
What is the point of view of your narrative?
Ist Person
2nd Person
3rd Person
Review the following passage from A Separate Peace:
“He had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I
knew that there never was and never could have been
any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality
as he.”
Point of View: ______________
Element #3 Visual-Text Match Up
Find some visual that brings to life your text.
Also include some text that matched up with your
visual:
Caesar:
"I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament."
Julius Caesar (III, i, 60 – 62)
Element #4 Theme
What issues, lesson learned or topic of
discussion is explored in the text?
For example:
Julius Caesar: Ambition
A Separate Peace: Jealousy
To Kill a Mockingbird: Injustice
Find some text that brings to life a key theme.
Element #5 Vocabulary
Select five words from your text and provide their definitions below.
Julius Caesar
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imminent (adj.) - likely to happen
presently; threatening
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constancy (noun) – steadfastness;
Faithfulness
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mettle (noun) – courage and
fortitude; spirit
orator (noun) – an eloquent and
skilled public speaker
insurrection (noun) – the act or
instance of open revolt against a government
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Element #6 Clever Connector
Good literature should connect to our lives. Using
your clever connector from your project packet,
select some text that reveals how your text relates to
something we are experiencing today:
“Harrison Bergeron” : Is technology a good thing or
a bad thing in 2010?
“You haven't made everybody equal. You've made them the
same. And there's a big difference.”
Text Assessment
Put together a reading quiz for your text. You can use
any format you wish.
Think about:
Vocabulary
Essay Prompts
Grammar Exercises
Reading Comprehension
Passage Identification
Grading Rubric
Use of Class Time
on Project
Overall
Presentation
Use of Text for
each literary topic
Understanding of
Text
Reading Quiz
Poor
1
Satisfactory
2
Description of
identifiable
performance
characteristics
reflecting a
beginning level
of performance.
Description of identifiable
performance
characteristics reflecting
development and
movement toward
mastery of performance.
Accomplished Exemplary
3
4
Description of identifiable
performance characteristics
reflecting mastery of
performance.
Description of
identifiable
performance
characteristics
reflecting the highest
level of performance.
Score
To Review..
 Each class we will explore one element in class. You will know
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which element we will workshop before class.
The rubric I will be using reflects process as much as product.
Use the class time on the project wisely-it will impact your score.
Save all projects to your student drive. There is no excuse for
“lost” projects.
I will check your project’s progress periodically over the next
week.
We do not have a lot of time in computer lab. It is your
responsibility to access your project outside of class and work on
content and read while we are in the classroom.
Have fun with it.
Questions??