Book Report Form -- Honors Sophomores
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You must demonstrate that you have read the book and that you have thought about what you have read.
Provide this information at the top of the first page.
Name
Title of Book
Author
Number of pages
Answer the numbered questions in paragraph form.
1. Discuss 5 characters. Explain the role and function of each. Remember, in a book like The Kite Runner, the kite may be
considered a character through personification. Include your personal responses to the characters as well as your sense of each
character as part of the story.
2. Copy the first sentence from the first full paragraph on page 150 or 151 or 152. Explain how the passage relates to the ongoing
issue or conflict of the book.
3. Identify the most important subject or issue explored in this book. What is the author’s attitude toward this idea or subject?
Explain one event that illustrates that attitude.
4. Copy your favorite quotation and its page number from the book. Explain why you have chosen this passage.
5. Does your book have universal appeal, or do you think its appeal is more limited? Will this book pass the test of time? Why or
why not?
6. Do you recognize any person, place, or idea in the book that resembles a familiar part of your life? Explain the connection.
7. Attending to the structure of the book, how did the author grab your attention when you began to read? What was the hook used to
pull the reader into the story?
8. Find an article that relates to your book in some way. For example, you might find an article about spelling bees that relates to The
Bee Season. You might find an article that discusses Native American issues for The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.
The idea is to be aware of connections between the literature and our world today. Bring in a copy of the article along with an
explanation of its connection to the book.
Chose one of these books to complete this Book Project:
•Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
•Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
•The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
•Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
•Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
•The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
•Hyperion by Dan Simmons
•The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk
•The Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
•Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers by Alissa Quart
•A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
•The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
•A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
•The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
•Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
•The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
•Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by
Gregory MacGuire
•Night by Elie Weisel
•Dune by Frank Herbert
•Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
•1984 by George Orwell
•Blindness by Jose Saramago
•The Once and Future King by T.H. White
•The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
•The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
•The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
•The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
•Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card
•The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
•A Separate Peace by John Knowles
•The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
•A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
•The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
•A River Runs Through It by Norman MacLean
•The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
•Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
•Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
•Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
•Indian Creek Chronicles by Pete Fromm