Category: Reading

Extended Reading Project

The book I am reading is Timmy Failure: Now Look What You’ve Done

Who were the main characters? Did you like or

dislike them? Why?

The main characters are Timmy Failure & his polar bear pet and business partner Total. I like them both because Total is smarter than Timmy, even though he is a polar bear as Timmy thinks he is the best detective ever but he isn’t that clever.

 

How did the characters respond to events and

each other in each text?

Timmy overlooks things and says things like ‘all on the path to greatness’ while Total doesn’t really care & Timmy sometimes dislikes Total as he’s very lazy and.

 

What was similar or different in key aspects of the

plot, setting and language of the text, compared

to other texts?

The way that story is written  stays the same as it’s written by Timmy himself as a sort of diary. At the beginning of the book, Timmy takes a head off a statue and breaks his leg and when he goes back to where he broke his leg and the statue still has no head.

Wide Reading Project

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During the year you will be asked to read a wide range of texts. Using texts studied in class as well as texts you have selected you will also complete a log of the reading process. Overall you will read eight texts including at least six written texts and two visual texts. You will complete log entries on each text and present a report on your findings.

Attached is the outline of your required personal reading project – inside is the guidance you need to make sure your own-choice reading is going to meet the wide reading criteria.

You can always ask your teacher for advice about which texts would be best to concentrate on – and once you’ve read each text, you’ll then be asked to write a journal entry on your blog explaining how it helped develop your understanding of The Individual and Society.

This year everyone in the school will be required to have a ‘book at hand’ – and for English students, it makes a good idea to make that book one that helps you towards this reading project.

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