The+Quotes+Project

The Quotes Project Click here to download the assignment and rubric: __**Your Task: **__
 * Read a fiction novel (CP must read a historic fiction novel)
 * Collect a minimum of at least ten annotated quotes/passages from the novel
 * Choose ANOTHER passage that you designate “The Quote of the Novel” (for a total of at least eleven quotes)
 * Write a reflective letter about the novel that you read and your reaction to both it and the annotated passages that you assembled.

__**Directions to Begin: **__
 * Use post-its to note/mark passages as you read
 * Every time you encounter a particularly important, provocative, dramatic, surprising, or even disturbing passage, mark it with a post-it note
 * After you complete the novel, look at all those passages and decide which to toss out and which to keep

__**Part One:**__
 * When you finish reading your book, you will select at least ten (10) passages from throughout the novel
 * Copy the passages down WORD FOR WORD (including page numbers)
 * After each passage, write about each passage in the following ways:
 * 1) In a well-written paragraph, explain how the passage "fits" into the novel (Does the passage add to the character development, the plot line, the details of setting, and so forth?) Discuss the importance of the passage to the book’s message or meaning or theme.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">In a second well-written paragraph, react to the passage as a reader. Make me understand WHY you have selected this passage. To generate responses, you can consider the following as suggested prompts or questions:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Why does the passage impress, intrigue, horrify, or puzzle you?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Do you find the author’s use of language appealing or powerful? Does the passage jump off the page as a great descriptive passage?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Does it prompt a strong response from you as you read it? Does it present itself as so well crafted that you just love the sound of it?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Is the language beautiful, descriptive, and graphic?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Is it particularly meaningful?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Is it a high point in the book?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Do you find yourself in agreement/disagreement with the ideas expressed?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Does the passage remind you of a situation you have lived as well?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Does the passage make you laugh aloud, make you melancholy, or make you something else?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Does the author or the character raise intriguing questions or issues?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Does the passage challenge or expand your thinking?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">You are not limited to the above list, nor must are you expected to answer all of the above. However, your responses to the passages should clearly explain WHY these passages mean something to you, and WHY these passages caught your attention.

__**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Part Two: (25 points) **__
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Select ANOTHER, DIFFERENT passage as "The Quote of the Book" - that one quote that captures the essence –the true meaning– of the novel for you, the reader.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">In a well-written paragraph, explain exactly HOW this passage is the one perfect quote from the book [Think of this as the one passage that you would absolutely want to save should your book ever be lost or destroyed.]


 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Part Three: (25 points) __**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Lastly, write a REFLECTIVE LETTER about reading this novel and creating your quotes paper. Address the letter to me. You must write in first person, so you must include “I”.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Layout the paper in proper formal business letter style (see my wikispace for details). (This limits your letter to only ONE page).
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Include information about the thoughts, feelings, observations, and new insights you experienced while reading your novel.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Write to me about marking the quotes as you read and then selecting the ones to keep.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This is your chance to “talk” with me about your book, your project, and your experiences in completing this assignment. With your letter, make me see your work –and your learning –through your eyes.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Some things to think about for your letter may include, but are not exclusive to:
 * Tell me what you worked on the hardest or struggled with in doing this assignment
 * Share with me what you think you did well: what worked, really worked
 * Show me where you were drawn into the novel and where you were pulled away from the novel. Identify in your opinion the author’s –or the story’s –greatest strength and weakness
 * Discuss in what ways the novel is similar to your life
 * Explore what value, besides entertainment, this book has
 * Share your overall impressions of the novel
 * Discuss if you found yourself changing your mind about the book and/or the assignment
 * Tell me what you as a reader and as a student need to focus on for the next assignment

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> __**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Final Product Details: a.k.a. The Important Stuff **__
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Extra Credit: (up to 25 points) __**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Enclose your project in book cover (mimicking the cover on a hard cover noel), complete with appropriate picture, novel title, author, short plot synopsis (EXCLUDING THE ENDING!), and small author biography as you would see on a new, hard cover novel.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">No points will be awarded if all you do is copy the book’s already designed cover.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Extra Credit points will be given out on a 0-5 basis for each category.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Final assignment MUST be typed
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Passages/quotes must be at least two (2) sentences long and no more than eight (8) sentences long.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Many of your passages should – and will be – longer than two sentences.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Passages/quotes must be from throughout the entire novel.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">All passages must be cited in proper MLA format.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">This assignment is due on the day it is due – late penalties will apply
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> This assignment will not be accepted unless all of the pieces are here and accounted for.