Weekly Reading Log

Week of 3/18-3/22

Directions​: Each day you will choose ​1 question from each column​ to answer on your own
paper in response to your daily reading choice. Highlight the questions you use each day. At the
end of the week you will have answered 16 questions.

Nonfiction Questions:

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Fiction Questions:

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Monday
Genre: Fiction
Title: A Good Man Is Hard To Find

Initial Response Question Selected: Did you enjoy the story?

Initial Response Answer: I didn't really enjoy the story because at first it was a little
confusing, but towards the end I got to understand it.

Initial Understanding Question Selected:Were any parts confusing?

Initial Understanding Answer:Yes, there was a part that made me confused and it was
when the story introduced new characters.

Developing Understanding Question Selected:what is the significance of the title?

Developing Understanding Answer:The title is significant because the novel is a short
story collection and has multiple stories within it so the title doesn't really connect with
the whole book.

Developing a Critical Stance Question Selected:Is this story plassible?

Developing a Critical Stance Answer:No this story is not plausible because it's a fiction
novel and has all kinds of made up stories within it.

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Tuesday
Genre: Fiction
Title:A Good Man Is Hard To Find
Initial Response Question Selected: How did the story affect you?
Initial Response Answer: The story affected me as a reader by making me think of the
times i went to church and how it affected me due to the boys experience in church.

Initial Understanding Question Selected:When and where did this story take place?
Initial Understanding Answer:This story mainly takes place by a river that runs through a
small town, and the town's church as well.

Developing Understanding Question Selected:What type of narrative is this?

Developing Understanding Answer:This novel is a fiction novel mainly made to entertain
people.

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Developing a Critical Stance Question Selected:Selected: would you like to read

another novel by this author why or why not?

Developing a Critical Stance Answer: i would like to read another novel by this author
because i enjoy her writing style and creative stories.

Wednesday
Genre: Fiction
Title::A Good Man Is Hard To Find

Initial Response Question Selected:Did any characters affect you? If you could be any
character who would it be?
Initial Response Answer:There wasn't really a character that affected me, but if I could
be any character in the novel I would be the narrator because they are in every story
within the novel.

Initial Understanding Question Selected:What happens?

Initial Understanding Answer:So far Mrs.Connin meets a little boy that has the same
name as the preacher and wants to take him to church to meet the preacher, and hope
that he can help him.

Developing Understanding Question Selected:From what point of view is the story being
told from?
Developing Understanding Answer:The story is being told from third person point of
view.

Developing a Critical Stance Question Selected:In your opinion is this a good story why
or why not?
Developing a Critical Stance Answer:I think this is a good story because its very
creative and relatable as well

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Thursday
Genre: Fiction

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Title::A Good Man Is Hard To Find

Initial Response Question Selected:What is your first reaction to this selection?

Initial Response Answer:My reaction to this selection was very exciting due to the title of
this story “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”.

Initial Understanding Question Selected: Who is telling the story?

Initial Understanding Answer: The story is mainly being told by the author, and the four
characters within this short story.

Developing Understanding Question Selected:What literary techniques are being used?

Developing Understanding Answer:The author is using a lot of foreshadowing and
internal and external conflict but it's mainly internal conflict within this short story.
Developing a Critical Stance Question Selected:What connections are there between
this work and others that you've read?

Developing a Critical Stance Answer:This book is very unique compared to all of the
other novels that i've read, due to the fact that its a short story collection. Most of the
time I mainly read nonfiction novels that are based on one story.