The Jacket

Share your thoughts here! Also discuss the tone/mood and setting of your novel. Skills Test tomorrow!

Please post your comments, predictions, and connections here!

As you have read, have you been able to make any connections to the novel?

A text-to-self (T/S) connection is connecting the text to yourself and things that have happened to you.

A text-to-text (T/T) connection is connecting the text to something else that you have read.

A text-to-world (T/W) connection is connecting the text to something you have learned or understand.

Try to share a connection and identify which of the above it is. Also include any comments or predictions you may have! Keep up the great work!

Post your comments about the reading here! Don’t forget to make a prediction!

In addition to general discussion of the reading, please respond to the following questions as well:

If you could be one of the characters in the story, which would it be and why? Would you make the same decisions?

Keep up the great work!

As you continue to read, think about the following:

Have any new characters been introduced?
Have any conflicts come about?
Any new surprises?
What do you think will happen next?

Keep your comments short and keep the conversation going!

Share your comments here! Think about the following:

Based on what you’ve read so far, what do you like about this novel?
What characters have been introduced and what do you think about them?
Was there something that you read that surprised you?
What do you think might happen next?

Please try to keep the conversation about these chapters going. Read the other comments as they are posted and respond when you can. Your blog experience will only be as good as all of you make it!

Good luck and have fun!

Post your comments here!

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PREDITION- I think Daniel is going to be happy to see Phil.

dominique2prediction: I think that Phil will go to Daniel’s house, and be suprised at what his house looks like.