This document provides guidance on how to write a book review, including key elements that should be covered such as summarizing the book, stating the author's purpose and thesis, evaluating how the author supports their ideas, assessing the quality of the book, researching the author, commenting on formatting, and concluding with an overall analysis. It also lists many magazines dedicated to publishing book reviews. The final section is a sample book review of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, summarizing the plot and commenting on surprises, favorite quotes, and impressions versus previous adaptations experienced.
This introduction to fiction genres helps young readers to understand the characteristics of historical fiction, realistic fiction, fantasy, science fiction, mystery and folktales. Through pictures, examples, and review, students will learn how to identify and use genres.
This presentation includes only historical fiction and realistic fiction. Find the full presentation here:
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This sort is a great activity for middle and high school students to use after learning elements of fiction genres and subgenres. See correlating presentation on www.literacystationinspiration.com.
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This introduction to fiction genres helps young readers to understand the characteristics of historical fiction, realistic fiction, fantasy, science fiction, mystery and folktales. Through pictures, examples, and review, students will learn how to identify and use genres.
This presentation includes only historical fiction and realistic fiction. Find the full presentation here:
http://www.slideshare.net/elkissn/fiction-genres
This sort is a great activity for middle and high school students to use after learning elements of fiction genres and subgenres. See correlating presentation on www.literacystationinspiration.com.
Slides accompanying my upcoming webinar about literature and lit projects with authors!
Bookable here: http://lpm.dzs.lpm/Webinar/index3.php
On 02. 05. 2017 | 19:00h - 20:30h CET
Access link: https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/making/
Info: https://v.gd/making
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ENG 30: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE
PROF. GENE MCQUILLAN
SPRING 2021 FINAL EXAM
ALL OF THE QUESTIONS REQUIRE THAT YOU REFER TO
THESE FOUR TEXTS:
=Sherman Alexie, “Superman and Me”
=Isabel Allende, “Reading the History of the World”
=the “Transcript” of the interview between Michiko Kakutani and President Barack Obama
=Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
I expect a QUOTE from each text. Make sure to use the formats we have reviewed! Please write an essay—not a list. As always, please do more than just list examples and then stop—I expect a patient and challenging conclusion to the essay.
Please do NOT refer to any outside sources or to our other readings, such as The Great Gatsby.
There are THREE questions. Choose ONE. Please do not copy the question—just indicate the letter of your choice.
QUESTIONS:
A) In all of these texts, these writers speak of how reading allowed them to claim their identity, to raise their voice, to see their world more clearly, to find the words they had been unable to say. Refer to a specific example of this process from each of the texts. Which readings (or types of readings) are mentioned? What sort of effects did these readings have on the people reading them? What might be significant about the choices they made or the reactions they had?
B) In all of these texts, these writers speak of reading and writing as a social process, one that deeply involves their families. Refer to a specific example of this process from each of the texts. Which readings are chosen and shared? Who shares them with whom? Why and how might these exchanges of texts and ideas matter?
C) In all of these readings, the writers recall that they were very curious about a range of different texts. In what ways were they influenced by “classic literature” and in what ways did they also search for inspiration in texts that might not be considered “literature?” Refer to a specific example of this process from each of the texts. Which readings (or types of readings) are mentioned? What sort of readings seem to have the most profound effects on each author? What might be significant about the types of readings that they chose and considered most influential?
It is worth 8 points (all-or-nothing). It needs to be emailed in a Word file (or just “pasted” into an email), by NOON on Thursday, June 10th.
To get 8 points, you need to:
—Write at least 600 words.
—Refer to ALL four texts.
—Refer to specific and relevant statements. Please include a quote from EACH of the texts, and when you “quote,” follow the formats we’ve reviewed.
—Do more than write a “list” of references. What MATTERS about the statements and texts you chose?
One more key thing>>
Unlike all of our previous assignments, this one will NOT feature the option of sending me a “draft”—you have two weeks to do this, SO GET IT RIGHT!
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4. Books, once considered the
pinnacle of human civilization
So what’s a book review? And what
makes a book review good or bad?
A book review is a form of literary
criticism in which a book is
analyzed based on content, style,
and originality
5. A book review can be a primary
source opinion piece, summary
review or scholarly review
Such a review may evaluate the
book on the basis of personal taste
There are many special journals
devoted to book reviews and they are
indexed in special databases such as
Book Review Index, and Kirkus
Reviews
6. A book review is a description,
critical analysis, and an evaluation
on the quality, meaning, and
significance of a book, not a
retelling. It should focus on the
book's purpose, content, and
authority
7.
8. 1) Write a statement giving
essential information about
the book: title, author, first
copyright date, type of book,
general subject matter, special
features (maps, color plates,
etc.), price and ISBN.
9. 2) State the author’s purpose
in writing the book.
Sometimes authors state their
purpose in the preface or the
first chapter
10. 3) State the theme and the thesis of the book.
a. Theme: The theme is the subject or topic. It is
not necessarily the title, and it is usually not
expressed in a complete sentence. It expresses a
specific phase of the general subject matter.
b. Thesis: The thesis is an author’s
generalization about the theme, the author’s beliefs
about something important, the book’s
philosophical conclusion, or the proposition the
author means to prove. Express it without
metaphor or other figurative language, in one
declarative sentence.
11. 4) Explain the method of
development-the way the
author supports the thesis.
Illustrate your remarks with
specific references and
quotations
13. 5) Evaluate the book for interest,
accuracy, objectivity, importance,
thoroughness, and usefulness to its
intended audience. Show whether the
author's main arguments are true.
Respond to the author's opinions
14. 6) Try to find further information
about the author - reputation,
qualifications, influences,
biographical, etc. - any information
that is relevant to the book being
reviewed and that would help to
establish the author's authority
15. 7) If relevant, make note of
the book's format - layout,
binding, typography, etc. Are
there maps, illustrations? Do
they aid understanding?
16. 8) Check the back matter. Is the
index accurate? Check any end
notes or footnotes as you read from
chapter to chapter. Do they provide
important additional information?
Do they clarify or extend points
made in the body of the text?
17. 9) Summarize (briefly), analyze,
and comment on the book’s
content. State your general
conclusions. Pay particular
attention to the author's concluding
chapter
19. American Book Review
Black Issues Book Review
The Bloomsbury Review
Book Review Index
Book review
Booklist
Bookmarks (magazine)
Bookseller and Publisher
(Australian magazine)
Bukla Magazine
Children's literature
periodicals
Claremont Review of Books
Fore Word Reviews
Jewish Review of Books
Kirkus Reviews
Library Journal
The Lion and the Unicorn
(journal)
Literary Review
London Review of Books
Los Angeles Review of
Books
Midwest Book Review
The New York Review of
Books
21. I had read several abridged "kiddie" versions of Oliver Twist when
I was in middle school, and as a teen I was semi-addicted to the
1960's musical adaptation Oliver! so I thought that I knew all
there was to know about this famous British literary urchin. Not
so. Actually sitting down to read the full version of Oliver Twist
has shown me that the original story is much more clever, and
much darker, than I had anticipated.
Young Oliver is born in a workhouse, and although his single
mother dies in childbirth and leaves him with no one to give him
true care or attention, Oliver thrives, in a certain sense. He grows
up in this workhouse, and the horrors of his childhood can seem
all the worse because of the light comic tone of the narration.
Charles Dickens is always a wonderful author for pointing out
hypocrisy, cruelty, and social injustices, but though it's good to be
made aware of the evils of the day, it can still be hard to read
about children starving and being beaten. 9-year-old Oliver's
situation is so dire, it's a relief when he escapes to London and
finds himself trapped in a life of crime! At least when he's with the
criminal gang of pickpockets, he gets to eat.
22. Notes on Oliver: I notice that Oliver speaks just a tad on the
aristocratic side, when compared with the other boys in the book.
He just doesn't have the same penchant for slang and sauciness as
his peers. On this read-through, I also perceive for the first time
that Oliver himself isn't all that interesting. He's 100%
sympathetic--you want to save him and nurture him, but aside
from his general goodness, he's a bit of a blank canvas. He's so
incorruptibly pure, it's like it doesn't occur to him that anyone
could possibly be deceptive or dishonest, which is why he's no
good at thievery even after receiving some training.
One thing that hasn't changed for me while reading the book: I'm
still ridiculously fond of the Artful Dodger. He wears a jauntily
tilted hat and a gigantic tail-coat with rolled up sleeves, and he's
altogether grubby, which makes him look like the coolest
homeless middle-school-aged kid in literature, aside from
Huckleberry Finn. He's got this big store of worldly knowledge
and Oliver relates to Dodger like he's a bizarre type of grown-up,
but as you're reading, you know that Dodger's really just a kid.
23. Things that surprised me: There's an entire main character in Oliver
Twist that didn't appear in any adaptation I read or saw until now--
Monks, Oliver's half-brother! Wow. I scarcely know what to do with
the fact that there's this whole important person in the book itself, and
yet he's so ultimately inconsequential to the heart of the story. Monks
isn't much of a villain when compared to the murderous, abusive
awfulness of Bill Sikes, and just adding more family drama to Oliver's
origin story isn't all that interesting. I think the adaptations had the
right idea when they removed him.
Favorite quotes:
"It's all over, Mrs. Thingummy!' said the surgeon at last." (pg. 3)
'A clean shirt,' thought Oliver, 'is a very comfortable thing; and so are
two pairs of darned stockings; and so is a penny; but they are small
helps to a sixty-five miles' walk in winter time.' (pg. 63)
24.
25.
26. A book review .(n.d). Retrieved on April 17, 2013, from,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_review
The following are. (April,2009). Retrieved on April 17, 2013,
from, http://www.lavc.edu/library/bookreview.html
Book review magazines.(n.d). Retrieved on April 17, 2013,
from,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Book_review_magazines
Book Review: Oliver Twist.(April,2012). Retrieved on April
17, 2013, from,
http://tigersallconsumingbooks.blogspot.in/2012/04/book-
review-oliver-twist-by-charles.html