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Dialogue with a text

Answer these questions about the story you are reading. You don't have to write the questions, just each number and answer.


 * 1) What is the name of the book?
 * 2) Who wrote it?
 * 3) Why did you choose it?
 * 4) How many pages are there?
 * 5) How many chapters are there?
 * 6) What is your first reaction or response to the story? Describe or explain it briefly.
 * 7) What feelings did the text awaken in you? What emotions did you feel as you read the text?
 * 8) What did you see happening in the text? Paraphrase it—retell the major events briefly.
 * 9) What image was called to mind by the text? Describe it briefly.
 * 10) What memory does the text call to mind—of people, places, events, sights, smells, or even of something more ambiguous, perhaps feelings or attitudes?
 * 11) What idea or thought was suggested by the text? Explain it briefly.
 * 12) Upon what, in the text, did you focus most intently as you read—what word, phrase, image, idea?
 * 13) What is the most important word in the text? What is the most important phrase in the text? What is the most important aspect of the text?
 * 14) What is the most difficult word in the text? What is there in the text that you have the most trouble understanding?
 * 15) What sort of person do you imagine the author of this text to be? Why?
 * 16) How did you respond to the text—emotionally or intellectually? Did you feel involved with the text or distant from it?
 * 17) Do you think the text is a good one—why or why not?
 * 18) Does this text call to mind any other literary work (poem, play, film, story—any genre)? If it does, what is the work and what is the connection you see between the two?
 * 19) If you were to be asked to write about your reading of this text, upon what would you focus? Would you write about some association or memory, some aspect of the text itself, about the author, or about some other matter?