Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Real World Mentor Texts: Ways to Write About Stories and Reading

Here you will find a list of links about how people write about reading in current publications. Below each one is a one sentence description about how you might use it as a mentor. Browse the articles, choose one you would like to use as a mentor, and try to emulate it's purpose and structure. When you post your own blog, provide a link to your mentor. You are, of course, allowed to find your own mentor--they are all over the place.

The Remarkable Influence of A Wrinkle in Time 

→The Remarkable Influence of... (this can be to you personally, to your group of friends, your class,  your generation, etc.)

Kate DiCamillo: Why Kids Books Should be a Little Sad

→Why Young Adult Books Should Be...

A Winter Walk With Thoreau

→Reflect on a place using an author as a lens

Kylo Ren is the Greatest Star Wars Villain of All Time

→___________ is the greatest villain/hero/etc. of All Time

The Psychology Behind Superhero Origin Stories

→Examine your character through the lens of psychology (may require research)

New Sentences: from Sing Unburied Sing

→Do a close reading of the importance of a single sentence in a story

Taylor Swift's Great Gatsby Fixation 

→Examine the intersection of pop culture and a piece of literature

Book It by Julius Thomas of the Jacksonville Jaguars

→Tell a story from your life as a reader

Well Groomed and Well Read 
by Jarvis Jenkins of the New York Jets

→Tell a story from your life as a reader

15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st Century

→Curate and explain your own collection of books (it can be a smaller number than 15!)

Why Lisa Simpson Matters

→Why [insert character name] matters

Rereading A Wrinkle In Time After a Childhood Enthralled

→Rereading ___________________

Best Harry Potter Signs at March for Our Lives

→Exploring the cultural impact of a book

Fiction That Made Me A Feminist 

→Fiction that made me_____ (just add a bit more personal description for each book)

Five Mary Oliver Quotes that Could Save Humanity

→Five _______ quotes that could save humanity (or another such goal)

Ten Things Holden Caufield Hates

→Ten Things [insert character name] Hates (or loves, etc.)

Why Nancy Drew is the Ideal Role Model for girls (and boys)

→Why [insert character name] is the ideal role model...

Why Frankenstein is Still Relevant (Almost 200 years after it was published)

→Why [insert older title] is still relevant...

How Judy Blume Changed My Life

→How [insert author] changed my life

The Two Books that Saved My Young Life

→Use this title or possibly explore just one title











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