Book Club

Author's Craft/Special Tricks

Book/Chapter Critique

Intertextuality

Vocabulary

Author's Purpose

Picture

Wonderful Words

Compare/Contrast

Point of View

Title Explanation

Character Profile

Me & the Book

Sequences

Special Story Part

Interpretation

Literary Criticism

New Criticism (close reading of text itself)

Feminist

Cultural

Biographical

Historical

Reader Response (personal)

Deconstruction/Performa tive

Psychological/Psychoanal ytic

Cultural

Ethical

Economic/Class

Formalism/Structuralism (search for patterns)

Semiotics (sign systems)

Visual/Aesthetic

Subjective

Social Constructivism

Story Grammar (schema & gaps)

Intertextuality

Creative
Options

poetry (any form)

epilogue

prologue

advertisement

news article

interview

game

comic strip

illustration

book jacket

rewrite

add a scene or chapter

movie poster

script

cast the film

test

critical review

map

diorama

letter

diary

collage

journal

timeline

personal ad

comparative essay

character sketch

obituary

research

psychological analysis

award

song

ABC's

quotation collection

telegrams

picture collection

mobile

story

essay