Book : Wonder by R J Palacio This is called rhetorical reading and it means to break the text down into the sum of its parts…to determine what the writer was trying to achieve and which writing strategies he/she used to try to achieve it. A rhetorical analysis is always looking at the why and the how of the writing. When you are finished, go back and skim read to map out what happens in this chapter. Write about how the author put the chapter together. Consider what writers do to move the action: flashback, zoom in, zoom past, narrator aside, etc.2. Find several interesting sentences and cite them. Annotate them to show what makes them interesting to you. This is an author’s craft question, so I’m looking for observations you can make about writer’s choices in this section that you find interesting.3. Focus on one of the lenses for reading: word choice, voice, sensory details, tone, pace. Now apply that to a section of your independent reading book. Write about what you noticed when you reread the section with this lens.4. Make observations about punctuation today. Does your author favor short or long sentences? What moves in writing craft would you say are common for this particular writer?5. Take one section of dialogue from your reading today. Analyze what is said (what you learn about plot or character) and then what is NOT said. What are these characters withholding?6. Style is tricky…sometimes we love the way a writer writes and sometimes we get irritated by too many narrators or moments when we love our way What would you say to the author if you could about how this was written?
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