Book Excerpt Intros Decision Making Read over the story titles and
given paragraphs.
List the top 5 choices of stories you would like
to continue reading. You will decide today
which excerpt you will read. On Monday you
will be given an actual excerpt from the book.
Your final step is to write a book review based
on the excerpt that you have read.
The length of most of the excerpts is between 4
and 15 pages. The average is about 5-7 pages.
Think about WHY you are choosing
your top 5 excerpts.
Is there something about the writing
or the topic that interests you
or catches your attention?
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Aunt Millicent
Broken Chain
From Miracle at Clement’s Pond
Object Lesson
from To Kill a Mockingbird
from Incident at Hawk’s Hill
from When the Tripods Came
from The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
from Otto of the Silver Hand
from Joseph: His Dream
Who’s Afraid?
The Elevator
The Night Watchman
The Ravine
The Andy Strasburg Story
from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas
from All the Strange Hours
from Alexander Dolgun’s Story
from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
from December Rose
from Sarah Bishop
from North to Freedom
from The Iceberg Hermit
from The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Nothing to Worry About & The Turtle
He Was No Bum
The Yellow Handkerchief
Helping Hands
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