4 Square Responses
Square 1: Choose 1 response for Square 1. Title the top of your response with the words written in bold, underlined
capital letters.
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Draw the most VIVID IMAGE from these pages and explain why this image is important to the plot and
characters and how it may foreshadow events to come. Include the page number(s) connected to your
response.
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List the 3 MOST IMPORTANT WORDS from the pages we read and write a response explaining how these words
are important to the plot and characters and how they may foreshadow events to come. Include the page
number(s) connected to your response.
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Draw a SYMBOL that represents the deeper meaning of a possible theme or something you think the author
hints about but doesn’t come out and tell us. Explain how this symbol is important to the plot and setting and
how it may foreshadow important ideas to come. Include the page number(s) connected to your response.
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Share the MOST INTRIGUING PASSAGE/QUOTE that you feel reveals something the reader should think deeply
about for hidden meanings. Write the author’s exact words in quotation marks, then skip space and write the
word “Response”. Write your inference about the passage and explain what information you used from the text
and your background knowledge to make the inference. Include the page number(s) connected to your
response.
Square 2
Write 3 questions you would like to ask the author at this point of the story.
Square 3
Write the name of a character that you feel has the greatest impact on the pages we’ve read today. Write a simile or
metaphor for this character. Explain what this simile/metaphor reveals about this character. Include the page number(s)
connected to your response. (Ex: ________ is (or is like) ___________________ because _________________________.
Square 4
List at least 2 unknown words. After reading, look up the definition and go back to the passage and make sense of the
words’ meanings. Write definitions next to these words. Include the page numbers where these words are found.
Name: _________________________________________________________________ Date:_____________________
Title:___________________________________________________________________ Pages: _____________
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