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Welcome to our Wiki Book Club! This site will be used by the students in Mrs. Maxey's 5th Grade Class. Students will reflect and respond to the literature they are reading and pose questions to their classmates that relate to the stories. The following general questions can be applied to any novel, and they provide a good starting point for creating your own discussion questions for a given work.
 * What was unique about the setting of the book and how did it enhance or take away from the story?
 * What specific themes did the author emphasize throughout the novel? What do you think he or she is trying to get across to the reader?
 * Do the characters seem real and believable? Can you relate to their predicaments? To what extent do they remind you of yourself or someone you know?
 * How do characters change or evolve throughout the course of the story? What events trigger such changes?
 * In what ways do the events in the books reveal evidence of the author's world view?
 * Did certain parts of the book make you uncomfortable? If so, why did you feel that way? Did this lead to a new understanding or awareness of some aspect of your life you might not have thought about before?

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 * In your book club, you may be reading books on a wide variety of topics. Here are a few questions for study and discussion. These questions are designed to make you think about the book(s). Take a look...
 * What did you think the book was about?
 * Did you feel that the book fulfilled your expectations? Were you disappointed?
 * Did the author seem to appear in the book? How? Why? Was the presence of the author disruptive? Or did it seem appropriate/fitting?
 * Did you enjoy the book? Why? Why not?
 * How did the book compare to other books by the author (or other books in the same genre)?
 * What about the plot? Did it pull you in; or did you feel you had to force yourself to read the book?
 * How realistic was the characterization? Would you want to meet any of the characters? Did you like them? Hate them?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 351px; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">Did the actions of the characters seem plausible? Why? Why not?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 351px; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">If one (or more) of the characters made a choice that had moral implications, would you have made the same decision? Why? Why not?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 351px; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">How does the setting figure into the book? Is the setting a character? Does it come to life? Did you feel you were experiencing the time and place in which the book was set?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 351px; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">How would the book have been different if it had taken place in a different time or place?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 351px; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">What are some of the book's themes? How important were they?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 351px; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">How are the book's images symbolically significant? Do the images help to develop the plot, or help to define characters?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 351px; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">Did the book end the way you expected?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 351px; margin-top: 1.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">Would you recommend this book to other readers? To your close friend?