Due at End of First Reading Day
Title of novel-- Running Loose
Author--Chris Crutcher
What clues did you get about the novel from the cover design and the blurbs on the book jacket? it is about football and how someones life revolvers around football
Write a detailed summary of the first 30 pages introducing the main character, setting, and plot. Louie banks is trying out for football after working out for the hole summer and he is trying out for the football team that has been champs for the past two years and his friends are trying out so they can be part of the best football team in there division.
Due At End of Second Reading Day
Write a page character analysis of an interesting character you have met so far. It doesn’t have to be the main character although it may be. What is the character like and how does the author reveal the characterization to you?
Boomer is a tough guy that almost every one is afraid off and no one ever stands up to. he hate Louis because he told on him on his birthday. he is also the only one that dose what the couch tells them to do because when the coach tells them to injure a black kid because he is one of the best players on the team that they were going to verse.
Due at end of Third Reading Day
Choose two significant quotations from what you have read so far. Write the quote below along with the page number and explain in a well-developed paragraph the importance of the quotation.
Quote 1
Explanatory paragraph
Quote 2
Explanatory paragraph
Due At End of Fourth Reading Day
Choose any scene from the novel and take on the point of view of another character in the scene and rewrite the scene from that character’s point of view.
i am going to take the point of Washington when he got laid out by Boomer. The ball was just hiked and i was going back to throw the ball. but i was unable to because all of the wide receivers were blocked i could not of thrown the ball without it being intercepted when i was rammed out of bounds by a guy named Boomer.
Due At End of Fifth Reading Day
By now you should have a good idea about the novel’s conflict. Explain the conflict giving enough details so I can get it. Then make a prediction about what you think will happen in the novel.
the conflict is that Louis is having a hard time with sports and nothing is going his way. he was out for football then he got kicked off/quite the team because he tried to do something right. and i predict that he is going to lose something that he hold dear.
Due at the End of the Sixth Reading Day
Choose any character you have encountered in the novel so far. Choose five objects that this character would put in his or her pocket, purse, bag, or suitcase. In other words, these are objects that help define the character. For example, if someone were to write about me, he would probably list a bottle of water as an object that helped define me and then would go on to explain that I was never without a bottle of water and that it was necessary for me to drink lots of water because of my kidney and so on…Whatever you choose explain why these objects are appropriate for the selected character. Then if the person were to carry a bag, what kind of bag would it be? Describe it and explain why.
Due at the End of the Seventh Reading Day
Write a quick book review following the 5 W format. As you work through your response you can label each paragraph with the journalist’s question that it explores.
Paragraph 1: WHO is the main character of the novel? How does the character change over the course of the story? How would you describe this character’s personality?
the main charter is Louis Banks. Louis goes form being a shy little boy how only dream was to make the football team and to start in a game and to keep the teams champion streak going strong. To being a man with confidence and is proud of every thing that he has done so far. To were he con handle what life can throw at him.
Paragraph 2: WHAT is the novel about?
Paragraph 3: WHERE does the story take place? What is the setting(s) and how does it add to the novel. How does the location relate to the characters and theme? What time period or era? How can you tell? If the novel involves more than one setting, choose the most important one and explain why.
Paragraph 4: WHEN does the climax of the novel occur? Tell me about it.
the climax of the story is where Luis find s out when Becky had died. they notice something was wrong when they saw an ambulance driving to ward Becky was and that is had its lights on and the siren was turned up almost to the max.
Paragraph 5: WHY did the author write this story? What point is the author trying to make? Link your why response to a theme.
That the life of anyone can change just like that and that no ones life is predetermined before it happens. like your are part of a successful family and that all of your siblings went on to be owners of big companies. but you might turn out living with your parents wile working at Hy-Vee all of your life or until you have to go and start living off of your friends when your parents die.
Paragraph 6: Rate this novel on a 1-10 scale with 1 being low and 10 being high. Then explain why. Make a recommendation about the novel one way or another.
I would have to rate this book as a six. there are some parts of the book that i did not understand and there were some parts were i got really into the book to the point were i could not put it down. overall i would have to say that it was a good book and that there are a lot of people that i think would like to read this book and that they could really relate to it.