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Given the nature of the 2011 summer reading program, you had significant autonomy in selecting the books you would read. While you were responsible for completing a proposal, you were not given other assignments to complete over the summer. As indicated on your proposal form, you are required to write a letter to your 2011-12 Language Arts teacher that demonstrates your thoughtful reading of your book. We have chosen to break this down further into three focused "Power Paragraphs" for two reasons, one, to introduce you to the idea of a power paragraph, and two, to assist you in covering all aspects of the assignment.

__ Prompt for Paragraph One - A Reflection of Your Choice __ ** click edit and paste your response her **
 * *Must be posted to the WIKI by midnight on Wednesday, 8/24 **

I chose //__The Mist__// by Stephen King to read because a friend recommended the book to me. I enjoyed the book because it’s both suspenseful and thrilling. For example, the main character is trying to save his friend form a large tentacle that has come out of the mist and grabbed him while people just stand by and watch. “Norm grabbed the bottom edge of the loading door… the tentacle seemed to bulge, like it was flexing... I grabbed Norm around the waist and yanked as hard as I could... the tentacle on his right calf slipped a little, that was all… then he was gone.” This book is a shorter read but it captures your attention with its thrilling and suspenseful scenes all the way to the end. Be sure to include analysis of the quotes too.

__ Prompt for Paragraph Two - A Discussion of What You Gained by Reading Your Book __ ** click edit and paste your response here **
 * *Must be posted to the WIKI by midnight on Thursday, 8/25 **

While reading //The Mist//, it made me think of how easily life can be taken away from us and how we must always have hope. Although the book is fictional (because people are killed by giant spiders and tentacles) it shows us how we can’t under estimate what we are dealing with, and we must always have hope and never lose that hope. “I found a large battery-operated multiband radio. I was reaching for the knob to turn it off, I thought I heard, or dreamed I heard, one single word… hope.” After reading //The Mist// I now know how much hope can do in a bad situation, first it helps you through the beginning and pushes you to get through to the end.

Integrate quotes with your words and analysis.

__ Prompt for Paragraph Three - What to do With it... __ ** click edit and paste your response here **
 * *Must be posted to the WIKI by midnight on Sunday, 8/28 **

I chose to read //The Mist// because a friend had recommended it to me and I had read another book by Stephen King and loved it. Most teenage boys and some girls would enjoy this book because it has a good combination of horror, suspense, and a thrill. Throughout the book David is forced to make hard decisions to hopefully improve his and his son’s chances on surviving the living hell they’re in, like when they decided to see if anyone was in the drugstore next door, or when they decided to leave and had to run to his truck through the mist. //The mist// is a great book that combines the perfect amount of horror, suspense, and a thrill so that boys and girls would enjoy it along with men and women Remember, your topic sentence needs to address the prompt and set the focus of the paragraph.


 * Scoring: Your three paragraphs will be given one overall grade, and the timeliness of your posts will be reflected in your "timeliness" grade. **

// An outstanding response to the prompts will include the following: //
 * A strong topic sentence that clearly establishes the focus on the prompt
 * Evidence that clearly supports the topic sentence
 * Correct use of internal citations and a properly formatted MLA citation for your book (put this citation at the end of paragraph one)
 * Strict adherence to the Power Paragraph format
 * Mechanics are clean and do not detract from meaning