What's 811 Reading? discussion

Choose ONE of the following questions. You do not need to include a quote, but all other reading response requirements should be followed. Please consult the checklist below.

1.) How is your text structured? Chapters? Diary entries? By specific subject/topic? Why did the author choose this structure?

2.) Choose a text feature in your text. Why was it included?

For a “4”: Did I….
• Write a topic sentence that provided the title, author, and genre of my text?
• Provide context of what is happening in the text, so my reader understands what I’m talking about?
• Thoroughly explain the significance of my quote/how it proves my idea?
• Check for correct punctuation and spelling?

Leaving Home: Stories

In Hazel Rochman and Darlene Z. McCampbell nonfiction novel, Leaving Home, the text feature structure that was included was chapters. Since there are 15 different authors that wrote entries the authors Hazel and Darlene put chapter because if they put the book together as one with no divided chapter the novel will be very confusing. Also, they put chapter to tell who is telling the story. For example, Gary Soto is in one chapter and Amy Tan in another. Each entries are different and divide them because every person has a different story. The authors Hazel Rochman and Darlene Z. McCampbell structure the text into chapters because those 15 different authors has different stories in their life, and different points of view. Therefore, Hazel Rochman and Darlene Z. McCampbell divide the chapters because different people has different point of views they see in life.

In Peter Nichols' nonfiction novel, A Voyage For Madmen, the text structure was chapters. In this novel the author explains how the voyage was and his life when it was happening, in the introduction. This novel is about 9 men who try to race around the world but only one person make it back. I recently read about how the 9 sailors are planning their trip and who they are before they were sailors. Just like any other novel,it has chapters. I think the reason why Peter used chapters because he wanted to organize the subjects about how each 9 man acted. So far each chapter is a different person. The author used this technique because it helps the reader. Reading a novel that has no organization is to confusing. No chapters, no fun reading a book. You aren't enjoying yourself when there is no organization. Therefore, this is the reason why Peter used chapters to organize his novel.

In Eric Schlosser's nonfiction novel, Chew On This, the structure that is formed in this book is by a specific topic. Since this book talks about different types of fast food restaurants, the author wants to structure this topic by topic. This author probably structure the writing in this book because not only do they talk about how a fast food restaurant became an economic growth, but how a certain type of food is also created and how it became part of a fast food restaurant's food. So, after they talk about the invention of a restaurant, they start talking about how a certain food became part of their fast food meal (McDonald's Chicken McNuggets plus French Fries/KFC's Chicken Thighs, etc.). So, this is probably why I think the author structure the book this way.

Outward Dreams

In Jim Haskins non fiction novel, Outward Dreams, Jim structured this book in chapters because he wanted to instruct the readers about the different African American inventors, and what they invented. In the second chapter, Jim talks about Benjamin Banneker, a Black man born in Baltimore County, Maryland, who invented the very first clock in the United states at the age of 24 in 1754. Not only did he invent the clock, but he also invented the almanac, a calendar of days and months with the astronomical information for each noted. In London, there is a huge clock called the Big Ben, named after Benjamin Banneker. Jim also included a picture of Benjamin to show you how he looked when he first invented the clock.He wanted to give information about Ben and all the other Black inventors. Therefore, that is why Jim Haskins chose the format for this novel.

In Mike Tanners non fiction book Flat out Rock the text is structured by a specific topic since this book talkes about the greatest rock bands that were in the 60's the author want's to structure it topic by topic.I think the author wanted to structure the book like that becuase it would be easier to structure book topic by topic he probally wanted each famous rock to have their own page and at least 6 to 7 pages then it goes to another famous rock band and then on and on until it gets to the last rok band. I think is a good method that the author chosed because if he wrote it in chapters it will probally be hard to read all of the little words scrunched up on each page just saying a book like Flat out Rock deserves to be sorted in specific topic.

In Mark Pfetzer's memoir,My Everest Story , the text is structured by diary entries since he wants to keep it in order. The author chose to structure this way because the author wants us to learn the events that happen in his life in order. He writes about his trip to Mt Everest and how he felt during those times. He didnt put the dates random because it will just confuses his readers and no one will read it. Therefore, I think the author structured this way by diary entries

In Eric Schlosser's non-fiction, Fast Fast Nation, the text is structured by a specific topic since this book talks about how fast food was invented and how they are re producing. The author chose this structure because the author wants us to learn the event of fast food evolution. He wrote about how McDonald was invented and how other companies took ideas from it to make burger king, taco bell, Wendy's and etcetera. But the author didn't mentioned any suing because it will just make no sense. That's why the author structured this by specific topic.

In George K. Jorden's nonfiction book, That Moment When, the text feature that was included was chapters. They seem to divide the book into chapters, and each chapter gives out a different story for each character in the story like Damon and his son was mostly in one chapter and a chapter after that was about a loving couple. I suspect that the author put them there so we could understand on how the other characters from behind the scenes are doing.

In Mark Thomas's non-fiction book, A Nation Divided, the structure that was put into the book was chapters. Mark Thomas chose to put chapters in his book instead of other textures. I think he did this because he wanted to break down every scene, instead of one going into andother and into another and so on. He probably wanted the reader to read a certain chapter and let that chapter soak into their heads before going on to the next chapter. The scenes being broken up into chapter was a very good idea because in my opinion, this made the book easier to take in then the scenes going from one straight into another. I think the author, Mark Thomas had some trouble putting the diffrent pieces together so he split the book into chapters to make it easier for him to combine then just haveing one thing happen then another thing happen right away.

In Phillip Hoose's nonfiction novel Moonbird, the text features that were included are photographs, chapters, diagrams, and charts. I think the author chose these structures so that he could organize things using chapters. I think he added photographs into the book to show what B95 looked like, and to also show how some people mentioned in the book how they caught and banded the birds. I think the author added charts to mainly show the route that B95 followed, and how it was different from a normal bird's route to the south. One text feature in the book is bolded words. The bolded words showed a word, and at the bottom of the page it would show a definition for the bolded word.

Nick Hasted's biography, The Dark Story Of Eminem, is structured and broken down into chapter form. It was structured in chapters because it was the best way to organize someone's life for a book especially for a biography. Chapters are also a typical way of structuring a book for biographies and autobiographies because the novel is about a person's beginnings in life to the point where they are now. Each chapter could be about when he/she started what they do now, or something big that happened in their lives at one point. A text feature that was included in my story was pictures at various points in the book. It was included for the reader to have a visual image of what Eminem looked like and the people he hung out with growing up. It could also have been for people have not heard of Eminem and were interested in reading about him. It would have helped them a lot to picture what he looked like.

In Donald J Sobol's non-fiction novel The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, the book is broken up into chapters. I think that the reason for this is because in every chapter the wright brothers either go to a different location or they do something else. For example in on chapter they would be testing out the new plane at Kitty Hawk and in the next they could be going back home to their bicycle shop. Or another reason why they would set it into chapters rather then in an article in a news paper is because it is telling a story. In a newspaper article they are usually formatted to teach or inform you.

In Marjane Satrapi non-fiction novel Persepolis, the book is structured as a comic book. Why is it structured as a comic because its to show us how it was like at the time of The Viel. Also to give us readers a fun time while reading. With that, its a way to catch the reader by saying, ' Hey, its a comic and comics are great.

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In the non-fiction story Harriet Tubman Conducter on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petery,the text in the book is written in chapters like a fiction book. The book is written in first person so there is a narrator telling the story of Harriet Tubman. I think the author wrote it this way because instead of making it like a regular non-fiction book which has only facts and/ or opinions. This book has dialogue for the characters who talk. The author wrote it this way to make it more interesting like a fiction book in chapters and dialogue. Even though it has this, it's still informing the reader about Harriet Tubman's life and what she did to free the slaves. It's like a biography but written diffrently tan non- fiction books and articles.

In Homer Hickman's non-fiction novel October sky, Homer is upset because his parents keep arguing about money to pay for the bills and his mother doesn't think that his father is making enough money. So this is a flashback from Homer, but his dad gets mad at his mom and leaves the house. This book has quotes that are used differently from a fiction book, because in this book they use the quote to state something a person has said. But in a fiction book they use quotes to show when a character is speaking. Therefore in this book quotes are included because it shows what a person has said or stated in the book.

In my non-fiction novel Creatures that Kill You by Marie Noble on of the text features was pictures.I think that they had the pictures cause they wanted to give a visuals of the real life creatures.In this book it is very good cause it showed graffics on the real life asspects of the creatures.When there are the text features in the article it makes it makes it kinda better cause it give a idea of what the article is about.

In Jay Asher's realistic fiction novel Thirteen Reasons Why the book is structured into cassette tapes.So one of the protagonists Hannah Baker commited suicide and before she did she recorded the 13 reasons why on cassette tapes and gave it to the people that were mentioned on the tapes. Theres 1 reason on each side of the cassette tape and is labled by numbers in order and in alphabetical order to show which side to listen to first. I think its structured like that so it helps the reader know which cassette the main protagonist is listening too.