Analytical Questions

Question choices:

1. What was the author's purpose in writing this book? How do you know?
2. How are the characters presented?
3. Are the characters good or bad? How do you know? How did the author show the character's were good or bad?
4. What did the character look like or what did they say that influenced me?
5. What are the characters names and how does that describe their role?
6. What imagery was in the story?
7. What is the take home message of the story?
8. How do the characters themselves that help us understand other characters? How does the foil character that makes other characters pop out?(The donkey is a foil for Shrek)
9. What new vocabulary word did you learn from this book that you did not currently know?
10. What challenge did the character face, and how did they overcome it?
11. What prior knowledge or experiences did you have to this story? How did that help you understand the story better?
12. Did you have any predictions about what was going to happen in the story as you were reading?
13. Was there a part of the story that did not make sense? Why?