Reader’s Response Log – Smoky Night

Reader’s Response Log – Smoky Night

 

Reader’s Response Log – Smoky Night

 

Read Smoky Night and then read it aloud to a classroom, your own children, or “borrowed” children, noting all their responses and questions.
Then type a one page report detailing their responses to the text and illustrations.
Assignment Details

Write one paragraph answering the question “How does Smokey Night relate to literature’s potential for influencing the reader’s perspective?” Refer to your Chapter 4
textbook reading and use the children’s responses as evidence in your discussion of these ideas.
Write one paragraph discussing intertextuality in relation to Smoky Night. It is important to understand how it might affect the reading of Bunting’s Smoky Night. Does
a child’s emotional maturity affect how he/she understands the plot and characters in this story? Support your conclusions with evidence from the children’s responses
to the story.
Write one paragraph discussing Smoky Night according to the criteria for multicultural literature described in your Chapter 4 textbook reading. Comment on the cultural
issues involved in reading this book. Do the illustrations matter—especially the artistic depiction of the characters?