Template to be used when submitting a review to Mrs Purcell

Your first name: ____________________________ (no surname)

Introduction/General information about the book

Title:

Author:

Date first edition:

Genre (fantasy, humour, science-fiction, mystery, biography, non-fiction, etc):

Setting

Describe the time and place of the story:

Comment about the setting (e.g.: the setting makes story exciting, the setting has an important effect on main character, the setting is/is not exciting or new, the setting increased my knowledge of something):

Main character

Main Character:

Describe this character:

The main character changes from ______________________________________ to

________________________________________________ by the end of the story.

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Other characters

(2 minimum – 6 max.)

Another character:

Details:

Another character:

Details:

Another character:

Details:

Another character:

Details:

Another character:

Details:

Another character:

Details:

Theme

What is the author trying to say in this story? What is his lesson in life? Is there a moral to this story?

This is a story about what ? (Courage? Working hard? Doing the right thing? Greed? Importance of friends? Jealousy? Love? Caring? Happiness? Sadness? etc)

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This book showed me/I learned from this story:

Plot

The Action: Summary of what happens in the story (list up to 6 events that happened in the story - keep them in order):

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Assessment of the book

What did you think of the book?

What did you like about the book?

What didn’t you like about the book?

Was the story confusing or hard to believe?

Was the story predictable (could you guess what was going to happen?)

Was the story believable?

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The ending was _________________________________________________

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