Research Prompts for August 28

Research Prompt, No. 1

A Small Place, Basic Overview

Create a chart with the following information:

1. Author?
2. Publisher?
3. Publication date?
4. How many pages is the text?
5. How many sections is the book broken into?
6. Give a brief summary (50 words) of each section.
7. What are the main figures or who are the characters in the text?
8. From this information, what do you understand the Theme of the text to be?
9. What other information would you look for in the text to support this?

Email a digital copy of this chart to the instructor before the start of class: rtbarnha@ic.sunysb.edu

Research Prompt, No. 2

A Small Place, Point of View

Create a chart with the following information:

1. What story is told in A Small Place?
2. From what Point of View is the story told?
3. Who tells the story?
4. Why are they telling the story?
5. How do you know? List ten quotes from the text that support why this story is being told.
6. Is the Point of View always the same in the story
7. What other Point of View could this story be told from?
8. From this information, what do you understand the Theme of the text to be?
9. What other information would you look for in the text to support this?

Email a digital copy of this chart to the instructor before the start of class: rtbarnha@ic.sunysb.edu

Research Prompt, No. 3

A Small Place, Setting

Create a chart with the following information:

1. Where does the story take place?
2. When does the story take place?
3. Find ten quotes that describe the setting.
4. Has the place changed or stayed the same?
5. What is the political atmosphere?
6. What is the economic atmosphere?
7. Find four quotes that show how the setting is connected to the Conflict in the text.
8. From this information, what do you understand the Theme of the text to be?
9. What other information would you look for in the text to support this?

Email a digital copy of this chart to the instructor before the start of class: rtbarnha@ic.sunysb.edu