The Hobbit Analysis

This Second quarter we worked on PRL’s, a class novel called “The Hobbit” by J.R.R Tolkien, and an Ellis Island packet. The PRL’s are based off of personal reading books we chose from the library and I chose “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” by Brian Selznick. With our class novel “The Hobbit” by J.R.R Tolkien we worked on three essays for this novel. And the Ellis Island packet, we analysed photos,videos, and writing.

My two best Shared Reading responses are my Hobbit Tbear and Ellis Island talking to the text packet. You will find these two pieces of writing in the fourth and ninth spot in my portfolio and they are labeled with a bow and bird sticker, surrounded by mini heart stickers.. These are examples of my best Shared Reading responses because it was a well written tbear and my Ellis Island packet had lots of

For example, my second best reading response meets CCSS 3 because it shows how a writer makes connections between the text and possible accusations . To prove this I stated, “ with old and outdated boats, immigrants couldn 't afford nice transport” This shows that i’m critically thinking about __________________ because ___________________________. I 've learned more since this response and will add to the analysis by saying that (important, powerful, interesting, relates to real life, makes me feel/see, connects to another story, etc.) because____________ . In addition to using the TBEAR strategy, a couple of other strategies I used to make sure this is one of my best responses is _____________________ and __________________ strategies. Both of these strategies helped me because __(explain these strategies, break down the steps and why each part is important and help you interpret the literature more thoroughly)_. TRANSITION, breaking the literature down using these strategies shows that I 'm better understanding the piece as a whole because ___________________.