Goodreads Review Format 50pts.You will choose 5 of the 8 reading strategies to write in your review. You should be working on this while you are reading the book. Use this format and then copy and paste this information into goodreads.comEach strategy is worth 10pts. You should explain how you used the reading strategy and find at least one example from the story (Make sure to include the page number.) Each response should be at least 3-4 sentences.Explanation of Reading StrategiesPreview Get a sense of a text before you start to read. Look for clues in the title, graphics and subheadings.Set a Purpose Decide WHY you are reading a particular text.Consider how your purpose might affect the way you approach a text. Take notes or just enjoy?Use Prior Knowledge Think of information regarding the material in the story that you already knew. As you read, connect what you know to what you are learningPredict Try to figure out what will happen next and how the selection might end. Note details about plot or character that hint at where the story is heading. Keep reading to find out how accurate your prediction was.Visualize Create a mental picture of characters, events and setting to help understand what is happening. Look for descriptive details about characters, settings and events.Monitor Stop occasionally to review what you have read: make clear your understanding. Question what is happening and why. Clarify your understanding by rereading difficult parts or asking for help. Evaluate how well you are understanding the text.Make InferencesForm opinions about what you have read. Develop your own ideas about characters and events. Make logical guesses, using evidence in the text and what you know from experience.Connect (You will be conferencing with me over this part)Relate personally to what you have read. Think of similarities between the descriptions in the selection and what you have personally experienced, heard about, and read about.Format_____Strategy #1______________ explanation with examples from book_____Strategy #2______________ explanation with examples from book_____Strategy #3______________ explanation with examples from book_____Strategy #4______________ explanation with examples from book_____Strategy #5 Connect_______ explanation with examples from bookSample Format Log on to goodreads.com. I put an example of this format (in Mrs. Kool’s books) under the review Wonder by RJ Palacio. Your review should look similar. Strategy #1 (Preview) I thought the book would be about a guy who found a dead body that was covered in guts. I got that idea on the title of the book. (Gary Paulsen) It wasn’t about that at all. It was about a guy name Brain who gets lost in the woods. And we needs to have ways to survive.Strategy # 2 (Connect) On page 71 (Gary Paulsen) Brain is talking about how when he was a little child he would go out to the state parks and see a lot of different Wildlife. I connected to that because When I go to state parks I always see sometime of wild animal … like deer or coytoes ect. Strategy #3 (visulize) On page 73 (Gary Paulsen) Brain is describing what he sees, A smelly gutty eye that is dangling out of the deads animal’s body. I could picture in my head the animal laying their dead with a nasty smell.Strategy #4 ( Inference) on page 66 (Gary Paulsen) i thought that Brain was going to die but I thought wrong because he remember everything he learned about how to survive in the wild. So he didn’t end up dying he was perfectly fine only with some cuts . Strategy # 5 ( Set a purpose) The reason why I am reading this is because right away I thought it was going to be a good book by its Title. And it kept on getting better as you read it.
Guts by Gary Paulsen is an autobiography that talks about why and how Paulsen chose some of the scenes in his books and how they relate to his life memories. He mainly makes his connections to his books using Hatchet. The author’s main idea in this book is that no matter how hard things may get, you should never quit. He shows this when he makes many references towards hatchet in scenes where Brian, the main character, who is stranded in the very cold middle of nowhere and has to survive by himself. At many times Brian became very distressed and felt as if he would never make it out but, Brian never gave up on his hope of making it home.In all, I enjoyed this book. However, there are some parts that I do have some complaints on. One aspect I enjoyed was the plot construction because I had read Hatchet before and I was really stunned to find out how the most important scenes were actually a part of someone’s life. This is shown in the book in chapter’s fife and six when Paulsen talks about his journeys in Alaska and how he had to hunt and cook his own food just as Brian did and he even says, “It might have been the time when I was closest to Brian in Hatchet.”(pg. 148). Another aspect of the book that I enjoyed was how fast paced and action packed it was. This was shown for example in the first chapter when it goes so quickly from exciting heart attacks that he witnessed very closely to plane crashes that he was involved in! He relates this incident later on with Brian in Hatchet and he even says “I had learned to fly, and the knowledge stayed with me and became part of Brian when I put him in the plane and made him fly.”(Pg. 29). I would recommend this book to anyone who likes the wilderness but I would advise reading Hatchet before.
This book is an awesome autobiography on how Gary Paulsen came about his ideas for writing his books.I really enjoyed reading about his adventures. He tells some of his real life stories and how they are put into his books. The stories have so much detail I almost feel as if I am in his shoes. All the stories he tells in this book are completely real.Brian, the main character, in almost all of his books goes through all the same stuff Gary Paulsen has in his life. Brian is a survivalist and lives for adventure. Paulsen tells a story about how he walked in the woods in the winter when he encountered a moose. The moose attacked Gary Paulsen multiple times. Paulsen then pretended to be dead so the moose would leave. Paulsen also tells how he put in one of his books a plane crash. Then later that week in real life he almost crashed a plane himself.This book is told through the third person. Brian is the name Gary Paulsen gives the main character in all his books. He loves the outdoors and going on adventures.The stories he tells take place out in the middle of nowhere. They are in dense woods and forests areas.This is great for the main character, Brian, because he is a survivalist.I would recommend this book to anyone who likes Gary Paulsen books from fifth grade up. Both girls and boys would like it. I also think this is a great book for a person who does not like to read. Personally, I am not a big reader but this book made me want to keep reading. All in all, this was an awesome book and a definite must read.
—ALEX HULBERT
This last year you could say that I 'discovered' Gary Paulsen. My daughter brought 'Hatchet' home from school and we read it together and from there I branched out on my own, reading at least another dozen and half of his books. So keep in mind that I'm a bit of a fan-- though I hate that word.In any case, I just picked up "Guts" and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's not an autobiography in the sense that it tells the story of Gary's life, but it certainly gives you insight into the types of things he's done and seen. Everything from running the Iditarod to serving in the Army, setting bowling pins to hunting with gun and bow, from volunteering with a fire department to living alone in the woods as a kid.He tells us of those experiences to a real measure to verify that the Brian's experiences (in the Brian books) weren't totally fiction. That they were based on events in Gary's life. Now for me, I enjoyed these tales not so much because of the tie-in with the books, but because it taught me a great deal about life was in the last century, where a boy sometimes had to hunt to feed himself; work to afford his own clothes, and make his own bow and arrows.Pam T~mom/blogger
—Pam ☼Because Someone Must Be a Thorn☼ Tee
Guts is wrote by Gary Paulsen, it has 148 pages, and is non-fiction. This book has the true stories behind some of the Gary Paulsen written books. I would recommend this book to anyone!Summary:Gary is about 13 years old when he decides to make a bow. He has hunted with shotguns and rifles before, but he didn’t like the noise they made when shot. He said it was, “disturbing to nature,” he also says that they have recoil which he didn’t really like. The bow was made of lemon wood. The bow was made of this because it didn’t bend and stay that way, it always was “springy.” The arrows really caused a problem for Gary. Once he figured out how to aim he was doing great! The bow lasts for a really long time until he hunts in a swampy area and shoot a buck and it charges him and breaks his bow. Gary has ran the Iditarod twice. He once tried going across the ocean and ended up getting blown way off the trail. A bush plane comes and was able to see Gary because of his bright yellow sled bag. To find out more read the book yourself.
—Brock
