March Book of the Month 2016

March Book of the Month: Nonfiction  

     Your task is to keep track of how individuals, ideas, and events interact in your nonfiction book.  You are looking for ways that one influences the other(s).  How does an individual influence events or ideas?  How do events influence an individual or group?  How do ideas influence an individual or group?   As you read, list as many of these interactions as you can.

Sign up by March 25.  Project Due: April 12/13 – or Sooner! 

Nine correct entries = C     Twelve Entries = B     Fifteen Entries  =  A

My book’s title is ____________________________

The author is ___________________________________ # of pages: _____

Page	Individual, idea, event, setting, situation that is influencing or affecting something else	Individual, idea, event, setting, situation that being influenced or affected	How is the one influencing or affecting the other?
Examples from The Notorious Benedict Arnold by Steve Sheinkin
8-9	Yellow Fever -- Event Two of Benedict Arnold’s sisters die from yellow fever	Benedict -- Individual Benedict’s show-off behavior becomes more extreme.	Benedict became more of a daredevil, doing dangerous things, seemingly to show that death couldn’t easily take him.
26-39	Benedict -- Individual Benedict wanted to capture the cannons at Fort Ticonderoga for the Americans fighting the British.	American government leaders -- Individuals/Group The Massachusetts Committee of Safety was in charge of the Americans fighting the British at Boston.	Benedict convinced them to send him to gather soldiers and capture Fort Ticonderoga, so he becomes a military leader.

Examples from How They Croaked by Georgia Bragg
67+	Mozart's Father -- Individual Mozart's father was a musician himself.	Mozart -- Individual Mozart's musical abilities and how they were used were affected by his father.	Mozart learned to play by watching his father teach his sister.  His father encouraged his talents and took him and his sister on tour when he was young. Mozart became famous at an early age.
135+	Darwin -- Individual  Darwin came up with his theory about evolution.	Scientific Thinking -- Ideas	Eventually his theories became the generally accepted way scientists looked at the development of life on earth

127+

Situation -- The president at the time did not have any type of guards.

James A. Garfield -- Individual

Garfield was shot and eventually died as a result of the wound.

127+

Ideas -- Doctors  did not understand the need to wash their hands.

James A. Garfield -- Individual

Garfield's gunshot wound became infected because the doctors poked around in it with dirty fingers.  He died as a result of infection.

 Examples from Knucklehead by Jon Scieszka

	Individual, idea, event, setting, situation that is influencing or affecting something else	Individual, idea, event, setting, situation that being influenced or affected	How is the one influencing or affecting the other?
pg. 19	Jon Scieszka as a boy	His brother Jim Jim liked to argue -- and to trick Jon	Because Jon argued back --- which often let to wrestling -- he says he made Jim better at arguing, so when he grew up Jim was a better lawyer because of Jon (according to Jon).

   Examples from An American Plague 

pg 1	It was hot in the summer of 1793.	the swamps marshes and rivers -------------------------- dead fish ----------------------  insects including mosquitoes --------------------	dried up rotted and stunk increased in numbers

Examples from Vampires by Stephen Krensky 

Page	Individual, idea, event, setting, situation that is influencing or affecting something else	Individual, idea, event, setting, situation that being influenced or affected	How is the one influencing or affecting the other?
9-10	Human nature	Causes belief in vampires	People want to explain why people die in their sleep or why some people act so strangely, so they use the idea of vampires to explain those things.
26-27	A real life count in the country of Transylvania named Vlad Tepes whose father was known as the dracul (the dragon), so he was the son of the dragon or in their language, Dracula	Vlad was cruel to his many enemies.  An author named Bram Stoker heard about him.	Over six years he impaled thousands of people on wooden stakes and left them to die.  Stoker used the location and the name Dracula when he wrote his book about a vampire.

Examples from Idaho – Thank you to Anne C.

p. 14-15	The Spanish brought horses to Idaho	Changed the Native Americans’ life	They lived longer and they were able to hunt easier.
p. 40	One of  Idaho’s dams is the American Falls Dam on the Snake River	The people of American Falls City had to be moved.	The reservoir created by the dam now covers the town except for the grain elevator that stands very tall.

Utah State Core   --  Reading: Informational Text Standard 3 

Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).            Key Words: analyze, interactions, influence

Definition of Analysis:  an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relationships in making up the whole    Definition of Component:  a part of a larger whole

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