What Should Be in Your Reader's Notebook

5p today marked the end of 1st quarter here in PG County. Here's what should be in your child's Readers Notebook so far since the midpoint of the quarter:

9/29 What emotions or feelings did you have while reading the text?
9/30 What is the setting of the text? Is the setting of the text important to your story? Why?
10/1 Does the setting remind you of a place you know? What is the place and how does it remind you of it?
10/2 What events are connected most to the setting? Why? OR What is an important event that occurs in the book? Where does it occur?
10/3 If you could take on the qualities of any character in the text, what qualities would those be? What character would they come from?
10/6 What would be the main character's response or take on the upcoming election?
10/7 How does the author let you know what the setting is?
10/8 Does the setting affect what the characters do or don't do? How?
10/10 Why did the author choose the narrator he/she did for the story?
10/13 Do you think the characters in your story are believable?
10/14 Give a summary of what happened in your story today.
10/15 Which character or characters do you think have learned the hardest lesson in the text? Why?
10/16 What idea image or situation meant the most to you as you read the text? Why?
10/20 What do you think will happen next in your book? Why?
10/21 If you could talk with thee author of this text, what would you ask him or her OR what would you comment on?
10/22 If you were going to recommend this text to someone, who would it be? What in this text would the person like?
10/23 What are your thoughts about the text so far? What in the text is causing those thoughts?
10/24 If you could take any passage and make it a play or skit what would it be? Why?
10/28 Does the setting make difference in how you view your characters? Why? Why not?
10/29 Choose your own dilemma?
10/30 What/who is the biggest problem facing the main character of your book right now?