CHOICE BOOK RESPONSE

For today's blog assignment, I would like you to respond to a powerful passage from the reading you have done during the last couple of days.

Consider your response a conversation between you and the text.
You’ll need to record the quote/passage and your thoughts about the text.
Follow the format based on the example below.

Comment on one of the following:
● what you think something means
● the personal connections you make (to a character, setting, event)
● patterns you notice
● predictions you can pose
● commentary on important decisions made by characters, ideas expressed, or key events
● observations about a character
● what seems unusual
● recognition of a literary technique and ideas about its meaning and purpose


EXAMPLE:
“A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and run deep and
green.  The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight
before reaching the  narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the 
strong and rocky Gabilan  mountains … sycamores with mottled, white,  recumbent limbs and 
branches that arch over the  pool” (Steinbeck 1).

There’s something about the description of the pool that makes it sound lovely. The complex 
sentences and  verbs are fluid: drops, run, slipped, curve, and arch. The  descriptors are fresh and 
peaceful: deep and green,  twinkling, golden, mottled, and recumbent. With this  lovely pool
against the backdrop of the “strong and  rocky Gabilan mountains,” the spot feels like a refuge.

If you need extra time, complete your post for homework.