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 * Writing a Wide Reading Response**

· Details of the text · A brief description of what the book is about (one to two sentences) · A personal response to the text · Two specific details to support your response Specific detail could be a quote, or example of something someone did, details of a setting…
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**Title** Daggers **Author** Roger Green **Type** Fiction **Date finished:** 20 Feb This novel is about a girl called Caroline and her discovery of the ‘family secret’ when she goes to visit her Great Aunt who is on her death bed. I thought that the title for this book is quite misleading when looking at the text as a whole. When you first glance at the book you think it is going to be quite gruesome because of the title ‘Daggers’ and the picture of the bright red blood when really the ‘daggers’ refers to Caroline’s ‘deathly stares’ that she inherited from her Great Aunt Clara and there is no actual deliberate murder in the book. I felt sorry for Caroline as her relationship with her father was not very close or strong. Throughout the book she refers to him as the ‘fossil’ and doesn’t agree with her father’s outlook on life as being money, money, money especially when he doesn’t care if Aunt Clara dies because he knows that it will all go to him. When they are in the solicitor’s office she describes him as ‘an old faulty money bag himself. Soiled and soggy, ready to be chucked away.’

Here are some starters to get you thinking about your personal response;

· What point of view does the author hold on an idea or theme raised in text? What is your opinion on the author’s view? · What links could you make between ideas in this text and either other texts you have read, or your own experience? · What did you learn from the text? · How did you react to an aspect of the text? (eg to an incident, or a scene, or setting, or narrative technique, or issue) · What aspects of a particular character interested you and why? · Did you find the characters believable and why?