Wide+reading+yr11;Exemplar

 1. For each response, state the title of the text, its author/director, the text type, and when you completed reading/viewing/listening to it. **2. ****//Opinions //** For each text, give two personal opinions on aspects of the text and support each opinion with a reference to specific details from the text. Specific detail could be a quotation (part of the text written out and put in quotation marks “”) from the text or a description of something that happened or something someone did.  Here is an exemplar: See if you can identify; · An opinion · A specific detail to support an opinion **The 10pm Question ** **by Kate de Goldi ** **Novel **  <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">This book is about a boy, Frankie, who worries about everything. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">I really liked the character of Ma (Frankie’s Mum) because although she had a lot of problems of her own, she always made time for Frankie. I felt that she was actually a really good mother even though she doesn’t go outside the house, unlike Garry’s dad in __Out on the Edge__, who just took his problems out on Garry. For example, they have their special time of 10pm each night where she just helps him sort out his worries. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">It’s interesting how it takes a while to realise that she’s got problems too. I also like how she’s got around her phobia about being outside by developing a business of making cakes. It shows she doesn’t let her problems destroy her or her family (unlike Garry’s dad). It reminded me of how our Dean is always saying to see problems as challenges, not barriers. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">I also like it how the book was made me want to laugh and cry, sometimes even in the same place. This is quite like real life, I think. It’s sad because there is a lot wrong with Frankie’s family (like how his mother can’t go outside and his brother and sister won’t talk about that with him and how he has to do all the shopping, which stresses him out), but there are so many funny parts like how his worries are all so exaggerated, for example, will bird flu strike and ruin life as we know it? or Is the kidney-shaped spot on his chest actually a galloping cancer?
 * <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Writing a Wide Reading Response **