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This document provides instructions for a book report on the novel The Foreign Student. Students are to write a 1000-word, double-spaced book report following specific formatting guidelines. The report should be organized into paragraphs with clear topics. It should summarize the novel in five sections: an introduction, summaries of the "Autumn", "Winter", and "Spring" sections, and a conclusion. The teacher provides an example outline using the table of contents from the novel and is available for one-on-one conferences to discuss students' reports. Students are instructed to read the novel academically in preparation for writing the assigned book report.

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This document provides instructions for a book report on the novel The Foreign Student. Students are to write a 1000-word, double-spaced book report following specific formatting guidelines. The report should be organized into paragraphs with clear topics. It should summarize the novel in five sections: an introduction, summaries of the "Autumn", "Winter", and "Spring" sections, and a conclusion. The teacher provides an example outline using the table of contents from the novel and is available for one-on-one conferences to discuss students' reports. Students are instructed to read the novel academically in preparation for writing the assigned book report.

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This document provides instructions for a book report on the novel The Foreign Student. Students are to write a 1000-word, double-spaced book report following specific formatting guidelines. The report should be organized into paragraphs with clear topics. It should summarize the novel in five sections: an introduction, summaries of the "Autumn", "Winter", and "Spring" sections, and a conclusion. The teacher provides an example outline using the table of contents from the novel and is available for one-on-one conferences to discuss students' reports. Students are instructed to read the novel academically in preparation for writing the assigned book report.

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English 1 Book Report

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This document provides instructions for a book report on the novel The Foreign Student. Students are to write a 1000-word, double-spaced book report following specific formatting guidelines. The report should be organized into paragraphs with clear topics. It should summarize the novel in five sections: an introduction, summaries of the "Autumn", "Winter", and "Spring" sections, and a conclusion. The teacher provides an example outline using the table of contents from the novel and is available for one-on-one conferences to discuss students' reports. Students are instructed to read the novel academically in preparation for writing the assigned book report.

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John David Mock’s Book Report Instructions

Instructions the Book Report for Periodic and Recurso/Special Assessment

Your Full Name

John D. Mock

English 1-A/B

21 November 2023 (I’ll need the report 10 days before the Recurso Exam to get it graded

in a timely fashion) (The same is true of the special exam: 10 days before the exam).

Your Title Here

All projects should be word-processed using Microsoft Word. You should deliver an

electronic copy of your paper(s) as an attachment (jdm11july@gmail.com). No late

submissions will be accepted.

The pages should be set up with margins of 2.5cm on all sides (File > Page setup); the font

should be Times New Roman 12pt (Format > Font); the line-spacing should be 2.0 (Format >

Paragraph); the first line of paragraphs should be indented (meaning no extra space between

paragraphs). This text is formatted already… so you can duplicate the instructions, delete

everything, and use it as a template, really.

The papers should be presented as a continuous piece of text. The information should be

organized into paragraphs. The main topic of each paragraph should be clear to the reader,

and the paragraphs should be both coherent in themselves and sequenced intelligently, with

logical transitions from one paragraph to the next. You should write in a relatively formal

style, as is appropriate for an academic context. (i.e. without using short forms, colloquial

language, etc).
Your Full Name 2

Your Name

John D. Mock

English 1-A/B

21 November 2023

The Book Report on The Foreign Student (This is MY title: you all need to think of your

own)

Length: 1,000 words, typed, double-spaced.

This exercise, which is worth 25% of the periodic grade and 30% of the Recurso and

Special Exam grade, is based around summary writing skills, as presented in the first unit of

OEAP. A report is, after all, a summary, for the most part. Reporters report. Teachers teach.

Students study. A report does not begin with the words "I think" or "I believe". It is like,

perhaps, an autopsy. :) (Oh, come on, the book begins with death, in some ways, so why not

go morbid?)

It is to be remembered that this is not compare and contrast or pros and cons. It is a

report/summary. The foreign student though helps you, the student, to organize things. In the

table of contents, you already have a good possible outline for a summary/report.

I. Introduction. Paris. Of course it is not just a summary of that little bit of writing

called "Prologue." It needs to set up the rest of the report. We think more about intros and

conclusions in English 2. But you need to be thinking about them already. And easy way of

doing this is: "Phillippe Labro's The Foreign Student begins in a classroom..."

II. A summary of "Autumn".

III. A summary of "Winter".

IV. A summary of "Spring".

V. Conclusion. In this case, a summary of the epilogue springs to mind. But already, I

am allowing some judgement for the last two sentences, for example. This is a place where I
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am allowing you to say "I think/believe" is you wish. Believe it or not, in academic writing

you can express an opinion without using the word "I". But this is English 2 and 3 and 4 stuff.

Frequently, in high school, the easy route is taken... which is not entirely academic. But how

to high school teachers know how many or which students will be taking the next academic

leap? :)

I am available for one-on-one conferencing. Always. Before or after class or... on

Skype. Covid did teach "me" that conferencing sometimes works better via video. :) There are

things you can do that can't be done physically face-to-face. It is personal and professional at

the same time. On-to-one. More people added to online instruction ... more people in little

boxes on a Zoom screen... tends to destroy real instruction/interaction.

First things first... start reading, and I'll give you that spoiler alert you think you don't

want: the foreign student gets to stay in the good ole USA. :) Reading academically is

different than reading for pleasure. You enter the arena of the Coliseum as informed as you

can possibly be. About your opponent... In this case ... a "text". Sometimes opponents can

become friends... :)

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