LITERATURE DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Characters
1) Which character did you like best? Why?
2) At what point does a character change in the story?
3) Which character would you like to be?
4) What would you have done if you had been in the story?
Plot
1) Which part of the story did you like best?
2) Did you guess the end of the story before you read it?
3) What do you think will happen in the sequel?
Connections
1) Did the story remind you of anything you have done?
2) Does this story remind you of any other story you have read?
Changes
1) If you could change anything in this story what would you change?
2) How would the story be different if the setting was changed to where and when you currently live?
3) How would the story be different if it was told from a different point of view?
4) Do you think the story could have been told better if was told in a different genre--as a play or a poem?
Style
1) Were there any parts that you particularly liked?
2) Did you note any particularly good usages of figurative language, imagery, or diction?
3) Were there any particularly good sentence starters or paragraph openers?
4) Were there any parts that were particularly confusing?
5) Were there any parts where the author gave clues but didn’t tell you explicitly what was happening and you had to infer?
