Independent Reading: Looking for Alaska

Reading Skills

Predictions:

1. Of what I have read so far, I predict that Pudge and the Colonel will get revenge in some way on the boys who duct taped Pudge and threw him in the lake.
2. I also predict that something rather large is going to happen involving Alaska as she has been put on the down low for the past several pages.

Questions:
(Questions I could ask the author)

1. What is the Great Perhaps and why is Pudge so keen on finding it?
2. What is Alaska's story? What shaped her as a character?
3. What was the inspiration for the story?

Link:
(Q & A with John Green: CONTAINS SPOILERS)
http://johngreenbooks.com/alaska-questions/

Connections:

Text to Text: A text to text connection that I can think of is the friendship forming between Chip, Alaska, and Miles and the friendship between Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley from the Harry Potter series.

Text to World: A text to world connection may be being able to see life inside a boarding school for high schoolers and how they go about their daily lives.

Text to Self: A text to self connection could be with all of the characters in the novel and their interest in reading because, I as well, love to read.