Something to Say Lit Log (Novel Study)

This is a lit log for Something to Say, by Lisa Moore Ramée, the author of A Good Kind of Trouble. The book is written from the perspective of Janae, an eleven-year-old 7th grade girl. The main character deals with middle grade students’ biggest concerns of fitting in versus standing out, having friends, and finding your voice besides family and social activism (whether or not to change the name of the middle school). Unfortunately, Janae does not use healthy coping strategies.

Key focus skills in the lit log are:

* use text to explain/draw inferences/cite textural evidence

* determine theme/central idea/summarize

* describe, compare/contrast, analyze characters, setting, events/plot

* use text to determine meaning of , analyze words/phrases

* describe, explain, analyze point of view

Reading Level of Book: 4th/5th grade

Interest Level of Book: 4th-7th grade

“Mrs. D”