How to respond to your book Creatively?

• Choose a character and pretend to be him/her and follow her through the whole book. Write diaries from his/her point of view retelling or responding to the events happened in the book.
• Be a news reporter and turn certain events into news articles.
• Collage/text rendering (free-write in response to a portion of the text and then create a collage, inserting portions of freewriting into the original text)
• Rewrite a scene using a different genre, for example, you can turn a very interesting chapter of a novel into a dramatic scene, or a narrative poem; or you can choose a different point of view to retell the story (see lessons on Point of View Writing)
• Critical essays on a certain issue in the novel
• Use different literary response approaches, such as psychological, historical and political perspectives, to prove the significance of the work( Read an example)
• You can also write about the connections between an art work and the story (read an example: art's unfighting feelings)
• Position paper on an issue stated in the text (book)
• Write your own story that's related to the theme or subject in the book, for example, your similar childhood story, etc.