Summer Reading: Shiloh

     Hello Students!!  I am greatly anticipating your summer reading projects for this month!  If you have any questions about the books, or are needing to talk to me about them, please do not hesitate to stop by!  I would like to encourage you to keep reading and find books you are really enjoying.  One of the summer reading choices for this year is a book called Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.  Here are a few questions that you should ask yourself while reading this book:

Discussion Questions

1.       Why doesn't Judd Travers like Marty?

2.        Why does Marty leave the dinner table when they're having fried rabbit?

3.       Why do people in Tyler County keep to their own business?

4.       Why do you think the author use words such as “lookin'” instead of “looking” when the characters speak?

5.       Do you think Marty should give up his desire to be a vet even though there's not enough money to educate him? Why or why not?

6.       When Shiloh reappears at Marty's house, what do you think Marty should have done?

7.        Why do people leave food for Mr. Preston in their mailboxes? What does that show about them?

8.        How does Marty's mother know about Shiloh?

HIGHER LEVEL THINKING SKILLS

9.       How can you lie by what you don't say? How do you think this relate to Marty and Shiloh?

NOTE:  If you have enjoyed Shiloh this summer, I encourage you to ask be about the other two books in the Shiloh series!  This book is the first of the trilogy, so feel free to come by and grab the other two books!!

-Mrs. Barr