Reading Log Worksheet
- 1. Reading Log: English 10 Honors Name: Abraham Coleman Book Title: You Don’t Know Me Author: David Klass Page 1 to 65 Summary John is the typical high school geek, fantasizing after the hottest girl in the school. He is extremely negative and thinks everyone/ every- thing is against him. He has anti-friends, anti-subjects, anti- school teachers, and a father who is not his father. His tuba is a frog that tells him poems when he is playing it. This first section is basically about how miserable he is with his very dull life. My Thoughts – I thought the introduction of this very original novel was a bit too much of a depressant, because John is extremely depressed with this and that. His tuba won’t play for him, or the girl who he likes eats his note. However, the novel has plenty of humor and irony in it to keep the pace up, I really enjoyed the part where Glory eats John’s note and quite leaves him speechless. Typical school behavior, but to an extreme level to make it hilarious, but not too far-fetched is truly a talent that Klass has mastered. Predictions – I predict once that John has finally figured out why Gloria ate his note, that Gloria will play a horrendous joke on John, just to be mean. Vocabulary – incriminating- to prove or make somebody appear to be guilty of a crime or mistake
- 2. Favorite Passage- “But then her lovely lips, like twin rosebud petals in spring sunlight, spread themselves open. Her pearly teeth part. She eats my note.”