While reading, work on your reading journal (personal format choice; 2 examples on the excersise sheet).

Create a character profile of Miles, Chip, and Alaska using the table on the exercise sheet as a template.

While reading, work on your reading journal.

2. Go through the checklist and figure out if your summary checks all the criteria or not (put a ✓ or X). If you want, you can do this exercise with a partner: simply switch summaries and check your partner’s text. 

3. Write a new version of your summary that checks all the boxes from the checklist. You may use a dictionary.

… “I have a date,” he explained. “This is an emergency.” He paused to catch his breath. “Do you know” – breath – “how to iron?”…

In chapter X, Chip asks Miles if he knows how to iron.

Since Chip has a date, he asks Miles for help. 

Chip says that he as a date and needs his shirt to be ironed.

“The one thing my lousy father taught me,” the Colonel said as his hands nimbly threaded the tie into a perfect knot, “was how to tie a tie. Which is odd, since I can’t imagine when he ever had to wear one.”

Chip says that his father has taught him how to tie a tie.

Chip remembers how his father has taught him how to tie a tie.