Clarify-Students are to analyze where they lack an understanding of the book.

Summarize-Students will summarize the book, a chapter, or a section of the book.

Visualize-I ask students to draw a symbol that best represents the book.

The Night Diary Veera Hiranandani: Reading Comprehension

Lastly draw a primary character and at least one secondary character in the box below.

To assess setting students can create the setting in a drawing below.

You can ask them If you were given the opportunity to ask the author 5 questions what would they be? Write the questions below and explain why you want the answers to these questions.

Or choose a significant incident in the book and write a journal entry from a character’s point-of-view.

Be prepared to share the chapter with your classmates.

Students can predict what will happen in the next chapter and craft a chapter from a character’s perspective in first person point of view.

Create interview questions, practice and be prepared to present in front of the class.

Another journal response can be to create a mock interview between yourself and a character.

This puts the students through the thought process of what empathy is like. Tell them something you admire about them and why. Tell them how you are similar or different.

Some of the examples are to write a letter to a character.Second, I have multiple journal responses that I use throughout the unit that are engaging and assess student comprehension. The Night Diary Veera Hiranandani: Journal Responses I like to keep definitions as simple as possible because when you use long definitions there is a low chance of student retention. Students are to write a simple synonym for the definition. I start by passing out a vocabulary sheet in which students have the page number and the vocabulary word. The Night Diary Veera Hiranandani: Vocabulary She documents her and her family’s dangerous travels from Pakistan in a diary that is dedicated to her mother.

As a half-Muslim, half-Hindu girl she is unsure of where she stands. Nisha has already lost her mom at her birth and now she is in danger of losing her own life, or the lives of her brother and father.

The story is told through this 12-year old’s eyes where she watches all that comes with the British withdrawing from a country, like violence. The Night Diary is a coming-of-age novel where a young girl is living through the recent Independence of India. The Night Diary Veera Hiranandani Novel Study-click HERE for the full lesson on Teachers Pay Teachers.

The night diary by veera hiranandani