Sample Instant Book Report



Instant Book Report                Date: 6/12/98

Name:   Akiko Suzuki (name changed)         Stud. #: 9615738   Class: L25

• Title:   David Copperfield                                             • Level: 1 2 3 4 5 6

• Author:   Charles Dickens                                           • Reading Points: 80

• Publisher:     Heinemann Graded Readers               


• Briefly summarize the book (1-2 sentences). What's it about? What happens?

When David Copperfield was eight years old, his mother married
cruel person. His stepfather sent him to boarding school. After he
left the home his mother was dead. And he have to left the school
and began to work for low pay. His father's aunt began to help him
and he had a good education. And he met a lot of people.



• Respond to the book in some way (3-4 sentences).

Ideas: How did you like it? Why?
     What did it make you think about?
     What experiences/memories did it remind your of?
     What comments do you have?

David Copperfield's experience is so poor. But his mind is so strong
and at the end he got success. Some bad people tried to decieve him
but he was so sensible that can't be deceived. In this story bad
people are beaten by good people, but is it true? And is there a
perfect bad people or a perfect good people? This is very difficult.



• Book Rating:  Good   Fair   Poor

• This book/article was:  a)too easy for me  b) at a good level for me  c) too difficult

• (Optional) Any more notes, questions, comments, new vocabulary, idioms?

boarding school = students live at school                                             
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