Book Group Role: The Reporter

Reporters report the news, highlighting the important events and giving enough background so their audience can understand the people, background and importance of the day’s events. Reporters summarize. Their reports are short and succinct, but they include all the important information

A reporter who was covering “Bruh Lizard and Bruh Rabbit,” for example, might begin the report by saying that Bruh Rabbit stole Bruh Lizzard’s sword to cut his crops, but everything went out of control.

This general statement might be followed by some of the events of the story: that the sword cuts the crops itself, that Rabbit wanted it, that he stole it and used Lizard’s words to get it started, and that he realized, too late, that he did not know how to stop it. It cut down everything. Lizard found out what happened, laughed at Rabbit, and took the sword back.

During the next meeting of your book group, you will be the person who will provide a quick summary that sums up the main highlights, the essence of the reading thus far. If there are several events to cover, use numbered lines to list them.

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