An anticipation guide is a great way to get students discussing the major themes in a piece of reading before ever opening the book. The statements in an anticipation guide are meant to be controversial in order to open a debate. There are no right or wrong answers. Students who become emotionally and intellectually invested in a text before they started are better motivated. Students who try to piece together clues to make predictions about their reading are taking a valuable step towards comprehension.
This is a PDF file, a printable anticipation guide for John Green's The Fault In Our Stars. It was written as part of an assignment for a University of Montevallo graduate education course. Feel free to print it and use it with your class.
