Rapid Reader / Supplementary Text: Summary, Theme, Character Sketches
Rapid Reader / Supplementary Text tests extensive reading: summary, theme, and character sketches across a longer text. The aim is coverage with evidence, not memorized plot.
Map before you write
Make a chapter or episode map: setting, main event, change in relationship, motif. Then write a one-sentence summary of the whole text.
Theme and character
A theme is a recurring idea supported by more than one episode. For character sketches, use three headings: role in the plot, key trait, evidence.
Worked example: In a text built on a journey, map three episodes: departure, crisis, return. Reasoning: the journey is not just travel; each stop tests the protagonist. Theme: home is redefined by leaving. Evidence: the protagonist's language changes from 'our village' to 'the village I left'.
Summary discipline
Keep summary to main causal links. Put minor characters in a separate list; use them only when they change the main line.
Traps: treating the rapid reader as unimportant; retelling every chapter; confusing minor and major characters; giving a character sketch without a quoted or cited action.