Our class will bedoing Book Reports due on the last day of the end of each month beginning inSeptember. You will select a Accelerated Reader (AR) chapter book of yourchoice that you have read and passed during the month and choose one of theBook Report Options below. All Book Reports are delivered orally in class. Foreach Book Report you will choose one book and one of the following assignments.You can choose them in any order you want. You must choose a different BookReport Option each month!You will beresponsible for going to my classroom website to print off the materials thatyou need. Check off each option as you choose it, so that you will knowwhat options are still open for your next Book Report.Each assignment should be your very finest effort. This should beyour own work, but it must contain thought and hard work. Your work should beproofread for spelling, grammar, neatness, and punctuation. You can have yourparents look it over, then do a final draft.All info must be typed. Happy readingand creative thinking!
Book Report Options
-- Find a shoe box and construct a diorama of a scene from the book.You may paint your background, and then make paper objects to complete yourscene. Objects can be made from many items. Write a description of the sceneyou have chosen so that others will be interested and want to learn more about the story.
-- Make a time line of all of the important events in the book. Give specific details.Use a minimum of five events. Must be colored, labeled, and nice and neat.
-- Research a topic (person, thing, idea, event, etc.) brought up in your book. Share thenew information you found in a short presentation to the class. Must bedisplayed on a poster board with typed information and color. Must include atitle and the reason why you chose that topic along with the information youresearched.
--Review should tell your opinion of the book,good or bad, and your reasons for feeling the way you do. Support your opinionby using quotations or events from the book. This would be delivered somewhatlike a “reading rainbow” review. Information must be typed and presented on aposter board with pictures
--Create a Cereal Box Book Report.See website forprintouts. Will not be accepted if all the printouts are not on the box.
--Create a Sandwich Book Report.See website forprintouts. Will not be accepted if all the printouts are not included.
-- Make a flow chart or graphic organizer (include pictures!) of the major events inthe book. Give specific details. Use at least five events. Use a poster board.
-- Design a new book jacket for your book. Be sure to include the title of the book, theauthor, and a synopsis/ summary of the book. On the inside of the jacket tellsome information about the author (most book jackets tell something). Be sure to include a list of other books by the same author. Must be colored with typed information and pictures.
----Construct a mobile of characters in your story and hang them from a clothes hanger. Writea description of each character in your mobile and tell something that happenedto them in the story. (It can be funny, sad, or just a fact of the story.) Also include a summary of the book and the title. Must be colored and information must be typed.
--Make a storyboard/comic strip illustrating important events in the story. Info mustbe typed and displayed on poster board of any size.
--Scenes with captions from the book. Choose the most importantscenes from your bookand illustrate them in small picture boxes. Write captions at the top or bottomof the frame to give life to your drawings. All pictures should be hand drawnand colored in using crayons, colored pencils, pens, etc. Info must be typed.
--Write a different ending to the story you have read. Give a brief synopsis/summary ofthe story. Make the events change so that your ending would be possible. Makesure the reader can tell what the real ending was, and then add your owncreation.
-- If a movie has been made of your book, compare and contrast the movie version to thewritten one. Give your opinion of both, using specific illustrations to makeyour point (for example, were parts, essential to the story, left out of themovie? Was the story changed? Was the ending the same? Were the Characters asyou had imagined them? How were they different?) Info must be typedand displayed on a poster board.
--Pretend you are a character in the book and write a diary. You must have at least10 entries, describing events that haveoccurred in the story and your reaction to them. Information must be typed andnice and neat. Be creative with your journal.
--Put together a collage for your book from magazine pictures. On a separate piece ofpaper, describe how at least five of your magazine cutouts relate to the story.Display on a poster board.
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