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Name: Date: House: Block:

Personal Novel Project: 1^st Novel: Personal Self-Selection – 250 Pages

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Choose & Get Teacher Approval Due: Tuesday, 9/15/09

Character Work Due: Wednesday, 9/23/09

Setting Work Due: Wednesday, 9/30/09

Complete Novel Due: Wednesday, 10/7/09

Theme Work Due: Thursday, 10/8/09

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Students are to select and bring to school a self-selected novel of 250 pages or more by Tuesday, 9/15/08.

They are responsible to read 15 pages daily and complete their novel by Wednesday, 10/07/08.

As students read the novel, there will be daily responses to the literature that will be assigned by Mrs. Reade

and discussed in Book Clubs in class.

Novel project dates are listed above and students are responsible to complete them on time.

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Directions: Select and complete one activity from each horizontal row to illustrate literary elements from your novel. Remember to make your work: thoughtful, rich with detail, original, and accurate.

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Character Make a pair of collages -Write a bio-poem about -Write a recipe or set of

-collages that compare -yourself and another about -directions for how you’d

Pick one square -you and a character in -a main character in the -solve a problem in your life

from this row. -your book in physical and -book, so your readers see -and another for how a

-personality traits. Label -how you and the character -main character in your

Due: Wed. 9/23 -your collages generously, -are alike and different. Be -book would solve a

-so viewers understand -sure to include the most -problem. Your list should

-your thinking. -important traits in each poem. -help us know you and the

-character better.

Setting Draw (or paint) and write -Make a model or a map of -Make two timelines. The

-a greeting card that invites -a key place in your life and -first should illustrate and

Pick one square -us into the scenery and -of an important place in the -describe at least six to

from this row. -mood of an important part -novel. Find a way to help -eight shifts in setting in the-

-in the book. Be sure the -viewers understand both -book. The second should

Due: Wed. 9/30 -verse helps us understand -what the places are like and -illustrate and explain how

-what is important in the -why they are important in -the mood changes with the

scene and why. -your life and the character’s -changes in setting.

-life.

Theme Using books of proverbs -Interview a key character -Find songs you think reflect

-and quotations, find at -from the book to find out -an important message from

Pick one square -least six to eight that you -what lessons he thinks we -the book. Prepare an audio

from this row. -feel reflect what’s should -learn from events in -collage. Write an

-important about the novel’s -the book. Use a question- -accompanying card that

Due: Thurs. 10/8 -theme. Find at least six to -and-answer format to -helps listeners understand

-eight that do the same for -present your material. Be -why and how you think the

-your life. Display and explain -sure the interview is -songs express the book’s

-your choices. -meaningful. -Meaning. Do the same with

-your life and its themes.

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I Am Poem Format Sheet

- Follow the writing frame below to write a poem about yourself.

- Type it in 12 point font, Times New Roman, single-spaced and centered.

- Include your: name, date, house, and block number on the front.

- Two copies will be handed in. One on the poster and the second on a separate sheet of paper.

-------------------------------------------------------------------Line # What the line should contain Example [Your copy can be centered.]

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1 Begin your poem with the words “I Am” I am

2 3 nouns about which you have a strong feeling Books, Shopping, and

(Begin each with a capital letter) Sunburns.

3 Complete sentence about 2 things you really like I love the smell of

pancakes on a cold

morning and the sound

of the rain on stormy

days.

4 Begin with 3 nouns that describe qualities you Compassion,

Like to see in others (like Humor, Honesty, or Intelligence, and

Fairness). Integrity are

End the sentence with the words important to me.

“are important to me”

5 Begin a sentence with “I am proud” or “I try to.” I try to always

The sentence should say something positive about remember to be

yourself. grateful for all of the

good things in my life.

6 Write a sentence in which you show something I never like to clean the negative about yourself. However, the house, but it always

and the sentence must finish by showing that out of looks so much better

something bad came good. Use the word “but” when I do

7 to link the bad and the good.

8 Each line is a short sentence relating something I love animals.

9 about which you have strong feelings – likes or I hate soggy cereal.

10 dislikes. These lines do not have to relate to I love spending time

each other. with my children.

11 End your poem with the words “This is me. I am!” This is me. I am!

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