BOOK REPORT GUIDELINES SECOND NINE WEEKS POSTER Goals: • Get book by author by November 23, 2009 • Have book read by January 4, 2010 • January 4-10 (time to complete poster) • Presentations begin January 11, 2010 Content Requirements – • Summary (fewer than a dozen sentences informing reader of the “highlights”) • Character Description(s) (both main and minor) • Setting (time and place) • Plot (use Plot Mountain to place events of the book into appropriate parts of the mountain) • Theme (remember, not a command; rather a thought) • Author information • Creativity (few pictures, color, design) Suggestions – • A few pictures are fine, but they shouldn’t cover more than one- fourth of your poster board. • Typing or writing everything you want to say in your presentation is NOT permitted; the poster is to be used as a visual aide for the audience to get a feel for what the book is about. Other than the summary, whole paragraphs are not permitted. • Theme: Time has a way of creeping up on one and biting him/her in the buttocks!!!