Book+Report

=First Book Report =

__General Guidelines __

 * =====Each assignment must havbe the author and title of your novel on it. =====
 * The page lengths are single spaced and the font is 12.
 * You may hand in assignments as you finish them so you do not lose them.
 * START AS SOON AS YOU FINISH YOUR NOVEL -- YOU WILL NOT GET MUCH, IF ANY, CLASS TIME.
 * Due Date for all parts: November 29th, 2011


 * 1) **10 MARKS EACH (1/2 page in length): **
 * Discuss how the main character is like or unlike a person that you know.
 * Pretend that you're the author and describe the part that was the most fun or hardest to write. Explain why.
 * Describe an experience you've had that was like the experience of a character in the novel.
 * Write any kind of poem about your novel. *Minimum 15 lines*
 * Explain how a character in the novel changed from the beginning to the end.
 * If the novel has a vilian, did they wind up being punished in some way? Was their punishment justified? Why or why not?
 * Explain why you would like to have one of the characters as a friend.

2. **15 MARKS EACH (1 page in length):**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Draw a colour map of where a major part of the story took place. Label the major landmarks or points of interest, and be sure to include all elements of a good map (compass rose, scale, labels, legend, neat/tidy printing etc.)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Write a review of the novel. The review can be positive or negative and it needs to be persuasive.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Write to tell what you think happened //before// the story began.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Write to tell what you think happened to the main character //after// the story ended.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Write a different (better?) ending for the story.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Write a newspaper article about a major event in your novel.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Pretend you have interviewed one of the major characters. Write out the interview.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Write a few diary entries made by one of the major characters over the period of the novel.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">List 15 interesting words from your novel. Write out the definitions and tell why you believe they are interesting.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Explain the problems the major characters had and describe how they sloved them.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">3. **20 MARKS EACH (1-2 pages in length):**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Do a collage of a major theme of your novel or one that illustrates certain parts of your novel.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Make a crossword puzzle from your novel. Write your clues so they are directly connected to the plot, characters, settings, themes, etc. *You CANNOT use a computer for this choice.*
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Review the novel that you read and compare it to a movie that is like the novel. What happened in each? Which was better and why?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Find TWO songs that seem to relate to your novel somehow. Write out the lyrics and then write an explanation of how the songs relate. Each explanation needs to be at least a page in length.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Pretend you are a character in the novel and describe the other characters in the novel and what you think of each of them and why.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Make a scrapbook of pictures of the main characters. You can cut out pictures of people and animals that you think look like the characters and places in the novel.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Compare your novel with two or three TV shows that are similar.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Make a video about part of the novel.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Keep a journal as you read your novel: record the dates and your reactions, thoughts, and feelings. This should be at least a page and a half.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Write a long poem or rap about the novel. *Minimum 30 lines.*
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Create your own original and creative assignment based on the novel (must receive teacher approval).