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 * __Book Project Choices __**

These are alternative assignments to AR. You may use these separately or to replace a poor test score. These will only help if you do a quality job!!! You may choose from the following choices, but cannot use the same one in the same 9 week grading period. **Once you have completed a particular book report option, you may not complete that option again without having used all the others.** Grades will be recorded as a test grade. For each day that the book report is late, ten points will be deducted.


 * All book report choices are to have the title of the book and the author’s name. All book reports are to be neat and attractive..
 * Be sure that the project number and your name are on the work that you turn in.

 True/False (optional) no more than five  Matching 5-10  Multiple Choice 5-10  Fill in the Blank 5-10  Essay 3-5
 * 1. __Quiz Time__ ** – Compose a test based on the book you have read. Prepare a separate answer key to answer ALL of the questions. Include the following types of questions:

Write the test in blue or black ink (or type it) on the front of the page ONLY. Questions should not be trivial, but should reveal YOUR knowledge of the book.


 * 2. __Dear Diary__ ** – Take on the identity of one of your book’s major characters and write at last four entries of 100 words or more per entry in the diary of that person. Be sure to write as your character would have written, using style and language of your character. Entries should be dated and cover the events that occur throughout the book.

R= Protagonist or Antagonist (Choose only one.) A= yourself <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">F= diary entry <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">T= Discuss the conflict and how it is affecting who you are.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">3. __Dear Sir/Ma’am__ **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> – Write an informal letter to the author of your book telling him/her what impressed you the most and its value to you. Tell the author what you thought of the book using **specific examples** from the book to back up and illustrate what you say. Make AT LEAST one suggestion about how the book could have been improved and justify the change you would make.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">R= the reader <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">A= Author of your book <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">F= letter <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">T= Discuss your opinion of the book with one suggestion for improvement


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">4. __Play Poster__ **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> – Create a full size play poster advertising your book as a play to be presented at ACMS. You must include the following on the poster: the title of the book, the author’s name, a 75-100 word review of the book, the place, date/dates of presentation, time of the performance, and the price. The poster must be colorful, neat, well planned, and attractive. The poster must have at least three hand-drawn illustrations.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">5. __Time Line__ **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> – Using a full size poster, make a time line of the major events in the book you read. Be sure that the divisions of the time line reflect the time periods of the plot and are accurate. Use original drawings to illustrate various events along the time line. Each illustration should be accompanied by one or two sentences as captions explaining what is happening in the picture. A filmstrip or a road map are two examples to create a time line (you may think of your own way of course).


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">6. __Mobile__ **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> – Make a mobile that displays three major choices the main character made throughout the book. Label the top of the mobile with the name of the book, your name, and the book report choice number. Hang from the mobile a hand-drawn illustration of each choice made by the character. In addition to the mobile, a 75-100 word description of the choices made and why they were important for the character and the book needs to be turned in.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">7. __3-Dimensional/Pop-Up Scene__ **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> – Make a 3-D or Pop-Up design of a scene that was important to the plot of the book. It needs to be a distinguishable scene and needs to be relevant to the story. It can be contained in a shoebox or can be on a piece of cardboard. It needs to have at least one main character from the book on the scene. Attached to the scene needs to be a 75-100 word description of the scene and why it was chosen as important to the plot with page numbers referencing its description in the book.