Name:______
Book Report Project
Once you complete a book, choose three of the following activities to do as a book report project. You willpresent one of these orally to the class. This project will be due on ______.
Options:
1.Imagine you are the author of the book you have just read. Suddenly the book becomes a best seller. Write a letter to a movie producer trying to get that person interested in making your book into a movie. Explain why the plot, characters, conflicts, setting, and resolution would make a good film. Suggest the actors to play the various roles. YOU MAY ONLYCHOOSE THIS OPTION IF THE BOOK YOU READ HAS NOT ALREADY BEEN MADE INTO A MOVIE. (200-400 words)
2.Design an advertising campaign to promote the sale of the book you read. Include each of the following: a poster, a radio commercial (written out), a magazine or newspaper ad, and a bumper sticker. Also include a brief summary explaining each of your ideas and how they reflect what happens in the book.
3.Plan a party for the characters in the book you read and include the following items: (a) Design an invitation to the party which would appeal to all of the characters. Write the following on another piece of paper (b) Imagine that you are five of the characters in the book and tell what each would wear to the party – explain how their outfits fit their characters. (c) Tell what food you would serve and why. (d) Tell what games or entertainment you will provide and why your choices are appropriate. (e) Tell how three of the characters will act at the party. (f) What kind of a party is this? (birthday, housewarming, “unbirthday,” anniversary, etc.). You must explain how each item in your party relates specifically to the characters in your book.
4.Write a diary that one of the story’s main characters might have kept before, during, or after the book’s events. Remember that the character’s thoughts and feelings are very important in a diary. (200-400 words)
5.Write a summary of the novel from one character’s point-of-view. This must be written in the first person point-of-view. (200-400 words)
6.Design a CD cover that is 8”x8”. Design the front and the back. Include 5-10 songs, that are school appropriate and that correlate with events that happened in the book. Write a short paragraph for each song explaining how the song relates to the event in the book. If you can burn a CD of the songs, or create a cassette recording of them, then turn that in for your songs; otherwise, you need to write/type up the lyrics to each of the songs and turn them in along with the CD cover and explanation.
7.Read a book that has been made into a movie. (Caution: it must have been a book FIRST. Books written from screenplays are not acceptable). Write an essay comparing the movie version with the book. (200-400 words)
8.Pretend that you can spend a day with one of the characters in your book. Which character would you choose? Why? What would you do? How do you know the character would enjoy the various activities that you chose?
(200-400 words)
Rubric
Cover Page
(Must include title, author, illustration with 5 colors, and name, date, class period) ______10 points
Choice 1______
(Followed directions, creativity, neatness, effort, evidence of student completion of novel)
______30 points
Choice 2 ______
(Followed directions, creativity, neatness, effort, evidence of student completion of novel)
______30 points
Choice 3 ______
(Followed directions, creativity, neatness, effort, evidence of student completion of novel)
______30 points