Students should be reading books for their book reports. There will be one due at the end of each month. A list of due dates is listed below. The students get to choose a book that they want as long as it is on their reading level (not to easy or not to hard). A list of suggestions is listed in their classroom handbook as well as below. We will be presenting the book reports to the class on the date that each book report is due. It is important that they read something that they will enjoy telling the class about. If they don't enjoy the book how can they make someone else want to read the book. Reading the book, presenting the report, and listening to others give their report will all be a part of the grade.

August: Just one week no book report

September: Wednesday 30th

October: Friday 30th

November: Monday 30th

December: Friday 18th

January: Friday 29th

February: Friday 25th

March: Wednesday 31st

April: Friday 30th

May: Last Month of School

Suggestions:

1. Interview a character from your book. Write a least ten questions that will give the character the opportunity to discuss his/her thoughts and feelings about his/her role in the story.

2. 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.

3. If you are reading the same book as another student, dramatize a scene from the book. Write a script and have several rehearsals before presenting it to the class.

4. Give a sales talk, pretending the students in the class are clerks in a bookstore and would want then to really sell the book.

5. Make several sketches of some of the scenes in the book and label them.

6. Dress as one of the characters and act out a characterization.

7. Construct a diorama (three-dimensional scene wish includes models of people, buildings, plants, animals, etc.) of one of the main events of the book. Include a written description of the scene.

8. If the story of your book takes place in another country, prepare a travel brochure using pictures you have found or drawn.

9. After reading a book of historical fiction, make an illustrated time line showing events of the story and draw a map showing the location(s) where the story took place.

10. Create a mini-comic book relating to a chapter of the book.

11. After reading a book of poetry, do three of the following: 1) do an oral reading; 2) write an original poem; 3) act out a poem; 4) display a set of pictures which describe the poem; 5) add original verses to the poem.

12. Design a book jacket for the book. I strongly suggest that you look at an actual book jacket before you attempt this.

13. Make a collage about the story or one of the main characters.

14. Write a different ending for your story.

15. Choose a quote from a character. Write why it would or wouldn't be a good motto by which to live your life.

16. Tell 5 things you learned while reading the book.

17. Write about one of the character's life twenty years from now.

18. Write a letter (10-sentences minimum) to the main character of your book asking questions, protesting a situation, and/or making a complaint and /or suggestion.

19. Make a bookmark for the book, drawing a character on the front, giving a brief summary of the book on back after listing title and author.

20. Write a multiple choice quiz for the book with at least ten questions.

21. Invite one of the characters to dinner, and plan an imaginary conversation with the person who will fix the meal. What will you serve, and why?

22. Pretend that you can spend a day with one of the characters. Which character would you choose? Why? What would you do?

23. Write the plot for a sequel to this book.