September Holidays Book Review Options

You may choose to do one of the following for the book that you have read during the holidays:

Postcard

Write to a friend, the author, or to a character about this book. Write as if you were the character or author and write to yourself.

 Dear author

After reading a book the student(s) write the author via the publisher (who always forwards them).

Gender-bender

Rewrite a scene and change the gender of the characters to show how they might act differently (e.g., Lord of Flies).

Draw!

Translate chapters into storyboards and cartoons; draw the most important scene in the chapter and explain its importance and action.

Fictional friends

Who of all the characters would you want for a friend? Why? What would you do or talk about together?

Dear diary

Keep a diary as if you were a character in the story. Write down events that happen during the story and reflect on how they affected the character and why.

 That was then, this is now

After reading the text, create a Before/After list to compare the ways in which characters or towns have changed over the course of the story. Follow up with discussion of reasons.