Book Report – Due March 19th

1. Project: Create a Comic Book. You can turn your book, or part of it, into a comic book, complete with comic-style
illustrations and dialogue bubbles.
Rubric: Presentation –12pts. – It must be pleasing to the eye and easily understood. The pictures actually
look like the actual objects.
Dialogue – 12pts. – It must have spoken words and the event/s must be understandable.
Conventions -- 12pts. – This is a form of formal presentations; there should be no convention, nor
spelling errors, including the compound sentence.
Fun – 12pts. – You must have fun with this.
2. Project: Create a Glossary and Word Search. First write a general overview of the book. Each student
creates a glossary of ten or more words that are specific to a book's tone, setting, or characters. The
student defines each word and writes a sentence from the book that includes that word. Then the student
creates a word search puzzle that includes the glossary words.
Rubric: Word Search –12pts.
Glossary – 12pts. – Ten or more words that are specific to a book's tone, setting, or characters.
Conventions -- 12pts. – It must be pleasing to the eye and easily understood. The directions are
clear. This is a form of formal presentations; there should be no convention, nor spelling errors,
including the compound sentence.
General Overview – 12pts. – What happened in the book, briefly (about a paragraph).
3. Multiple Short Reviews:
Write five half-page summaries of the section of the book you just finished. Each summary should be two weeks apart, beginning
November 6th.
Rubric: Requirement – 12pts – Do you have 5 entries spaced two weeks apart?
Ideas – 12 pts -- Do you include specific events from the story?
Voice – 12 pts. – Do you create the mood of the story in your writing?
Conventions – 12pts -- Did you follow common writing conventions, especially the examples we covered on grammar days.
4. Creative: Be Creative!
#1: I must be able to understand that you’ve read the book. It is your job to prove it.

Book Report – Due March 19th

1. Project: Create a Comic Book. You can turn your book, or part of it, into a comic book, complete with comic-style
illustrations and dialogue bubbles.
Rubric: Presentation –12pts. – It must be pleasing to the eye and easily understood. The pictures actually
look like the actual objects.
Dialogue – 12pts. – It must have spoken words and the event/s must be understandable.
Conventions -- 12pts. – This is a form of formal presentations; there should be no convention, nor
spelling errors, including the compound sentence.
Fun – 12pts. – You must have fun with this.
2. Project: Create a Glossary and Word Search. First write a general overview of the book. Each student
creates a glossary of ten or more words that are specific to a book's tone, setting, or characters. The
student defines each word and writes a sentence from the book that includes that word. Then the student
creates a word search puzzle that includes the glossary words.
Rubric: Word Search –12pts.
Glossary – 12pts. – Ten or more words that are specific to a book's tone, setting, or characters.
Conventions -- 12pts. – It must be pleasing to the eye and easily understood. The directions are
clear. This is a form of formal presentations; there should be no convention, nor spelling errors,
including the compound sentence.
General Overview – 12pts. – What happened in the book, briefly (about a paragraph).
3. Multiple Short Reviews:
Write five half-page summaries of the section of the book you just finished. Each summary should be two weeks apart, beginning
November 6th.
Rubric: Requirement – 12pts – Do you have 5 entries spaced two weeks apart?
Ideas – 12 pts -- Do you include specific events from the story?
Voice – 12 pts. – Do you create the mood of the story in your writing?
Conventions – 12pts -- Did you follow common writing conventions, especially the examples we covered on grammar days.
4. Creative: Be Creative!
#1: I must be able to understand that you’ve read the book. It is your job to prove it.