Possible Reading Log Projects

I.

Simple questions: To be answered in paragraph form

(using your own ideas/opinions; PEEL; etc)
1.) Write a new version of a short excerpt (about 2 paragraphs) from
your book from A VILLAINS PERSPECTIVE: ex: choose a part you
really like (an action sequence, etc) and write it through a villains
eyes.
2.) Turn your favorite excerpt from the book into a poem, at least 4
stanzas in length, 4 verses to each stanza.

Write your favorite excerpt in another stylefor exmaple: as a biography;

in another narrative perspective (1st person/3rd person)
3.) in another genre (as horror, fantasy, sci-fi, etc)
4.) Re-write the first page/part of the book from the perspective of a
non-important character.
5.) If someone dies, write his/her reincarnation scene and what he/she
will do when back to life.
6.) If someone dies, write an exerpt from the priests perspective at
the funeral.
7.) Describe a type of person that would dislike your book.
8.) Describe who the evil character/antagonist is and why he/she is
doing all of those bad things. Get inside his/her head!
9.) Interview of a Character: Ask questions to the main characters
friends and provide answers ex: what do you think about the main
character? What do you think about whats happening?
10.)
If you were going to make a movie about the book, how
would it be? What would you change and what would you add? What
would it look like?

11.)
Youve suddenly been sucked through a time/space
wormhole and have ended up at a particular scene in the book!
Write about whats happening, what youre thinking, how it looks,
and how you feel (from your perspective, of course).
12.)
One of your characters has been sucked through a
wormhole and is now going to hang out with you for a week: Make a
story of this!
13.)

3 paragraph story: You are the main characters sidekick.

14.)
Write an epitaph (the speech at a funeral) or an obituary
for a character, even if they havent died yet.

II.

Longer Projects

(time requirements listed next to each)

1.) Write a persuasive news article about the book to get others to
read it. We could put these articles together to make a
persuasive class newspaperInclude:
Headline
Who?What?Where?When?How?
Quotes
Pictures
Make it look like a newspaper article (use a cool newspaper
heading at the top; articles author)
Like this, maybe:

You can even use an old newspaper page and glue your project to it
Time: Good for 2 Reading Logs

2.) The Book of the Month Book Circle:

Find 3 friends to share this project with
a.) Write a 4-5 paragraph persuasive essay on why your book
should be the book of the month.
b.) Share this essay with your partners by making notecards on
your main points and holding a persuasive discussion/debate
about why yours is best.
c.) The debate will be presented in front of the class we will
vote on the best presentation/most interesting book
d.) The winner gets a prize
e.) The name of book and the presenter will get a special place
on our Book Club Wall
f.) At least one person from the class/group must promise to
read the book next (perhaps we can share our books?)
Good for 1 month of reading log (maybe more if your group is
not finished with the individual books)
3.) Write a script based on an interesting section of your book
create characters and lines, and perform the play in front of
the class.
Good for 3 Reading Logs
4.) Do number 3 above, but make an iMovie from your script for the
class to watch.
Good for 3 Reading Logs
5.) Paint a picture inspired by the book (feelings you get from the
book, symbolic ideas, a scene) and create a descriptive writing
piece about the picture (explain the picture). This should show a
lot of effort on your part.
Good for 2 Reading Logs
6.) Make a cool PowerPoint/Keynote as a book report and present
this in front of the classInclude: (cool pictures and key words)
a.) Introduce the book
b.) Describe the plot
c.) Describe the characters: feelings/personalities/actions

d.) Tell us why you liked the book: how did it affect you?
Favorite part?
e.) Describe your thoughts/answers to 2 questions from the
regular reading log questions
f.) Would you recommend this book?
Good for 3-4 Logs (ask Andy)
7.) Make a beautiful Comic Book of your favorite part of the book,
including drawings, comic strip sections, speech bubbles, etc.
Good for 3 Reading Logs
8.) Make a Travel Brochure promoting visit to a special
place/setting in your book. Make it look real, with color pictures,
folded up in thirds or something, with descriptive, attention
grabbing, and persuasive text for each cool setting! Make it
sell. I will print these out for you.
Go to link:
How to make a "travel brochure"
(http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Travel-Brochure)
Cool brochure pics and ideas:
https://www.google.se/search?
q=travel+brochure&biw=1280&bih=905&source=lnms&tbm=isch&s
a=X&ei=E_ASVLaiEMSaygPQ_oCACA&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoA
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Good for 3 Reading Logs

Requirement: Blog The Book!

Take any project above (or even some question
answers youre really proud of) and post it on
the blog!! This is actually a REQUIREMENT!!!

Everyone must blog twice a term! You have to

take the responsibility to find he time to do so!