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Create a question that the novel has raised for you and then answer that question in your journal entry. Create an essential question for the text and write a justification and possible answer after completion of your reading. Create an original piece of art for one of your entries. Some possibilities could include: a drawing, a painting, a sculpture, a dance, a musical score/composition, a collage, etc. (only one of this type of entry is allowed) Create a correspondence between one of the characters in this novel and a character from one of the other pieces of literature that we read this year. Create a collection of artifacts (in a box) for one of the characters in the book; attach a written rationale for your choice to each item. (The total of the written rationales should be roughly equivalent to the two-page minimum.) Choose a minimum of four characters from the novel and find fitting song lyrics for each one of them. Scan or type out the song lyrics and annotate the lyrics for writers craft as well as an explanation as to why you chose that particular song for the character. Burn a CD of the songs and create a CD cover that illustrates a major motif or theme of the text. Create a conversation across time by having one of the characters in the text dialogue with a fictional or nonfiction persona from another time period/century. Make a prediction early in the book. Revisit the prediction after finishing the book. Compare and contrast your prediction with the ending. To what extent was your prediction satisfied and why? Create a short list of enduring understandings that emerge as you read. Use evidence from the book to support your claims about he enduring understandings you take away from the book. How will these understandings shape decisions you will make in the future? How should these understandings shape our society? Create a new kind of journal entry, write a description of it, then complete the entry. Your entry could become a model for future entries.