| Students
are required to produce a monthly book report. Topic vary monthly,
and each student has a copy of the list that is organized by
month. Each month the student selects a book from the topic assigned,
receives approval of the book from Mrs. Alba-Love (books need to be at least 100
pages and appropriate to the individual student's level), and then reads
the book independently. Details of the month's book report requirements
are distributed to the students around the first of the month. Book reports are generally due the last Wednesday of the month.
Students present book reports to the class. These assignments are
designed to improve independent reading, writing, and presentation
skills.
September's book report is a book
of the student's choice. The students will create a NEW book cover
that is inviting to potential readers and includes a summary of the
novel on the back. October's book report type is a mystery. Each student
will complete a cereal box report, so they need to start saving an empty
cereal box. November's report will
center around the study of another country. Each student will
select a book about a country that interests him/her and then create a
scrapbook about a visit to that country. Students should pretend
they have visited the country and share the scrap book created as though
they are just returning from an exciting trip. Students may dress
as people from the country studied and/or bring a sample of food that
represents that country. Students, please
study a country that you have not studied before. There will be no
book report due in December. January
will be biography month. Each student will select a book about a
person and then dress up as that person when presenting the book report.
Small props may be included. However, anything that is alive, must
be escorted home by a parent immediately following the presentation. Poetry
will be the topic for the month of February.
Students may select poems based on a particular topic or on a particular
poet. They will then type and illustrate the poems for a short
anthology. |
Book Reports
