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Extra Credit Book ActivitiesICS 45 BOOK LIST
Extra Credit 44 reading
If you can't find a book on either of these lists see your Instructor regarding a book you may have found on your own.
After you have read an approved extra credit book for your class complete one of the activities below in place of an essay book report.
Any of the activities below may be completed in place of an essay for extra credit. Many of these activities are for books of fiction, so if you don't read a work of fiction choose an activity that would be appropriate for what you read. Any and all extra credit will be due on the last day of class.
Any written assignments must be typed-double-spaced.
1. Design a book cover for the book:
-----front cover-artwork,title, author,etc.
-----front inside flap-short summary
-----back inside flap-biography of the author
-----back cover-quotes from reviews (you invent) of the book
2. Conduct a panel discussion with others who have read the book. Discuss the book's theme or subjects of interest.
3. Make a scrapbook about some subject or the ideas you get from reading the book.
4. Make a pamphlet with illustrations or magazine pictures illustrating each chapter. Or download appropriate pictures/images from the internet and put them in a powerpoint format explaining why you choose them. Duplicate the powerpoint on CD-rom.
5. Make a comic book version of the book.
6. Make a book of facts you learned from reading this book.
7. Make a game to go with the book. Include all parts needed and package in a small box or folder. Include the directions and rules so some one else can play your game if they have read the book.
8. Design one or more pages of a newspaper using parts of the story as articles and headlines.
9. Write a song or poem about the story, its characters or theme. Record the song to turn it in.
10. Illustrate 6 scenes from the story. Use a storyboard format.
11. Rewrite the ending of the story.
12. Write a play version of the story.
13. Make a test for the book and supply the answer key.
14. Design a poster advertising the book.
15. Design a cassette or CD or video or DVD cover for the book
including the title, performers, artwork, song titles, liner notes and production information.
16. Make a mobile to go with the book.
17. Write a letter to the author about the book.
18. Invent a new character for the book. Rewrite one scene in the book including your new character in it.
19. Make a map showing where the event in the book took place.
20. Make a collage of the book's theme, or of the main character's interests and personality.
21. Write a commercial advertising the book for radio or TV. Record it to hand in on cassette, DVD or CD.
22. Write a letter to a friend recommending the book.
23. Prepare a skit and dramatize a part of the book. If this is an individual project record it to turn in.
24. Role play a situation from the book representing the characters from the book. Record this to turn in if this is an individual project.
25. Make a diorama.
26. Write your own story based on part of the book.
27. Make models of the book's characters, animals, objects or buildings. Use clay, soap, wood or plaster.
28. Make dolls to represent the main characters. Use paper, wire, rags, corn husks, apple cores, etc.
29. On large pieces of butcher paper hung across the wall, paint a mural depicting important scenes fro the book.
30. Write a letter from 1 character to another. Have that character write back.
*Source Teaching Guide for American Indian Literature Vol II by Diana Campbell Title IV-A Materials Project, Navajo Curriculum Center, Rough Rock Demonstration School, Rough Rock Arizona 86503 copyright: 1983.
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