- Design and illustrate a time lin or map for the events in the book.
- Summarize the book in poem form with rhyme. (May be a song or a poem. Minimum of 20 lines.)
- Write a one minute radio advertisement persuading the public to buy and read this book.
- Create a poster advertisement persuading the public to buy and read this book.
- Create an illustrated map of the setting of the book.
- Write a book review and post it to the SMS Media Center Blog by leaving a comment under the "Read A Book Over Break" post. (That is this one!) Make sure to include your first name and last initial to get credit.
Read A Book Over Break
Sign up starts tomorrow for the "Read A Book Over Break" program. All you have to do is read a book that you have never read before over winter break, pick one of the six projects to choose from and turn it in by January 6th. Remember - Project effort should be obvious not minimal. Come in to the library to sign up, check out your book and pick up a flier.
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Over the break I read a book called "The Other Half of my Heart". The book is about 2 girls who are twins one named Minni and one named Keira King. Minni was born white with red hair and freckles like her father, and Keira is black with puffy hair like her mother.The story begins on their birthday when they get a call from their Grandmother, who wants them to compete in The Black Pearl Pagent in which their mother competed in when she was younger. The girls pack their things and go to compete. When they get their Minni is being treated better than Keira and this begins to get to Keira along with the suggestions from the other contestants that her sister may think she's better than her just becuz of her skin color. While being shunned by her sister Minni also has to deal with the contestants talking about her skin color.When Minni thinks she has lost all hope she gets the help from her Grandmothers neighbor, Laverna Oliphant. Ms. Oliphant helps Minni overcome her problems and understand that all through her life she will have to deal with people talking about her and her sister because of her skin color. She helps Minni understand something that Minni has been trying to do own her own,something everyone needs to know,she helps her learn that God made her special and he loves her very much no matter what color her skin is.
Over break I read a book called "Runaway Twin". It is about a girl who has a twin sister. Their names are Sunny and Starr. Their mother and grandmother got into an accident and passed away. The twins got seperated at the age of three years old. Sunny always thought about Starr. Sunny found a bag of money on a trail that everybody likes to walk on but there was nobody walking on it when she found the money. She tried to get the owner to claim it but nobody did and when they did nobody had the right amount of money. So Sunny kept it and ran away with it. She left after her foster mother had left to go teach Yoga classes. She ranaway to go find Starr and got into a lot of problems. She uses the money to get her to where shes going.
I read a book called Catching Fire which is the second book to the hunger games. I first thought the book would be about everything after the games and Katniss and Peeta's love life/wedding. When I got to about the middle when presadent Snow read the card for the seventy-fith hunger games quill and that shocked me tramendusly! To even think Katniss and Peeta or Haymitch will have to go back into the arena to fight for there lives once again! Then after all the tears and the reaping on the train to the capitol those three went. Once again the victors have to go though the training and the interviews. At the interview the way the book descraped it, Katniss's dress was outstanding and then Peeta drops the bomb about the madeup wedding and about them having a baby! I thought to myself how are they goin to pull this one off! But they sure did fool everyone! The games were something you just cant put into words because they went by so fast and everything happened one after the other and I surely thought everyone died when the forcefield went down and everything just gone! The end was really shocking when Haymitch said Peeta was taken by the capitol and Gale coming! I just knew something was wrong when he appeared and just the thought of district 12 being gone forever just like district 13! I for one cant wait to start on book three to see what lies instore for everyone that has been effected by the games! I love this book and the first also but I love the style Suzanne uses!
I read Percy Jackson: The Last Olympian, by Rick Riordan.
This Book is a direct sequel to The Titan's Curse. One of the things that I like about Rick Riordan's writing is that it seems like Percy Jackson could actually be Real-Life Teenager (Other than the Demi-god Powers, and Epic Battles, Of course) I also like the way Riordan's Storylines Play out, For example, when something seems like a normal outcome, something epic shows up, Like the Minotaur. Just like all of Riordan's Percy Jackson Books, This one pulls you in the most. In the Last Olympian, Riordan pulls out all of the things that just come out of the blue(Literally!!)From his fight with Kronus and the Revalation of Luke, to the Love intrest between Percy, Annabeth, And Possibly Rachel?! I Personally enjoyed reading this book, and the whole series.
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