School Closure Assignment 3/12-25
Independent Reading Project
Select a book to read (100 pages or more) at or above your reading level and choose ONE project option to complete. See book list below.
- Create a comic (not an option for graphic novels)
- Create a short cartoon or comic strip that summarizes your novel or that illustrates an important scene. Include key characters as well as the main problem and solution. Include graphics, narration, speech/ thought bubbles, sounds. and title cell.Include a review a book with recommendation.
- Create a diary scrapbook
- Create a diary scrapbook for a character in your book with at least 8 entries and 4 artifacts connected to important events.Include illustrations and last entry should be an overall reflection of the character’s experience (infer).
- Create a short video clip (2-5 minutes)
- An interview - Interview the main character in the book.Include an introduction with background information about the character, questions about key events, overall character experience, message the character wants to convey to the audience, and any other information your audience would find interesting.
- A movie trailer or music video – Create a video advertising a film version of the book or music video highlighting major scenes. Include book title and author, key characters – and actors who play them, some key situations in the book (without spoilers), a theme statement and/or key message of the book, with graphics and sound.
- Create a poster
- Poster should include book title and author, a brief summary, picture of the author (drawn or actual), book rating (out of 5 stars) with explanation, 3 important quotes with page numbers, an important life lesson the book teaches, and 5 memorable events in the main character’s life.
- Create a game
- Make a board or card game to go with your novel.The game should highlight key characters and events, with thematic illustrations.Game should include pieces and rules needed to play.
- Create a timeline
- Create an interactive timeline add photos, video, audio and text to explain the timeline of your book sequentially. This can be in any creative form of presentation – a Prezi, poster, PowerPoint, mobile, etc.
- Create a music thematic presentation
- After reading the book, break it up into 3-5 meaningful section.Create a playlist – selecting pieces of music to capture the feel/tone of each section (one piece of music per section). Create a PowerPoint slide for each section that includes audio of the song, and the following information: description of scene or section of the book, an explanation on why the song/artist fits the section.
WMS Reading Challenge 2020 Book Titles
was_squatch meets Project Lit!
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brenden Kiely
Amina's Voice by Hena Khan
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Ashes to Ashville by Sarah Dooley
Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez
Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor by Sonia Sotomayor
Booked by Kwame Alexander
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Count Down: six kids who vie for glory at the world’s toughest math competition by Steve Olson
Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Destination Moon by Richard Maurer
Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
El Deafo by Cece Bell
Finding Mighty by Sheela Chara
A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramee
Gorilla Dawn by Gill Lewis
The Great Wall of Lucy Wu by Wendy Wan-Long Shang
Her Right Foot by Dave Eggars
Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett Krosczka
Holes by Louis Sacher
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
How to Fake a Moon Landing: Exposing the Myths of Science Denial by Darryl Cunningham
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Internment by Samira Ahmed
The Journey of Little Charlie by Christopher Paul Curtis
Keeper by Mal Peet
Lifters by Dave Eggars
The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
Lu by Jason Reynolds
Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis
Moonstruck: Poems About Our Moon edited by Roger Stevens
The New Kid by Jerry Craft
The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
Outside In by Sarah Ellis
Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
Pax by Sara Pennypacker
Phrases of the Moon: Lunar Poems by J. Patrick Lewis
Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Race to Space, Countdown to Liftoff by Erik Slader
Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson by Katherine Johnson
Refugee by Alan Gratz
Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez
Rocket to the Moon by Don Brown
Safekeeping: a novel of tomorrow by Karen Hesse
Seven Stories about the Moon: 101 other science poems by Katie Coppens
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Spooked: How a Radio Broadcast and "The War of the Worlds" Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America by Gail Jarrow
Stella By Starlight by Sharon Draper
Strange Fruit: uncelebrated narratives from black history by Joel Christian Gill
Sunny by Jason Reynolds
Symptom of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei
This Place: 150 years retold by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm et al.
This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews
Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Truth as Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor
War that Saved My Life by Kimberly B.Bradley
Watch Us Rise by Lisa Watson
Where the Streets had a Name by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed