Choice Board

Project Description:

Create an 8-10 song playlist or soundtrack for your book. Provide your rationale for each of your selections. 

Project Checklist:

• Choose 8-10 songs that pair with your book

• Include a rationale for connection between each song and the text (50 words each, could connect to theme, conflict, or character) 

  • At least 2 rationales should include specific quotes from the book!

Project Description: 

Write a poem response to one of the books you read, and write an artist’s statement, explaining the connection between the poem and the book. 

Project Checklist:

• Compose your poem  (at least 200 words, any style)

• Write an artist’s statement (at least 150 words, explaining poem’s connection to book)

Project Description:

Create a 5-minute video recording of yourself, introducing the plot of your book, reading and analyzing a key passage, analyzing character development/theme,and recommending it to another reader. Excellent public speaking required!

Project Checklist:

• Include the following parts in your video: 

  • 1) Introduce the plot (don’t spoil the end!)

  • 2) Read and analyze key passage

  • 3) Analyze overall character/theme development 

  • 4) Recommend to another reader

• • Include some kind of visual to engage the audience and should be written to be persuasive! 

Project Description:

Choose an important scene you identified with or you believe best represents a major theme of that text. Rewrite that scene so it is told from the perspective of a different character from the text in a way that demonstrates your understanding of that character’s personality and perspective.

Project Checklist:

• Include the original text of the scene

• Explain why you chose this scene (at least 100 words)

• Rewrite the scene (250- 500 words, can use same dialogue with new character’s perspective/thoughts)

Project Description:

As you read, take note of beautiful words: phrases, sentences, paragraphs, punctuation, dialogue-- anything! Create a running list. Which sentences grab your attention? Which sentences make you FEEL something? Then, create a visual representation of these words you love! 

Project Checklist:

• Create a list of 15-20 moments of beautiful language (phrases, sentences, paragraphs, dialogue) 

• Make a collage of all of these words (see examples), which correlates with the book’s message// setting 

• Attached to collage, write 200-word rationale: why you chose your beautiful words (pick ~2-3 of most significant ones).

Project Description:

Create an animation of your favorite scene from a book that you read this summer.  You can use Scratch or AppLab (Code.org) to design your animation.  Use the storyboard template to plan out the sequence of steps/events in your animation.

Project Checklist:

• Create a storyboard to plan your animation

• Used Scratch or AppLab to design an animation 

• Share your storyboard AND final animation with your teacher.