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Silver Birch Fiction Book Club
Silver Birch Fiction Book Club
Twenty students in Grades 4 and 5 will exploring the nominated titles for the Silver Birch Fiction award. We will be meeting together to discuss the books, share our thoughts and to create artifacts about our reading for the Reading Showcase in April.
Reading Showcase
Reading Showcase
The students will be deciding on the different types of artifacts they would like to create for the Reading Showcase. Some of the artifacts will be done individually and some will be done in pairs or in groups. We will be sharing the ideas we have for artifacts here, as well as any completed artifacts we create.
Book Mood Board.
Book Mood Board.
Get ambitious.
Get ambitious.
Create a digital portfolio of all the Silver Birch books as you read them.
Unsplash.
Unsplash.
Use Unsplash to find images for your Book Mood Board. It offers a huge library of images that are either in the public domain or have a Creative Common license.
90 Second Book Movie.
90 Second Book Movie.
The rules:
1. Your video should be about 90 seconds. (Okay, okay: if it’s three minutes but absolute genius, we’ll bend the rules for you. But let’s try to keep them short.)
2. Your video has to be about one of our Silver Birch Fiction books. You can (and maybe should!) work in a group for this artifact.
3. No book trailers! No video book reports! We’re looking for full-on dramatizations that manage to tell the entire story of the book in 90 seconds. Any format is OK—live-action, stop-motion, computer-animated, puppet show, whatever!
Looking for inspiration or ideas?
Looking for inspiration or ideas?
Follow these steps to help you plan.
Step 1: Watch examples of 90 second movies about Newbery award winning books.
Step 2: Read the book and start planning.
Step 3: Breaking your story and writing the script.
Step 4: Shot by Shot Analysis
A Favourite Line.
A Favourite Line.
What part of your book stood out for you? Was it a description? Something a character said?
Use Storybird to illustrate and share some of your favourite parts from the Silver Birch Fiction books.
Extend the Learning.
Extend the Learning.
Use your Storybird creations to create a display that will entice other students to read the Silver Birch Fiction books.
Suggestions? Ideas?
Suggestions? Ideas?
What would you like to create?
What would you like to create?
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