Students create, along with their families, an alternative book (the genre can be chosen by the students or assigned by the teacher e.g. a history book). They think about the content and form of similar books and generate radical ideas to create an alternative. They then use various materials to write and produce the book. Finally, they present the creative books at the school book fair or equivalent. 

•  Read and write different kinds of text

• Understand the differences/similarities between different types of text

• Develop awareness of materials used to produce a book

This unit has a creativity and critical thinking focus:

• Identify and question generally accepted practices

• Generate unusual ideas to produce a meaningful and personally novel alternative to studied texts

• Consider alternative perspectives and reflect on steps taken and the novelty of the solution

Web and Print

• Different types of texts for students to read and compare in step 2 

        Other Resources

• Paper, pencils, glue, and markers  

• Arts materials to create books 

      Opportunities to adapt, extend, and enrich

• If the teacher wishes to combine this with another discipline, students can be assigned a type of text (e.g. a history book, a science textbook, an art coffee-table book), and discussions about how to create alternatives can be focussed on what the book teaches us about history/science/art, etc. and how this could be improved/changed/made more unusual or interesting.  

• This activity could be extended by introducing students to the idea that poets sometimes try to create new ‘forms’ or ‘types’ of poetry – new styles or structures or content for their poems and giving examples (e.g. And the days are not full enough by Ezra Pound) or by discussing the differences, for example, between the ‘form’ of stories and poems 

English Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-rxRjkwd7MIBn3qMO5Ff_ysR2E54_gRpliIUuQbnVi0/edit?usp=sharing

Hindi Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rjfx1haREdFzPEoOIUPxlQOJPB7YyZV5sK5KjxZrdno/edit?usp=sharing

Gujarati Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/12tRbxVwQLfqxK2Q_rtqIoQ8UJrUEl2nGoWVrrWDgLgI/edit?usp=sharing 

Kannada Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1efDhHk4vmxOOlvZjaRHMa-e6TbQTzORTSvPQ2BiolOg/edit?usp=drive_link