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Book Reports At various times the school year, Mr. Desilets' classes have book report assignments. In addition, many students choose to do additional book reports for extra credit. Here are the directions that each student receives to help him or her develop creative book reports. Book Report Formats You may choose any one of the following formats for your
book report. Please remember that, regardless of the format you pick, the text
of your report must be between two and three hundred words in length.
Be sure that your report does not merely summarize the plot of the book.
Please indicate clearly which format you are using. 1. A very impatient stranger has asked about the most
important person in your book. Choose one important person and describe him or
her. 2. Your principal has asked whether you would recommend
this book for him or her to read. He or she wants you to state specific reasons
for your answer. 3. The President of the United States has learned that you
are reading a particularly interesting piece of literature. He wants you to tell
him one thing an important person in the work discovered about life--something
that you think all Americans should know in order to make the world a better
place in which to live. He asks why you chose this particular "lesson of
life." 4. You are the most famous star in the world. You have been
asked to play one of the leading roles in the film of your book. Explain why you
are or are not suited to a certain role. 5. Invite one of the people in the book to dinner.
Illustrate your invitation with a scene from the book. So that he or she will
come, tell him or her why you chose that person over the others. Next, write a
note to your mother, telling her that you have invited someone for dinner.
Describe the person to her. You might include a few do's and don't's
for her to follow so that your guest will feel more comfortable. You might also
suggest a menu. 6. A pen pal of yours from Russia has asked that you send
him or her the book because he or she has heard that it typifies some aspect of
American life and because he or she is anxious to learn about Americans. Write a
letter telling whether or not you will send this book and how it agrees or
disagrees with the report he or she has heard. 7. Make a "not-so-scrap" book. Illustrate,
through pictures and text, the theme, the people, the plot, the setting, and the
ideas presented in your book. 8. You are one of the people in your book. Prepare a diary
that you might have kept during the most dramatic moments of the story. Remember
that a diary means more than just the recording of events. 9. Pretend to be a person in your story. You are being interviewed by Barbara Walters for a television special. Write out the questions she will ask you and the answers you plan to give. The questioning should help the reader understand the story. |
