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Create a scrapbook covering the main events in your book. Use pictures, quotations, drawings, and journaling on each page. It needs to be colorful, attractive, and pertinent to your book.

After choosing and reading a book, each student selects a book report container. The container could be a plastic bag, a manila envelope, a can, or anything else that might be appropriate for a book. Students decorate their containers to convey some of the major details, elements, or themes found in the books. In the containers, students must have ten questions based on the book. They must have a ten-word glossary of unfamiliar words, and they must include five things that have a connection to the story.

Students wil create a summary from a self-made plot diagram about a story.

Assessment of Independent Reading Reflections

Vocabulary Builder: Students will define, illustrate a new vocabulary term as well as use the new vocabulary in a context appropriate sentence.

Reading Group

This project is worth a total of 100 points. Students will work in groups to research several possible alternative energy sources for a new energy plant. They will create a poster to show the energy source that they have chosen and share information in a presentation to the class. Participation will be based on teacher notes and observations and a peer review.

Students will publish a virtual poster on glogster to summarize research about energy resources in preparation for further investigation in other content areas. Students should be developing an understanding that energy issues are multi-faceted: What energy resources are available in a given area or country? What unique environmental features are present? What are societal, economic and political implications of the energy choices that are made?

Students will publish a virtual poster on glogster to summarize research about energy resources in preparation for further investigation in other content areas. Students should be developing an understanding that energy issues are multi-faceted: What energy resources are available in a given area or country? What unique environmental features are present? What are societal, economic and political implications of the energy choices that are made?

Students will summarize a level reader that will be read with a partner. Students will list the 5 W's of summary from the book. Students will write the 5 W's in paragraph form. Students will illustrate the summary they have written with details and color.