Book Report: What Are They?

Create life-sized models of two of your favorite characters and dress them as they are dressed in the book. Crouch down behind your character and describe yourself as the character. Tell what your role is in the book and how you relate to the other character you have made.
Create a sculpture of a character. Use any combination of soap, wood, clay, sticks, wire, stones, old toy pieces, or any other object. An explanation of how this character fits into the book should accompany the sculpture.
Interview a character from your book. Write at least ten questions that will give the character the opportunity to discuss his/her thoughts and feelings about his/her role in the story. However you choose to present your interview is up to you.
Write a diary that one of the story's main characters might have kept before, during, or after the book's events. Remember that the character'sthoughts and feelings are very important in a diary.
If you are reading the same book as one or more others are reading, dramatize a scene from the book. Write a script and have several rehearsals before presenting it to the class.
Prepare an oral report of 5 minutes. Give a brief summary of the plotand describe the personality of one of the main characters. Be prepared for questions from the class.
Give a sales talk, pretending the students in the class are clerks in a bookstore and you want them to push this book.
Build a miniature stage setting of a scene in the book. Include a written explanation of the scene.
Make several sketches of some of the scenes in the book and label them.
Describe the setting of a scene, and then do it in pantomime.
Construct puppets and present a show of one or more interesting parts of the book.
Dress as one of the characters and act out a characterization.
Imagine that you are the author of the book you have just read. Suddenly the book becomes a best seller. Write a letter to a movie producer trying to get that person interested in making... [continues]

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