Book Representation

Grade Nine Book Project

Due Date: Thursday, April 11^th

You must select and read any book of your choice.  The book must be at least 150 pages and it must be a new book that you begin now.  You must create a Power Point that has a minimum of 20 slides that represents this book.  You must include captions and pictures on each slide.  You can represent and talk about the novel in any way: plot, characters, point of view, setting, theme, mood, author, other novels by this author, scenes, quotes, favorite parts, researching a topic from the novel, etc...  There is no expectation to cover everything, except the audience must understand the entire novel.  There is an expectation to RESPOND to the novel.  What are your feelings about the topic/novel; how can you connect to the novel; can you learn anything from the novel...  You can refer to our reader response questions.

Power Point

/20       slides and overall content on each slide

/5         creativity and overall appearance

/5         covering what happened in the story

/5         grammar, spelling

Presentation

/5         volume

/5         expression

/5         fluency and eye contact

Total

/50

SCC Poetry Competition

Poems:
- between 12 and 32 lines
- personal - using "I"
- any topic
- any style is accepted
- must by hand written/printed
- must have brainstorming and at least one rough draft
- editing/proofreading can only be done by a classmate
- place good copy on top
- name on the back of one of the pages

Percy Jackson

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

1. Explain each Greek God and who each was in the story?

(a)               Hades

(b)               Poseidon

(c)               Demigod

(d)               Zeus

(e)               Persephone

(f)                 Athena

(g)               Hermes

(h)              Medusa

2. Why did Percy have so much trouble at his “regular” school?
3. How did Percy, Annabeth and Grover find their way to the Underworld?
4. Why did Percy, Annabeth and Grover travel to the Underworld and how did they get out?
5. Explain who Luke is and what happens to him?
6. Explain what happened with Percy and his father at the end of the story?
7. Explain how Percy felt about his mother?
8. What kinds of things can people learn from this particular movie?
9. What is the purpose of the Norse and Greek God stories? 
10. What is the difference between Norse and Greek myths?

Beowulf

http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/projf981e/story.html

Videos

How do the following video stories fit into our unit?

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bskw0fLqYyM

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2mf8DtWWd8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb0q8SL_kLY&feature=related

4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QKxsiRYC9Q


How does the picture book: Have You Filled a Bucket Today? fit into our unit?

How does the following picture fit into our unit of study?

Persuasive Speech

Stephen Harper's full apology speech on behalf of Canadians for Indian Residential Schools System:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ryC74bbrEE

http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media.asp?id=2149



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