Tom Sawyer End of Novel Project
Choose ONE of the four projects listed below for your end-of-novel project for
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The project will be due Wednesday,
December 8th, 2010. You will give a brief presentation of your project
between two to three minutes and share some of things (art, songs/poems,
novels, or items in your bag, etc.) that you chose and explain why.
** When writing your explanations in paragraph form, make sure your
paragraphs are at least four to five sentences in length.
Theme Art
Create six pieces of artwork (drawings or paintings) of scenes that
represent themes from the novel. Be sure to include the major themes
and characters. Then write a paragraph for EACH picture and explain
what the picture symbolizes and how. Artwork must have color.
Novel Sound Track
Select (from an outside source) or write five poems/songs that represent
a theme, mood, characters or settings from the novel to create a “sound
track”. Write a paragraph for EACH song explaining why you chose that
poem/song and how it represents the novel. Be sure include the
lyrics/chorus to the songs or the poems you choose. If the song has
several lines that repeat, you only need to include them once. You will
also design an album cover for your “sound track” that represents the
novel with color.
Themes Across Novels
Compile a list of five other novels that have similar themes. This must
include a brief summary of each book (you may find these online, in
magazines or book catalogs, at the library, etc.), the name of the
author, and a short paragraph explaining the theme of the novel and
how it relates to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The summaries do
not need to be written by you, but you must tell why you think the books
are similar. It is not necessary that you read the five books, but you
must be familiar with the basic storyline of each. Do not choose books
from the same series (for example, you can not choose all the Harry
Potter books as your five books) and you must choose at least three
different themes to represent.
Story Bag
Put together a bag that contains at least eight items that would
represent themes, characters or settings from the novel. Include a
description of EACH item and why it’s important or what it represents in
the story.