Reading
6-Week Book Project
Name ___________________________________
Date _________________
Review the assignment for the day.
Complete the reading then do the assignment.
Check off the day when you have finished the assignment. Unfinished class work becomes homework.
NEATNESS counts.
Title __________________________________
Author ________________________________
Total number of pages of book _____________
Number of pages divided by 6 ___________
____ WEEK 1 – Read ______ pages.
____ Make 1 prediction about what might occur
later in the book. Explain. Write 2 questions or
things you wonder about or that are confusing.
____ Identify the genre of the book. Give 2
examples to support this type of genre.
____ WEEK 4 – Read ______ pages.
____ List 10 new vocabulary words from the story.
Include the page number and the complete sentence
the word is used in. Underline the word. Write a
synonym for the word.
____ Change the point of view of this story. Select a
different narrator and tell how this change would
impact on the story.
____ Change the setting of your book to any place in
the world. Explain how the change in setting would
impact the characters and what they do.
____ WEEK 5 – Read ______ pages.
____ Identify the point of view and the narrator and
explain how this point of view and narrator impacts
on the story.
____ Identify and discuss a theme the author
communicates via his/her book.
____ WEEK 2 – Read ______ pages.
____ Identify the resolution of the book. Evaluate its
effectiveness and believability. Would you have
wanted it to be different? Explain.
____ Identify the major setting of the story and tell
how the setting impacts on the story.
____ Identify the main character of the book. Give
physical traits and page numbers.
____ Identify two minor characters in the book.
Give any physical traits and page numbers. Explain
how they interact with the main character.
____ WEEK 3 – Read ______ pages.
____ Create a book cover for your book. Include the
title and author. The cover you create should be
different than the one currently on your book!
____ Identify the type of conflict in the story.
Character vs _____. Create a time line of events to
show the rising action of the conflict to date in the
story.
____ Make an inference or draw a conclusion about
1 of the characters or an event in the story. Cite
evidence from the text to support your response.
____ You are planning to make a movie version of
the book you have read. Identify who would play the
parts of the characters in your book. Make a chart.
Explain why you selected the actors you did.
____ WEEK 6 – Read ______ pages.
____ Identify and discuss a tone the author
communicates via his/her book.
____ Explain why someone should read this book.
What are 5 good qualities of this book?
____ Finish up any of the weekly activities that
you did not complete before handing your project
in to be graded!