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Book Folders - Grade 8
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Eighth grade book folders will be similar to the ones you created last year. These folders will require you to include more original writing. You must do a cover and and excerpt page. The other two pages of the folder will be completed by using the "Choice Board". Please follow the directions below. PAGE 1 - COVER - Choose one of the following: 1. Copy the publisher's cover of your book. If there are several covers for your book, choose the one that you like the most. You can use Google images to copy a cover to a Word document. Size can be adjusted in the Word document. Print out a black and white or color copy. Trim the cover and mount with other colors. Choose an appropriate color folder to attach the cover. If it is black and white, add color using colored pencils, crayons, markers, pens, etc. Add your name in black marker in the lower right hand corner. 2. Trace the cover directly from your book. Follow the rest of the directions listed above in choice 1. 3. Design your own cover, using the symbols and ideas from the book. Make sure your design includes the title and author of the book. Plan your colors, images, words and background to match the subject, theme and mood in the story. Let every detail of your design work to convey the message of the book. PAGE 2 - EXCERPT Find an excerpt from your book that meets the criteria we discussed in class. Type the excerpt using an italicized font. It should be about 1/2 of a page. Include the name of the book and page number of the excerpt. Scroll down for an example of the excerpt page. Next, analyze the excerpt. Point out at least three elements for readers to notice. Possible topics: - a summary of what is going on in the excerpt - details about the main character found in the excerpt - details about the conflict - the mood of the passage - the word choices, style, language of the passage and its effect on the story - the genre of the book, as displayed in the excerpt - the figurative language or descriptive language of the story - something else you notice and want to highlight Remember to switch from italicized fontto regular font for your analysis. Be sure to QUOTE and QUOTE and QUOTE from your excerpt to make your points. Stick to what you see just in the excerpt. PAGES 3-4 - Choose at least TWO of the following: 1. Define a literary term and give three examples from your book. 2. Compare and contrast this book to another book in the same genre that you've read. 3. Create a plot outline for the book you've read. 4. Create fun fact section about the author. 5. Write a book summary that might fit on a book jacket. 6. List reasons, in order of importance, why people might want to read this book, based on their interests, for example. 7. Make a list of your five favorite scenes and explain your choices. 8. Describe a personal connection you've made with this text as a whole, with the plot, or with a character or situation. 9. Write a letter of advice to one of the characters in your novel. 10. Describe a lesson learned by a character in the novel and explain how that fits into the real life experiences of a modern teen reading the text. 11. Design an advertisement for the book. Explain why you created the advertisement in this way. 12. Write a poem that captures the theme of this novel. Explain the connections between your poem and your novel. 13. Choose a scene and write a screenplay that would translate that scene from the text onto a movie screen.
Example of an excerpt: I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber and deposited all between the scantlings. I then replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly, that no human eye - not even his - could have detected anything wrong. There was nothing to wash out - no stain of any kind - no blood spot whatever. I had been too wary for that. A tub had caught all - ha! ha! When I had made an end of these labors, it was four o'clock - still dark as midnight. As the bell sounded the hour, there came a knocking at the street door. I went down to open it with a light heart - for what had I now to fear? There entered three men, who introduced themselves, with perfect suavity, as officers of the police. A shriek had been heard by a neighbor during the night; suspicion of foul play had been aroused; information had been lodged at the police officeand they (the officers) had been deputed to search the premises. I hope this example from The Tell-Tale Heart gives you a peek at the bizarre nature of this famous story. First, notice the action in this portion. A man is covering something up, under the floor boards, and it involves blood! This detail hints at the horror and mystery of that plot, which I think many readers really appreciate about this story. We must suspect there is a crime of some sort, because the police have arrived. the next t hing you might notice is the weird voice of the narrator. Don't you think it is odd when he talks about the blood and says, "A tub had caught all - ha! ha!" He sounds proud of himself for being so wise and so clever, not a normal reaction. And he claims to have "a light heart" as he lets the police officers in his house. That is just not normal! Most of us don't get excited about the police arriving at your door, even when we are innocent. Finally, I wonder how you are reacting to the language of this story. Words like scantlings, wary and suavity, are all part of an old-fashioned and formal style that is not typical of modern stories. I think it intensifies the feeling of horror and surprise when I read this story.
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