Non-fiction book
Read a non-fiction book or magazine article of your choice.
Bibliographic information:
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Give a summary of the book or magazine article:
| What is the main topic of this
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| Interesting fact 1:
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| Interesting fact 2:
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This may be completed as a poster, written up or done online.
Print your task sheet here: Non-fiction RAT task sheet
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Horror
Many people enjoy reading scary fiction, watching horror movies, and telling ghost stories. Choose a book from this genre to read.
List your favourite:
Scary movie
Scary book
Scary story
Why do you think people enjoy getting scared? Do you? What scares you?
Horror fiction is defined by the characters, setting and plot.
Describe these elements in the book that you have read.
You can write your responses, or send them in an email to your teacher.
Print your task sheet here: Horror fiction task sheet
Action and adventure
Read a book from the genre ‘action and adventure’.
• Why are these books described as page turners?
Thinking about how the characters are portrayed in your book, consider the following:
Is the plot believable?
Are the characters placed in a situation where they have to make difficult decisions?
What did the characters learn from making these decisions?
Extension
Write your own piece of action and adventure.
Your responses may be written, typed, or emailed to your teacher.
Print out your task sheet: Action and adventure task sheet
Romantic Fiction
Read a ‘pink’ book or ‘chick lit’ book.
• What is ‘romantic fiction’?
• Why is it so popular?
Thinking about how the characters are portrayed in your book, consider the following:
Is the plot believable?
Are the characters placed in a situation where they have to make difficult decisions?
Did the decisions they made, help you with decisions that you have had to make in your life?
Can you explain?
Extension
Write your own piece of romantic fiction.
Your responses may be written, typed, or emailed to your teacher.
Print your task sheet: Romantic fiction task sheet
Book Cover creator
Read a book of your choice.
Create a book cover that demonstrates your understanding of the book, with a cover and a blurb that gives the reader an ideas of the plot of the book.
You could add comments from other students who recommend this book.
Go to Book cover creator
Print your task sheet here: Create a book cover task sheet
Biography/Autobiography
Read an autobiography or biography of your choice.
Do you know what the difference is between these terms?
Create a timeline to highlight the major events or achievements in the person’s life.
This may be completed as a poster, a written piece or done online.
Go to: http://www.tiki-toki.com/
Print out your task sheet: Create a timeline biography task sheet
Wordle is an online tool for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
You can use a wordle to respond to your book.
Use words that describe the setting, characters or plot.
DO NOT USE NAMES!
Words that are repeated will be larger in your word cloud.
Can you guess which book this wordle describes?
What to do:
1. List 20 words that describe your book – DO NOT USE NAMES
2. To begin go to Wordle
Print out your task sheet here Create a wordle task sheet