2. Mrs. Wilkinson 8 th Grade Woodland Middle School Introduction Relevance Your Part Highlights Point to Ponder Famous Quote Summary

4. What is PPBR… PowerPoint Book Reports A fun new way to present what you know about the book you read.

5. To Give You An EXCITING and NEW way to present a book to the class Using your CREATIVITY and THE COMPUTER! What is the point?

6. Your Part…

7. Step One Find A Book Read Your Book Write an informal Book Report –Title, Author, Pages –Main Characters –Main Points –Likes and Dislikes

8. 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 Step Two  Search For Graphics  Look at www.amazon.comwww.amazon.com  Find your books cover to include in the presentation.  Save all “possible” graphics to a disk.

9. Step Three Make a Story Board -- INCLUDE -- Five slides 1. Cover page 2. Introduce the book 3. About the characters 4. Your favorite part 5. About the Author or Summary

10. Step Four Design Your Power Point Book Report… Step Four Step Fo Step Four

11. CLEAN UP THE MESS Check Grammar Step Five

12. Step Six A FINE EXAMPLE… A Presentation Near You Presenting… Your PPBR

13. A Fine Example… Charlotte’s Web By E.B. White Fern loves all animals. With the help of Charlotte, the spider, Fern saves Wilbur, her pet pig.

14. What Can’t You Do? A point to ponder…

15. Q uote of the day… Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested:… --Bacon, Essays: Of Studies

16. In conclusion… HAVE FUN Ask for Help Explore ++ THANK YOU