1. Individual Book Read Due April 24 th !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That’s a Thursday!!!!!!!!!!

2. Assignment Read one book In-class assignments Reading at home Assignments at home, due every Friday

3. Requirements The novel is… Within your SRI or Lexile score 200 pages or longer Not longer than you could complete in the time allotted Appropriate for your age level- you will be presenting this to the class A series Challenging and interesting to me Different from previous months A book you have never read before You will fill out a form and turn it into me for approval prior to the first day of reading.

4. Genres Classic Biography/Autobiography/Memoir Contemporary Historical Fiction Mystery Fantasy Award Winner (Newberry etc.) Science Fiction

5. How to search for a book Library: card catalog on computers ◦Search by: author, genre, section ◦Stick to where the catalog sent you w/ ISN # ◦Look through the Young Adult section And go to Lexile.com

6. To succeed you need… Brain Effort and hard work Support at home helps- but you need to support each other! Folder to hold all your reading papers To do homework- Semester 1 was easy Time to step it up

7. Projects

8. Presentation stylee Book Review Artistic Representation Character Diary Rap/Poem/Song Act out a scene Other: if you come up with a unique idea and give me a proper rubric- I may approve another stylee (worth 100 pts)