Interview
Pretend you are a talk show host and interview the main character. Your questions should be more complex than, "How old are you?" You need to make sure that you can answer the question in a way that reflects the character you are interviewing. This should be three typed, double-spaced, pages of dialogue.
Comic Strip
Summarize the book into a comic aimed for younger students or your classmates. There are a total of eight days, so you will need to have sixteen total comic squares - one for Rashad and Quinn for each day. You should include any important dialogue or events that occurred for each character on each day.
Write A Song
Write a ballad or song about the characters and events in your story. You may choose to write about one character or multiple characters. This should include a chorus (that will repeat throughout) and at least three verses.
Three Characters
Describe in detail three characters from the story.
- You will create a slideshow for this choice.
- Each character should have at least three slides.
- Slide #1: Discuss the characteristics of each character you have chosen. Make sure to use direct quotes from the novel to support.
- Slide #2: List reasons why you would or wouldn't want to get to know these people. Again, make sure to include supporting evidence from the text.
- Slide #3: This should be your "concluding paragraph". Make sure that you are including evidence from the novel that supports your feelings toward each character.
- You can include images to make your slideshow more interesting. However, these images should not fill up your slide. You need to make sure that most of your slide is typed information.
Poster or Book cover
Design a poster or new book cover depicting the climax of the story. You must include at least four quotes from the book in your artwork. You must also summarize the story on the back of your poster.
Journal
Write a journal that includes an entry for each day in the novel. You can choose any character in the book, and you must make sure that you are writing the entries from that characters perspective. You can choose one of the main characters, but you could easily choose to write from the perspective of one of the parents, the nurse or hospital gift shop employee, a sibling, or one of either of the boys' friends.
- At least 8 journal entries.
- At least three double-spaced, typed pages.
- Include quotes from the novel that support your entries.
Alternate ENding
If you were not satisfied with the ending the authors gave us, you can finish the story yourself.
You must turn in at least two typed pages for this option.
Make sure that you use the names of the characters, connect details from the book, and finalize the ending in a way that brings it all together.
You must turn in at least two typed pages for this option.
Make sure that you use the names of the characters, connect details from the book, and finalize the ending in a way that brings it all together.
Character conversation
Chose two characters from the story and write a conversation they might have. You need to make sure that the conversation connects with the content in the novel, need to make sure that you use proper formatting for dialogue, and make sure that the conversation would be something that could be added into the book and make sense.
This should be a total of three typed, double-spaced pages.
This should be a total of three typed, double-spaced pages.