Friday, March

1. Quiz--Vocabulary for the week is found here
2. Finish Reading Test
3. Work on comic books

Homework: finish The Bean Trees if you haven't already.  
Test on Bean Trees Tuesday.  Comic book version of the book due Thursday--30 points

Comic Book

• 40 points   Due March 14, 2013  NOTE: Comic book has to show understanding
• 10 pages. 
• Note: the novel covers 17 chapters but you only have to make 10 illustrated pages.  Since the comic book must cover the entire novel, your summary will need to cover chapters that aren't illustrated. The summary has to be well-written.  This is a 10th grade assignment, so don't whip it out the way you might have done in 6th grade
• Front cover: illustration that deals with a key scene in the book.  Most likely this scene will touch upon a theme in the novel.
• Page 1 Kingsolver biographical information OR interesting discussion of the book to hook the reader.  Your choice, but make it helpful to the reader.  No plagiarism!
• Next 10 pages are to consist of illustrations with dialog and page numbers.  
• Illustration with speech bubble (top half of each page)
• Summary (bottom half of each page).  Be sure to cover all of the most important parts of the book
• Theme (last page)
• Rear cover: your choice! Look at other books you own and see what is often done and do that

You may work with a partner.  
Not all chapters need to be covered, but be sure to include what you think are the most important parts of the book, including important quotes.  If something important happens in a chapter you don't have an illustration for, be sure to summarize just a bit of that important part.
Each page needs:
Picture with people talking to each other.  Quote the actual dialog and list page number
1/2 page summary of the story.
At the end you will write 1 page discussing a theme in the book. We will discuss themes later.

OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT:
Make Xtranormal.com animated video
If you make the video, it must do everything that the comic book does, but it can cover just one scene if you'd like.  Here are a few ways to do it:
1. Have Taylor Greer tell her story.  She could summarize the first part of the book for the reader and then you could show an important scene with other characters in it.  Then Taylor could finish up telling the rest of her story and she could discuss a theme.
2. You could interview Taylor and Lou Ann and cover the entire story and discuss a theme in the book
3. You could write a summary of the entire novel and have it scroll down.  This would probably take 1-2 minutes.  Then show your scene.  Be sure to fit in discussion of the theme somewhere.
4.  Film a scene and then type up the information mentioned in 3 above