Third Quarter Book Report

Third Quarter Book Report

Click the following link to download the instructions and book choices for the third quarter book report: http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/view.php?u=1083475. The project type is the completion of a packet, which will be distributed in class when we return from February vacation.

Due Date: March 30 or 31
Counts As: Test
Late Work: -10 per day with a max. of -30 before grade reverts to a 0.

Book Report #2: Page to Screen

Counts As: Test

Due Dates: (G) Tuesday, 12/16, (W) Wednesday, 12/17

Note: Just to refresh, I'm going to post the documents of some assignments here to make it easier for the both of us. In this case, you already have the format all set up for you report, and you just have to enter your information. Also, you won't accidentally miss a part of the project. Lastly, you know where to go to find it, no looking through mounds of papers or asking for a new one.

**Download Book Report Template** Click the title link (or "Download Book...") to download and save the book report template to your computer. This way, you just have to type your own information directly into the already-formatted document.

***The document says that it is Book Report #3, but that is an error; you can just switch the 3 to a 2. Also, you can remove my examples from the document before printing it to save some trees.***

Submit to: You will be required to submit your paper to Turnitin.com. An assignment has already been created on the site, and you can submit your book report any time between now and the due date.

You must also print this out. You do not need to submit the title page to Turnitin; just staple it to the front of your printed report.

Book Report #2: Page to Screen

Book Report #2: Page to Screen English 110

Due Date: (G) Tuesday, 12/16, (W) Wednesday, 12/17

Book Approval Date: (G) Wednesday, 11/12, (W) Thursday, 11/13

Counts as: Test grade

Type of Book: You are going to choose a novel that has been made into a movie from a provided list. The novel must have come before the film. Some potential topics are listed; for a complete list, go to http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies/. Make sure it is a novel and not a short story, etc.

*Make sure you can get access to a movie to confirm that it’s not out of print or a random tv movie.*

Project: Read a book that was made into a movie, watch the movie, and complete a project (details will be available soon).

Which book/film combinations can I NOT do?
• Don’t read a book that you’ve used for another book report/school project at any point
• Can read the book of a movie you’ve already seen
• No elementary/middle school books
• No Harry Potter, Holes, etc.
• Certain book/film adaptations may require a parental sign off form

Potential Titles
About a Boy / Nick Hornby
Anywhere but Here / Mona Simpson
Basketball Diaries / Jim Carroll
Big Fish / Daniel Wallace
Bourne Identity/Supremacy/Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum
Bridget Jones’ Diary / Helen Fielding
Clancy, Tom books: i.e. Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, The Sum of All Fears
daVinci Code, The / Dan Brown
Dick, Phillip K. books: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner, Next
Emma / Jane Austen
Eragon / Christopher Paolini
Everything Is Illuminated / Jonathan Safran Foer
Fan, The / Peter Abrahams
Fever Pitch / Nick Hornby
Flags of Our Fathers / James Bradley
Forest Gump / Winston Groom
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang / Joyce Carol Oates
Freaky Friday / Mary Rodgers
Freedom Writers Diary, The / Erin Gruwell
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream / Buzz Bissinger
Ghost World / Daniel Clowes
Girl, Interrupted / Susanna Kaysen
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The / Douglas Adams
I Am Legend / Richard Matheson
Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles / Anthony Swofford
K-PAX: A Novel / Gene Brewer
King, Stephen books
Legally Blonde / Amanda Brown
Mommie Dearest / Cristina Crawford
Natural , The / Bernard Malamud
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest / Ken Kesey
Patterson, James books
Pay It Forward / Catherine Ryan Hyde
Perfect Storm / Sebastian Junger
Princess Diaries, The / Meg Cabot
Pursuit of Happyness, The / Chris Gardner
Queen Bees & Wannabes (Mean Girls) / Rosalind Wiseman
Riding in Cars With Boys / Beverly D'Onofrio
Seabiscuit: An American Legend / Laura Hillenbrand
Sparks, Nicholas: The Notebook, A Walk to Remember
Speak / Laurie Halse Anderson
Starship Troopers / Robert A. Heinlein
Stormbreaker / Anthony Horowitz
Time Machine, The / H. G. Wells
Twilight / Stephenie Meyer
Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team (Munich) / George Jonas
War of the Worlds / H. G. Wells
We Were Soldiers Once -- and Young: Ia Drang: The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam (We Were Soldiers) /Harold G. Moore
What's Eating Gilbert Grape? / Peter Hedges
Where the Heart Is / Billie Letts
White Oleander / Janet Fitch
Wonder Boys, The / Michael Chabon

Book Report #1

Book Report #1

English 9: Level 1
Counts as: Test Grade
Due Dates: Monday/Tuesday, October 20/21 (whichever we meet)
Book Type: Choice APPROVED Novels not pre-approved will be subject to major point deductions. Must be at least 175 pages.
Assignment: Select one project from the provided list.
Late Work: Follows late policy (-10 points/day—three days max.)
Cheating/Plagiarism: A zero on the paper/project, a call to your parent(s) or guardian, and your name submitted to the administration.

You must complete one of the following projects for your book report. Make sure you complete all required components of the project you choose to avoid point deductions. Going above and beyond what is stated is always acceptable and graded accordingly. All projects are individual projects unless noted. If you have any questions regarding the directions, see me. Remember, this is a test-level assignment, and it will be graded as such.

Download the Book Report Instructions:


In case that doesn't work, try this: http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/view.php?u=815636.