Book Projects

Verbal / Linguistic

Write a formal letter to the author of your book, giving your opinion of the book and asking any questions you may have about the book.

Write a book review to be printed for the school newspaper. Keep your audience (the other students who may be considering reading the book) in mind.

(Collection of stories)
Write a book review – be sure to include something about each of the stories – why they were all included in the one book. Tell about which you liked the best, and why; then which you liked the least, and why.
 

Logical / Mathematical

Write a new ending to your story.

Design a board game built around the plot of your book.

(Collection of stories)
Design a board game, using characters and settings and plots from the different stories.
 

Musical

Find or make up a tune or song that you feel could accompany the
book. Record it on a cassette. Explain why you feel it is appropriate.

(Collection of stories)
Find or make up a tune or song that you feel could accompany the
different stories in the book. Record them on a cassette. Explain why you feel they are appropriate.
 

Spatial / Visual

Draw a map of the area where the story takes place.

Build the setting of your book in a shoebox.

Design another book cover.

Cut out pictures from a magazine that you feel could be of the characters and setting.
 

(Collection of stories)
Draw a map of the area where each of the stories take place.

Build the settings of the stories of your book in a shoebox.

Cut out pictures from a magazine that you feel could be of the characters and settings.
 

Bodily / Kinesthetic

Make up a dance or a pantomime that could represent a character/s from your book – record it on video.

(Collection of stories)
Play charades to have someone guess the different titles of the book and the stories in it. Record it on video.
 

Interpersonal

Identify moral/ethical/other issues that the characters are dealing with. Ask friends, family members or teachers what they think with a questionnaire/interview format; compile the results.

Write a dialog between two or more of the characters. Have friends help you act it out. Record it on video.

(Collection of stories) Same as above.
 

Intrapersonal

Select one dilemma; analyze the thoughts and/or feelings of the
character leading up to the decision or changes that occurred in your book. Compare it to your own life or people that you know.

Find a character that you feel you could relate to. Explain in what way you could relate and why. Would you have done things differently than s/he did? What?

(Collection of stories) Same as above.