Okay, so we have to write a creative book report by doing something like an interview with a charectar or writing an epilouge, but I don't want to do any of those so I was wondering if you had an idea. The book was called Autumn Letters and it was about 4 teens growing up in Nebraska about 40 years ago. All of your ideas are greatly appreciated.
2006-11-23 14:16:06 · 8 answers · asked by ♥iluvfoodnetwork♥ 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Whenever I had to do a creative book report I did the same thing, and it always seemed to work for me.
I made a journal about the book. But not a writing journal from one of the characters or anything. I had one of the characters create a journal about their experiences, but each page was some sort of piece from the book, pictures of the characters placed on a page so it looked like it was ripped from a scrapbook complete with comments written by the character, a telephone interview transcript, diagrams, fake newspaper clippings describing what was happening in the town at the time, a few of the pages I would actually do a journal entry. One of my favorite pages I did was a note that one of the characters supposedly "shredded" so it was destroyed. I shredded the note and then taped the pieces back together on the journal entry page like I salvaged it. Another thing I did was tape a feather on the page, since the character actually gave a feather to their mother in the book. Throughout the entire journal then I would write arrows and sketch drawings of the character's comments about the events, pictures, whatever (to explain how each page had revelance to the story), since it is really a scrapbook of the character's. In this way you still have the character's voice and narrative about the story, but you can have some fun with it. :) Have them write a poem for one of the entries if you want - you have a ton of freedom with this method.
With this way you can do a 20+ page journal that takes you step-by-step through the book and you can have a lot of room for expression.
2006-11-23 14:26:02 · answer #1 · answered by NvadrApple ♫ 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow, I didn't know a book report can be that creative as suggested by NvadrAppl... She really have a good idea that I would go along with, provided you have sufficient time to do it. Journal in scrapbook form...mum mm
2006-11-24 02:47:04 · answer #2 · answered by Doris T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about a letter from one of the characters written to one of the others? Or one of them, in the present day, (40 years after the story), retelling some of the events from their point of view to a child, or grandchild.
2006-11-23 22:32:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
G'day Iluvfoodnetwork,
Thanks for your question.
I would do a comparison of the lives of the characters living 40 years ago with the lives of modern teenagers in your area. Look at how they are similar and how they are different.
Regards
2006-11-23 22:54:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about an obituary for one of the characters. Tell about them and their life, family they leave behind, etc.? Or you could try a book report that was a series of diary entries by one of the characters.
2006-11-23 22:25:51 · answer #5 · answered by ape2016 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
r u saying you want to write a book report about Autumn letters, or r u asking for ideas similar to that book, or watever???????
2006-11-23 22:26:28 · answer #6 · answered by Derrick 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe a journal entry by one of the teenagers? i think that that would be a great way to step inside a characters thoughts.
2006-11-23 23:01:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i...don't...understand.
2006-11-23 22:17:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋