Novel Study

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• WALT self manage our reading time while maintaining meaning and understanding of a novel.

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• WALT use Bloom’s Taxonomy thinking skills to show in depth understanding of a novel.

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Title: The Twits Author: Roald Dahl

Kyla Hansell TPS

What to do...

• Choose a purpose for your reading.
• Do this, by looking through the tasks on this slideshow, and selecting 2 different learning tasks in each section of ‘Bloom’s Taxonomy’ to complete throughout the week.
• Please complete tasks in your Literacy book or using a Google App for Education (docs, drawing, spreadsheet, presentation etc.) Please add a slide under each section with links to your tasks or the tasks themselves.
• You may also complete the task using other interesting Web2 tools that you are confident with e.g. GoAnimate.
• Make sure you post your finished work to your blog!
• You will self manage how much you will read each day and how much time you will dedicate to the tasks.

Remember

1. List the characters and describe each of them (physical traits and personality traits) using adjectives, similes and metaphors.

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• List five intriguing words you learned from the book. Define each word using an online dictionary.

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• Complete a table that lists the places mentioned in the book and the events that took place there.

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• Find out what other books has this author written?

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Choose TWO Remember tasks to complete.

Understand

1. What genre of book is this? Give three reasons to support your opinion of why you think it best fits with that genre.

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• Record yourself reading your favourite chapter of the book on imovie. Show your understanding of the book with the expression of your voice.

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• Who would you choose to play the characters if the book was a movie? Create a Google Presentation with images and support your choices with evidence from the book.

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Choose TWO Understand tasks to complete.

Apply

1. Did this book remind you of anything that has happened to you? What? Why? How did you act in that situation?

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• Write an imaginative recount of a day that the main character came to visit our class. What would happen? How would they react to us? How would we react to them?

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• List the places in the book that are important? Then create a map to show how you think these places would look.

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Choose TWO Apply tasks to complete.

Analyse

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1. When did your story take place? Use a graphic organizer to compare this book’s time period to another time period (e.g. 1910 VS. 2015).

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• Retell key events from the story from the perspective of another character e.g. the wolf in the 3 little pigs, or one of the step-sisters in Cinderella.

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• Use a Venn diagram to compare a character from this book with a character from another book you have read recently.

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• Research background information about the author and explain how their life experiences may have affected the way they wrote this story.

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Choose TWO Analyse tasks to complete.

Evaluate

1. Rank the characters from ‘Most favourite’ to ‘Least favourite’ - give reasons for why you are putting each character in that place.

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• Write a persuasive argument, justifying why others should or should not read this book.

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• Which character would you choose to stay with for a weekend and why?

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• Choose a character from your book. What gift would you like to give to him or her or it? Design a greeting card to include with the gift with a message that explains why you chose that gift and why they are receiving it.

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Choose TWO Evaluate tasks to complete.

Create

• Create an interview script between you and a key character. Write the questions and the responses that you think they would give you. Record your interview on vocaroo.com. You could make it sound like a radio station interview.

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• Create a new book cover for this book. Make sure to include: title, image, author, blurb, reviews, barcode.

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• Create a game version of this book. What characters would players get to choose from? Where would the levels be set? What would you play for? How would you win in the levels?

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• Predict what would happen in the next book - write a plot summary to outline the key events that you think will happen next.

Choose ONE Create task to complete.