Children's Book Project for Juniors

A Recontextualization of The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway

In this project, you will stop after you read each chapter of The Sun Also Rises and create a page of an original children's book based on that chapter.  Each page will include the following components.  Since the book has 19 pages, you will, eventually, have 19 pages of your original children's book.
Illustration:  This is a graphic/ diagram/ drawing that supports the excerpt below.

Synthesis: Write two sentences:  one sentence summarizes the chapter, and the other sentence is a thematic interpretation of the significance of the chapter.


Direct excerpt:  Choose one significant direct excerpt from the chapter that connects the drawing and your synthesis.
 
Chapter #:  Note the chapter number that corresponds to this page of your children's book.

Juniors' Outside Novel "Webquest"

Assignment:

Today in class you will be researching full-length print novels from a list. You will research five of them for the criteria noted.

Steps in the Process:

1. Review the “Juniors’ outside reading list.”

2. Choose five novels about which you think you’d like to learn more.

3. Create a Word file. Copy the rows with the novels about which you’d like to learn more from “Juniors’ outside reading list” into the Word document. Save it.

4. Research each of the five novels for the following criteria:

a. Plot summary

b. Themes and arguments

c. Online database peer-reviewed, scholarly research source

5. Make sure you have noted the title of the website and the url for each of the three criteria above.

Reminder: Note the name of the source and the URL for each criterion you enter into your document.