Two more ideas...

1. Write an obituary, help wanted, birth announcement, etc., based on the book.
2. Pretend you are a prosecuting or defense attorney and write an argument for or against prosecuting a character who committed a crime.

Here is a list of book response activities we are going to try out this summer. Many are from scholastic.com, a few are from my son's English class, and a few I made up:

1.                               Make an advertisement for a product in the book, or which the characters would have liked or needed.

2.                               Make a six-frame comic of a scene from the book.

3.                               Write a newspaper story account of an event from the story.

4.                               Write a biographical sketch of a character or the author.

5.                               Write a review.

6.                               Write an essay about the book.

7.                               Make a book Trailer

8.                               Make a powerpoint summary of the story

9.                               Make a powerpoint biography of a character or the author.

10.                            Come up with a game you can play based on the story or play an actual game that  was played in the book

11.                            Write a letter to the main character and the character's reply.

12.                            Write a different ending for the book. 

13.                            Pretend you are a talk show host and interview the main character.

14.                            Create a travel brochure for the setting of the story or scrapbook pages about key characters. 

15.                            Create a book jacket, including illustrations, an enticing synopsis, author bio, and favorable reviews. 

16.                            Summarize the book into a comic or story aimed for younger students or your classmates. 

17.                            Write a news article about an important event from the book. 

18.                            Write about the decisions you would make if you were the main character in the book. 

19.                            Dramatize a scene from the story with other students or using puppets. 

20.                            Post a book review on Share What You're Reading. 

21.                            Chose two characters from the story and write a conversation they might have. 

22.                            Write a letter or email to a close friend recommending the book you have just read. 

23.                            Make a list of new, unusual, or interesting words or phrases found in your book. 

24.                            Prepare a television commercial about your book. Act out the commercial for your classmates. 

25.                            Write ten chat room-style questions that could be used to start an online discussion about the book.

26.                            Or, write ten questions that test other students' understanding of the story. (Make sure you provide a list of answers.) 

27.                            Explain why you think this book will or will not be read 100 years from now. Support your opinion by stating specific events in the story. 

28.                            Discuss one particular episode in the story that you remember most. Describe why you think it remains so clear to you. 

29.                            Write a letter/email to the author of your book. Address it to the publisher and mail it. Or, see if the author has a Web site and email it. 

30.                            Write a ballad or song about the characters and events in your story. Set the words to the music of a popular song and sing it to the class. 

31.                            Give a dramatic reading of a scene in the book to your classmates. 

32.                            Describe in detail three characters from the story. List reasons why you would or wouldn't want to get to know these people. 

33.                            Design a poster or new book cover depicting the climax of the story. 

34.                            Write an acrostic poem about the book using the letters in the title of the book or the name of a character or author. 

35.                            Draw a classroom mural depicting a major scene(s) from the book. 

36.                            After reading an informational book, make a scrapbook about the topics.

37.                            Use xtranormal to dramatize a favorite dialogue from the book.

38.                            Use mediachalk to re-tell a scene from the book.

I think many of these sound like a lot of fun!

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This blog is really just a place for me to keep all of my kids' summer reading book response assignments together in one place, like an archive of what they have read. I will add responses for my own reading too, as well as reports of summertime family outings and trips. If anyone else would like to read what we have written, be our guest!