Formal Essay
Character Journals & Book Club Roles
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Character Journals (written from a variety of different perspectives) will be completed as we read and discuss both Animal Farm and Mockingjay. As Atticus Finch will remind us later on this year when we read To Kill a Mockingbird: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." Writing from different characters' perspectives is one way to attempt to climb into their skil and walk around in it for a bit.
You will be writing a book review or movie review (you can choose your main focus), but within that review, you will need to compare the book to its movie version or the movie to its book version. Your final review will be both a review and a compare/ contrast piece.
Your brilliant artists' statement will be a group writing piece. You will have created an interactive, metaphorically complex, simple machine as a group, and you will each write a portion of the artists' statment that explains what your piece of the "simple" machine represents. Your artists' statement will live on the wall next to your "simple" machine display and will need to explain your piece when you are not there.
Book and
Movie Review
