CREATE
2. 2 people. Bag a book report: Decorate a bag or box with something to represent the novel. Fill the bag with 5 items that describe the novel and explain why. Include a 3 paragraph response essay inside or attached to your bag.
3. 1-2 people. Jess loved to draw, create 3-4 drawings that you would imagine Jess creating during the events of the novel. Include a one paragraph description to go along with each drawing, narrated by Jess.
TECHNOLOGY
4. 1-2 people. Create a book trailer for yournovel using Animoto, Photostory, or Windows Movie Maker. Include details from the story but do not spoil the ending. Watch book trailers on other novels to give you ideas.
5. 1-2 people. Create a children’s book of your favorite scene or summarize the novel using StoryJumper, or drawn by hand.
WRITING
7. 1-2 people. Create another chapter or ending for your novel. Be creative. Think about how the characters act and/or feel. (If you include drawings you can have a group of 2).
8. 1 person. Blog as Jess: Pretend that Jess wrote daily blog entries during his friendship with Leslie. Write 5-6 entries describing how he felt when they first met, as they became closer, and dealing with his range of emotion at the end.
ACTING
9. 2 people. Construct puppets and present a show of one of the events in the novel.
10. 2-3 people. Based on the information in the book, reconstruct a scene from the novel. Include people and other details in your display.
