The setting in this book is mainly on greg heffleys house and school. They want new ways to think about a piece of literature and new. Readytogo genre book reports public schools of robeson. Write a diary that one of the storys main characters might have kept before, during, or after the books events. Diary of a wimpy kid book report by emily cox on prezi. Fifty alternatives to the book report teaching ideas william. School book report journal for fiction diary january 11, 2016.
Diary entry templates diary cover page diary ideas for. She and her family and friends were living in a town called sarajevo. Students tire of responding to novels in the same ways. He always tries to avoid this kid named freggley who is really. However, unlike anne, zlata survived the war and was alive to see it published in 1993 by a small bosnian press. Although finally she escaped from sarajevo, there are still millions of children worldwide who live under the shadow of war. It begins as the daytoday record of the life of a typical elevenyearold girl, preoccupied. A book report is an essay discussing the contents of a book, written as part of a class. Each week, education world offers a new idea to help you make over boring book report formats. Create a character diary students choose a character from the book and compose a diary or journal. This is a fun way your students can show what they have learned about a book in a creative way. Students read a fiction book or nonfiction book and then write 4 or more diary or journal entries from the point of view of a major.
Discuss point of view to ensure that students understand what it means to write in first person. Anne franks diary still resonates 75 years later duration. Zlata began her diary in september 1991, a few months before the war broke out. Book report create a diary or journal fun artistic creative challenging. In this book, a young girl named zlata, had her diary she wrote in, made into a book with all of her diary entries. As the book begins, zlata filipovic is a normal little girl going to school and having fun. Originally published in serbocroat by unicef, it was read by a french reporter and taken to paris. Jul 26, 2019 explore lynnderellas board book reports, followed by 68. She agreed to the publication of her diary because it is important to keep on telling the world about the devastating effect of war on everyone, especially children. Greg mostly hangs around his house everyday playing video games with his best friend rowley jefferson. She has lots of friends, does well in school, has a wonderful family. The diary of anne frank the diary of a young girl is one of the most shocking testimonies about antisemitism during the ii.
Book report create a diary or journal fun artistic. The childs diary that awakened the conscience of the world when zlatas diary was first published at the height of the bosnian conflict, it became an international bestseller and was compared to the diary of anne frank, both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world it describes. Traditional book reports should be a thing of the past. Zlatas diary has been compared to the diary of anne frank, both being diaries written by young girls during periods of war and genocide when the writer and her family were targeted for racial or ethnic reasons. In this book, her diary entries tell the stories of events in her life, and the biggest event that took place.
Write a diary that one of the books main characters might have written surrounding the. Show students examples of diary entries from other books. A book report on zlatas diary by zlata filipovic kibin. In 1995, it was translated into english and given a major release by penguin books. Create a diary kept by a main character in your story.