Cereal Box Reading Project

Students are almost finished with the novels they've been reading for their book clubs. As a culminating project (rather than a comprehensive test), students will design a cereal that relates to their book. Students will develop a creative name, cereal shape, prize, and games for the back of the box as well as character and setting information as"ingredients." All the instructions, rubric, and templates are being sent home today, but are also available below.

Directions

Rubric

Side 1

Side 2

Note: Students may type the information for the sides and top instead of handwriting on the templates that have been provided.

In addition to creating the cereal box, students also get to make a commercial to convince people to "buy" their cereal. This commercial can be presented live in class, but many may want to choose to record it as a video and send in the link so we can watch it in class. The advantage to a video is it can be done as many times as necessary until it's just right and you can also include props, other people, and even special effects.

This should be a fun project and a good activity to work on over the LONG weekend! The project is due next Friday, November 7th. Students have been encourage to start working on it over the weekend so they're not rushing to complete it when they return on Wednesday. If you are not able to find a cereal box, please let me know.

Students DO NOT HAVE TO BE FINISHED WITH THE BOOK to begin working on this project.

If you google "cereal box book report," you can see lots of great picture examples. Here are a few:
      
*Notice that the entire box has been covered so that the original cereal is not apparent.

FYI:
1st Block - Due Wednesday

• Frindle book club should have read chapters 10, 11, and 12 AND completed their 4th job.
• Clementine and The Homework Machine book clubs should have read chapters 7 and 8 AND completed their 4th job.

2nd Block - Due Wednesday

• All book clubs should have finished their book AND completed their final job