Novel cube

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Novel cube
By HEIDI

USe big sheets of art paper and have students design a net for a cube (they do this in grade 4 and 5 in math anyway). On each face of the cube, they'll illustrate a character and include at least one sentence describing
who it is and something they know about the character. Other faces could be to show setting, an event that happened, etc. Kids love it. It take a long time for them to do a good job, several class periods. Hang them on display and they'll be thrilled!
Also, I put some egneral literature circle questions on tongue depressor sticks and we draw one each day for the students to copy and

do a written answer.

For each event in the story, make a sentence strip or small poster. At the end of the novel, kids can put them in order on a bulletin board to make a sort of time line. Then they can decide which events were most exciting and display those ones as being at the top of a hill with the minor events building up toward the climax. Then the resolution events would be coming down the hill as things wind down.