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-We will have book reports for the month of March! Book reports are due on Tuesday, April 10th. Here is a link of an example of how the report will look like: Pizza Box #2 https://www.weareteachers.com/creative-book-report-ideas/ Here are the instructions of how to complete the project: Biography Report Brief Description Do your students love pizza? If so, they'll love creating pizza biographies! Objectives Students will
create a "visual" biography of a famous figure, in which each pizza slice represents a paragraph and toppings represent supporting details.
build research techniques, including note-taking and writing from research.
present information gathered from research.
practice following instructions.
Materials Needed
pizza box (large). I will try to provide one by March 9th. If you use real pizza boxes, students might glue white drawing paper to the top to cover up advertising. Or you might spray paint over the advertising so students have a white surface to write and draw on.
Internet and/or library access
construction paper
note cards, paper, pens, pencils
markers, colored paper, paint, glue, and other art supplies
The Lesson Research First, have students select a famous person about whom they would like to write a biography. After they have chosen a subject, students use library or Internet resources to research the life of that person. Students will have multiple chances to pick a book from the school library. Constructing a Pizza Biography The pizza biography includes three elements:
The Box Top. Here, students introduce the topic of the biography. The box top is the place they can get creative with a fun title and slogan, lettering, illustrations/photos. Among the creative things students can do is highlight a few of the most important facts about the person. One student wrote on his pizza cover Hand-Tossed by_____ in the spot where the student-authors were to record their names.
Inside the Box Top. Here students write a "[insert name of famous person] fact sheet." Students will include 25 facts about their chosen person. Some students recorded each fact on a pizza bread stick illustration!
The Pizza. Now to the real meat of the lesson! This is where students write the actual reports about the famous person they have researched. Each slice of pizza represents what would be a paragraph in students' biography reports; each slice includes at least four sentences related to a single topic/theme in the famous person's life. There needs to be 6 slices total. Example pictured below.
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