Please find the full 44 page resource attached.  The resource includes:15 Projects for any novel that revolve around:character traitsgenreplotthemesetting and moodvocabularyProjects include:notesprintable activitiesgraphic oganizersteachable videosThinklinkScratch codingbook tastingSoundtrap music makerand more! 

This lesson plan connects to the novel study The Chocolate War that I have completed with my ELA A10 students. Students read and interpret the lyrics for “Take a Stand” and connect their understanding to the novel themes. Students are asked to peer assess and offer feedback to one another’s work, as well as self-assess their revised work.

This is a fun activity for students that collect trading cards. It takes a bit of work, but it is well worth it. Visit readwritethink to create the cards. You will have to be patient, and use screen captures and cropping to print the cards and have students glue them together (unless the site has changed since I last used it!). Train one tech-smart student how to do this, and let them be in charge of helping everyone else that selects this activity if possible. You will probably be restricted to printing your cards in black and white, but then you can always have your students colour them and glue them onto coloured paper to add some colour.
If fussing with the web site does not appeal to you - you could always make your own template as an MSWord document, or have the kids make them by hand instead as well.
An example of a Grade 5 level assignment is included below as well as an example.

This is a great assignment if you are trying to tap into procedural knowledge. You can provide a few choices for the manual or let students select their own. Some examples may be How to Graduate Hogwarts, How to Rule the World, How to Stay Calm in Any Situation - any theme related to the novel that students have read!

This is one of my new favourite activities, because it really gets students thinking, and it has them referencing the script as well as using their own knowledge and preferences. In the version of the assignment below, the students were asked to select 10 songs (you can of course adjust this number) and for each song they had to provide the title, artist, mood of the song, reference the act and scene the character would listen to it with a page number, and defend why the song is a good choice for that character at that point in the play/novel.

Students in Grades 5/6 create novel studies that can then be done with Grades 1/2.

This is a fantastic assignment, and if you have access to iPads or other devices it can be done easily using the "Book Creator" app. Students should write a rough draft first, and start by sequencing the ten most important events of the play (all of the details are included in the assignment below). When the books are done, the students should take them to classes with younger children and share them. These books can be very impressive and you may want to feature them in the school library.

This is a good assignment for younger students, or students that struggle with large amounts of writing. Students create a 3D cube and each side of the cube contains information about the play. This can be a smaller cube or a really big one! It is all up to you and your students. There is a template included below as well to give you the general idea of what they could look like. (If anyone makes a better template, I'd love to see it! I think they should be bigger than this for sure.)

Students choose a novel that is appropriate to their reading level (teacher-approved). They read it in ELA/during DEAR time. I set a date that they needed to be finished reading by so they could estimate where they needed to be at by the end of each week. When they finished reading, they used Bristol board to create a “puzzle” for their novel. Each piece of the puzzle contained a written description of information. On the opposite side, students draw a different cover for their novel that shows an important event or setting. You can upload the picture to a website to create it as an online puzzle for friends to complete! After, I had them cut the actual Bristol board into the 6 puzzle shapes, as you can see in the examples I included on the subsequent pages.

This assignment is intended to display your understanding of the novel that you have chosen. Written work should be typed (12pt font) and double-spaced. You will have some class time to work on this assignment, but it is sometimes difficult to book computer time that will accommodate our schedule. Please plan ahead. You may choose a book from any of the senior ELA sections, but I would prefer if you tried to find a novel in the ELA 20 section before looking elsewhere.

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The following is an Independent Novel Study outline.

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This is an independent unit for the novel Ghost of Spirit Bear that students have 5 weeks to complete. They read the novel and answer questions as well as complete a minimum of 4 assignments in order to cover 4 outcomes. This unit can also be changed to incorporate a different novel.

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For grades 3-7.

This assignment allows students to share what they have learned from their independent novel studies as well as present their information in a speech. This assignment also has students meet in small group to discuss their novels.

The following is a novel study guide for "Jean Val Jean" and a character wheel print out.