After School Practices
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Elementary Battle of the Books is a program sponsored by the North Carolina School Library Media Association to promote reading and to expose 4th and 5th grade students to quality literature in a wide range of genres. A team is selected from participating students to compete in a district-wide “quiz bowl”-style competition.
Below are the requirements to participate:
Question Due Dates
September 22nd, 2016
September 29th
October 6th
October 13th
October 20th
October 27th
November 3rd
November 10th
November 17th
December 1st
December 8th
December 15th
January 5th, 2017
January 12th
January 19th
January 26th
February 2nd
February 9th
February 16th
February 23rd
Instructions and Examples for Writing Questions
Write 10 Questions for each book you read. Use these instructions.
EXAMPLE: Don’t use the word “lemonade” in a question about The Lemonade War.
EXAMPLE: In which book does someone solve a difficult problem?
SAMPLE QUESTIONS
Below are the requirements to participate:
- Permission slip signed by parent
- Read all 18 books on required list
- Write 10 BOB type questions for each book and turn in on set due dates
- Questions need to written in BOB format and need to come from throughout the entire book
- Memorize authors and titles of all 18 books on required list
- Attend practice sessions (these will take place primarily during student’s lunch time during school)
- Students will be required to take a cumulative test on the books based on the number of students that complete the requirements
- There can only be 12 students on a team
- Must be in 4th or 5th grade
Question Due Dates
September 22nd, 2016
September 29th
October 6th
October 13th
October 20th
October 27th
November 3rd
November 10th
November 17th
December 1st
December 8th
December 15th
January 5th, 2017
January 12th
January 19th
January 26th
February 2nd
February 9th
February 16th
February 23rd
Instructions and Examples for Writing Questions
Write 10 Questions for each book you read. Use these instructions.
- At the top of the page, write your name, the title of the book, the author, and if the book you used is paperback (pb) or hardbound (hb).
- Every question should begin with the words, “In which book…”
- After each question write the page number on which it can be found.
- All ten questions for a book should have the same answer – the title of the book!
- Make sure your questions cover different parts of the book. In other words, don’t write all your questions from the first few chapters.
- Don’t use any of the words from the title in your question.
EXAMPLE: Don’t use the word “lemonade” in a question about The Lemonade War.
- Don’t use the names of any of the book’s characters in your questions. Instead use words like, “the main character,” “the mother,” “a teacher,” and “the main character’s friend.”
- Don’t write questions that could have more than one book as an answer.
EXAMPLE: In which book does someone solve a difficult problem?
- Don’t be too obvious. EXAMPLE: Everyone will know that questions about a school music concert or a holiday concert are probably from The Last Holiday Concert.
SAMPLE QUESTIONS
- In which book has a character been saving for an iPod for over a year?
- In which book is a character called the “Rubber Bandit?”
- In which book does the main character find a dog at the grocery store?