Magazine Reading Assignment #01

1. Choose a story or article. Check with your teacher first to see if it is a suitable choice. Give a summary of your story or article in one paragraph. [5 marks]

2. Read a poem/rhyme/chant from your magazine to the class. You should think about an interesting way to present your choice and make sure you've rehearsed it properly. You may do this as a pair activity. [5 mks]

3. Find someone in the magazine you think does something interesting. Say why you think what they do is interesting. [5 marks]

4. Design a brochure or poster explaining or advertising the topic featured in an article. Use an A4-size sheet of paper. [5 marks]

5. Make a model (you can use Dacta, junk, Lego, dough, or whatever else) of an item described in the article. [5 marks]

6. Create a collage about a theme from an article by cutting out appropriate pictures from other sources and gluing them on a sheet of paper, ready for display on the wall. Include the theme's title on your collage and be prepared to talk about it to the class. [5 marks]

7. Write a letter for the "Letters" section of the magazine on the computer. Spellcheck it. Make sure it is perfect (get a friend to check it. Print it and hand to your teacher. Each time you have to fix it up, you will lose a mark. Once it is perfect, we will email or post it to the magazine! [5 marks]

8. Draw a picture about one of the stories or articles in the magazine and we'll send it. [5 marks]

9. Design a poster on an A4 sheet of paper encouraging people to read the magazine. [5 marks]

10. Read the book reviews and write down the titles in the order of the book you most like the sound of, down to the book you like the least. Give some good reasons for your top choice. [5 marks]

11. Write your own captions to any 5 photos in your magazine. [5 marks]

12. Research, prepare and give a one minute speech in front of the class about a topic mentioned in an article. [5 marks]

13. Design a board game based on an article. [10 marks]

14. Transform the information from an article into another form, eg. diary, poem, short story, instructions, recipe, etc.
Publish your work somehow (in a book, on paper, on the computer, etc). Be prepared to share it with the class. [10 marks]

15. Follow the instructions and make something (or a few things) which is described in your magazine. Check with your teacher first and explain what you want to do. [10 marks]

16. Draw a comic strip based on a story. [10 marks]

17. Research, prepare and give a two minute speech in front of the class about a topic mentioned in an article. [10 marks]

18. Write a poem of your own based on a poem from the magazine. Publish it and present it to the class in an imaginative way. [10 marks]