DAY 1: BOOKWORMS
Activity 1: Rags to Riches [4 points]
J. K. Rowling is one of the most well known authors in the world. She wrote the Harry Potter series of books. Over 500 million copies of her books have been sold, making J. K. Rowling the world’s first billionaire author.
While she was writing the first Harry Potter book, she was a single mum with very little money. She used to write while her daughter Jessica was asleep. She used her initials ‘J.K.’ instead of her name (Joanne) because her publisher thought that boys might not want to read a book written by a woman.
J. K. Rowling has done many interviews which have revealed things about her as a writer and as a person. One of these interviews was conducted by a very famous television personality, Oprah Winfrey (you can find more about her on Day 3, Activity 1!).
As well as books needing to be engaging and interesting for the reader, it is important that they are engaging and interesting on the cover too. We sometimes say “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover” but we often choose books (if we don’t know much about them) when they have an attractive cover!
For this activity, design a book cover for your favourite book. You will need to think about what needs to be on the cover (the title, author, illustrator), pictures, colour, etc. Please create all of the images yourself (draw or photograph) rather than using images that you find online.
On your blog, share the book cover you have designed.
Hi! my name is Jia, I am from Philippines. I am from Christ the King Catholic School,Mt.Roskill
ReplyDeleteI like how you write a very long writing and put a picture of Hobbit. I watch the movie and I went to the place name hobbiton were they take the scene.
Where did you learn this from?
WOW - thats a bookstore not just a book! Ka Pai Lukas... Have you seen the films as well? Which did you prefer? Keep blogging, and commenting on others to increase your chance of winning one of the awesome prizes, and to keep up your learning over the school break!
ReplyDeleteKia Ora Lukas,
ReplyDeleteWow! I love the book cover you have created for The Hobbit book. I love how you have added different images from the movie so people know what the book is about. Have you seen any of the Lord of the Rings movies or read any of the books? I haven’t but I have climbed Mt Ngauruhoe near Taupo which is used at Mt Doom in the Lord of the Rings movies!
I look forward to reading more of your blog posts soon!
Blog ya later,
Dani