MYSTERY BOOK REPORT
BOARD GAME (Due Friday, December 18)
The easiest way to create a board game is probably to get a piece of posterboard, and cut it up into game-board sized pieces (so that if you screw up the first one, you have another try). Then you draw a gameboard on it. I would do it first in light pencil, so that you can get it right, and then when you have it down, write over it with permanent marker. Use creativity to add graphics and text.
Now, it depends on your book... what book was it? What was the mystery about? Who were the characters? What was the suspense? Make it match what you read. Whatever way you draw the gameboard (there are a lot of different ways), you'll probably either have a track or a start-and-finish style. Make sure there are intermediate spaces, and write things about the book that happen along the way. If it is a good thing, say "go forward 3 spaces" (make sure the third space isn't something bad though), and if it is a bad thing, write "go backward 3 spaces" (as long as backward isn't a good thing). You don't have to have writing on every space though. Then make sure there is a rule for how the game ends... if you get to the finish square, that is cool... but if it is a track-like game, then you have to say it ends after you go around three times, or after you get a certain amount of points answering trivia questions (which will need to be typed on cards). Determine what you will use for playing pieces. Play it with someone to make sure that it works... change or add rules as necessary. When you have done all of the above, and you have tried it out with your family, you are ready to turn it in.
You will be judged on:
· Is it creative? (20)
· Is it original? (20)
· Is it beautifully done? (25)
· Does it match your book’s theme and plot? (25)
· Have you played it with your team and explained the story as you did? (25)
