Book Report Alternative: Getting Acquainted with Farcebook

Materials and Technology

Printouts

Websites

Preparation

 

MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY

• Computers with Internet capabilities
• Classroom with LCD projector and whiteboard/interactive whiteboard
• Novels for the students to read (or one that they have just completed)
  

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PRINTOUTS

• Farcebook Rubric
• The Novel via Farcebook
• What Will I Read Next?
• Farcebook Instructions

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WEBSITES

• Farcebook
  

  Offered by Teacher’s Discovery for a yearly subscription of $49.95 for an unlimited amount of log-ins, this online tool allows students to create Facebook-like pages in a safe online environment.

  If computers are not available or if the paid subscription to Farcebook is cost prohibited, Facebook-like pages could be made on large sheets of paper and students could use these to present.

  Another possibility is to use the PowerPoint Facebook-like Template available in the lesson What Did George Post Today: Learning about People of the American Revolution Through Facebook.

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PREPARATION

1. Sign up for an account at Farcebook and familiarize yourself with the website.
2. Complete The Novel via Farcebook for a piece of fiction literature that the class has recently read.  Using this printout, create a Farcebook page that will be shared with the class.
3. Make one copy for each student of the printouts The Novel via Farcebook, What Will I Read Next?, Farcebook Instructions, and the Rubric.
4. Review literary terms used in the Farcebook profile:  characterization, setting, plot, conflict, climax, resolution, inference, theme.
5. Using stories that the students have already read, apply the literary terms so that students will be ready to analyze their new novels independently.
6. Reserve time in your school’s computer lab or library for a total of three sessions.
7. If possible, have Farcebook website bookmarked on the computers.  If that is not feasible, you can sign up for a wiki at Wikispaces where you can create a class page for the link or you can simply tell the students the address of the website.

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