In the Mini-Flex class, students will embark on an exciting journey to craft their very own distinctive book reports, all while breaking down the writing process into manageable, bite-sized pieces. This book report, creatively shaped like a delicious sandwich, encompasses seven distinct writing components to showcase their literary skills and comprehension.  Students choose the book for this class! I suggest they choose a book recently completed or soon to be completed.

This class covers traditional book report topics:
Plot
Character
Setting
Rising Action
Conflict
Falling Action
Solution
Personal Summary/Review

Our Outschool classroom is used during this flex class. Classroom assignments (postings) will be made by 8 am (EST) each Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday during our flexible schedule class. Thursdays and Fridays will serve as classroom discussion, review, class activity, and writing days for your Sandwich Book Writing. 

Lesson One
‣ Introduction of our Sandwich book report project
‣ Classroom introduction and class discussion of Book Choices
‣ Video instruction with moderated Outschool class discussion on these story elements:
      Genre, Fiction-vs-Nonfiction, Parts of a Story, and Setting
‣ Introduction to our Plot Diagram and interactive web activity
‣ Outschool Classroom Brainstorming and pre-writing session (Instructor supported via our classroom page)
‣ We will write the:
       Bread - Title and Name
      Tomato - Setting

Lesson Two
‣Video instruction and class discussion on these story elements:
     Character traits, Problem and Rising Action.
‣ Complete an interactive web activity on the four main types of characters. Students will post their character types in our Outschool Classroom.
‣ Outschool Classroom Brainstorming and pre-writing session (Instructor Supported via our Outschool Classroom page)
‣ We will write the:
      Onion - Characters
      Lettuce - Problem

Lesson Three
‣Video instruction and class discussion on these story elements:
    Story Climax, Falling Action and Resolution.
‣ Interactive web activity on story climax -vs- problem. Students will post results on our Outschool Classroom page. 
‣ Outschool Classroom Brainstorming and pre-writing session (Instructor Supported via our Outschool Classroom page)
‣ We will write the:
       Cheese - Story Climax/Conflict
       Meat - Solution and Conclusion

Lesson Four
‣We will write the:
      Bread - My Favorite Part
‣ Outschool Classroom discussion on "Why it was your favorite part."
‣ It's here! Final Video Report presentation of  Sandwich Book Reports.*

* Students will use our classroom "Record Video" feature, or upload to Youtube (link pasted in our classroom page) or submit a photo montage of their final Sandwich Book Report. Students are required to submit their video presentations in one of these or other approved formats.

Students are guided individually on how to improve on their work and are encouraged to submit their revised writing for review. Students are highly encouraged to submit their final book reports for review. This allows for one-on-one instructor feedback to the student. Prior knowledge of book report writing is helpful, but not necessary, as these are skills we will be working on within our sessions.