JOIN THE GAME : Required* and things to do to prepare for the Bridlemile OBOB Tournament! 1.*Create a team of 4 readers. Have your teacher and parents sign the permission form. Turn the form in at the Bridlemile library. Each reader must turn in a form their parent has signed. 2. *Divide up who will read which books and be responsible for knowing the content of the book. That means, know the major plot details, characters, places, specific picky descriptions, sequence of events, author, genre. Keep in mind the questions are all LITERAL details from the book so the more details a reader knows, the better. 3. *Make up a fun name for your team. Try to keep your team to two or three words (such as, Reading Rockets, Bookworms, Beauty and the Books, Reading Rainbows, Titans of the Text, The Book Bandits, Radar Readers, Beagle Book Howlers). 4.*Get books from the school library and the public library. Access an audio edition of your assigned books and listen to them when you can’t be reading text. Use the public library to obtain the audio books. All of them have recordings. 5. Take notes. Use the graphic organizers on the school website or make your own. *Be sure to know the exact title, author’s name, then characters, major events, order of events, dates, places, and every detail you can. 6. If you own your own paperback edition you can take notes right in your book. Or, add notes sheets in the back of your book and staple them in. 7. Get creative! Make a large poster for each book. Go art crazy and draw the characters, settings, specific things from the book. Make puppets or dramatize a part of the books. 8. Make a timeline of events with dates and places. 9. Make a list of noteworthy quotes, or repeated phrases characters may have said in the book. 10. Make up your own questions for each books and quiz each other on your team. There are two types of questions: In Which Book.....? and Specific content questions such as, In the book Harry Potter, who was Tom Riddle? 11. Come to the school library at lunch recess to practice and quiz your friends. Attend the practice battles sessions at Cedar Mill library in December. 12. Have a book blast party for your team over the Winter vacation or three day weekend. Have fun and get to know each other. Read, play, exercise, read, dance, read, shoot hoop, run, read, read, WRITE, quiz, study, play, and eat and sleep. Make it fun but don’t let your team down: Read your books! 13. Bridlemile Preliminary Book Battles are February 16th and 23rd . Each team will have at least 3 battles. Two battles will be preliminaries where every point is counted. Teams will placed in final single elimination tournament based on their total preliminary points. Our school tournament will be after school on March 7th. Teams will battle (Win/Lose) until we have ONE TEAM to send to the regional competition on Saturday March 10th. We will keep information posted in the hall outside the library. Please contact teacher librarian, Andrea Burke ([email protected]) or OBOB parent volunteer coordinator, Kelly Gellespie (503) 484-3204. Also, see resources at bridlemilelibrary.net.