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Elizabeth (Alaska)
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Aug 21, 2012 06:13AM
The KJV of The Bible is on the canon, so it will not even be checked for YA. You can check your score on the Readerboard to know your current standing. We continue to use the YA listings at BPL. If that ever changes, a formal announcement will be made.
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I have a suggestion for the YA assignment issue. As I was planning, the issue came to my mind again because of the Nobel Prize task. I am already planning to read Tortilla Flat for the 20.2 Picaresque task and already researched and know I can't get style points for it and so it was Steinbeck that brought this issue back to my mind. It truly is ok with me to go with just the canon, but it came to me that perhaps an exception could be made for any author on the canon instead of by individual works on the canon in cases of YA assignment placement at BPL only. Many teens read Of Mice and Men or Grapes of Wrath and then like Steinbeck and teachers then use more of his books and librarians put more of his books on their YA shelves. This happens with Fitzgerald, too, especially with the movie version of Gatsby out now. I get lots of requests from my high schoolers for other Fitzgerald books now. I thought this alternative might work because the authors on the canon would be in the database you use. Again, I totally understand if the moderators don't want to do this. It's shaping up to be another great challenge!
Karen, I don't see a Lexile rating for Tortilla Flat, though I do see it listed as YA assignment at BPL, so I'm not sure how the mods will deal with that. What I did find is that East of Eden, another Steinbeck novel I plan to read, is also listed as YA assignment and has a Lexile score of only 700, so no style points for that one.
Theresa, when there is no lexile score, we use 000, so less than 800.
I'm learning, Elizabeth! After losing 30 points for not realizing Night had a BPL YA assignment and Lexile scores of 570 and 590, I'm checking everything from now on. I actually want to read more of my mega books this season and let the points fall where they may. Still, I don't want to claim anything I'm not entitled to!
As you get more comfortable, it will get easier. Liz and Kate used to keep score with a spreadsheet, and I don't know how they did it. We now have a database, which my brother built for us going on 8 seasons ago. We track a number of things, including whether a book is on the Canon (not whether the author is), and, if it is YA/Assignment, its Lexile score. I keep the books and author table, while Kate enters posts. We have a number of queries that will check if you've missed points or claimed something extra.
Sorry if I confused the issue. I thought maybe the database could be adjusted so that we could go by the authors instead of the books, but if it isn't set up that way, that would be difficult. I don't know how you manage all this, moderators, and I thank you!
Task suggestion read a book about or by these "women who have changed the world" Nobel Prize winnershttp://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prize...
Task suggestion - anthology of short works by different authors - could be essays or poetry or short stories or just select one typeSub-challenge suggestion - Dewey Decimal - 1 each from each 100 range with biography as an 11th option
Sub-challenge suggestion - Deep reading - select a topic and get it approved and read 10 books related to it. Kind of like the make your own challenge from last time but more extensive. might require additional guidelines
Task challenge - really old - something that qualifies for the full amount of oldies points
Task challenge - something with Sports as a genre in honor of the Summer Olympics
Task suggestion: AKA - Read a book by an author who has published under at least two differnt names.
Subchallenge suggestion - read a book first published in a different decade, of any century. So the 10 books must be published in xx1x, xx2x, xx3x, xx4x, xx5x, xx6x, xx7x, xx8x, xx9x, xx0x. Extra points for having them in that order.e.g. a member might read books published in 2015, 1923, 1839, 1945, 1953, 1769, 1973, 1988, 1890, 2002.
Rosemary wrote: "Subchallenge suggestion - read a book first published in a different decade, of any century. So the 10 books must be published in xx1x, xx2x, xx3x, xx4x, xx5x, xx6x, xx7x, xx8x, xx9x, xx0x. Extra p..."Gosh, Rosemary! I was just thinking of this yesterday!
Great minds... :)
If you wanted to be really sinister you could up the difficulty by also making the last digit go up or down stepwise. So using Rosemary's example:2015, 1926, 1837, 1948, 1959, 1760, 1971, 1982, 1893, 2004
Ha. Great minds indeed, Tien. And Kazen, that is really sneaky...
Task Suggestion- to continue with our thankfulness and love and obsession with books, read a book that contains the word "book" in it. The word can be part of a compound word, a plural, a possessive, a contracted word or a verb but the letters must be together to spell the word. Examples
The Haunted Bookshop
Booked To Die
Burning Books
The Book Thief
But cannot be part of a general subtitle
Really? It's been over half a year since we had any new suggestions?I did enjoy the "design your own" task we had one year. So many lists I have been trying to tackle.
Spring was my first challenge here so please feel free to disregard a suggestion from a newbie, but... I was wondering (if enough people would like this) if it would be possible to have a thread where members share their reading plans for each season? I know this exists for the sub challenge but not for the main challenge. This is something other challenge groups I’m in have and I really enjoy looking at others reading plans and getting inspiration for my own.
There may be some reason I haven’t thought of that this wouldn’t work but I just thought I’d suggest it as I was thinking of it.
A book with opposites in the title,War and Peace
North and South
Up the Down Staircase
Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years
Boy Meets Girl
September is Hispanic Heritage Month and Sept 16 is Mexican Independence Day. Read a Hispanic or Mexican author?Sept 17 is Constitution Day and Sept 25 the Bill of Rights was created
1)Read a book about an aspect of the government
2) read a book by an author that shares a surname with one of the 39 signers https://www.constitutionfacts.com/us-...
3) a book set in Philadelphia or from the One Book, One Philadelphia Reading Program https://libwww.freelibrary.org/progra...
To carry this further because the Siege of Yorktown, VA which resulted with the British surrender and the end of the Revolutionary War was from September 28- Oct 19 1781 and the Treaty of Paris which caused Britain to recognize the US as a sovereign county was signed Sept 3, 1783
1) read a book by an author born in what was the original 13 colonies to become states.
Connecticut Delaware Georgia
Maryland *Massachusetts New Hampshire
New Jersey New York North Carolina
Pennsylvania South Carolina Rhode Island
Virginia
*This would include the State of Maine (for all you Steven King fans).
Maine did not secede from Massachusetts to form it's own independent state until 1820
Oct 16, 1793 Marie Antoinette was executed by the guillotine &Oct 31, 1984 Indira Ghandi was assented by one of her guards
Read a book about a person(s) who was executed or assassinated.
ex The Executioner's Song
A Place of Greater Safety
Joan of Arc
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
Assassination Vacation
Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
November is National Native American Heritage Month. Read a book by a Native American author or about the Native Americans. This would include the First People tribes of both North and South America.
Sept 9 is National Pet Memorial MonthRead a book about an animal or animals (doesn't have to be non-fiction)
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
The Call of the Wild
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Black Beauty
Rascal
Three Bags Full
All Creatures Great and Small
Watership Down
This thread is really for group ideas, like styles or maybe additional scoring options, group organization and such. The Task Ideas thread is here.
Oops! Sorry! Wondering why no one was coming up with any tasks. Okay for easy style points, books by Goodreads authors.
Can I delete those or will it mess it up?
Gee, there hasn't been any new task ideas!
NATOApril 4 is the 70th anniversary of the signing of the treaty that gave birth to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Signed in 1949 in Washington DC, the original members were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, UK, US.
For this task read a book based in one of the countries that have joined NATO since that time that have made the number of member nations to 29.
Greece, Turkey, Germany, Spain, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North...
Rebekah wrote: "NATOApril 4 is the 70th anniversary of the signing of the treaty that gave birth to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Signed in 1949 in Washington DC, the original members were Belgium, Cana..."
Oops! I did it again!
I really loved the Over and Under task from last season--it had me looking at books that have been missed by the general reading population and I quite enjoyed most of the books I read which fit that category. Perhaps "Underrated" (a book that has fewer than 1,000 ratings) could be a style bonus one season?
I wonder whether it would be worth stating explicitly in each task description whether or not "title" means "title only" or "title and subtitle"? We do seem to end up asking for clarification on this for several tasks each season.
Lagullande wrote: "I wonder whether it would be worth stating explicitly in each task description whether or not "title" means "title only" or "title and subtitle"? We do seem to end up asking for clarification on th..."Thanks, we've tried to be better about this, but obviously we've still got some missing language.
A theme or a sub challenge suggestionGrammar Nouns and other words
1. Proper noun
Cracking India,
Light in August,
My Friend Flicka
2. Collective noun
A Visit from the Goon Squad,
Children of Blood and Bone
The Clan of the Cave Bear
3. Pronoun
Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose,
We Have Always Lived in the Castle,
The Hate U Give
4. Gerund -
Waiting for Godot,
Running with Scissors,
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
5. Past tense
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong,
The Vanished Man,
The Man Who Ate Everything
6. Conjunction
Sense and Sensibility,
Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake,Nowhere But Here
7. Possessive
Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman,
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of our Times,
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
8. Antonym
War and Peace,
My Husband's Wife,
Black Girl/White Girl
9. Simile/metaphor
Like Water for Chocolate,
Shakespeare: The World as Stage,
Drowning in a River Called Time: A Second Chance
10. Homophone
Lady Windermere's Fan, (fan)
Their Eyes Were Watching God, (there)
The Sea of Monsters (sea)
11. Homograph
By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead, (Read)
Record of a Night Too Brief, (record)
The Shadow of the Wind (wind)
I think we should do some sort of task to honor the front line workers during this pandemic, like first responders, medical staff, delivery people, teachers etc...Or maybe read a book that takes place in a hospital or clinic.
Oops! Just realized I put the above two posts in the wrong thread☺️
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Cracking India (other topics)Light in August (other topics)
Children of Blood and Bone (other topics)
A Visit from the Goon Squad (other topics)
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