Archive for December 17th 2008
Battle of the Books is a competition they have at the boys’ school for the intermediate level kids. The kids have most of the school year to read a list of books (there’s about 20 on the list), the kids are put in teams and then they have sort of a Quiz Bowl-type of competition over the content of all the books. The librarian has read most of the books, but she asked another mom and I to help her finish up because she was worried she was going to run out of time. (I think the “battles” are in February.) So, I have been assigned Finest Kind. My job is to read the book and to make up about 25-30 questions about the book for the kids to answer during the battle. I am not too worried about it except that the questions have to follow a certain format. I am sure I will get the hang of it once I get on a roll. Maybe she’ll even let me do another one if I don’t mess this one up too badly. 🙂