Campus Book Cup

What is it?

Campus interschool competition

Conducted annually Consists of teams of 3-4 Read & view a number of texts

When is it?

Competition is launched in Week 6 of Term 2

Heats and Grand Final are held during Book Week (Term 3, Week 5, Friday 28 August)

What is the aim?

Promote reading Encourage working in teams Expose students to a wide

variety of fiction / non-fiction/visual texts

What do students need to do?

Form a team of 3 or 4 students

Borrow texts from your class box in the library.

Participate in reading and listening as some texts are read to you in your English class.

Read / view as many as possible

What is the role of the Teacher Librarians? Order materials

Select texts Prepare Book Cup kit of

materials for teacher use Prepare box of texts for

each class Introduce to each class Run competition

What is the role of the English teachers? Encourage Year 8 students to form teams Incorporate into curriculum / plan Provide incentives Monitor progress Check borrowing Provide reading

/ viewing time

Celebrations!

Grand Final is followed by an afternoon tea

Members of winning teams each receive a $50.00 Westfield voucher

Photos and article in school newsletter

Book Week Heat 1 is conducted in English classes

during Term 3, Weeks 3 & 4 Teams with best scores progress to Heat

2 (Semi Final) which is run by teacher-librarians in the campus libraries during Term 3, Week 4

All Semi-Finalists will attend a Ruth Starke Workshop.

4 teams from each school progress to the Grand Final held in Thiele Library in Term 3, Week 5

Conclusion Campus Book Cup is a 22 year old

tradition Depends on the support of English staff

across the Campus to ensure success It is an excellent way to :

Foster Campus relationsPromote the enjoyment of readingBuild team relationships

Novels & Picture Book

Macbeth and SonJackie French

Chinese Cinderella

Adeline Yen Mah

My GallipoliRuth Starke and

Robert Hannaford

Film & Short Stories

Big Hero 6Disney

‘Under the Rice Moon’

Rhiannon Puck

‘Shark Bait’ Colin Thiele

‘The Runners’Isobel Carmody and Prabya Mallya

My Gallipoli RUTH STARKEMy Gallipoli looks at the history of Gallipoli from the months before the landing at Anzac Cove in April 1915 through to the Allied retreat and the aftermath of the first World War, and beyond to the present day pilgrimages and commemoration ceremonies at the site of this historic campaign.

Stories of courage, valour, despair and loss are told through the eyes of many different participants, including the young Turkish shepherd recruited to fight for his country and the British seaman who towed the first boats onto the shores of Anzac Cove in the dawn of 25 April, to the Ghurkas, Afghans and Sikhs who fought in the British Indian Army and the soldiers of the Auckland and the Wellington Battalions who took part in the decisive battle of Chunuk Bair.

Direct accounts from real participants such as the Australian war correspondent C.E.W. Bean, Turkish commander Mustafa Kemal, Anzac war scout Harry Freame and sniper Billy Sing, mingled with factual descriptions from a host of characters including the exhausted nurse aboard HMS Gascon on the night of 25 April, the devastated mother seeing her wounded son for the first time after the war, and the old Turkish man visiting his brother’s grave at Gallipoli 70 years after his death.

The many voices in the story offers a broad understanding of the Anzac Campaign and the current views of those engaged in the war as well as those at home. The strong, vivid artwork of renowned artist Robert Hannaford captures the landscape of Gallipoli and the characters and mood of each account with great intensity.

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Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen MahA riveting memoir of a girl’s painful coming-of-age in a wealthy Chinese family during the 1940s.A Chinese proverb says, “Falling leaves return to their roots.” In Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph and courage in the face of despair. Adeline’s affluent, powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother dies giving birth to her. Life does not get any easier when her father remarries. She and her siblings are subjected to the disdain of her stepmother, while her stepbrother and stepsister are spoiled. Although Adeline wins prizes at school, they are not enough to compensate for what she really yearns for — the love and understanding of her family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yolqWL-vZqE

Macbeth and Son Jackie French

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUJxJyX2NqM

Luke lives in modern-day Australia with his mother and stepfather, Sam. He is burdened by a guilty secret: Sam has helped him to cheat in an entrance exam for a prestigious school. Lulach lives in ninth-century Scotland with his mother and stepfather, Macbeth. Macbeth becomes a great king and restores peace to the land.

Luke dreams about Lulach and Macbeth at night. He is also studying the play Macbeth at school and in Shakespeare's version, Macbeth is a villain who murders the rightful king. Why did Shakespeare lie about who Macbeth really was? When is it okay to lie and when should you tell the truth? Similarly to Hitler's Daughter, Macbeth and Son challenges the reader to consider the actions of people, both in the past and present, and from a seemingly simple storyline, Macbeth and Son arrives at the morally complex question of 'What is Truth? And how important is it?

Film: Big Hero 6With all the heart and humor audiences expect from Walt Disney Animation Studios, "Big Hero 6" is an action-packed comedy-adventure about robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada, who learns to harness his genius-thanks to his brilliant brother Tadashi and their like-minded friends: adrenaline junkie Go Go Tamago, neatnik Wasabi, chemistry whiz Honey Lemon and fanboy Fred. When a devastating turn of events catapults them into the midst of a dangerous plot unfolding in the streets of San Fransokyo, Hiro turns to his closest companion-a robot named Baymax-and transforms the group into a band of high-tech heroes determined to solve the mystery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3biFxZIJOQ

In your Book Cup teams you will be allocated a small bag with assorted Lego building pieces in it.

The pieces can be combined to form any object that resembles something related to an idea or character from the Book Cup texts.

As a group decide upon the following: the design, give it a description (a name), and then write down step-by-step instructions for how

to form the structure you have designed (ie write your instructions in 5 or 6 steps)

The team judged to be the most creative, along with well written instructions will be deemed the winner by Campus Library Staff

Creative Challenge

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