Chapter 2:
The Book Report Project
It's Friday, I'm sitting at my desk at school next to Katelyn staring at the board taking down the notes, and then I realised that Mrs Woodstone had stopped droning. So I had a look at her to see if she was OK to find myself feeling rather shocked. I was shocked because Mrs Woodstone had her 'I feel like setting a project' face on, and her projects are always a nightmare. Then she clapped her hands twice and announced:
"Right boys and girls, I am very pleased to announce"
(Uh Oh!)
"That I have decided to set you a project,"
(Groan!)
"It will be a book report on the book of your choice,"
(Double groan!)
"You will be working in pairs and the best pair will get a prize and a trophy presented, to you, in assembly, by the headmaster. You may choose your pair yourselves and it is due in on Monday week".
This all sounded OK until Mrs Woodstone ended her speech by saying:
"The focus of this project will be what you have learnt from your book"
(Triple groan!).
Obviously Katelyn and I were in a pair, but neither of us knew what we should do it on. So we made an agreement that we would come up with a list of possibilities over the weekend.