Board Project (Due December 15th) You and your partner(s) will be designing your own . Remember all those great you have played? Well, now you can make your own; your own rules, your own design, your own questions! The only thing is, you must relate it to Doll Bones. First, before you start thinking about your “new” design, think about board games that you like to play, or ones that you have played before--- Board Game List o Apples to Apples o Clue o Life on the Farm o o Are You Smarter o Cooties o Mall Madness o Sorry! Than a 5th o Cranium o Monopoly o Taboo Grader o Don't Wake o Mouse Trap o o Daddy o Obsession o Trouble o o Guess Who? o Operation o o Checkers o Hi Ho! Cherry-O o Payday o ______o Chess o Hungry Hungry o Pictionary o ______o Chutes and Hippos o Rummikub o ______Ladders o Life o Scene It

Now, it’s your turn to create a board game based on Doll Bones by Holly Black. REMEMBER board games should be fun, interactive, and structured. Use your creative minds to think of ways to relate the people, places, and events in Doll Bones to creating a board game.

Requirements: Each board game made must have the following items included in the project  Actual playing board: including game pieces and any necessary devices to complete your designed game  Game theme, questions, statements, layout, design must be related to Doll Bones.  Rules and Directions: The rules must be written out, understandable, and applicable to the game you created  Neat and organized  Creative, colorful and pretty! Who wants to play a game with no character!  Your board game must be playable-you will have the opportunity to play each other’s games. You will also review the games that you played.

Grading: Your games will be graded on the following criteria  How it relates to Doll Bones, are you using key terms, themes and concepts from the book?  Creativity, uniqueness of the game  Neatness, and organization of the game  Directions of the game are either typed up or written clearly and explained thoroughly  Rules of the game are described very well, so people know what they can and cannot do!  Grammar, spelling, and punctuation of directions, rules, and of game board—your game needs to be understandable!  Playability—if you make it, you are going to want to play it!  Group behavior and teamwork

Grading Rubric: Your grade will based upon the rubric I have provided you with.

Board Game Rubric

Board Game Creator(s):______

Assignment: You have been assigned the task of creating a board game that will retell either the whole novel or a major portion of the novel in a fun and interesting way. Your board game will be graded according to the rubric below.

Requirements: Make sure you decorate your board game attractively so that it looks like it just came off the store shelf. Include the title, make it neat, well designed, colorful, interesting, creative, original, and include all the playing pieces. 20 Points 15 Points 10 5 Points 2 Points Game board looks Game board is Points Game board Most of the There is a game board professional. The title excellent but some is complete but 1 or requirements were but it is not colorful, is included. parts are a little 2 elements are ignored and the neat, interesting, and Everything is sloppy. It meets missing and it could board is sloppy and no extra efforts were decorated most of the be neater. It meets pieces are missing. It made at creativity. A attractively. It is requirements. some of the meets few of the lot of the pieces are neat, creative, requirements. requirements. missing. It is done original, and well incorrectly and does designed. All of the not meet any of the playing pieces are requirements. included. and functional. The requirements were followed completely.

Create at least 15 questions/statements/examples for your game that relate to the novel. These items must somehow be incorporated into playing the game. 20 Points 15 Points 10 Points 5 Points 2 Points There are 15 A couple of questions Some questions are Half of the questions Many questions are questions and or answers are missing OR one could are missing OR incorrect or missing answers, and they are missing or incorrect. play the game with questions are hardly and very few are well incorporated into answering most used in the game. required to play the the game. questions. game.

The format and purpose of your game must in some way relate to the novel. Examples: Game board is in the shape of a hotel, or the purpose is to solve the crime or mystery in the novel. 20 Points 15 Points 10 Points 5 Points 2 Points The purpose of the The purpose closely The purpose partially The purpose slightly It is unclear what the game relates directly relates to the novel relates to the novel relates to the novel purpose and theme to the novel and the and the game board and the game board but does not represent of the game are from game board represents somewhat represents doesn’t clearly a theme. the appearance. the theme. This game the theme. represent a theme. integrated facts from the novel.

Type directions for your game that would make it perfectly clear how to play the game. 20 Points 15 Points 10 Points 5 Points 2 Points

Directions make it Directions are typed There are more than 3 Errors in grammar Complete revision perfectly clear how to but have 2-3 minor errors. Directions are interfere with needed. Many steps play and win the game. grammatical errors. unclear and 2-3 steps understanding of the are missing or The explanations are They are somewhat could be added to directions. Much incomplete and it is specific and easy to unclear or 1 step is clarify. revision is needed. very difficult to follow. They are clear missing. understand how to & concise. They are play and win the neatly typed with game. minimal grammatical errors.

Content and Difficulty

20 Points 15 Points 10 Points 5 Points 2 Points Questions and Rules of Play are age Game is a bit too Game is very simple Game is not Rules of Play appropriate but simple for the 7th and most questions appropriate for the are of play are some questions are grade level and are too easily 7th grade level and of an too easy and/or too some questions are answered. questions are too appropriate difficult too easy. easy or too level--not too difficult. difficult and not too easy. difficult.

Total: / 100 points