The Return of the Question of the Week!

Last year The Area Wide Book Battle and our official Book Battle Blog posted a question a week to help teams prepare for the competition in May.

I am happy to report that starting next Monday, 1/ 31/11, the Question of the Week will once again be a part of a weekly post. All schools are invited to participate, and the school who answers the most questions correctly will receive a prize that will be announced at the book battle.

Here's how it works!

Each Monday a new question pertaining to one of the books on the 2010/2011 Book Battle List will be posted. Schools wanting to participate will leave a comment with their answer. On Thursday, the correct answer to Monday's question will be posted along with the names of each school who correctly answered that week's question. The school with the most correct answers will win.

When leaving a comment please make sure you...

• Identify your school's complete name
• Identify both the title of the book and the author's name

Any comments without both of the above written in the comment will be disqualified.

Good Luck! 

Also make sure you check out the Feature Book of the Week every Tuesday. This week I have a very exciting announcement to make and it will greatly affect everyone's Book Battle experience this year. Don't miss it!

Question Of the Week

This will be the last Question of the Week until next year. In Friday's post I will announce the school who answered the most questions correctly. I have really enjoyed posting these questions and I hope you have enjoyed participating in the Question of the Week. 

So here is this week's question:

In which book does a man trade a pig for a bike?

Remember to use the complete title and author's name when answering the question. Also remember to identify your school in your comments.

Question Of the Week

Only two more weeks to go before the real competition begins. I hope all of you are excited as I am.  

The question this week is ...

In which book does a curse from a murdered girl result in the death by plague of her persecutors?

Remember to give both the title of the book and the author's name when answering the question.

Also make sure you identify the your school in the answer.

Check back on Friday for a list of schools who correctly identified the answer.

Question Of the Week

It's crunch time only three weeks left before the Battle. Hope everyone is getting excited. I know I am. 

I have a feeling this year's Book Battle will be the most competitive yet, and I am predicting that we might even have a tie breaker to decide the winners. 

I am looking forward to seeing everyone on May 4, 2010. 

An now to the question of the week:

In which book is To Kill A Mockingbird number one on the protagonist's school reading list?

As always when leaving your answer be sure to include your school, the title of the book and the author's name.

Correct answers will be posted on Friday along with all the school's who correctly answered this weeks question.

Question of the Week

This week's question of the week is ...

In which book is a missing object found behind a painting?

Remember to include with your answer both the title and the author and the name of your school.

 

Question Of the Week

This weeks question is ...

In which book does a character get a headache when she looks at the moon?

Please rememeber when answering the question of the week that you identify your sponsoring school. The correct answer will be posted on Friday.

Question Of the Week

This weeks question is ...

In which book does the protagonist use her knowledge of martial arts to cause injury to one person's knee and another person's eye?

Remember to identify your school when leaving  your answer. the correct answer will be posted on Friday along with all schools who correctly answered this weeks's question.

If It's Monday It Must Be Questions Time

This weeks question is ...

In which book does a bet lead to a boy kissing the bottom of a shoe?

As always use the comment section to post your answer with the title and the author of the book. Make sure you identify your school in the comment too.

The correct answer will be posted on Friday.

Question Of the Week

Thought I would share this video with all you who are reading, reading, reading!



Now if that doesn't get you in the mood to read, then remember the school who wins this year's battle will be visited by none other than Heather Brewer.


This weeks question is...

In which book does the protagonist use a shoe box to steal sand?

Leave your answer in a post below. Make sure you identify the name of your school in the post. All anwers should be posted by midnight this Thursday. The correct answer will be posted on Friday.

Question of the Week

 

This weeks question of the week is...

In which book does a character make his best friend pick his nose in front of a group of popular kids while they waited for a movie?

As always please leave your answer as a comment. Make sure you include in the comment the name of your school sponsor. You have until Thursday at midnight to respond to the question of the week. The answer will be posted on Friday along with a list of the school who answered the question correctly.

Question of the Week

This weeks question is ...

In which book was it a common thing for "night men" to go  "riding"?

Leave your answer in the comments section located at the bottom of this post. Questions must be posted by midnight February 25. Make sure in the comment you identify your school sponsor so that you get credit for your answer.

Good reading.

Question of the Week

 

The Question of the week is ...

In which book does an intended bank robber break down and cry when a young girl confront him?

Click on the comment in the footer of this post. Leave your answer by giving the title and the author of the book and send. Make sure you identify the school you are from when you post your comment.

All comments will be saved and posted on Friday along with the answer.

Good Luck!

And The Answer Is ...

The Kid Who Nearly Jump to His Death and Landed in California  a novel by Mary Hershey.

Everyone who participated this week had the correct answer. Congratulations to these winners:

Bernard Middle School

Senn-Thomas Middle School

Ladue Middle School

Hollenbeck Middle School

Danby-Rush Tower Middle School

Northwest Middle School

Hixson Middle School (AWBB Team)
Northwest Valley Middle School (NWV Book Battlers)

Also to

OMS Book Battle (?)

If you click on the comments in the previous post you will see what I see when I check your comments. I keep these hidden so other participants cannot see what previous schools have written.

Make sure if you are using a team name that you also identify the school you are affiliated with.

Also if you click on the Followers button in the right hand margin you can post a school icon. This will automatically show up on your posts if you sign in.

Thanks for participating. Come back again next Monday and show your stuff.

Question Of the Week

Okay, so last week's question was a bit of a bust, but this week promises to be free of technical difficulties.  The question will be up all week in order to allow all the schools to check in and leave a post. So without further ado, the question of the week is ...

In which book does the protagonist's father admit that he took the protagonist on a trip to prevent his lady boss from hitting on him?

Click on the comment in the footer of this post. Leave your answer by giving the title and the author of the book and send. Make sure you identify the school you are from when you post your comment.

All comments will be saved and posted on Friday along with the answer.

If It's Monday It Must Be Questions Time

As promised today I will begin putting up one questions each week for schools to answer. Today's question is ...

In which book does a protagonist count the steps from the kitchen door to his room?

Good Luck!

Meeting of the Minds/It's Question Time!

Next week, the book battle committee will be meeting to finalize the questions for this year's competition. This is an interesting evening, where after feeding our faces, we go through all the questions that members have complied, and decide which questions we should choose. Since each member writes between five to seven questions per book, we always have several questions left over.  Some of the left over questions are then sent to each school to use for practice.

In addition to the practice questions, beginning February 1, 2010, and every Monday until the competition, I will be posting a new questions here. This will give your team an opportunity to stop by and leave an answer in the form of a comment. All comments will remain hidden. On Friday, I will post the correct answer and a list all the teams who got the correct answer. On the day of the Book Battle the school posting the most winning comments will be recognized. Hopefully, this will be a great way to ready your students for the battle by  encouraging more participation.

When you leave a comment, you will have to create a Google account. Make sure you do this using your school's name. Feel free to upload picture a your school mascot, icon, photo, or avatar to represent the school. I will announce the winning post on Tuesday morning, and I will also recognize each school who answered correctly. Remember to include in your answer the book's full title as it appears on the Book Battle List and the author's full name.