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Tomahawk High School: Battle of the Books

Tomahawk High School Library learning commons and resources.

The 2016 / 2017 High School Battle of the Books Team!

S.M.A.R.T. team members: Jack Lacina, Jimmy Lee, and Travis Phillips are winners of the Tomahawk High School Battle of the Books contest 2016 / 2017!  

How do I participate?

Battle of the Books Guidelines

The Battle of the Books program is an entirely voluntary one, whose goal is to promote literacy and an appreciation of literature. 

  • High School Students can participate by forming teams of four. 
  • Each team will be responsible for reading a list of twenty books. 
  • Students choose their own teams and team names.  No changes to team membership can be made after team list is submitted.

 

The list of books is from a statewide Battle of the Books list developed by Wisconsin school librarians and is located on this page. While there are a wide variety of books on the list, the program is meant to be a challenge to students who participate.

            ►Students have until February 10, 2017 to carefully read the books before the “battles” begin.

            ► High School “Battle of the Books” will be Monday February 13, 2017. 

 

The students will participate in rounds of round robin competition. The top High School Team who emerges from this round of competition will battle in February 21 - 24, 2017 online for Wisconsin Battle of the Books Competition sponsored by Wisconsin Educational Media and Technology Association, see the link for WEMTA official rules.  State winners are announced the first week of March 2017.

Battle books are available for checkout through the library. These titles can also be found through the public library as well. Finally, teachers and parents are also encouraged to read these books along with their students.  Again, this is an entirely voluntary program. However, once a student has made a commitment to be a part of a team he/she may not quit.

Good Luck!

Battle Rules

  • The Battle will consist of 25 questions which are answered by providing the title and author of the book.
  • Ten points will be awarded for the correct title and five points for the correct author.
  • Titles and authors must be written in full as listed on the web site when answering the test questions in February.
  • No points will be given for a partial title or if only the last name of the author is listed.

2016-17 Battle of the Books – Sr. Division

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Booked by Kwame Alexander

Challenger Deep  Text by Neal Shusterman and Illustrations by Brendan Shusterman

Everything, Everything Text by Nicola Yoon and Illustrations by David Yoon           

Girl at War: A Novel by Sara Nović

The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz

House Arrest by K.A. Holt

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz

Mosquitoland by David Arnold

Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin

Nimona by Noelle Stevenson

Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Salt to the Sea: A Novel by Ruta Sepetys

Set You Free by Jeff Ross

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoo

Practice Website!  BOB groups have your log-in and username.  Each group shares the same log-in.  Practice many times!

To access The Practice Website:

  • From the Moodle main page http://www.wemtamoodle.org/battle

  • FIRST click on your course (Elementary, Middle, Senior)

  • THEN log in with your team username and password, begins with es, ms or sr.

When posting to Moodle forums ...

  • All school rules apply

  • Your team account is attached to your Advisors’ email account

  • Stay on topic - discuss the book with details, not ‘cool’, ‘me too’, etc

Use the Draw10 Practice quizzes

 

 

  TeachingBooks.net provides original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, and a wealth of multimedia resources on K–12 books to support reading and library activities for all grades and content areas. TeachingBooks.net, a database provided by DPI via Badgerlink, has created customized links for each of WEMTA's Battle of the Books lists.

Search for either the title of the book or "WEMTA Battle of the Books" and select the elementary list of books for Wisconsin.  

Practice session:

Wednesday February 1, 2017 during Resource Hour in the High School Library

 

High School Battle of the Books State Contest:

Monday February 13, 2017 in the High School Library from 2:20 - 3:30