The MYRCA Club at Linden Meadows School will meet every Tuesday at 12:25 PM in the library. Each week, students in the club will have the opportunity to try different activity stations related to MYRCA books, including making book trailers, posters, reading, discussing and dramatizing books, and creating artifacts, comics, and character trading cards about books. The document provides details about the various book-related activity stations available to students in the MYRCA Club.

1. Linden Meadows
School’s
MYRCA Club
THE MYRCA CLUB WILL MEET EVERY DAY 3 AT
12:25 IN THE LIBRARY.
EACH WEEK STUDENTS WILL HAVE AN
OPPORTUNITY TO TRY A DIFFERENT ACTIVITY
STATION.

2. MYRCA Book Trailer Station:
Make a book trailer using Animoto. You’ll need to get need to get the gmail account
information from Mrs. Bodner or Mrs. Barclay in order to log onto Animoto.
When making a trailer you want to share enough information to captivate the
audience without giving away any spoilers about the story.
Some things to consider when making a trailer:
Top 5 Attributes of a Successful Movie Trailer from videoblocks
Making a Book Trailer for Readers
Book Trailer Criteria from Brookfield High School
Review Previous MYRCA Book Trailers

3. MYRCA Buncee Online Poster:
Create a multimedia online poster of one of the MYRCA books using the digital tool
BUNCEE. https://www.edu.buncee.com/
It works like PPT but much more fun with a lot more neat graphics and special
effects!

4. MYRCA Book Reading Station.
Find a spot to sit and relax with your current MYRCA book that you’re reading.

5. MYRCA Edmodo Response Station:
Write a response about a MYRCA book you have read on the Pembina Trails MYRCA
Edmodo group. Use the idea starters listed on the Reader’s Response Journal
Starters bookmark to help you with your response.

6. MYRCA Book Discussion Station:
Have a group discussion about a MYRCA book you have all read. You must agree on
the book before the discussion begins. Use the Reader’s Response Prompt Cards to
get your discussion started or create a Cootie Catcher to help facilitate the
questioning.

7. MYRCA Book Drama Station:
Act out a scene or event from a MYRCA book.
Other drama options (from 103 Things to do Before, During or After Reading By Jim
Burke):
Pantomime
Act out a scene you choose or the class calls out to you while up there.
Dramatic monologue
Create a monologue for a character in a scene. What are they thinking/feeling at that
moment? Why?
Improv
Get up in front of the group and be whatever character the group calls out and do
whatever they direct. Have fun with it.

8. MYRCA Book Artifact Station:
Create a specific artifact to represent a MYRCA book you have read. Make sure you
describe / explain your artifact and it’s significant to the story. This information will
be written on an index card and kept with your artifact.
Each MYRCA book will have an artifact box to house all the different artifacts that
have been made for that specific MYRCA book.

9. MYRCA Book Comic Making Station:
Create a comic using Comic Life program or Go Animate. You can create a comic
based on a specific event or chapter from a MYRCA book.
The Comic Life program is on our computers as well.

10. Ipad station….
Use Chatterkid/pix or Tellagami and do a short book talk about one of the MYRCA
books that you have read to try and promote it!

11. MYRCA Talk Show:
Host a talk show: students play the host,
author, and cast of characters. Allow
questions from the audience.

12. MYRCA Bookmark or Post Card Station:
Create a bookmark or postcard about a MYRCA book.
Be creative…use paper or beads or duct tape!!

13. MYRCA Character Trading Card:
Create a trading card about a character from one of the MYRCA books you have read.
Use the Trading Card Creator from Big Huge Labs; here is the link:
http://bighugelabs.com/deck.php

14. Check off the books you have read and
put a star on the poster of MYRCA books!