March Madness with Books

We had a tournament with books. We each picked out a book we thought would be the best. I picked Wonder.  I chose this book because it has a lesson and the lesson is to never judge a person by the way they look. This is how the tournament works we picked names out of a hat and that who went against. We wrote argument writings. We gave reasons why we thought this book should be the champion and why this book is the best. We filled out a rubric. So like 2 people from either class would go up in the front of the room read theirs and then we would evaluate them from 1-5 in each area. After that Mr. Hummel added the scores. At the end of the day he would tell us who wins and they would move on to the next round. I had a lot of fun doing this and I hope we can do it next year in 6th grade.