Campus Book Cup

1. CampusBookCup 2019

2. What is it? • An annual Campus interschool Reading Competition tradition of 25+ years • Year 8 students read texts (books, short stories, poem, film and website) • Students are quizzed in teams on the texts • Students represent class / school in Semi-finals / Grand Final

3. When is it? • Competition is launched in Week 6 of Term 2 • Heats and Grand Final are held in the lead up and during Book Week 22 – 26 August 2019 (Term 3, Week 5)

4. What is the aim? • Promote reading • Encourage working in teams • Expose students to a wide variety of fiction / non-fiction / visual texts

5. What do students need to do? • Form a team of 3 or 4 students from your English class or year level • Borrow and read texts from your class box in the library. • Read/ view as many as possible from the list • Be available to view the Film in the library early Term 3

6. How does it work? • Each team member reads as many of the set texts as possible. • Your class teacher can give you the opportunity to meet with other teams to discuss what you are reading. • The team will be asked questions about the story, plot, theme, characters, setting. • As a team you need to decide on the most correct answer. • The teams with the most points go through to the Grand Final.

7. Winners • The Winning team will each receive a book of choice and Gift Voucher

8. What is the role of the English teachers? • Encourage Year 8 students to form teams • Teams to choose names • Encourage progress

9. Celebrations! • Grand Final is followed by lunch • Members of winning teams each receive a $50 Westfield voucher • Photos and article in school newsletter / magazine

10. Book Week • Heats - Week 3/4 Term 3 in Class • Top 4 Teams will go into the Book Cup Grand Final Friday 26th August 2019.

11. Book Cup 2019 Novel: Two Wolves by Tristan Bancks Novel Extract: Sparrow by Scot Gardner Film:Spiderman: Into the Spider Verse

12. Two Wolves - Tristan Bancks 13 year old Ben Silver has aspirations to one day being a detective. Meanwhile he makes films in which Detective Ben Silver is the hero doing battle with werewolves, delinquents and zombies. One day his world is turned upside down when his family go on the run from the real police. Ben and his 7 year old sister, Olive don't know what is happening. The family are in hiding in their grandfather's old hut in the woods. Ben uses his detective skills to figure out what's going on. The story explores the idea of two wolves, one good, one bad, struggling inside Ben, the winner being the one he feeds. Will he go the way of his father and grandfather or will he do the right thing? Two Wolves

13. Sparrow Scott Gardner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe5oj9uL3wc Sparrow doesn’t speak. He lives in the ceiling of the toilet rooms in a mall in Darwin. He doesn’t have many reasons to become anything more than a ‘ghost boy’ – one of those who wander the parks in hoodies, drinking, and threatening people for fun. But an Iranian barista gives him a sort-of-job and an old man teaches him to swim. Sparrow learns that kindness pays. When Sparrow is accused of doing something so against his nature it’s unthinkable, the injustice burns. His story starts after a failed ‘bootcamp’ trip with juvie leaves him stranded, alone in the croc and snake-infested beaches of the Top End. Sparrow’s chapters switch between slowly revealing his path to juvie (in the past) and mapping his survival (in the present-day). Scot Gardner’s describes both the life of a homeless child, so close to a life behind bars, and the wilderness of the Kimberley’s. There is a strong theme of hope running throughout, so no matter how bad things look for the resourceful Sparrow, he never quite lets the light go completely out

14.  Film: Spiderman: Into the Spider Verse . 14-year-old Miles Morales is reluctantly enrolled in an elite New York City boarding school but would rather hang out with his Brooklyn friends. After he's accidentally bitten by a radioactive spider, Miles starts to experience changes he can't explain. Retracing his steps to a mysterious underground lab, Miles discovers Peter Parker/Spider-Man trying to stop greedy crime boss Kingpin from opening a hole in the space-time continuum, which could destroy New York. Kingpin's experiment results in another Peter Parker (this one older and more haggard) from a parallel universe showing up and bumping into Miles, who asks him for mentorship and advice. Together they encounter four more "Spider-people," including teenage Gwen Stacy, an anime-style girl from the distant future, a cartoon pig and a black-and-white 1930s noir Spider-Man ( After getting over their shock, everyone understands they must work as a team to defeat Kingpin and return to their own universes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Hbz2jLxvQ&feature=youtu.be

15. Book Cup 2019 Picture Book study Welcome to future Earth. Our oceans have become polluted to such an extent that all marine life is now just a memory. Rising from the murky depths stirs new mechanical life, created by humans and now evolving outside any control.These new species have grown to threaten humanity as we know it. Welcome to the world of Aquatica.Filled with inventive and awe-inspiring images and details, this book is sure to spark readers' imaginations! Kids will marvel at the steampunk-inspired renderings of mechanical aquatic creatures! 

16. Book Cup 2019 Picture Book study An imaginative field guide to the fantasy world of Mechanica creatures, with amazing and beautiful steampunk-inspired illustrations. Set in the 23rd century, the book describes how Earth could no longer support wildlife. The warnings had been ignored. Corporations continued to expose the environment to chemical and radioactive waste. Vast areas of the world had become uninhabitable and wildlife extinct. In place of the lost wildlife species, the corporations began to create Mechanica. But the Mechanica escaped their confinement, and started to develop in the wild on their own. Filled with inventive and awe-inspiring images and details

17. Lenny's younger brother has a rare form of gigantism and while Lenny's fiercely protective, it isn't always easy being the sister of 'the giant'. A book about finding good in the bad that will break your heart while raising your spirits. Lenny, small and sharp, has a younger brother Davey who won't stop growing - and at seven is as tall as a man. Raised by their mother, they have food and a roof over their heads, but not much else. The bright spot every week is the arrival of the latest issue of the Burrell's Build-It-at-Home Encyclopedia. Through the encyclopedia, Lenny and Davey experience the wonders of the world - beetles, birds, quasars, quartz - and dream about a life of freedom and adventure. But as Davey's health deteriorates, Lenny realises that some wonders can't be named

18. A stunning blend of action-packed science fiction and love against the odds. Perfect for fans of STAR WARS and the DIVERGENT series.Noemi Vidal has returned to her planet, Genesis, as an outsider - ostracised for refusing to end the Liberty War by sacrificing Abel, the most advanced mechanical man ever made. She dreams of travelling through the stars again, and when a deadly plague arrives on Genesis, Noemi gets her chance. The only soldier to have ever left her planet, it will be up to her to save its people. If only she wasn't flying right into a trap.Abel, now fully aware of his soul and captaining his own Vagabond ship, never dreamed he'd see Noemi again, not when the entire universe stands between them. But when his creator Burton Mansfield delivers news of Noemi's entrapment, Abel knows he must save her, even if it means risking his own life.Danger lurks in the dark corners of the galaxy, and Abel and Noemi will discover a secret that could save Genesis and Earth... or destroy them all.

19. Presentation to all Year 8 Students by children’s author Scot Gardner Scot wasn't born reading and writing; in fact he left school in year eleven to undertake an apprenticeship in gardening with the local council. His first fiction for young readers, One Dead Seagull, was published after he attended a writing conference with John Marsden. His many books since include Burning Eddy, which was short-listed for both the CBCA and NSW Premier's Literary awards. Scot lives with his wife and three children, two dogs and some chooks in the bush in Eastern Victoria. He spends half the year writing and half the year on the road talking to mostly young people about his books and the craft of writing.

20. Conclusion • Campus Book Cup is long standing tradition • Excellent way to : * foster Campus relations * promote the enjoyment of reading * build team relationships

21. Thankyou and Good Luck!