HOW IT ALL WORKS
This event is open to all fourth and fifth grade students. It is a team event with each team consisting of four members only. Your team must read the 8 designated books. All of the books are in the Garehime library, public libraries, or they can be purchased. We will hold Jeopardy-style battles for points. After two rounds, the four teams with the highest combined points will move to the semi-final round. The two winning teams will advance to the FINAL BATTLE.
FORMULATING THE TEAM…
HOW THE BATTLES WILL RUN…
FORMULATING THE TEAM…
- Teams can have no more than four battlemates.
- One person will be elected to be the Team Battle Captain.
- The team comes up with a team name.
- A list of the required reading has been distributed. The team will be required to read all of the eight books and will be quizzed on all eight books. You can choose to have each battlemate read all of the books or assign certain books to certain battlemates. If you choose to assign books, then each person should know their books very well!
- Concentrate on the small details of the books.
- Take notes while you are reading of things that you find interesting.
HOW THE BATTLES WILL RUN…
- The battles will be in a Jeopardy-style board, although you will not need to phrase you answer in question format.
- You will not have to buzz in your answer. Each team will take a turn choosing and answering their questions.
- The team that goes first will be determined by coin flip.
- You will have 30 seconds after the question is read to answer your questions.
- Only the team captain can give the team’s answers.
- You will not be allowed to have any study materials on the table. You will be allowed a blank piece of paper to write notes to the team captain.
- If you do not answer your question correctly within the 30 seconds, the other team has a chance to steal the points. They will have 10 seconds in which to answer. Whether they get the questions correct or not, they will then take their turn.
- When all of the questions have been answered, the team with the highest number of points will be declared the winner.
- If the round ends in a tie, a tie breaker question will determine the winner. No points are awarded for tie breaker questions.
- We will hold two preliminary rounds called mini-battles, and your scores from these two rounds will be added together.
- Teams are chosen randomly. However, you cannot play the same team in both mini-battles.
- The top four teams will advance to the semi-final battle.
- The winners of the semi-final battle will advance to the final battle.
- The team that wins the final battle will be declared the school winner of the Battle of the Books!