One of the things I have most looked forward to for 2nd semester in Challenge B has been the short story seminar. In our Exposition and Composition strand, the students study classic short stories from a variety of authors, concurrently studying the elements of a short story and writing their own. Most Challenge B tutors then bind the stories into some sort of book and present them to the students at the end of the year.
I received my students’ book in the mail today and I absolutely can’t wait to give them to them! I think they turned out fabulous! The pages are full color throughout, with a section at the back of candid shots taken throughout the year.
Compared to a standard trade paperback, these are only a tiny bit taller. Mine was 82 pages, which is about 1/3 the size of the book it’s next to in this photo.
I chose to lay out the book so that each new story started on the right-hand side. They each include an illustration from the student to go along with their story.
Another title page with original illustration.
The type does NOT look blurred in the books–that all due to the poor quality of my photo. :)
A section at the back of the book contains photos taken throughout the year and is a place where the students can sign one another’s books if they want to.
Can’t wait to give these to my students!
I had them printed at The Book Patch. Their website is very easy to navigate and they provide templates for each of the book sizes that they sell. I downloaded the template for the trade paperback size then customized it with my own content and photos. I ordered them on a Tuesday morning and received them exactly two weeks later in my mailbox via USPS, although you can pay more for premium shipping if you need them fast.
Are you a Challenge B tutor? What do you do for anthologies? How and when do you generally give them to your students?
I love this! I am going to tutor Challenge A next year, and I am so glad to have your posts to refer back to, to help equip me for this role (and hopefully for the year after that, if I can do Challenge B). Thank you for sharing 🙂
You’re welcome! I so wish I had been regularly posting during this first year as a Challenge B tutor but I just never made the time–I seemed to have so little of it! I hope to do better this next year since it will be my second one, and hopefully will be able to share some knowledge that will help others as they travel a similar road. Best wishes to you! 🙂
Beautiful! How much were they? I did not see a listing for color pictures on the website — could you tell me how to add photos to the book?
Mine were $13.70 each. That was 82 pages, 6×9, color cover and color pages inside. The website allows you to choose whether you want color on the inside so since I knew I wanted to include some photos (plus their story illustrations), I went with that. To add the photos, I just used the Insert > Image menu in Microsoft Word. They aren’t laid out perfectly because Word isn’t a graphics program, per se, but they look good enough. 🙂