Follow up by having a kind of State Fair in which student groups provide information, demonstrations, and recreations. The final products could be given to historical societies. I ripped a book into chapters and gave each student a chapter. Each person read the assigned chapter, and then the students had to put the story back together orally to create the plot. During lunch hour, the literary magazine group holds a poetry reading in the library.
Students share their original poetry with others.
To prepare for the achievement tests, the school holds a reading incentive contest for a month. The competition is among all first hour classes. For each book a student reads, the library provides a school mascot cutout to be placed on display. Teachers keep a book ledger. A master list is on display in the library charting each team's progress.