User blog:Owenandheatherfan/Read About - Week Four

Welcome back, students, to year one of Read About! In Read About, contestants will be split up into seven teams of two and will be required to read a certain number of chapters of a certain story I assign. After the deadline, the competitors will take a quiz, the questions being based off of the story that week. I will then find the average between the two scores, and that will be their total for the week. The partnership with the best score will earn a prize that will help them later on in the game, but the team with the worst score will be on the chopping block.

Last week, the students were assigned the first three chapters of Toad's Total Drama: Superstar Showdown. Two people, specifically TDALindsayfan1 and LightningandDakotaFan6, did not take the test. Because of their three strikes, they were permanently removed from the game. Then, after the results were posted, a new twist was unleashed on the contestants. Such as Exile Island in Survivor: Panama and other seasons, Read About will have a "detention room." In there, the person will not be able to take the test (he/she will not get a strike, however), and will have a chance to find a certain object that will greatly benefit the beholder; there is more than one and I will not reveal it to the audience. FireFlameVG was chosen to go to detention, and in there, he did find the object - but was also given the choice to unleash another twist on the cast. He accepted, and that is what this blog will explain. FireFlameVG opened up a "shop", for every question you get right, you get 1 credit. In the shop, you may buy an object that greatly benefits your game.

There are four main objects in the Read About shop. The shredder, which allows you to lower someone's score by five points. The shredder costs 100 credits. The bookmark, which allows you to miss a test and still get a perfect score (as of now, anyone who was handed a bookmark pre-shop, please note that your bookmark has been dissolved - you do not have one anymore unless you actually buy it from the shop). The bookmarks costs 50 credits. The printer allows you to increase anyone's score other than your own by five. The printer costs 150 credits. The final object will remain a mystery; it costs 250 credits.

Below, you will see the teams for this week. For week three, I am assigning the first three chapters of Total Drama Flashback by COKEMAN11. When you are ready to take your quiz, please come onto the wiki chat and private message me. The deadline for this is Wednesday, February 27, 2013. If you have not taken your quiz by that time, then you have one strike against you. Three strikes, and you will automatically be eliminated from Read About; no exceptions. Last week, I extended the date, but I won't be that leniant this week. The quiz will consist of ten questions, and no bonus (you can earn extra points from commenting on the story, however). This time on Read About, in order to encourage feedback, if you leave a comment that is at least ten sentences on the talk-page of the story that week, you will earn bonus points. Depending on your comment, the bonus points range from one point to five. And in certain cases, one point may be the difference from life and death.
 * Red Team : EnTrey and Nduke
 * Blue Team : FireFlameVG and Aimers
 * Green Team : Jaxswim and BrunoSomebody
 * Yellow Team : 1dra7 and BadAsp
 * Orange Team : Manatee12 and Toadgamer80

Be sure to thoroughly read the rules, because breaking them will result in consequences, examples being a zero for the week or being removed from the game. Click here for the elimination chart, where you can see what team you are on. Additionally, you can see all of your scores. Click here to find the results for this week.