User blog:Owenandheatherfan/Read About - Week Two

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, contestants were split up into eight teams of two. They were assigned the first four chapters of Total Drama: Boney Island, an oldie but goodie written by Sprinklemist. Due to Sprinklemist leaving the wiki and the story being finished, the commenting bonus was cancelled for the week. On November 17, the deadline for taking the test, the results were posted. Because they had the lowest score, the brown team (Jaxswim and Mrdaimion) was up for eliminaton. With a 12-1 vote, Mrdaimion was expelled from Read About forever.

No returns. No debuts. No cheesecake.

Below, you will see the current teams. For week two, I am assigning the first three chapters of S.S. Total Drama, by Manatee12. When you are ready to take your quiz, please come onto the wiki chat and private message me. The deadline for this is Monday, December 3, 2012. 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. The quiz will consist of ten questions, and no bonus (you can earn extra points from commenting on the story, however).
 * Red Team : TDALindsayfan1 and Jaxswim
 * Blue Team : BrunoSomebody and Toadgamer80
 * Green Team : Mister.. E. and Fyrexx
 * Yellow Team : EnTrey and BadAsp
 * Orange Team : Aimers and LightningandDakotaFan6
 * Purple Team : 1dra7 and Nduke
 * Pink Team : FireFlameVG and COKEMAN11

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.

Because of Thanksgiving break, you may have noticed that you had one week off. I wanted everyone to spend time with their family and not worry about Read About, so this is why this blog has been posted so late. I may do the same thing for Christmas; or have the round be holiday-themed. One more thing, Manatee has written S.S. Total Drama but he's also a contestant. Thus, he will not be eligible to compete until next week, to make it fair for the other students. If I ever want to use a story that is written by a competitor, same thing.

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.