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A lot of love to look at comic books. One fun idea is to make the bulletin board one big comic strip. The protagonist can be faced with situations where they can choose behaviors that show character or not. For instance, they can see someone else unknowingly drop money, and you can show them picking it up and handing it back to the person. You can show them saying their sorry if they do something wrong, helping someone, someone volunteering or sharing and doing other activities that show character. You can draw out pictures or make them on the computer. They do not have to be very artistic if you are not that skilled – it is the idea that counts. Write out different elements of character and illustrations of these. You can make the bulletin board be a list of different aspects of character such as honesty, kindness, and so forth.
 * Show a character-building comic strip **

Why not turn the entire bulletin board into a novel? You can even give it "pages" that can flip from one side to the next made of poster board or a similar type of material. On the pages of the books you can have information about different age appropriate books. Put in illustrations from the different books. Hunger Games or another high interest novel will catch their eye!
 * Put up a bulletin board that looks like one giant book**

**Promote a book character like Katniss of Hunger Games** Katniss and her family live in District 12, the poorest and least populated district in the fictional nation of Panem, located in the former North America. District 12 is a coal-mining district, located in Appalachia. The novel //The Hunger Games// takes place in the future, and 74 years after the 13 districts rebelled against the Capitol and were crushed, with District 13 being utterly destroyed and the Capitol instituting an annual event called "The Hunger Games" to punish the districts. The Hunger Games are to demonstrate to the districts the futility of resisting the Capitol. In the Games, one male and one female between the ages of 12 and 18 are selected annually from each district and are designated to be tributes. The tributes are transported to an arena, where they fight to the death, with the last surviving tribute being declared the victor. The annual selection is known as the Reaping, and the day of the annual lottery is called Reaping Day. As further punishment for the districts, Reaping Day is regarded as a national holiday and watching the Reaping and the Games themselves is mandatory. Katniss' sister Primrose, known as Prim, is chosen for the Games, but Katniss volunteers to take her place. With her hunting and archery skills, she becomes a contender, and unintentionally becomes the symbol of rebellion when she leads Peeta in a suicide pact rather than have one kill the other to win the Games, forcing the master of the Games to crown them joint victors rather than having no winner at all. She becomes known as "The Girl on Fire." She later becomes the representative for the rebellion and is known in that position as "The Mockingjay" after the bird on a pin that she wore in the Games arena.