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How to write a book on a useless body part?

Ok, here's my problem. My daughter has to write a 6 page book on the human Appendix for Science. She also has to make the book in the shape of the Appendix, no smaller than an 8x8. While the questions are fairly easy to find the answer, the problem is they are just 1-3 sentence answers! Ex: "Location in the body." - I found a paragraph containing about 3 sentences on this. Ex: "What the organ's function or purpose is." From everything I've been reading, it has no function. Ex: "What system the organ is a part of." Again, this is very simple to answer. How can we make this book into 6 pages when the organ she was given to write about has no function? I've looked up a lot of information and have only come up with 3 pages worth! Everything else I seem to come across is just repeating everything I've already gotten. And HOW can I make a book the shape of one when the actual size is only 4in long by a quarter of an inch wide! The book has to be a minimum of 8x8!

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1. i think your daughter's teacher is a bit loony or just wants your daughter and everyone in her class suffer.
2. i think u guys should explain the situation to the teacher asap... maybe she'll change it or give u some good points on what she wants done.
3. You might look up what the appendix's function USED to be. If I remember right, it used to remove germs from raw meat, back when we ate a lot of raw meat. I dont know how much you could get from that, but it would be better than nothing. My only other suggestion is to write really big and have plenty of illustrations. As for the shape--it has to be the same shape, not the same size. However, it would have to be pretty long to be the right size. (To have the same area as an 8x8 square, it would have to be 2 x 32 inches!) So maybe you should ask the teacher for suggestions, since (s)he gets to decide whether a book is acceptable or not.
4. Make the book 8x8 that's double the size of an appendix. Try to add some things about how the appendix has become obsolete and maybe some about what goes wrong in the appendix (appendicitis...appendectomy). If all else fails, use large print :)
5. I can't help much with the book format part (the teacher sounds a little looney with those requirements), but I feel obligated to clarify the appendix better. The appendix is often described as having no KNOWN function. However, it is known to have many lymphoid follicles that produce functional lymphocytes. Immunologists do not ignore the appendix. The point is, we shouldn't just simply write off the appendix as a useless body part.