Thursday, December 15, 2011

READING PROJECTS AND FAREWELL!!!

It was a pleasure having such an enthusiastic group.
I will you all well.
Here are the projects that some of you presented in class.
Until we meet again!
Alma

Friday, October 21, 2011

Monday, October 3, 2011

ACTIVITY ON SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Dear class,

Enjoy the activity we did last Thursday, learn something else about the surroundings the story takes place.
Enjoy Tania's drawings on the board.

Watch the timeline, be patient because it takes time to upload, click on every plus sign (+) you see, go back and click again, find "Our activity".

Don't forget to leave a comment.
Alma


Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Reading Projects - Who is Reading What

This is a Mind Map on the projects you are reading. We need to check the titles, rewrite the introductions and start drawing your own Mind Maps. Yes, I need some new photos too.
Remember to leave a comment.
Click on the Map so you can see it better.
If you want to make your Mind Map in this tool, let me know.
Alma

PS. The fish are gone, what would you like as a pet? Answer the quiz.


Tuesday, September 6, 2011

A Little Rhyme

We have seen that in literature there are different genres where creators find their way of expressing feelings or ideas.
Fables, short stories, novels, fairy tales.
We tried writing some poems on Monday.

The formats came from this link http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm

And poems can also turn into songs, and as we have a gifted musician we want to share the following:
(This is the latest version)

Once upon a time
I caught a little rhyme
I set it in the brightest light
but it
flew out of my sight
I chased it all over the bar
but it
wasn´t very smart
I scooped it round the ice
but
got lost through my eyes
I caught it in a song
but it
seemed to be all wrong
# I followed it round the world
but it
turned into a curl
When I fed it with a spoon
it became
a blue lagoon

# I followed it round the world
but it
turned into a curl
When I fed it with a spoon
it became a blue lagoon
Then it grew into a kite
and flew far out of sight...



"A Little Rhyme", lyrics GROUP 512, music JoaquĆ­n.
Yes!! we will include the music too!!!
Soon we will have our first recording!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Meeting the group

This is our group.






Find your picture, tell us who is with you in it, what do you know about these classmates, are they going to read a novel, or follow an author, leave a comment.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Another version of "Little Red Riding Hood"

Now let’s try listening to a fable. A fable always ends with ‘a brief moral observation’. Do you remember any of the most famous? Aesop’s “The Turtle and the Rabbit”?
We’ll listen to a ‘modern’ fable by James Thurber (an American writer), it begins with a very short introduction about the author and the journalist Keith Olbermann reads four fables.
Just listen to the first one. (Of course you can listen to the other ones whenever you have time)
Write the title of the fable on a piece of paper, draw the ending of this fable, and write the moral of the story, the lesson of it. Bring it on Monday August 30..

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Time to share and compare

Our first activity is to share our notes on the two activities we made in class: reading the first chapter of the novel and watching the very first scene of the film.

In the comment box write a complete sentence adding your comparison to a character, a detail, a dialogue, this is what we will call 'collaborative writing'. At the end of the activity we'll have a summary of this comparison. Go ahead! DON'T FORGET TO SIGN YOUR NAME.

Follow the site. Go to FOLLOWERS