Archive for April, 2008

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All About Alice: Finally!

Finally! We’ve started our comics. My partner, c16rb and I have finished four pages! We decided to use our whole script, but add in a few little side comments and thoughts to make it a bit more interesting. One example is, we made an earthquake in the middle of the trial. [...]

Plimoth Plantation

On April 18, 2008, the fourth grade at the Dalton School left on a 6-hour bus ride to Plimoth, MA to learn about the Pilgrims. We did lots of activities including: A Pilgrim dinner, where we learned about manners and utensils, we went to a “Native American village”, we went to the recreated Plimoth village, [...]

All About Alice: Preparation for Our Comics

Hello again!  c16tk and I have made a lot of progress since the last All About Alice post.  This is our new draft of our script for our comic.
1. “That’s the judge, because of his great wig.”  AT
“And that’s the jury-box, and those 12 creatures, I suppose are the jurors.” AT
2. KS “Herald, read the [...]

All About Alice: Comics

We have started our Alice comics, the ones I mentioned in the last All About Alice post. My partner for the comic is c16tk. We are doing two chapters combined. We had to worry about not being too talky, not taking too long scenes, etc. etc..This is what we’ve done so far. It’s [...]

Our Forced Immigration Unit

In January and February 2008, our class at The Dalton School learned about Forced Immigration.  We did this because our class is studying immigration as our main unit this year, and Forced Immigration is one of the kinds of immigration we are learning about.  We learned about how the slaves from Africa came to America, [...]

All About Alice: What We’ve Done and What We’re Doing

In class, we have been studying Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol. We started by Ms Edinger reading the book out loud to us while we read along using Ms Edinger’s many copies of the book, all of which are by different illustrators. Next, we watched movies about Alice in Wonderland and from [...]