Today you are going to visit and report back on some of your fellow student bloggers. And after today (in addition to book reviews) you are welcome to continue to visit other student blogs (from the list below) and report back on your blog as often as you like.
Step 1: Visit other students’ blogs.
Here are [...]
Archive for February, 2007
Here are the children’s poem collages.
Reading from Holes by c15af: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Reading from Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time by c15ec: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Reading from The Invention of Hugo Cabret by c15mb1: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Reading from Lion Boy: The Truth by c15am: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Reading from Alabama Moon by c15ai: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThis past week we were priviliged to work with the distinguished poet Natasha Trethewey. After guiding us through a close reading of several Amistad poems by Elizabeth Alexander (in her collection American Sublime), she helped us create one of our own. Inspired by the original profiles of the captives in John Barber’s book, [...]
You are to write a response to the story of Sarah Margru Kinson that you just read.
1. Come up with a direction for your post. Here are some ideas, but you may have another one:
Respond to a particular part in the story.
Respond to the literary devices.
Respond to the various images used.
Questions raised about the historical [...]
Today we went over to the First Program (our K-3 lower school) and helped our third grade buddies create posts on our blogs about their relationship with a school in New Orleans. The posts are really wonderful — do check them out!
Regularly we do a Literary Salon where Edinger House students enjoy juice, baked treats, and prepared readings by classmates from books they have read recently or are currently reading. Below is a link to a podcast of latest one. Enjoy!
Readings are from:
The Lightning Thief
Sir Thursday
Magyk
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankwiler
Olivia Kidney
Rules
The Amulet [...]
Sarah Margru Kinson and the Amistad
Published by February 7th, 2007 in Forced Immigration. 0 CommentsA few weeks ago, as part of our study of historical fiction, I read aloud Amistad Rising by Veronica Chambers with illustrations by Paul Lee. Now we are going to look at the Amistad story again through the eyes of one of its participants — Sarah Margru Kinson. As I mentioned to you, the Amistad [...]
We started our study of Forced Immigration by considering different kinds of involuntary servitude. For example, I showed you the picture book Molly Bannaky by Alice McGill and illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet and we talked about the difference between slavery and indentured servitude. How one was for life while the other was not.
Then [...]
From another production: http://www.stageagent.com/shows.php?id=1023
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