Please read your previous post (on what you expected the trip to be like) and then write a good post reflecting on the trip. Here are some ideas:
What surprised you.
What was as you expected.
What were the different activities like (e.g. The Wampanoag Homesite, the Mayflower II, and the 1627 Pilgrim Village).
What about the evening activities? [...]
Archive for April, 2007
I am writing to let you know that the members of the
RTEACHER listserv have awarded you “The Miss Rumphius
Award.” We present this award for your impressive
ideas for how to use a weblog to support classroom
literacy at your Edinger House blog site at
http://blogs.dalton.org/edinger/
Members of the RTEACHER listserv present the Miss
Rumphius Award to educators who [...]
Here are some of the great links that I showed you today:
Mayflowerhistory.com
Detailed history on each passenger
Things they brought (scroll down for John Smith’s list of suggestions)
Portraits of the passengers (only two authentic ones)
Girls on the Mayflower
Families in Plymouth
Life in Plymouth
The Wampanoag
Pilgrim Hall Museum
Beyond the Pilgrim Story (scroll way down [...]
Next week we are going on our overnight trip to Plimoth Plantation. What do you expect? Please write a thoughtful post about what you anticipate. When you get back you will read it and add to it how they were met and how things were perhaps different from what you expected.
Okay, folks, you did a great job today annotating (along with Ms. Stokien) the first section of the packet.
Now you need to do the rest in preparation for our Pilgrim Jeopardy game!
Here are your group assignments. See Ms. Edinger or Ms. Stokien if you need a reminder as to what section you are doing.
Group [...]
After a choral reading of “Jabberwocky” (scroll to the end of this post to listen) we were treated to Ms. Noble and several of her students reading their “Jabberwocky” parodies. Later several Edinger House students were inspired to write or illustrate their own.
Dragonwocky
by c15am
Hicklywocky
by
c15md
Twas wester, and the slobbery tathes,
Did wabber and wobber in the [...]
