The Life and Times of a Fourth Grade Class at the Dalton School in New York City
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? (e.g. dressing like a Pilgrims, quill writing, games, houses)
What about the colonial dinner?
Anything else?
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 develop and share
exceptional Internet resources for literacy and
learning. It honors teachers who make our world a
more beautiful place, like the title character in the
book Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney. Because Miss
Rumphius scattered lupine seeds wherever she went, we
use this flower as the symbol for our award. For more
information about the Miss Rumphius Award, you can
visit the International Reading Association’s website
at
http://www.reading.org/resources/community/links_rumphius_info.html
Here are some of the great links that I showed you today:
Detailed history on each passenger
Things they brought (scroll down for John Smith’s list of suggestions)
Beyond the Pilgrim Story (scroll way down for the links to different people’s wills and inventories)
Leiden American Pilgrim Museum
Pilgrim Walking Tours of Leiden
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 1: c15mb1, c15lk, c15fl (white cards)
Group 2: c15af, c15lk1, c15jg (yellow cards)
Group 3: c15sf, c15ss, c15os (purple cards)
Group 4: c15ck, c15md, c15hu (green cards)
Group 5: c15zb, c15ec, c15am (pink cards)
Group 6: c15bw, c15of, c15ai (blue cards)
As a group:
1. Go through your section and read it carefully (annotate and underline as necessary) and be sure EVERYONE in your group understands the whole section. If you are doing this during Lab and some of your group members are missing, go ahead and do it on your own and then go back over it with your group members when they are available. You must ALL be experts on your section for the game.
2. Once you’ve finished reading, as a group, come up with AT LEAST FIVE good questions and answers from your section (and write them down on scrap paper).
Ex. (From first section Ms. Stokien did with you);
Question: What was the third religious group to form (in England) and what was their main goal?
Answer: The Puritans/Separatists who wanted a more “pure” form of religion.
3. Check your questions/answers with Ms. Stokien or Ms. Edinger.
4. Write each question on a card (question on one side and answer on the other).
5. Decide on point value for each question. (Hard, Medium, Easy).
As an individual:
Carefully read the rest of the packet so you know it and can play the Jeopardy Game. You may get questions from other sections than your own.
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 wabe.
All bickening were the vobodos
And the mom raths outgrabe.
“ Beware of the Hicklywock, my daughter!
The tails that wack, and the wings that flap.
Beware the vooddoob cat and shun
The furauscous wadersnatch!
She took her vorple staff in hand,
Long time the fumascous foe she sought,
So rested by the tum-tum rock,
And sat awhile, and thought.
And as in deeperous thought she sat,
The Hicklywock, with a tail of ice,
Came pushing through the darky wood,
And groloped as it looked around twice.
Three five! Three five! And deeper and deeper,
The vorple staff went clopper-clop.
She left it dead, and with it’s head,
She went halluphing back.
“ And hast thou silenced the Hicklywock?
Come to my arms, my fleamish girl!
O Frambruous day! Kahoo! Kahay!
He worpled in his joy.
Twas wester, and the slobbery tathes,
Did wabber and wobber in the wabe.
All bickening were the vobodos
And the mom raths outgrabe.
Catwocky
by
c15ck
Sallywocky
by
c15ss
Twas frilling tis she resom dee
of wimble and gade and the
mom out said.
Beware the sallywocky my son!
The hair that screeches and the
Eyes that flame. Beware the tuce
cow that she has by her brade.
She took her vorpal gun in hand
That shot bacons and jame
Long time man xome foe he sought
She slept by the suck suck tree for a
While and though.
And there she was this Sallywacky
With pig tails and pig nose.
And took her gun and shot her in her butt
And took it to the king.
The Sallywocky se the jump and
all see the dee ded Sallywocky.
Twas frilling tis she resom dee
of wimble and gade and the
mom out said.
