Daily Archive for April 1st, 2008

All About Alice: What We Did First

Starting today you are going to do a series of posts called “All About Alice” in which you will document your work with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Bloggers do this often. These are sort of like columns in magazines or newspapers. Sometimes a blogger will do this weekly so yours will be on Tuesday, right?Now let’s look at one of my series at my blog called “Teaching with Blogs.” After that you will be ready to begin your own series. (Later on you might want to even put in sketches, storyboards, and such to illustrate these posts. Hey — you might even want to do a little interview of your partner as a podcast!)Your first post should have the title, “All About Alice: What I Did First.”In the post I hope you will describe what we have done with Alice so far. To make that easier, let’s brainstorm together first.

What We Have Done With Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland

  • Read the book (how did you read it? Ms. Edinger read it, looked at different illustrated versions each time).
  •  Watched videos about it and from its time (1900 House, Betty in Blunderland, The Young Visiters)
  • Learned about Lewis Carroll
  • Learned Alice Liddell
  • We learned why he wrote the book
  • Chose chapters today and began working with a partner on the start of a comic. (May want to explain what this is.)

 

 

 

Now go and write your post. Hopefully it will be thorough so that I am inspired to write about this on my blog and people will then come to see yours!

Pilgrim Jeopardy

Okay, folks, you did a great job yesterday reading and (in most cases) annotating the first section of the packet with Ms. Stokien.

 

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(Here is what last year’s class did to remind you.)

Now you need to do the rest in preparation for our Pilgrim Jeopardy game (which we will do as soon as you are all done!).

Here are your group assignments.

Group 1: c16hh, c16ts, c16as1 (blue cards)
Group 2: c16rc, c16km, c16sh (yellow cards)
Group 3: c16cl, c16mm, c16tf (purple cards)
Group 4: c16cw, c16tb, c16rb (green cards)
Group 5: c16uw, c16ac, c16sb (pink cards)
Group 6: c16kd, c16tk, c16sh1 (white 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 SIX 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.