Similarities between a regular novel and a graphic novel:

• Both tell a (fictional or non-fictional) story
• Both have characters (like actors in a movie)
• Both have a plot and a setting
• Most of the time, they both have words
• Both have creators

Differences:

• Graphic novels use pictures!
• Graphic novels use captions to describe what is happening (settings, background information, or to help express the passage of time).
• They also use speech bubbles when characters are speaking to one another.
• Thought bubbles communicate characters’ ideas.
• Sometimes, speech bubbles are drawn in a way to represent emotions, like surprise, anger, excitement.  Sometimes different kinds of speech bubbles are always used with the same characters to represent their personalities. The size, shape, and design of bubbles help to communicate emotions and traits.
• You can show sound effects with images (and words) in a graphic novel.
• Different colors can also convey emotion.
• Pictures and words are enclosed into panels, which may take many forms and sizes. The space between the panels is called the gutter.
• We looked at several examples of how graphic novels mark the passage of time and motion.
• We also examined how to represent the five senses and emotion.

Your blogs might go public soon, so be sure to proofread carefully (checking for punctuation, sense, capitals, and spelling). Make sure that you have a good topic sentence, some supporting sentences, and a concluding sentence, too.

Since your blogs might be public soon, please include a link to The Dalton School so your readers can learn more about where you saw the play.

To help you remember, here is a list of characters:

• Oliver
• Mr. Bumble
• Widow Corney
• Noah Claypole
• Mr. & Mrs. Sowerberry
• Charlotte
• Artful Dodger
• Fagin
• Nancy
• Bet
• Charlie Bates
• Bill Sykes
• Mrs. Bedwin
• Mr. Brownlow
• Dr. Grimwig
• Old Sally
• Old Lady
• Rose Seller
• Milkmaids
• Strawberry Seller
• Knife Grinder
• Chairman
• Dickie

2. Go to the House Blog to navigate to the map of our online guidebook (use the Online Guidebook FAQ).

3. In OpenOffice, write descriptions for your lunch place and the other place you were assigned.

4. Spell check your descriptions, ask a teacher to check them, and then, cut and paste them into the online map. (Sign into that site here.

First, let’s review how to record an audio file in FirstClass. (Click this link to go to the Email FAQ.)

Second, let’s review how to upload an audio file (podcast) to your blog.

Now that we’ve reviewed, you are going to prepare your blog posts for tomorrow. Let’s brainstorm some ideas to include in your blog post introduction:

1. Explain how the questions from the 3rd graders are different from your oral history book questions
2. Explain your transition from 3rd grade to 4th grade
3. Explain some of the differences between 3rd and 4th grade

Let’s make a list of the various aspects of Pilgrim life that you studied and experienced during your visit:

• Pilgrim meal (manners, utensils, food)
• Activities (games, writing with a quill, clothing, mystery home)
• Native American Home (several homes, hides, children, canoe)
• Mayflower II
• Fort and canons
• Graveyard
• Village doctor
• Main Street
• Build/plaster a house
• Worked in fields
• Craft center (making a sail, glazing pottery)
• Gardens
• Brewster and the firewood
• Alice Bradford cooking
• and much more!

While you were away, I listened to the descriptions of your pilgrim characters. Many of your characters left family behind. Knowing what you know now about life in a new settlement during the early 1600s, write a letter to those family members who did not travel on the Mayflower. Pick several of the topics we listed above and describe the living conditions in Plimoth. How does your character overcome the challenges of life in a new settlement?

Be sure to practice using some that Pilgrim vocabulary, too!

2. Find your Cindy story and drag it onto the desktop.

3. Open the story and then go to your blog to start a new post.

4. Then, copy your story (not your name) and paste it into your post.

5. Separate your paragraphs by skipping a line for each new paragraph. (Don’t forget to save!) (You can do this later too.)

6. Find a passage in your story to record.

7. Go back to FirstClass and open a new message. Copy the passage into message.

8. Record your Cindy Story passage (see the steps here on the Email FAQ page).

9. Finally, add your new audio file to your Cindy Story blog post.

Your blogs might go public after this post, so be sure to proofread carefully (checking for punctuation, sense, capitals, and spelling). Make sure that you have a good topic sentence, some supporting sentences, and a concluding sentence, too.

Since your blogs might be public soon, please include a link to The Dalton School so your readers can learn more about where you saw the play.

To help you remember the musical, here is a list of characters:

• Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan and the story’s protagonist
• Miranda, daughter of Prospero, often called “a wonder”
• Ariel, an airy spirit
• Caliban, deformed slave of Prospero and son of Sycorax
• Alonso, King of Naples
• Sebastian, Alonso’s brother
• Antonio, Prospero’s brother, the usurping Duke of Milan
• Ferdinand, Alonso’s son
• Gonzalo, an honest, optimistic old councilor who gave Prospero food, water, and books.
• Adrian and Francisco, lords
• Trinculo, a jester
• Stephano, a drunken butler (sometimes spelled Stefano)
• Boatswain
• Master
• Sycorax, witch and mother of Caliban (an unseen character)
• Iris, Ceres and Juno, spirits