TB remembers Ms. Edelson’s Halloween story (and, especially, the laugh!). She also remembers studying The Wizard of Oz and seeing the second Oz movie.
SB remembers cranberry jellybeans at Plimoth, immigration stories, Cindy stories, and the Pilgrim stories.
RB remembers the very l_o_n_g bus ride to Plimoth (which was just a bit boring:)
AC remembers Hobbomock’s Homesite and [...]
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Here’s the link to the book, The Young Visiters (and yes, that is the way it is spelled).
Ms. Nickles and I are delighted with your posts and commenting so far. We are confident that as we make the blogs public that you will continue to write thoughtfully, considerately, and mindful of the need to be cautious. Terrific, terrific work so far!
Today you are going to write about The Tempest, the Middle School musical you saw last Thursday. Try to describe the play and write about what you enjoyed. Think about the characters, costumes, set design, singing, and dancing.
Your blogs might go public after this post, so be sure to proofread carefully (checking for [...]
Congratulations! Now that you are Big Dalton Citizens, it is time for you to receive your Dalton email accounts. This morning we will discuss the Email Rules for a Class 4 License, and then, I will show you how to login into your account to write an email message. You will write your first [...]
After looking at some conversations in books, here are the rules we came up with for dialogue:
There are quotation marks at the beginning and end of someone talking.
There can be more than one sentence inside the marks.
When a character speaks it usually looks like this:
“Hi!” he said.
Sentences still start with capitals and end with some [...]
The Golden Compass Movie with Two Edinger House Alumnae
Published by December 8th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsYesterday two Edinger House Alumnae (now sixth graders), one of their mothers, and I went to see The Golden Compass movie. They had read the book when in 4th grade with me and we planned last year to go see it when it came out and so it was a lot of fun [...]
Before the Movie: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Right After the Movie: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadPrototype Oral History Immigrant Picture Book
Published by September 20th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 0 CommentsAs you know, our big fall project will be an oral history of someone who came to America from somewhere else. To help you know how to do your own we begin by doing one all together. Here is what we will be doing for this practice project:
Create good questions.
Do the interview.
Transcribe the [...]
After going through the interview and highlighting the information I wanted to use I wrote my first draft. I then proofread it, looking for errors in spelling, punctuation, capitals, and sense. And here it is all done:
Julia Stokien, a teacher at Dalton since 1988, was born in New York City at Lenox Hill Hospital. [...]
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 [...]
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