Week of 9/27-10/1

We started off this exciting week doing a quote activity from our prior lesson on how to properly use quotes. The activity was that we each had a sheet of paper with either punctutations or sentences on them, and our job was to put them in the proper order so that the sentence made sense and was properly puntuated. We started off with easy sentenses, and progressed to longer complex sentences. We also presented our Glogs this week for "The Lottery," the short story we read. Later on in the week, we were to read the short story "A Sound of Thunder," a science fiction piece that tells a story of time traveling and how the tiniest changes can make a huge impact. We were suppose to choose 6 similes or metaphors, from which the story had provided a wide selection of, and jot them down on the worksheet. The next day we got to choose one and illustrate the simile or metaphor as its literal meaning, not implied one. We will be seeing many creative drawings from what I saw. On Thursday, we did an activity that was not only fun, but it really gets you thinking outside of the box. Its called Tableaue. In our groups we have to pose ourselves as still pictures, each of us representing a character, and posing a scene from the story. Once we pose, if we get tapped on the head by Ms. Nickow, we would have to talk like the charcter we are posing for, without moving. This not only got laughs out of the class, but it also got the people thinking out of what the story only tells you. So this week in a nutshell went by quick in English with fun activities and interesting stories.