May Updates
Reading around the World Challenge
Dear Students and Parents,
In 1890, a tiny slip of a woman, journalist Nelly Bly completed the first trip around the world in 72 days. She imagined this was possible--and stepped forward to meet the challenge--because she had read Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days. I have always been fascinated by people who could imagine how to do something first, and dare to try, whether they were inventors like Thomas Edison, daredevils like Nelly Bly, idealists or practical hard workers. I have also been fascinated by stories, where I could travel to different places and step into the lives of a person who was so unlike me, and yet find that we have something in common, or travel through time to the past or to a possible future. Therefore I would like to invite you and your parents to the Reading around the World Challenge.
Students, we will discuss in class how best to accomplish this together. We have never done this before. Let's hit every continent, and aim for every country. There are 195. I have already started.
Best Wishes,
Mrs. Daly
In 1890, a tiny slip of a woman, journalist Nelly Bly completed the first trip around the world in 72 days. She imagined this was possible--and stepped forward to meet the challenge--because she had read Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days. I have always been fascinated by people who could imagine how to do something first, and dare to try, whether they were inventors like Thomas Edison, daredevils like Nelly Bly, idealists or practical hard workers. I have also been fascinated by stories, where I could travel to different places and step into the lives of a person who was so unlike me, and yet find that we have something in common, or travel through time to the past or to a possible future. Therefore I would like to invite you and your parents to the Reading around the World Challenge.
Students, we will discuss in class how best to accomplish this together. We have never done this before. Let's hit every continent, and aim for every country. There are 195. I have already started.
Best Wishes,
Mrs. Daly
Our Class Passport:
Greek, Roman, and Norse Mythology
Greek, Roman, and Norse Mythology
The Parable: Leo Tolstoy's "The Three Questions," Nadine Gordimer "Once upon a Time" , Germany
May 1: Form groups and pick your region.
May 2: This is a website to start. Check your stories against other versions of the story. Some translations are more simplifies than literary. The book in our classroom, Stories around the World, is also another good place to start.
May 2: This is a website to start. Check your stories against other versions of the story. Some translations are more simplifies than literary. The book in our classroom, Stories around the World, is also another good place to start.
Week of May 7-11: Students have been working on their hero's journey project. A description of the project overview, from the reading, researching, writing, and reflecting as a process as well as its components is posted below. The steps of the Hero's Journey are also posted for you to review as needed.
Hero's Journey due tomorrow!
A few students couldn't find the instructions listed in the overview, above, so here they are for your convenience:
The Writing Process
Reflection
In an explication of the process, students write a one-page reflection.
A few students couldn't find the instructions listed in the overview, above, so here they are for your convenience:
The Writing Process
- Invention: Stations used to draft and outline of the Hero’s Journey (The Twelve Steps are attached in another document)
- Writing Workshop: include imagery and telling details to make your reader share the experience
- Revising Workshop: imbed five examples figurative language in your story. Highlight where you use a simile, a metaphor, a personification, hyperbole,
- Polishing and editing: make sure that you have set up your page in MLA format: 12 point, Times New Roman, double spaced, proper heading, etc., as well as making sure your sentences are smooth: no grammar
Reflection
In an explication of the process, students write a one-page reflection.
- What elements did you include from your region?
- What literary elements did you include?
- What sources did you use?
- Describe the choices that you made and your reasoning behind them.