Digital Story Gallery

In-class this week, as a final vocabulary project, students created digital stories to illustrate their unique stories that they wrote. Feel free to look at the our class's beautiful work and comment on them. Great job class!!

Vote Now!

The new survey is now up on the right hand side of the blog. Vote now for your favorite story! No voting for yourself. I will announce the winner on Friday. Good luck! :)

Final Blog Post

We watched "A Wrinkle in Time" movie in class on Tuesday. After both reading the book and watching the movie, which did you like better? Why? What were the differences between the book and the movie? What were the similarities?

This final post will be due Thursday, May 15th. Remember to read what your classmates had to say too! Create a chart of the similarities and differences that everyone found. This will be due in class on Thursday as well.

Final Vocabulary: Create a Story

As a final vocabulary lesson for this language arts unit, you will compose a story using at least 20 of the vocabulary words posted on the class blog throughout the past few weeks. The story can be as short or as long as you want to make it, just make sure it is a well-written story that makes sense. It does not have to do with "A Wrinkle in Time." This will be part of your language arts grade, so remember to use correct grammar, complete sentences, spelling, and punctuation. I recommend typing this in a word-processing program such as Microsoft Word before you post them.

Stories should be posted no later than Wednesday, May 14th. Try your best because we will be voting on which story the class liked best! We will also be turning these stories into digital stories later in the week to showcase our hard work!

Vocabulary: Week 2

Great job last Friday on the vocabulary game! Congratulations to Mackenzie for getting the most words correct! I hope you all had fun and are getting prepared for this Friday!

It is time for chapters 3-6 vocabulary. Just like last week, you are required to post 1 new vocabulary word this week. We will follow the same format as last week. Make sure that you read what others have posted to avoid duplicate entries. Use what you have learned about Internet search to find an Internet dictionary to look up the words. If you need reminders on how to do this, refer to the post on Tuesday, April 8.

Make sure you read through and know your classmates posts before Friday! :)

Chapter 2

Upon awaking the one morning, Meg wonders whether the irrational events of the previous night were merely a dream, but her mother assures her by saying "you don't have to understand things for them to be."

What do you think this means?

Please post your response by Friday, April 17. Don't forget to read and comment on 1 of your classmates posts as well! Do you agree or disagree with what your classmates are thinking? We will discuss this in class on Friday.

Vocabulary: Week 1

We're discovering that there are some tricky vocabulary in our literature circle book, A Wrinkle in Time, along with some unique characters! Here you can post challenging, new, or unusual words you find in the text (along with page number, dictionary definition, and a sentence that you create that uses the vocabulary word) to help us all understand the story better. Make sure that you read what others have posted to avoid duplicate entries. Use what you have learned about Internet search to find an Internet dictionary to look up the words. If you need reminders on how to do this, refer to the post on Tuesday, April 8.

Here is an example post by Ms. Szymczak:

word: isolated (p.3)
Dictionary definition: separated from other persons or things, alone
(from http://dictionary.reference.com)
Sentence: Mary felt isolated on the tropical island in the middle of the ocean.

You are required to post 1 new vocabulary word each week. Make sure you read through and know your classmates posts because on Friday, we will play a fun vocabulary game with the words posted! There will be prizes for winners! :)