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Southern Food Day 2010

May 18, 2010

My English 9 classes just finished reading my favorite classic novel, "To Kill A Mockingbird." We only have a few days of school left, so we are watching the video the rest of this week. But to make things more exciting we had a southern food day to kick off the film. The book is filled with references to foods, so as we read we kept track of these and the kids could bring an item that was mentioned in the book or bring food that is southern in nature. Here are the different things we had today"

Sweet potato pie
Crawdads
Angel food cake
Corn bread
Apple butter
Molasses
Butter beans
Collard greens
Corn
Lemonade
Sweet tea
Tootsie rolls
Salt water taffy
Squaw corn
Gumbo
Tea donuts
Pickled okra
Sweet pickles
Coca Cola

Overall it was a hit! I loved watching the kids try new things :)

These are the crawdads a student brought!

The student who brought the crawdads politely agreed to help people crack them!

Posted by Danielle Helzer.

Reading 4/15

April 15, 2010

For Literature Circles today we will start class with 20 minutes of reading time to focus your brains back on your books. Then I'd like you to complete a set of individualized lessons (see below):

Blake and Tyler--Your book discusses Operation Iraqi Freedom on pg. 6. I'd like you to research this and post a comment to each question (comments must be in your own words and should be grammatically correct). Please copy and paste the web address where you found the answer beneath your answer.

1. W...
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Posted by Danielle Helzer.

Reading 9- Thursday 4/8

April 6, 2010

For today's literature circle, I'd like each student to post a response to the following questions/statements. You will be scored on the completeness of your post as well as your grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Please include your first name at the end of each post!

1. Find 5 new vocabulary words from your reading for today. List the words and their definition.

2. What do you like about the book so far?

3. What do you dislike about the book so far?

4. What ideas do you have for final project...
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Posted by Danielle Helzer.