Pam Healy Story

Time Magazine

Students write and essay on their future.  What will they accomplish in the future, what will they be famous for? Written the 1st 3 weeks of school.

Hat Heart Shoe

What are you thinking, what are you feeling, where are you going?

Magritte

Pam: Personally I've always been fascinated by his artwork and I like surrealism, so I chose him. I guess you could choose another artist, but it might not lend to such a creative opportunity. This is for after learning creative writing. Study Magritte art, learn something about the artist, create your own pseudo Magritte and develop a creative story.

Idioms

Research a topic, write an opinion.

Literary Terms

Alliteration- After learning literary terms and reading a variety of Aesops fables and talking about morals at the end of the fables, they choose a moral and develop a creative story. The story has to use at least 5 different literary terms highlighted in a specific color coded by a key. Anywhere the student can use the "rebus' form of writing (pictures) instead of words, they can.

Alphabet Book

ABC book- With a partner develop an alphabet book of English related, literary related terms, define it and give an example along with some computer generated art.

Timeline

Biography- follows the reading of a children's story about a boy who befriended a old lady in a home who had lost her mind, and reading a short story about a teeneage boy who visited his grandma in a home. We talked about the goodness of interviewing elders and how much you can learn from someone much older, 60+, do it by phone, be it a neighbor, relative, etc. Write the biography (after studying biography) then do a timeline of the elder's life and their own. But when they list the dates, they also have to list what was going on the the world at that time.