Last Wednesday marked the end of our last read aloud, Holes. It was the second Newberry Award winning book we read so far (Walk Two Moons being the first), and students just loved it. Today we watched the movie and tonight students are comparing the two.
To prepare for the movie, today students wrote incredible perspective pieces in the voice of a character in the book. I will take pictures of the writing tomorrow and post on the blog. Their ability to mimic voice and style is obvious. Also, writing in another's perspective allows students to 'test out' themes such as love and death.
Homework for tonight is to:
1. Read for thirty minutes
2. Write at least three similarities and differences comparing the movie and book version of Holes.
4. Spelling
