Due November 19 (Library, Vocab Test, MN Essays, LapBooks, FI#13)

First Year, JV, and Varsity Assignment:
Essay for Mrs. Cotham relating to The Magician's Nephew. 
Two paragraph minimum.  No IEW indicators required but please practice your IEW skills when writing.          

Choose one of the three below themes to write the paper:

1).  A look at the book from a biographical view of C.S. Lewis
2.)  A comparison to The Book of Genesis
3.)  The student's opinion on what the most important part of the book was (the climax) along with their support of why they felt it was the most important.

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Our WITs' Literature Assignment is a LapBook.

This is a project that needs more time than one week to complete.  

First Years, JV, and Varsity students may complete this assignment for extra credit. I expect more than the bare requirements described in the packet though. If you would like to submit this for extra credit, it must reflect your age, talent, ingenuity, and skill level. Lapbooks are fun . . . . go for it! LapBooks may be turned in on December 3, 2014.

The central topic is The Magician's Nephew.

Lapbooks are as individual as the students making them, but here are some common characteristics of most lapbooks.

1.  minibooks or foldables -- small books with interesting folds and flaps that just beg to be opened.
2. all minibooks focus on a central topic
3. minibooks are affixed into a file folder (or cardstock) folded into a shutterfold
4. lapbooking offers the opportunity to be creative with colors, folds, graphics, drawings, etc.
5. lapbooking is highly graphic -- lots of images, drawings, shapes, colors, and pictures.

Students were given the a Lapbook Starter Packet. Feel free to use it and even add to it.  Maybe your WIT wants to draw a picture, write a poem, create some foldables of his or her own, add a photograph, write an essay, create an adjective list about a favorite place or character in the book, record lovely vocabulary words from the book, write a review . . . . . .

If you are more of a "notebooking" type of home educator, feel free to adapt this.

If you have not yet explored the world of lapbooks, here are a couple of links to help get you started:
http://jimmielanley.hubpages.com/hub/simplest-lapbook-ever

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/159948224238832650/

Lap-Book Example

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Mrs. Cortez and Mrs. Cotham will not be back from San Antonio by November 19 so Mrs. Harrelson will be substituting.  Class will begin at Mitchell Library @ 9:30 (instead of 9:00)  Remember, no drinks or snacks at the library.  

CLASS PLAN:
• Vocabulary Test
• Timed-writing sample
• Turn in Vocab and Fix-its Week 13
• Submit The Magician's Nephew papers
• Please bring Lap Books to turn in if you completed one.
 
Mrs. Cotham will review The Magician's Nephew papers over the Thanksgiving break and return to complete the discussion of the book and give the students feedback on their essays after we return to class on December 3.

There will be no writing homework over the break, however, please have all returned papers 'portfolio ready' when class resumes in December.  Mrs. Cortez is all caught up on grading but unfortunately the papers are with her in San Antonio.  She will return everything she has next class.



Fix It #13
JV and Varsity: watch for the alliteration decoration. See the Appendix page A-6.

Week 13
When he was a teenager sad to say Arthur was a bit swollen-headed and pretentious. One humid afternoon in July young Arthur was riding through a forest in his fathers kingdom, seeking some shady relief from the sweltering sun. 

About halfway through the forest his horse reared up, startled, a young boy stood in the path. “Please sir I’ve lost my way”, the boy pleaded would you kindly give me a ride out of this desolate forest 

Out of my way peasant the prince retorted, oblivious that the boy was a magician in disguise, instantly the boys voice thundered For you’re lack of compassion and courtesy, you must spend your days as a frog. 

He zapped the air and the prince found himself hoping off the saddle, and plummeting onto the ground. The magician continued “perhaps as a frog you will learn humility and gratitude for simple kindness’s people might offer you [quotation continues] 

pretentious 
desolate 
oblivious 
plummeting