- Post ideas of who you'd like to talk to about the concept of heaven
- How you would like to do this - any ideas on how to open a forum with another country? Anyone have experience with this? Please share!
Monday, July 2, 2012
The world's idea of "Heaven"
Student Challenge: I'd like to have an open forum between our class and students from another country (or more, if you'd like), but I'm not sure which country your class would most like to link to! Your assignment:
Reader Response
If you have already read The Lovely Bones, rewrite the last page of the novel to create a different ending.
***Please do not comment on anyone else's ending until you have published your own version!
***Please do not comment on anyone else's ending until you have published your own version!
BOOK CLUB ONLINE!
On the last day of school this year, a student left a torn, worn copy of The Lovely Bones novel in my classroom. I asked her if she wanted it, she said, "Nope. It's trash; I read it already." Trash? I don't think so! It's my summer read! I took it home and thought I wouldn't enjoy it because she sort of told me it was about a girl who dies and narrates the story from heaven. While it's not my type of fiction, (I prefer realistic fiction), I thought I'd give it a shot (mainly because it was free!)
You know what? I loved it! Riveting is the word I would use. The author does a great job of creating what is seemingly a narrative, but due to the narrator's position in heaven and consequential ability to be everywhere unseen, it reads as omniscient point of view. Wonderfully handled, I think.
What do you think? Have you read it? If not, give it a try and come back and post your thoughts.
(It's also a movie, but I refuse to watch the film until I've read the book - so let's only discuss the book here...and discuss the movie in a different post.)
On the last day of school this year, a student left a torn, worn copy of The Lovely Bones novel in my classroom. I asked her if she wanted it, she said, "Nope. It's trash; I read it already." Trash? I don't think so! It's my summer read! I took it home and thought I wouldn't enjoy it because she sort of told me it was about a girl who dies and narrates the story from heaven. While it's not my type of fiction, (I prefer realistic fiction), I thought I'd give it a shot (mainly because it was free!)
You know what? I loved it! Riveting is the word I would use. The author does a great job of creating what is seemingly a narrative, but due to the narrator's position in heaven and consequential ability to be everywhere unseen, it reads as omniscient point of view. Wonderfully handled, I think.
What do you think? Have you read it? If not, give it a try and come back and post your thoughts.
(It's also a movie, but I refuse to watch the film until I've read the book - so let's only discuss the book here...and discuss the movie in a different post.)
Olympic Trials
Olympians are not just great athletes; they are ferocious competitors who not only triumph with grace, but also fall with it, too.
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