Pre-service teachers used blogs to discuss award-winning Newbery books using reading roles creativiely adapted from Harvey Daniel's 'Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in the Student-centered Classroom'. Contact Anne Davis at adavis@gsu.edu if you have questions.
These blogs were moved from Manila blogs to TypePad blogs. The author shows up on each post as Anne Davis as a result of the transfer. The original posts were made by students and the instructors Lynne Jordan & Anne Davis. The initials on the post title signify who did the actual blogging of the post.
I think it is important for kids to understand what first, second, third and fourth dimensions are in order to have any cocept of what the fifth dimension is. Students could get into four groups and each group could make a project about a dimension. The students could also write about how they think the characters in the story would travel through each dimension.
The book that I checked out of the library is old and faded. I can't really decipher what the picture is on this particular cover. Just out of curiosity I conducted a Google.com images search using the keyword "A Wrinkle in Time." There were more than eleven pages of pictures of the book, the author, and of other pictures that may have the keyword wrinkle or time. A great activity for a classroom would be to have the students design their own covers for the book. They could take one scene from the book and illustrate it or simply illustrate any thought they may have had while reading. These book covers would make great decorations for the room while reading and studying this book. Google.com image search yields wonderful pictures for any topic.
I found some great activities on the net that could be adapted to the book! Go to the link below. You will find that activity #2 can be adapted as a technology project. Instead of making a brochure from paper, they could use publisher. I think the students would love to use publisher . The activity could also be done through Kidspiration or Inspiration. The students could work in groups or independently.
