Read through chap 8 of Book Two of Son. Around page 200.
Come up with five challenging questions.
Write about a Memorial Day memory.
Newsela
Free choice lit circle role

Messenger

What is your favorite quote from Messenger? Post it here and discuss.

React to this

Discuss an instance or instances where this quote has  applied to you...

BLOG! The Giver and Gathering Blue

Discuss what you like about The Giver and Gathering Blue.  What do you like about Lowry's writing style?

Packet due next week has been updated on 4/27/17 so we will have time to read Messenger!

Due April 26, 2017

As elementary school students, the future is sometimes very difficult to grasp.  What is your Dream life? Middle school dreams? High School dreams? College Dreams? Work life dreams? Adult life Dreams? The point here is to never stop dreaming! You CAN make them happen! ms? The point here is to never stop dreaming! You CAN make them happen!

The Giver

What intrigues you most about this book so far?

The Giver 1-6

Make predictions about the book.

Swallowing Stones

Have you ever done something in which you felt that you were "Swallowing Stones?" Explain.

Don't Be Afraid to Fail.  Be afraid NOT to try.


React to this quote.  What does it mean to you?

Blog post

Neil Gaiman, the author of Coraline and The Graveyard Book , as well as many other books, wrote:

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

And almost half a decade ago I said,

...I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.

And for this year, my wish for each of us is small and very simple.

And it's this.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

Please REACT to this quote at length, in your BLOG post this month!