You all worked so hard on your spooky stories--I'd like for you to take some time today to see what your classmates have come up with. Choose 3 of your classmates' blogs complete the following:
1. Read your classmate's Halloween-inspired story (posted on Tuesday) and leave a comment with 3 specific, supportive and complimentary remarks regarding the story and how it was written.
Go beyond a short, generic comment and get specific. As in: "You really got me with that twist at the end--I would have never guessed it was her sister stalking her all along. Creepy!" Or: "Your use of dialogue was effective and pulled me into the story. I never thought a conversation between a little boy and the demon living in his closet could sound so natural." Don't cop out and put a rushed, generic comment like, "It was scary" or "Nice job."
2. Then browse the rest of that classmate's blog and choose 2 other pieces to leave a positive, specific, brief comment on.
3. If you have time and would like to read and/or comment on other class members' stories, you can cruise through the blogs on the sidebar of our class blog and see what others have been up to. Leave comments if you have time.
4. In a New Post on your own blog, write up a brief summary of the scary stories of each of your classmates in your group and name at least one detail or technique you really liked. Add a bit at the end of your post about your Halloween plans (and if they come close to anything in the stories you read!).
We'll be moving on next week, and grades for KHS progress reports are due from me Tuesday morning, so today is the day to offer this feedback and post what you've read to your blog. After Tuesday, I won't be giving points for any past posts we've done so far this quarter. Take care of any missing work by then.
When you've completed your comments and summary post, please do some research and settle on an idea for your pumpkin we will decorate early next week for the French Club's contest. Their theme is Around the World. I'd like our pumpkins to have something to do with writing, literature, words if possible, but I am open to ideas. Please leave a comment on this post detailing your idea and what supplies you think you'll need. If any of you have pumpkin carving kits we could use in class, please bring them on Tuesday. I'll bring the pumpkins.
Thank you! Be careful out there on Halloween and enjoy your long weekend...You are all such boo-tiful people...
For our pumpkin I think that painting the pumpkin like a penguin and having googly eyes on the pumpkin as well as little feet. The only thing we might need is probably paint, googly eyes, and construction paper.
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