This week was a lot of fun in class. We learned about the Iliad and what an epic is. We got halfway through the Secret Life of Bees and we brainstormed for our upcoming project.
I love teaching and I love learning. In fact, I consider myself a life-long learner; I try to learn something new everyday. It's especially cool when one of my students teaches me something. This week we studied dialogue rules and several students, including Taylor and Victoria showed me something new about dialogue. Did you know that when a character is quoted and speaks for several paragraphs that you do not close the end quote on each paragraph? You begin each paragraph with an opening quotation mark, but you don't close the marks until the last paragraph. So cool. Read more about this rule here, go down to the paragraph that starts, "If a quotation from one speaker..."
Part of being a life-long learner is having a great sense of curiosity and wonder about the world. When we studied the siege of Troy I told the class that scientists had yet uncovered this ancient city. Kahli took some initiative and researched whether or not there had been any update on those searchings. Sure enough, researchers now believe they've located the ancient city. Read more about it here. Good hunting Kahli!
Lastly, did you know that the daddy long-leg spider is the most poisonous spider in the world? Well at least, that is what I thought. After discussing it with Tobi, she did her own research and discovered that the info above is a myth. And so I learned many things from my students this week, including not to repeat often told stories about scary spiders without researching them first!
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Hahaha, i learned about that dialogue rule because i thought it was a typo and asked my teacher and he told me the rule. :P I cant believe i remembered it!
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