Final Day!

Hello group! Tuesday will be our final day for the book club. I wanted to remind you of what we are going to do! We will be working on our trifold board for the library! I will have the pictures, and words printed out for the board, and all we will have to do is put it together.

I just wanted to say that it has been a blast getting to work with all of you! You are such great students, and I hope you have enjoyed reading this book!

Tomorrow

I will be meeting with you all tomorrow! For those of you who have things to turn in to me- penpal letters, stamps, or kites, please have them ready to turn in! I will not be seeing you all until we meet for our last session, and would really like to get them all laminated.

Show and Tell Assignment

For our last day, I want to do a show and tell assignment

In chapter 13, Sadeed gave Abby something very special in his letter- a rock from the Hindu Kush mountain, and he said that it was something no one else had touched except the two of them! In chapter 14, Abby sends Amira/Sadeed a tiny bag of soil from her yard- again, something no one but the two of them have touched. 

I want you to think of something that you can bring to show our group. Something that you might put in a letter to your penpal- it could be a drawing, something that you collect, a rock like Sadeed, a pretty leaf or flower. Something that represents something important to you!

I will bring something as well.

For our last day, and I will go over this again on Tuesday, be thinking about what you want to put on our poster board for the library. You can bring pictures, draw pictures, or do some research on the settings! We want this poster to be eye catching for the other students in the school, and we want them to want to read this book too!

Chapter 15

What a chapter!! :)

1) What happened to Sadeed in this chapter?

2) Why do you think the man stopped Sadeed?

Chapter 14

This was a very exciting chapter!

1) How is Sadeed feeling about sending his letter to Abby? Have you ever felt like him before?

Winding Down!

Hello group!

I hope you are all enjoying reading, and learning from the book Extra Credit- I know I learned a lot from it!

I will be posting the questions for chapters 14-15 for all of you to answer. As we are reaching the end of the book (or have already reached the end of the book :) ) I want you to do the following:

BE READY TO TAKE THE AR TEST FOR THIS BOOK! 

I will see if I can get the questions for this book, and maybe quiz you on them...I think it will help get you prepared. Chapter's 14 and 15 will be the last two chapters that I will post questions on, and we will go over them on Tuesday (the 22nd). 

You are all such great students, and I hope you have enjoyed reading this book! Have a great weekend!

Chapters 7-11 PLEASE READ!

Hello Group!!

I just checked my schedule, and forgot to mention that I will be teaching the Social Studies lesson for both classes. I just wanted to remind you that for chapters 5 and 6, there are questions posted, and for chapters 7-11- here is what you need for tuesday:

1 letter- This letter should be writte about yourself. You are writing to someone you have never met before! This person is your age. Tell them about yourself, your hobbies, about where you live- things like that. They don't know about Alabama! Be descriptive!

Kite- You should decorate your kites, and have them ready for monday. Here are some pictures of kites:

I found out that in Afghanistan, they have kite fighting competitions! The above pictures are example of kites that were used in these kite fighting competitions.
Afghanistan
Kite fighting is a large sport. The kites used range in size from 0.5 meter to 1.5 meters across. The sport is called - Gudiparan Bazi. The line used for cutting is called tar. This was traditionally made with a cotton line and coated with a mixture of crushed glass and rice glue. Currently, nylon string with stronger glue is the preferred line of choice. A new development is using a flexible razor sharp wire. These kites can go up to 3,500 meters in height depending on the size of the kite.^[2]

STAMPS: This assignment will make more sense when you read chapter 11. On one of the letters that Sadeed and Amira receive, Abby has put some really nice stamps on the envelope. She has used pictures that allow Sadeed and his sister to learn about the U.S. I want you to draw a stamp, and include a picture of something that represents Alabama! If someone were to see your stamp on an envelope, they would learn something about where you live. I will provide the paper for this project.

DUE TUESDAY:

1 letter to your "penpal

1 kite

1 stamp

I will not assign any questions.

Question 6

Question 1-Was Sadeed tough on his sister for not being able to read the letter Abby had sent?

Question 2- Did Sadeed seem excited about the task of writing these letters?

Chapter 5 Questions

Question 1- What are the three things Abby must do in order to pass the sixth grade?

Question 2- What is the mountain range located in Afghanistan?

Hello group! I would like all of you to watch this video. This is the author of our book, Andrew Clements! In this video, he is sharing with us his ideas for writing the book!

This will be Tuesdays homework!

Side note for Chapters 1-4

Awesome job on the answers!! I wanted to point something out now, so that we all don't get confused later. For chapter 1, the setting is not in a school. We find Sadeed, in the very first chapter, in the home of the headman of the village. I will be explaining more about what a headman is on Tuesday, but just wanted you all to know that that is the setting of this chapter. Also, Andrew Clements gives us a specific location about where exactly Sadeed is! - Kabul, Afghanistan. We will be talking about all of this on Monday, but just wanted to point it out.

Great job so far!! I can't wait to read the rest of the answers!

Chapter 4 Questions

Question 1- Make a facts chart about Mrs. Cooper.

Question2-  Make a list of the 3 things Abby has to do to get promoted to 7th grade.

Chapter 3 Questions

Question 1- Compare Abby to yourself. Do you have anything in common with her character?

Question 2- What does Mrs. Carmody tell Abby?

Question 3- At the end of this chapter how does Abby feel about herself? Explain.

Chapter 2 Questions

Question 1- What is the setting in this chapter, and how is it different from Chapter 1?

Question 2- What is Abby doing when we first meet her?
Question 3- Andrew Clements (the author of this book) does an awesome job of leaving us clues as to what is about to happen during the chapters in the titles of the chapters! Look at the title for chapter one, and then look at the title for chapter 2- what do these titles tell us about the chapters. Use your thinking skills! :)

Leave your answers as comments! Remember to put your initials beside your response! 

Chapter 1 Questions

 Question 1) What is the setting in this chapter?

Question 2) Make a facts chart about the characters we meet in this chapter. (List a few facts about each character, like the example below!)

Character Name:

1)

2) 

3)

4)

We have met Sadeed, and Amira. Your character sketch should be typed as a comment.

Remember: Just click the comments button below to answer these questions. Please begin your response with your initials so I can see who has answered the questions.

Happy Reading!

Extra Credit- Introduction Post!

Extra Credit by Andrew Clements

This is the book we will be reading. Starting on November 4th, I will assign you 2 to 3 chapters to read out of the book- you are required to read these outside of class, and come ready to discuss. On the days that we do not meet, I will have questions posted on this blog. 

1) How to leave a response to a question posted:

That is what you will click when you are ready to answer the question that is posted. Each of you are responsible for responding to the question that is posted. 

2) For each answer that you post, put your initials in front. This will show me that you have come to this blog, and answered the question. MAKE SURE TO PUT YOUR INITIALS!

3) Answers must be at least 5 sentences long, they may be longer, but they need to be at least 5 sentences. 

ASSIGNMENT 1!

1) Click the comments button below (just like I showed you above)

2) Type your initials in the box

3) Type- I have read this post

4) Click the post comment button

Your response should look like this:

RI- I have read this post.