The Weekly Update
September 11th, 2023
TEKS LO Family Newsletter
Hello everyone!
I have been having such a wonderful time teaching your children! This week we have been reading, A Forgery of Roses, by Jessica S. Olson. Along with reading this novel we have been discussing how summarizing the main idea of the text into chronological order can help our critical thinking skills. This helps us to get a better understanding of what is going on and be able to comprehend and focus on the important details.
With this being said, we will be working on a creative project based on our book we will be finishing this week. For the project the children are allowed to pick from the following three projects.
- 1. Student will create a commercial using iMovie by putting events in the order they happened that will make the viewer understand the plot of the story.
- 2. Student will make a Facebook account posing as one of the characters in the book. Think like the character. Add posts and statuses as if you were that character of simple things that happened in the book that they would have posted about. Make sure they are in chronological order.
- 3. Student will stage an Skype conversation between two characters that will give the reader insight into what is going on in their life during the book and the events that occurred.
This project will be due on September 29th. I will be making time several days of the week for your child to work on this assignment in the classroom. They are responsible for making sure it is due on time so they also need to be working on it at home as well. Use that creative brain of yours! The more imaginative you are the better!
If you have a questions or concerns feel free to email me at coxml3@sfasu.edu.
Thank you.