This week we will begin the school-wide examination of the book "Talking Walls" by Margy Burns Knight. All classes and all grades will read the book this week. Be sure and ask your student about it. The book reviews walls in different countries and the different meanings of those walls for each culture. The walls are as various as the The Great Wall of China, The Vietnam Memorial Wall, The Wailing Wall and the Lauscaux caves drawings in France.
In my classes, we will work in pairs to research one of the walls. (I will assign pairs and walls.)Each group will be given a country and a wall. They will then find proverbs, flags, languages, and fables from their country. Then we'll present all the information to each other, along with the wall story from the book. We'll also make our own "wall" in the classroom.
We will also review comprehension skills, have a spelling/vocabulary test and continue in class reading and writing.
Should be a good week.
E-mail me at: lberner@neusecharterschool.org