Assignment 3 Princess and the Pea

Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking, and Critical Thinking

Task 1: Play this audio post and listen to the story carefully. Record your immediate response to the story in speaking.
Focus: the test of overcoming the princess' identity.

Task 2: Which of the following do you think is the best moral for this story? Explain in details with supporting view points. 1. You can't judge a book by its cover 2. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. 3. Beauty is only skin deep.

Hint 1: You can use Google Translate, copy the URL of the story (http://childhoodreading.com/?p=5), paste it into the left text box, choose the language you want to translate, and click the URL in the right text box. 

Hint 2: You can copy the story texts and paste the texts into Google translate, choose the language you wish to translate, and click the speaker button. 

Assignment#2 Self-Introduction

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s345/sh/fcebecf6-407d-40a3-94a7-75a31b0de964/2b1bc2c1bd31af9b34d611a80c1c4d93

How-Tos

• How to setup a blog, create a post and use labels
• Insert YouTube video clips or hyperlinks 
• Setup a class roster
• Use mobile device (iPhone) to record and upload to Cloud Space (Google Drive)

Assignment 1

(This is from the New York Times The Learning Network, Common Core Practices)

Narrative Writing

Sports: “Don’t Let Your Signed Memories Turn Into a Plot Twist”
Common Core Standards: RI3, RI4, W3, W4, RH4, WHST4, WHST10

You know the plot: the main character has a valuable signed baseball that he, or she, cherishes. And then something happens. Maybe the dog eats it, maybe a child takes it outside in the mud. But the result is always the same — a lost piece of memorabilia and a devastated collector.

Your Task: Compose a one- or two-paragraph scene in which a valuable signed baseball is destroyed. Be sure to use precise words and phrases, telling details and sensory language to convey a vivid picture of the events.

Before you do the task, you might…

• Brainstorm a list of ways that a signed baseball might be lost. Try to think of the most humorous ways it might happen.
• Make a list of descriptive words about your setting. Be sure to use precise words and sensory details.
• Find a way to describe why the baseball was so important to its owner. Why was this object cherished?