Aim: Back To Fairmount Avenue Vocabulary: symbol, memoir, landmark, advertisement Activity
#1:
Click on
State-Us
Symbols
Activity #2:
While reading 26 Fairmount Avenue,
Activity # 3: Let's go to Tomie DePaola's home town and Take a Historical Tour of the Silver City of Meriden (You will find information and resources about the city of Meriden. Explore the site and discover Meriden's rich and diverse heritage) You will then use a web to list 10-20 places you would include on a tour of Brooklyn. Images and pictures will be located on the Internet and you will be required to create a slide show using Kid Pix. Activity #1 Extension: How good is your memory? Play an online game featuring Connecticut's State Symbols at Concentration - State Symbols. Activity #2 Extension: Complete a Venn diagram comparing your life to Tomie DePaola's. Print out a blank Venn diagram here Houghton Mifflin. Activity #3 Extension: Use Apple Works or Student Writing Center to create an advertisement for tourists to visit either Brooklyn, New York or Meriden, Connecticut. Use pictures to show, as well as tell, your selling points. Homework: Over the next week, you will work on writing your own family narrative. Start by printing out and answering the sample questions at Family Narrative Questions.
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