Reading Projects

"I can't set this book down!" Have you felt this way about a book you've been reading lately? It'd be fun to hear about:

1. Conclusions or Inferences that we're making as we read
2. Quotations from our books and our thoughts about these quotes
3. Personal connections to the book and how the stories relate to us.

Family Experience: Symbols

Share a short story/poem about how a family member affected you as a son/daughter?

symbols

One symbol in our pop culture is that of fast food restuarants like BK!

What other symbols are we familiar with and what do the communicate/represent?

The Secret Heart

The Secret Heart by, Robert Coffin uses symbols to show feelings and reactions. Many of our bloggers have talked about poems they enjoyed and symbols that helped us communicate messages. The Ode poem was one poem in which we used symbols to represent our topic.

What symbols do you see being used in The Secret Heart and what do they show the readers?

What symbols can we find in our world today to help us communciate?


http://www.literacyrules.com/Weekly_Poem/thesecretheart.htm