2015-2016 School year: day 17 Recap

As Sam says as the community garden in Seedfolks becomes needlessly segregrated, "From the Garden of Eden, it had turned back into Cleveland."

      In short, Wednesday was an awesome day in the classroom. In reading class, students performed a close read of the story of the Garden of Eden, which was alluded to in our novel Seedfolks and will serve as a great point of comparison tomorrow. After students read independently and annotated the text, they formed groups and created SWBST summaries based on one of three characters in the story: God, Adam and Eve, or the serpent. We then did a second close read, performing some reader's theater of

the story with students taking on different roles (My oh my! How they all want to be God! :-)) In all seriousness, we read the story of the Garden of Eden strictly as a story and did not discuss religious beliefs.
         In social studies, we wrapped up Chapter 1, Lesson 1 of our textbook and watched CNN Student News, learning about a family of refugees who has been sadly divided as a result of fleeing ISIS in Syria. In writing class, I provided students with some final tips on knocking out the final draft of their 9/11 reflection, including pushing their details to the next level. After school, I froze outside but had a fun time watching and timing the Dore kids as they competed in their first cross country meet at Hale Park. Continue after the jump for some great pictures of Wednesday's close read and the cross country meet.