Archive for Language Arts
Lesson Plans for Spiderwick Chronicles
Here are some links to Spiderwick Chronicles lesson plans and worksheets. From the publisher, Simon and Schuster: Some nice suggestions for various projects you can pick and choose. I especially liked the one about making a faerie house from natural materials, and tying it in to a writing project. CurriculumGuide.pdf …
NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program
NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program. This started November 1st. It’s the youth part of the National Novel Writing Month for adults, and runs from November 1st through the 30th, 2008. Even if your child doesn’t participate in the event, and set a word count goal, they should at least sign up …
Storytellers: Mountain Moon Storytellers
Well, The Nickelodeon Spiderwick Chronicles upset me more than I realized. When I woke up feeling angrier the next morning than I did the previous day, I knew it was more than just because of a stupid movie. This particular total disregard for the story hit a deep nerve in …
The Spiderwick Chronicles
(Review revised, added on to on 2/15/08 ~Demian Yumei) Brhiannon and I were *so* excited about this movie. We had read The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi twice and made a date back in December to see the movie the day it came out. Well, we did, …