Re: In the Time of the Butterflies

["Carla Beard" <carla@webenglishteacher.com>]

Would a mandala be an appropriate activity for this book?

Carla 

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> From: middle-lit-owner@interversity.org [mailto:middle-lit-
> owner@interversity.org] On Behalf Of Stephanie Galvani
> Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 9:23 AM
> To: middle-lit@interversity.org
> Subject: [middle-lit] In the Time of the Butterflies
> 
> Help - I'm a bit stuck and need some guidance.
> 
> I have a student who is a very, very bright girl (8th grade) who tends to
> go
> way beyond what I ask of her.  I want to give her an alternative
> assignment
> while the rest of the class works on skills she has already mastered; we
> are
> looking at about two weeks - or seven lessons.  She recently finished In
> the
> Time of the Butterflies, and I want to have her "do something" (awful
> expression, I know) with it, preferably that minimizes paragraph-and-essay
> writing and maximizes other kinds of expression.  The reason she is doing
> this alternative assignment is that I want her to nurture some of her
> other
> skills, not just her nonfiction writing abilities; her seatmate claims she
> is very creative, although she demurs about this.  Off the top of your
> heads, does anyone have a creative idea I could pick up and run with.  I
> am
> feeling very dull and need a jump-start.
> 
> Thanks so much,
> Stephanie
> 
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