Thursday, 4 October, 2012

The class read three versions of children's books telling the story of "Stone Soup".

The class divided into three groups to create detailed analyses and presentations of their assigned text.

The general questions addressed by each group for their text include:

As you read think about how food as used as a symbol in the story. In other words does food only mean food in your story?

How do the illustrations affect your understanding or interpretation of the story?

Is there a moral to the story? If so, what is it?

Is this book only for children?

Is the story meant to be funny?

Each students was asked to show their independent reading book as a assigned. This was a graded assignment.