Great first class! For homework, please:
- Read Chapters 6-10 of Charlotte’s Web.
- Think and write about the following questions, which we will discuss next class. To prepare, please write your thoughts in an email to me before class (3 sentences minimum for each question).
- Do you think Fern really can hear the animals? Or do you think Mrs. Arable is right and that Fern is pretending to hear the animals?
- What do you think Charlotte will do to help Wilbur? How will she fulfill her promise that she’ll keep the farmers from killing Wilbur?
- Translate the paragraph on p.72 beginning with “Just the same, I doworry about her…” into Chinese.
- Choose one or two vocabulary words that we learned in class. Write your own sentence using the word.
--runt: the smallest and weakest animal in a litter of babies
--sopping: very wet
--glutton: someone who eats more than they need
--carrot scrapings: small, long pieces of carrot
--marmalade: a type of jam or jelly
--morsel: a very small piece of food
--mention: to say something casually
--graze: what cows do all day--eat grass!
--arranged: how things are organized