Week 15
Day One
1. In puerto rico and other spanish speaking countries, some people celebrate Three Kings' Day.
2. The holiday takes place on January, 6.
Day Two
1. The holiday celabrates the story of the Three Kings - Melchior, Balthazar, and Gaspar.
2. On the twelth day after Christmas the Three Kings was guided by a star to travel to Bethlehem.
Day Three
1. In Puerto Rico tradition says that the Three Kings rided their camels to the childrens homes.
2. The Three Kings gave fabulous presents to the children. Who had been good all year.
Day Four
1. The children leave grass for the camels in shoe boxes. They put the shoe boxes under they're beds.
2. The Kings brings gifts to children which believe in them.
Day Five
1. Their friends homes are gone to by children for parties.
2. They eat tamales, which are cornmeal pancakes filled with stuff.
Week 16
Day One
1. The night the bed fell is a funny story about James Thurber's family.
2. Each of his relatives were strange.
Day Two
1. Old Aunt Melissa who could whistle like a man thought she would die on South High Street.
2. Aunt Sarah Shoaf piled all her possessions outside her bedroom door. She did this in a nervous way.
Day Three
1. Thurbers' bed suddenly fell with a tremendous crash. The bed had always tipped over.
2. The family was screaming, running, and they started to shout.
Day Four
1. I'm all right Briggs yelled.
2. The dog an animal that never liked Briggs jumped him.
Day Five
1. Mother thinked that Father was dying.
2. Thurber turned on the light. He unlocked the door. He goes to the attic.
Week 17
Day One
1. James Thurber was born december 8 1894 in Columbus, Ohio.
2. He lost sight in one eye. A friend shot him with a BB gun.
Day Two
1. Thurber attended Ohio State University and then worked as a code clerk for the state department.
2. He moved to New York City in 1926 and became a reporter for the Evening Post.
Day Three
1. Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925.
2. Thurber joined the magazine in 1927 and wrote for them for many years.
Day Four
1. In addition to writing Thurber drew cartoons for the magazine.
2. His cartoons showed sad looking animals. They also showed oversized wives with undersized husbands.
Day Five
1. Thurber drew cartoons until the 1950's in many issues of the magazine.
2. The magazine be famous for its cartoons biographies and stories.
Week 18
Day One
1. "Who is going to a new school?" the teacher asked. "It is me," Ernesto wrote in the composition.
2. Mrs Dodson, a neighbor, told Ernesto how to find the lincoln school.
Day Two
1. Friends in the barrio explained the school rules.
2. Miss Hopley sat at a roll top desk and smiled wholeheartedly.
Day Three
1. Ito can read a sentence the teacher exclaimed!
2. The korean, italian, and polish first graders all had similar moments of glory.
Day Four
1. Ernesto enjoyed his studies. And he liked his teachers.
2. Learning english, as well as getting used to a new country, take time.
Day Five
1. The first part of my story outline looked like this:
I. facts about Barrio Boy.
A. family
B. school
2. "Well, I don't know if I want to be a teacher" said Ernesto.