Today's lesson: authors paint pictures using words.
We began with a pre-reading activity: we watched the following slideshow of photos of India.
Then we discussed the photos as a class.
Authors do the same thing as artists and photographers do: they paint pictures with words. In the first two pages of the story you're about to read, nothing really happens in the story: the author uses those words, though, to paint a picture of the setting.
Finally, we quietly read the story "The Blue Bead" in class and began working on the following paragraph: Briefly summarize the story "The Blue Bead." More importantly discuss the ironic ending. What does the irony say about the girl?
This paragraph is due for class tomorrow afternoon, March 6th.
