Mr. Jackson-Davis

Grade 6 -- Poetry!!!

gjackson-davis@sjr.mb.ca — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:33:08 GMT

We will be listening to, reading and writing some pretty amazing poetry throughout January. Start thinking outside the the prose box!

Grade 7 -- Greek Mythology!!!

gjackson-davis@sjr.mb.ca — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:29:25 GMT

The gods, goddesses and heroic stories of Greek Mythology continue to fascinate old and young readers thousands of years later....

Watership Down

gjackson-davis@sjr.mb.ca — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:10:43 GMT

This is one of my favourite books of all time... What's yours?

Airborn

gjackson-davis@sjr.mb.ca — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:44:38 GMT

Airborn book cover & introduction

Number the Stars

gjackson-davis@sjr.mb.ca — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:25:20 GMT

Number the Stars book cover & introduction

The Phantom Tollbooth

gjackson-davis@sjr.mb.ca — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:25:00 GMT

The Grade 6 students are reading "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster. They have been discussing the following essential questions to focus their reading.

-who decides what is important to learn?
-can you be forced to learn something if you don't think that it is important?
-how can you have fun with words?
-is being bored a choice?

Discuss any thoughts you have about these questions here.