Learn more about San Francisco in preparation for our field trip.

Try out these new games at Learn English Teens.

Be sure to play the games on the first and the second page.

Also try out their vocabulary activities.

Please type your Response To Literature essay on Grandfather’s Journey in a Word document and then copy and paste it in the comments section of this post.

Here are links to videos about our time with Mr. Doolittle’s class:

Art Class Day One

Art Class Day Two

Please explore these links to learn more about adjectives:

Describing Words

Using Adjectives

Finding Adjectives

Practice With Adjectives

All About Adjectives

The Adjective Detective

Grammar Blast: Adjectives

Adjectives Quiz

People Adjectives

Choosing Adjectives

Identifying Adjectives

BBC Skillwise: Adjectives

Enchanted Learning: Adjectives

Mrs. Haquet from Frenchfrog’s Little English Pond has developed another great interactive. This one is on Physical Descriptions.

Describing People is a simple exercise to help English Language Learners learn about adjectives.

Pick It: Adjectives

Food Adjectives

Adjective Adventure

Several adjective games.

Possessive Adjective Games

These exercises will give you an introduction to what we will be studying next:

Learn about similes:

Starter activity

Main session part 1

Main session part 2

Plenary

You can learn about Literary Elements and then take the quiz at this Thinkquest site.

Try to create similes in this not-very-easy game from the British Council.

Name That Literary Element is a game from Glencoe.

Figurative Language Interactive Activities

First read:

English version of Cinderella

Read this version, too.

Then read:

The Egyptian “Cinderella”

The Chinese “Cinderella”

The Native American “Cinderella”

Then complete an online interactive Venn Diagram comparing the three stories.

Leave a comment saying which version you like best and why:

I liked ____________________ because ___________________.

Please type your Cinderella Compare and Contrast Essay in Word, and then copy and paste it in the comments section of this post.

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