March 8, 2011 Day One-Hundred and Thirteen

Activities

Music: extra long lesson preparing "Tomorrow" for Annie audition

Art: planned and organized Colonial Letters Collage Book for gluing and pasting

Science

Math Workbooks: 1 page Guinness, 1 page Sylvan

Book Report

Title: The Courage of Sarah Noble

Author: Alice Dalgliesh

1. Summarize the story: In 1707, young Sarah Noble and her father travel through the wilderness to build a new home for their family."Keep up your Courage, Sarah Noble," Her mother had said, but Sarah found that it was not always easy to feel brave inside. The dark woods were full of animals and Indians, too, and Sarah was only eight! The true story of Sarah's journey is inspiring. And as she cares for her father and befriends her Indian neighbors, she learns that to be afraid and to be brave is the greatest courage of all.
   
2. List at least 3 characters with one sentence describing them:
   

   Sarah Noble: An eight year old colonial girl who travels with her father to build a new house, she keeps up her courage and learns that courage is sometimes being afraid.
   

   Tall John: The Native American man who lives next to Sarah's new house that her father is building, Tall John translates his children's and wife's language to Sarah when she lives with them for the summer.
   

   Small John and Mary: Tall john's children who Sarah teaches about living as a colonist child, they teach Sarah Indian life
   

3. What did you like best about this book? I liked the descriptions because I knew through the whole book each feeling that Sarah felt and it was wonderfully described to me.
   
4. Write a one sentence advertisement for the book.
   

Think, if you were a young colonial girl traveling with your father from Massachusetts to Connecticut, how would you feel. I would be afraid, find out in this Newberry honor awarded book how Sarah keeps up her courage and learns that courage can sometimes mean fear

1. What did you learn from the book? What lesson does the book teach? I learned that if you keep up your courage you can know that what you are keeping your courage up for will end pleasantly mostly always. The book teaches that courage can sometimes mean fear but everyone has to have a little fear in their life or it would just be boring.