Moving right along

We have just finished Chapter 16. We have had some great discussions about this book. We watched a Walk to Remember and read A Serious Habit first. We did one class essay together and I have taught some mini lessons along the way with the 6 Traits. We did a Web Quest in the Media Center and the kids had to navigate through the sites. They loved it! And all were able to do it. We learned a lot about the author and found out how he gets his ideas for books. Vocab has been done before I read on index cards and then I will have them do a matching activity. We also did I Am poems using the vocab and being one of the characters in the book. Cole was the one most of the kids used because he was the easiest to describe. But some of my kids wrote from the Spirit Bears's perspective. That was kind of cool. The kids are really enjoying the book but I am concerned about how long it is taking and the final assessment which is a research project.