India

I really loved today's Language Arts Class. One of my favorite things is to learn about different countries and what their customs are. I have not done much traveling but I plan to do a lot in the future. I thought this was good to do in Language Arts because it shows us that we can make connections to other subjects in one subject. Most teachers would have taught this lesson in a social studies class however, I thought it worked well as a Language Arts Lesson. I liked that we first were to write a quickwrite about what we already knew about India. Then we brought our prior knowledge into a group discussion about what everyone at our tables knew about India. When we gathered all our information we made a concept map on a large post-it note paper. The center of of concept map was India and we included culture, religion, entertainment, food, and geography. We then shared with the whole class. I liked doing this because it showed what everyone else thought about India and then we found out what was true and what was not true. I enjoyed the movie clips at the end of class as well. I loved the movie "Slumdog Millionare" and I was recommend it to everyone.