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Where the Wild Students Are!
Unless you have been living in a cave lately, you have probably heard about the new movie, “Where the Wild Things Are” that came out a few weeks ago. Well, today our class looked at the original book with story and illustrations by Maurice Sendek and talked about the various characters, words, and other elements from the story. Tomorrow, we will be using the book to gather ideas as a springboard for our own stories. We will be trying to create new endings for the story that start where the book leaves off. When I read the story, I was very surprised to find out that the story only has ten sentences in it. So, we decided that our stories will only have ten stories in it as well. It should be very interesting to see how the students use the ideas to create their own, creative endings to the story with only ten sentences to work with. We will also be putting the good copies on the blog for you to read and share with your family!!
Here is a video of the story along with the trailer from the movie. Kylie had already seen the movie and told us about many of the differences from the book. It sounds like a great movie!
October 29th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Mr. Hancock,
Thanks for posting this story video and the movie trailer. I was trying to tell my kids the story tonight at dinner (from memory!), when Jackson told me you had posted the story on your blog. So we had a look and wowza! There it was! Thanks for your help!
Mrs. Howard
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