Interactive Writing II Session #6: October 30th, 2009

1. Listen to my summary of chapter 1. Answer my questions.
2. Write down/note these 7 questions, and answer them in English for homework. Post the answers to your blog AND give them to me next class (November 6th):
   1. What happened in your life when you were 7-10 years old? (E.g., when I was 7, my family moved to Algeria in North Africa. We lived in Algiers for 9 months. I did not play with the neighbours, unfortunately.)
   2. When you were a child, what kind of home did you live in?
   3. Did you have neighbours? Did the neighbours have children?  Did you play with them?
   4. Nona moved from India to England when she was 8. Did you move somewhere far away when you were growing up?
   5. Did you ever live next door to an empty house or flat? How did you feel?
   6. The house next door in the story “Little Plum” is made new, it is renovated. Has your home or a room in your home ever been renovated? Have you lived in a renovated house? How does it feel?
   7. In “Little Plum”, the girl next door has many toys and much furniture. How about you? Did you have many toys when you were growing up? Did you have a favourite toy? What was it?
3. Read along with me as I read the rest of chapter 2. Be ready to answer my questions about the meaning of words and phrases.
4. Homework exchange: show the picture and meaning that you looked up for homework.
5. Collected:
   1. what kind of girl is Nona? What kind of girl is Belinda? (What are their characters like?)
   2. Diagram showing the relationships between the people in the story.
6. Homework:
   1. translate into Japanese the section of chapter 3 I assigned to you.
   2. post on your blog the picture and the meaning of the word you looked up for last week’s homework. Do this by Wednesday Nov. 4th, 23:59. (Bring your paper to class next week Nov. 6th)
   3. post on your blog your answers to the 7 questions above.  Do this by Wednesday Nov. 4th, 23:59. (Bring your paper to class next week Nov. 6th)