Friday, March 11, 2011

Fix My Paragraph

The Witch of blackbird pond is a book. About a girl named kit who moves from Barbados to america in 1687. Her grand father has died and she is gonna go live with her aunt. the town she moves to is full of Puritans who are much more religious than she is she is constantly doing things that make her look strange to the people in America be cause her culture in Barbados is so different.


***Directions***
Copy and paste this paragraph into your blog and then fix the problems you find. There are a total of 10 mistakes to change. Try to find them all.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Salem Witch Trials Video

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

We're going to be reading a new book called The Witch of Blackbird Pond. The setting is in New England (the northeast coast of the United States) during the Salem Witch Trials.

Go to the link below to watch a movie about the Salem Witch Trials.


After you finish watching the movie, go to your blog and write a summary of the Salem Witch Trials information you learned. Show me that you understand the basics of what happened and why.

Here is another video about what Puritan life in New England was like at this time period.