Writing Prompts:

Lesson 1:

Log Prompt:

Pretend you are writing a letter to a pen pal in Mali about your first memory of loosing a tooth. Describe the emotional experience. Describe what you did with your tooth and what your tooth fairy was like, if you had one.

Log follow-up (end of class):

Continue your letter to a pen pal in Mali. Now that you know something about what happens when Malian children loose teeth, use that knowledge to continue your letter. Describe at least one similarity between your experiences or traditions and one difference. If you have other questions that you want to ask about what it’s like to loose a tooth in Mali, include those.

Suggested start:

Your tradition when you loose a tooth in Africa is pretty different from ours, but there are still some similarities.

Lesson 2:

Group Log Prompt: Brainstorm as a group five or more things you see on your way to school. This could include objects in your environment (trees, etc) or descriptions of people, traffic, houses, and other things in daily life.

Final Lesson:

Quick-write: Think back to your quick-write about a day in Mali. Write again about what you imagine a day in Bamako to be like and now use as much factual information based on what we have learned as you can.