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Using Someday |
| Using Charlotte's book Someday as a starting point, one grade school class explored what students imagine and wish will happen someday. Then their computer teacher, Mrs. Eldi, put up a web site about it. That website is no longer up, but of course, this general idea remains potent. |
| questions for “right now” as well as someday |
After
reading the book, what kind of person do you think the main character
is? If she wants so much to happen “someday”, what kinds of things must
be happening to her right now? |
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Are there
things in your life that you don’t like now? What are they? If you could
make them different “someday” what would you have happen? |
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What
parts of the main character’s Someday wishes are within her control ---
what could she do to make them happen? What parts would just be luck or
circumstance? What about your Somedays? |
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In the
end of the book, Ellen, the main character, finds some small happiness
“right now” in the form of dinnertime. What do you think she had for
dinner that made “right now” look better than “someday?” What would be a
“right now” dinner that would make you happy? Are there any other small
things make you happy right now when somedays seem very far away? |
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Imagine
you are your family’s dog or cat. Writing as that dog or cat, what would
you want “someday”? What about your little or big sister or brother;
what would their someday wishes be? What about your parents, your
grandparents, your teachers? What if you were the couch or bed or coffee
table in your house? “Someday Jason will come home from school and he
won’t put his feet on me?” |
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Does
everyone have different somedays? Maye… maybe not. What, if anything, do
your somedays have in common with Ellen’s? Are there some somedays
everyone wants? What would your someday wishes look like if there as a
war in your country, or not enough to eat? What would your somedays look
like if you were a president, a scientist, a zebra in the zoo? What
would your best friend’s someday be? |
| Art exhibits, websites |
| Have your students pick a few of their favorite self-developed somedays and illustrate them. Hang them up around the classroom or in the hall. Or, create a webusing them. (Then let us know… we’ll link to it from here. |
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