Earlier this week I finished a book called One for the Murphys. I really enjoyed it and I found myself unable to put the book down. I highly recommend it. It’s about a mishap that lands a girl in a foster home. She ends up having to go to a new school, and doesn’t let herself show any feelings toward her temporary home. This is hard, and she finally finds a strong liking for the parents and three children. When she has to go back to her mom, it feels like a struggle.
I love this book, and I finished it in three days. The chapters were short and good, and were titled nicely. If you’re looking for a book, I would definitely recommend this. Happy reading!
For the past two weeks, my class has been working on showing a form of a wisdom tale we read. My partner Lilah and I teamed up to do the wisdom tale, “The Little Lizard’s Sorrow”. It is about a beggar that challenges a gambler to a game that the gambler made up. The gambler loses,then turns into a lizard. The type of lizard that the gambler turns into is the Chingchok lizard, that masked tssk noises in Southeast Asia.
For our story, we acted it out. We spent a couple days practicing beforehand, then we were finally ready to perform. We could have practiced one more time, but overall, I feel pretty good about our teamwork. I was the beggar, and Lilah was the gambler/lizard.
This project was really fun and taught me how to express a story in different ways, and how to make it happen with one or more people.
Source: Wisdom Tales from Around the World by Heather Forrest
