Friday December 9

Since Justin didn't post for Friday, I will post.

What we did:

On Friday we did the verbal spelling bee. The whole class had to participate, and be the end of the third round we got our top five finalists. There was another two rounds to decide on the subsitute speller. These people will participate at the school spelling bee next Monday afterschool. After the class spelling bee, we watched the rest of the movie, First Knight. Where we left off, Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere were put on a public trail for kissing in front of King Arthur. All of the sudden Malagant's army attacks Camelot. Malagant tries to make King Arthur bow to him, but after a long suspenseful pause he yells attack and Camelot fights Malagant's army. Arthur got shoot, Lancelot and Malagant have a long swordfight, and everyone was stabbing each other. Lancelot killed Malagant on the throne, and everyone from Malagant's army retreated or got killed. Then they show a scene where Arthur is about to die, Guinevere weeps, and Arthur says his last words to Lancelot and Guinevere. Arthur dies, and then set out to sea. He is then set on fire, in the sunset.

Why we did it

We did the spelling bee because the class had to participate. We watch First knight so we can answer the questions based on the movie.

Reflections and Connections
The spelling bee is a good way to get people excited over something that many people would consider boring. That way people won't have to always use spell check. Making a competition out of spelling is very smart because now we will have more people learning the english language properly. The movie First Knight had a lot of background history to it. The movie can be used to show the kinds of religon they had a long time ago, as well as what were the living conditions, and morals at that time. The movie also made me realized how much we have advance. We have electricity, and batteries, while they only have fire.

Homework
First Knight Questions

Upcoming events
Canspell on Monday
Pancake Breakfast on Friday

Justin will be posting on Monday and Tuesday.