If you are going to be a little late you might as well pull your idea from recent events.  So I could have done something like “Based on a true story” or “Ripped from today’s headlines” but in reality my class had project due today and I had each of them chat about what they did… yipes!

We had just finished the book Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner which is about a boy who lives with his grandfather on a farm in Wyoming.  Grandfather gets sick and Willy, the boy, tries to figure out what to do to get Grandefather better.  There is a climatic dogsled race at the end and I won’t give away anything else.  My students were asked last week (since we were testing) to take their evenings and put together something to illustrate that they had read the book or learned about dogsled racing.  They were due today… and they fell into three categories-  kid done, parent done, and not really done.