A Week In the Woods
Imagine that you are Mark Chelmsley. In the character of Mark, write
a journal entry describing how you feel about two of the following:

• arriving at your new house in New Hampshire
• sleeping alone in the old barn

• getting caught with Jason’s knife
• getting lost in the woods.

Be sure to use details from the story to describe your surroundings
and how you as Mark feel about your new adventures.

After you have completed your journal entries draw a picture to go
with each journal page. Please use the attached paper for each jornal
entry and picture. This should be a neat, descriptive and colorful
picture that goes with your writing.

No Talking
Explore nonverbal ways people communicate, such as sign language and
writing, or through arts such as pantomime, dance or painting. Using
the planning page provided design an informational poster to display
about an alternate method of communication. This should show what
you have learned and also how it is helpful in today’s world. After you
have drafted you design, create your poster on a piece of oak tag. The
paper should be no bigger than 18”x24”.

We will be sharing these posters during the first week of school and
displaying them. Our class will have a guestbook for people to sign with
their reactions to different methods of communication.