Thanksgiving Stories

The students started working on writing a persuasive Thanksgiving story today.  First we read the book, "My Lucky Day."  Then we discussed how the pig in this story persuaded the fox not to eat him.  After finishing this activity the students were given an assignment to pretend that they were turkeys that were going to be eaten for Thanksgiving dinner.  In their story they were asked to persuade a hunter or family to not eat them for their meal.  The students have a great start to these stories.  I look forward to posting at least a couple of their stories before the end of our short week.