SHARON’S BLOGSaint Patrick’s Day is a great time to encourage the thinking process in your students, and these two prompts are here to help. Younger students will enjoy the categorizing and attention to words in this prompt. A free printable is included. Older students will read of two examples and then use something concrete to…
MIDDLE SCHOOL PROMPTS We celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on March 17, the day the patron saint of Ireland died. Many like to wear green on St. Patrick’s Day, but where did the tradition of wearing green come from? Some say that leprechauns cannot see the color green; therefore, you are invisible to them and cannot be…
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Invisibility—is it a blessing or a curse? According to Irish legend, wearing green makes you invisible to leprechauns and their pinches and tricks. But wearing green is not the only way to become invisible. The scientist Griffin, in H. G. Wells’ The Invisible Man, makes himself invisible by experimenting with formulas and…
