Students just finished reading "The Serial Garden" on page 440 of our textbook. This week they will be creating their own cereal boxes according to a rubric I've given them. Their box will have to have a cereal name and slogan, title and problem, characters and brief descriptions of the characters, and a drawing of the place the want to come alive. This is the last grade for this 9 weeks and is worth 50 points. Beginning next week we will begin background work on the Great Depression in preparation for the reading of the novel Bud, Not Buddy.