The Pigman's Legacy
by Paul Zindel
Student Activity D
Introduction
After reading The Pigman's Legacy and viewing the web sites of New York in the other activities, you will have an opportunity to select an electronic postcard and send it to your teacher.
With your teacher, please review your school's acceptable use policy for work on the Internet. Also, links to the web often change. Tell your teacher when you find a poor link in this guide.
The Task
After reading The Pigman's Legacy and seeing the various web sites in the other activities, you should have a fairly good idea about the setting of the book. You will now write an electronic postcard to your teacher describing the setting in the story.
The Process: Exploring the Web, Creating a Product
- Post cards are small. There will not be a lot of room to write.
- Write down on a piece of paper a sentences that best describes your favorite setting in the book.
- Reread the sentence and correct spelling and punctuation.
- Visit the Electric postcard site.
- Pick the postcard you would like to send.
- Write a message to you teacher describing the setting of The Pigman's Legacy in a way that your teacher will know you are familar with the setting of this story.
- Use mrschusclass@yahoo.com for the e-mail address and your name first and last in the name space as the return address use, schumadj@unit5.org.
How You Will Be Graded
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Setting is described 5pts possible |
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Teacher received e-mail 5pts possible |
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Spelling and punctuation is accurate 5pts possible |
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All yes = credit
