Alice in Wonderland, Week of January 23, 2012

DIRECTIONS:

Go to the following link;

http://www.the-office.com /bedtime-story/alice-background.htm

Go to the bottom of the page

Read Chapter 1

Use paper and pencil to find all of the math references in Chapter 1.

I will help you this time......Here we go.......

once, twice, empty, four legged, three leggged, 2nd time.. 15 inches
little, 10 inches, close, down, under, miles, distance, latitude, longitude, low, time, moment
straight, slowly, long, round, middle, several, sooner, later, minutes

Now tell why each is a math reference.
EXAMPLES:
once- a single time of doing something
twice- doing something more than 1 time, something was done 2 times
empty- there is nothing there

Alice in Wonderland, Week of January 30, 2012

Go to the following link;


http://www.the-office.com/bedtime-story/alice-background.htm


Discuss how the story Alice in Wonderland came to be

Discuss changes that have been made to Alice

Write about changes to the characters that are included in the story