My Reading Activity: Abracadabra

This is my reading activity that I have completed:

Comprehension Questions: Learn, Create, Share

   4.    What do you think is the main idea of the poem? Explain your answer.

          Upload your explanation to your individual blog after conferencing with the

          teacher.(Task 1)  The main idea is about some magic fails.

   5.    What is the new trick the magician is training to do?

Trying to make a goat float.

   6.    Does Alfonso use complicated tricks or words in his show any more?

          Explain your answer.Upload your explanation to your individual blog after

          conferencing with the teacher. (Task2) No, because the magic word or tricks don’t work anymore.

Application Questions: Learn, Create, Share

   7.   Do you think the information in this poem would be useful if you wished to become a

         magician? Explain your answer.   Upload your answer to your individual blog after

         conferencing with the teacher. (Task 3) No, because I might half a lady in half and killed her.

   8.   What question would you ask Bertie?

Do you want to be the world’s best magician?

Can you pull out other things out of the hat, other than Siamese cats?

    

Thinking beyond: Learn, Create, Share

Analysis:  Can you think of a possible problem with teaching a goat to float? Explain your answer. Upload your explanation to your individual blog after conferencing with the teacher. (Task 4) Put the goat under a giant fan.

Synthesis: Can you think of a solution to Bertie’s problems? His magic words and tricks didn’t work anymore because it ran out of magic.

Evaluation: Do you believe magician’s require much skill, practice and training?  Explain your answer. Upload your explanation to your individual blog after conferencing with the teacher. (Task 5) Yes, because magician train really really hard to confuse our brain and trick people looking like they are actually flying and making things disappear, just like Dynamo and Chris Angelo.