Irene Casillas
Professor Gitte Trejo
English 1A L10
31 January 2016
Fifth Grade
I remember being in 5th grade hearing about a new assignment we were going to begin. It required us to read a book, write a play and act it out in front of a live audience. As we sat to listen to our teacher instruct us as to how we were going to go about this new assignment, I felt overwhelmed, nervous and anxious, because I wasn’t very good at reading nor did I like to stand up in front of people and talk let alone act out a play. Mr. Nicholas, my teacher, gave us our book, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis, to look through it and get a feel for the book. Mr. Nicholas was very excited about this new assignment we were about to start that he jumped onto his desk and started acting out scenes from the book. Needless to say that captured our attention.
As the days passed and our reading progressed we started to learn that this book in fact was very interesting. Characters started to come to life and scenes became real, we found ourselves immersed in the book. Every day we read Mr. Nicholas would find something new to for us to relate to the story. Mr. Nicholas came one day with a lot of different ingredients and sat them on a table in front us to see. I remember sitting back wondering what he was up to now. We started getting anxious tell Mr. Nicholas finally asked us who had ever been to the snow, a few us raised our hands the others admitted to never have gone. So he told us in order for us to get into a story we must first picture the scene, so he decided that day we would make snow and visualize the scenes in the book with snow. If that didn’t light up our room I don’t know what would have. We felt like we were having an easy day, when really he was getting us into the book.
After reading, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis, I found myself