WRITING SAMPLES
THE LANGUAGE ARTS ONION SAM PROJECT
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WRITING SAMPLES
Sam ’ s Onion Dip – A Fun and Delicious Language Arts Activity In the novel Holes , we read about a character called Sam . Sam was a black onion grower and a natural remedies salesman . He sold onion concoctions that could cure all sorts of illnesses to the people of Green Lake . He loved a woman called Kate Barlow but their love story ended unhappily . After learning about Sam , Kate and Green Lake , we decided to create our own “ onion concoction ” and enjoy it while watching a clip from the Holes movie . Our “ onion concoction ” was actually an onion dip that can be enjoyed with vegetables or corn or potato chips . We had to chop our own green onions into small pieces and mix them with mayo , yoghurt and spices to create the delicious dip . We loved this activity and because of it we will never forget about Sam or Kate or Green Lake !
THE LANGUAGE ARTS ONION SAM PROJECT
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Can you imagine an enormous desert that was actually a gigantic lake 110 years ago ? Well , in Holes , there was a lake called Green Lake that dried up and turned into a desolate desert . When Green Lake was a “ lake ”, there lived a man called Sam , who made concoctions , syrups , and ointments out of his onions . One of them was for growing hair for bald people , another one was for not getting bitten by yellow-spotted lizards that were deadly . He said that onions were good for everything . If you say how , we can give his donkey as an example . Mary Lou , the donkey , ate nothing but his onions and never got sick ! In this project , we tried to follow Sam ’ s example and made concoctions out of onions that would cure something normally not curable with normal treatments . We came up with special medicine boxes and posters for them . We even created exclusive advertisements for them ! This way , I felt like I was Sam and made concoctions to help other people with their problems . This project also gave us the chance to demonstrate our creativity . Personally , I liked this project because we needed to use our imagination and we didn ’ t have a lot of limits to do it . For example , our syrup was called “ Obliviate ”, which means to forget , and it ’ s for forgetting a particular memory . This memory may be something that affected you badly . Drink 5 ml of it and think or say what you want to forget about for the last 10 seconds . Please scan the QR code on this page and enjoy our advertisement videos ! Scanning the QR code will take you to our YouTube page where all the videos are stored . If you like , leave a message and tell us what you think !
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