What have I Learned from this ELA unit

                                           

                                                          What Have I Learned In ELA this Unit
         
               Our first unit in English Language Arts was Challenges: Opportunities and Obstacles.  In this unit we read eight short stories and one play. My favorite short story was Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket by Jack Finney. In the story a man chooses to work rather then going out on a date with his wife. As his wife left the air took the yellow piece of paper out the window. Tom whom is the main character went out on the little ledge to retrieve it. When he was on the ledge he almost fell a couple times and then got stuck outside because the window shut. When he finally got back into his apartment he realized that there is more to life then work. Tom decided he need to spend more time with his wife.
  I think the big message that I got out of this was that there is more to life than work and that you need to spend time with the people that matter the most..... your family.