Give guidance and feedback to students' plans, encouraging, refining, and helping them to be responsible for their own learning. Maintain high expectations for completion of chosen options. Summarize by reviewing the whole, bringing students "full circle" to the experience with which the learning began.

Students create story endings or skits.

Objective: To allow for personal creative expression.

Activity: Ask the children to do one of the following: 1. Create their own end to the story. Create a Skog and write a description. Illustrate Skog from book's description. Write a piece of fiction using animals as fictional characters. 2. Write a skit using animals as characters. Plan a city with mice and Skog. Write three laws for a city with mice and Skog. Memorize "Mice and Skog" anthem.

Assessment: Quality of the above and efficiency with which children get to work.