Week of 08/19/13 - 08/23/13
Mon 08/19/13
We discussed the transition from Language Arts to Creative Writing, appropriate behavior when returning from lunch, project based learning, and the website.
Grading Scale:
Classwork 30%
Essay (Team Timed Writings) 20%
Journal 20%
Projects 30%
We brainstormed ideas of activities we would like to do this year:
Grading Scale:
Classwork 30%
Essay (Team Timed Writings) 20%
Journal 20%
Projects 30%
We brainstormed ideas of activities we would like to do this year:
Tues 08/20/13
We set up our journals for bell work; date, prompt, response.
We completed a timed collaborative writing using the story starter:
"Last Saturday morning when I woke up, I found my parents watching the news. "Aliens invaded the Earth last night," my dad said. I wasn't sure I had heard him right. All I could think was..."
We completed a timed collaborative writing using the story starter:
"Last Saturday morning when I woke up, I found my parents watching the news. "Aliens invaded the Earth last night," my dad said. I wasn't sure I had heard him right. All I could think was..."
Wed 08/21/13
Today in class we discussed the essential Elements of Fiction that every story should have. Students discussed their collaborative writings from yesterday in a small group, and as a whole group we read five stories aloud.
Thur 08/22/13
Deepening our discussion of the Elements of Fiction, today we focused solely on plot.
- Exposition
- Rising Action
- Climax
- Falling Action
- Resolution
Fri 08/23/13
Today we popcorn read the True Story of the Three Little Pigs and discussed its plot.