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Photographs by Hayden, Avery, Maya, and Gwendolyn Today in class we are presenting more of last week’s Iron Chef activity, which is researching a Native American tribe and making a slide about the tribe. We worked in groups on Friday to make the slides, but we couldn’t present all of them on time. The groups are groups of 4-5 people, and they all share a slide deck, but each person only does one slide of a different topic. The tribes we are presenting are; the Iroquois, the Wampanoag, and the Powhatan. The topics we researched are; housing, farming and gathering, hunting and fishing, a child's life, leadership and decision making, and spiritual beliefs.
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Last week, we completed our first round of "Booka Kucha" presentations. Booka Kucha comes from the PechaKucha format of presentations - 20 slides at exactly 20 seconds each. This format of presenting makes for fast-paced presentations, so many presenters can share their ideas. Our Booka Kucha presentations only had 4 slides, so each presentation was no longer than 1 minute and 20 seconds. We had to design a cover slide of our independent reading book, and then one slide each for three types of conflicts the main character (the protagonist) had to face - character vs society, character vs character, and character vs self. On each conflict slide we had to; explain the conflict, include a quote from the text that illustrated the conflict, and add an image that represented the conflict.
Then we all presented our Booka Kuchas to the whole class. Below is a slideshow of our presentations: Post written by Luke
Today in class we are editing and revising our personal narrative. We are making sure we have a good mix of inner thinking, action, details, and dialogue ("I ADD"). We are also zooming in on a part in our narrative to explain more of what is happening in the story, so the reader can feel like they are a character in the story. |
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