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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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We started working on our first formal writing project last week - writing a personal narrative. A personal narrative is a short story about a memorable event from your life. We spent the week brainstorming possible narrative ideas - gathering "seeds" that might grow into the actual writing.
We used three "seed-generating" prompts - 1) thinking about important people in our lives and memories of experiences with those people, 2) thinking about the first time we did something and the last (or most recent) time we did something, and 3) thinking about times when we experienced strong emotions like joy, sadness, nervousness, excitement, etc. After each brainstorming session, we got together and shared some of the ideas we recorded with friends. This coming week, we'll select the "seed" we want to plant and beginning our first draft of the narrative. Post written by Hayden Last week during language arts we worked on a fun project about idioms where we had to randomly select an idiom, look up the meaning of it, and illustrate the idioms for what they sound like and what the real meaning is. We did this project do that if we came across an idiom when we are reading a book or doing something else, we’ll know what the idiom is.
Idioms are phrases that sound a little silly but have a different meanings. An example would be, Who let the cat out of the bag and told Billy about the surprise party? This doesn’t mean that somebody literally let a cat out of a bag, it means that somebody told a secret that wasn’t supposed to be said out loud. In my opinion I think it’s really fun because the idioms are funny and I like that we get to be creative with our drawings. Other students opinions about it were;
Click on the image below to see a full-screen slideshow of our illustrations! Our essential question in language arts this week is, "How can experiencing nature change the way you think about it?" This is a fascinating question that has led to many interesting discussions! We are reading narrative nonfiction texts about the nature experiences of Henry David Thoreau, President Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, Jane Goodall, Jacgues Costeau, Eugenie Clark, Rachel Carson and other famous naturalists. We'd love to hear about an experience in nature that changed the way you think about it! Tell us about it in a comment, please! (For commenting tips and expectations, check out the commenting guidelines.) How has an experience in nature changed the way you think about it? Leave us a comment!During our quick "daily writing" today, we wrote a paragraph about this week's essential question - "What can cause someone to rethink an idea?" We were asked to use as many of this week's vocabulary words as we could and to underline them.
Below are some samples of our creative work and a few pictures of us sharing our writing with a partner. |
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