As mentioned in previous posts, we worked in groups to learn about several native American tribes of the east coast of North America, Sometimes these tribes are referred to as "woodland" peoples because they lived in heavily forested areas. Their lifestyles were shaped by their environment. Below are our final "Iron Chef" slides sharing what we learned about the Wampanoag, the Powhatan, and the Iroquois/Haudenosaunee tribes. Click on the image of each slideshow to view the entire slide. What do you find surprising or interesting about the tribes we learned about? "Iron Chef" Slides from Class 5.1"Iron Chef" Slides from Class 5.1"Iron Chef" Slide from Mr. Salsich & Co.
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One of our main learning targets for the first part of the year is to: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says and when explaining our ideas about the text. (CCSS ELA 5.1) This is an essential skill when are communicating our thoughts and understandings about what we read. To practice this, we have been working on reading responses that include quotes that back up our ideas. We also have to explain how the quote proves our ideas. Below is a link to some excellent examples of using quotes from a text to support ideas about the text. These examples were in response to the question, "In the personal narrative Eating The World (or Fireflies), what are two techniques that the author uses to engage the reader? Give specific examples from the text to support your answer." Examples of Excellence!
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Today in class we will be doing the 52 pick-up card game. This game is where you have a set of special 52 pick-up cards that have directions that you have to follow. When the game starts you pick up one card and follow the directions on the card. For example, you might get a card that says “roll on the floor one time, but do not look obvious.” Here are some other examples:
You do what it says on the card, then hold onto it and pick up another card until there are no more cards. You count how many you have and share out loud. It is really fun and you can play it at home too. All you need to do is buy or make a set of 52 cards with funny directions and then test it out. (Mr. Salsich bought his set here.)
We play this game to have fun and get our creative juices flowing. We love this game and we encourage you to try it! Post written by Nico Photographs by Kinsley and Abby Today we all are working together to edit and revise our Iron Chefs. If you read one of our other posts, we were working with a group to learn about certain Native American tribes. I had the Iroquois as my tribe and we were working on our Iron Chefs. So once we presented our slides, Mr. Salsich went in and added comments to our slides. For example, he would comment on a slide “This needs more detail” or “try to be sure to put it in your own words in the future” and maybe point out a question we didn't answer. So now we are editing and revising our slides. Once we are done editing we are able to change the background and font of our slides. What did you change and improve about your slide?
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Photos by Lily and Mr. Salsich Today in class we are working on our reading responses. You could pick from these three published personal narratives; Eating The World, Fireflies, or A Change Of Heart. We are looking for two quotes in the narrative that makes the text more engaging. Then we have to include the quote in our response and explain how it makes the text more engaging. The quote needs to be an example of “I ADD.” We are doing this because in class we are writing personal narratives and we are also using the “ I ADD” techniques in our narratives. Post written by Abby
Photographs by Finn M and Mr. Salsich Today we read a chapter from a personal narrative. Then we had to highlight the Inner thinking, Action, Details, and Dialogue ("I ADD") in certain colors. This helps us identify a good example of a personal narrative to know how to add a good mix off I ADDs. This project also helps us think about what each sentence is, whether it is inner thinking, action, details, or dialogue. Post written by Maya
Photographs by Turner and Mr. Salsich Today in class we are writing compound sentences that explain why it is important to include details in a narrative, How we do it is we go on to google classroom and onto our "Daily Writing" slide and then write two simple sentences. Then we put them together into a compound sentence by using the conjunctions and, so, or, but or yet. Then we label the subjects, the predicates, and the conjunction. We do this to help our writing skill and learn about compound sentences, as well as reflect on why it is so important to include details in our narrative writing. 😎 Post written by Finn M
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. 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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