- During the storm, walked in the rain.
- Outside in the backyard.
Lesson: Today the students completed the back side of the story brainstorming sheet. See the worksheet below.
Homework: Finish story brainstorming worksheet for Monday
Warm Up: Each sentence is an incomplete sentence. Explain what each sentence is missing.
Lesson: Today the students completed the back side of the story brainstorming sheet. See the worksheet below. Homework: Finish story brainstorming worksheet for Monday
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Warm Up: Make a list of your top three story choices.
Lesson: At the start of class, the students picked their picture prompt. Then the students completed the front side of the story brainstorming sheet. See the worksheet below! Homework: Work on brainstorming worksheet Warm Up: Rewrite each sentence so the sentence maintains a consistent tense.
Lesson: Today we finished brainstorming ideas for our class story. As a class, the students practiced brainstorming the sequence of events. The students will select a picture prompt tomorrow and will follow these brainstorming steps with their own story. Homework: None Warm Up: Rewrite the sentence. Edit the sentences using editing marks.
Lesson: Today we revisited each of Harris Burdick's pictures. See yesterday's post for a more detailed description of this story. As a class, we brainstormed story ideas for one of the pictures. The students wrote their ideas in their composition notebook. They brainstormed nouns and adjectives that would be a part of the plot-line. Additionally, the students brainstormed verbs and adverbs that would also be a part of the story. Tomorrow we will use these ideas to brainstorm a sequence of events. The students will begin writing their own stories on Thursday! Homework: None Warm Up: Handwriting Practice: Write the quote of the week twice. Practice using your neatest handwriting.
Lesson: This week, the students will write stories to practice many of the things they have learned about nouns and verbs. Their stories will be inspired by the pictures from the book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick. This book was written and illustrated by Carl Van Allsburg, who was also the illustrator of The Polar Express and Jumanji. The Mysteries of Harris Burdick is comprised of fifteen beautiful pictures, each containing a title and the first line of a story. Each picture is like a puzzle and the stories are not told. The students will choose a picture and tell the untold story. Click here to see the illustrations. Today, I read the following introduction: The Story of Harris Burdick The year was 1953. The evening was dark and heavy, as if a winter coat had been thrown upon the Chicago landscape. Rain fell down in torrents so much so that cars drove slowly and carefully, and no one ventured outside unless it was of utmost importance. On the corner of 5th and Vine Street, a small man in a drenched overcoat frantically wiped his round glasses, trying to read the scribbled note in his hands. Searching frantically from building to building, at last the small man discovered the address he was looking for and stepped inside the brightly lit foyer. Trudging up the three flights of steps the man with the spectacles stopped in front of the office door for 303. On the glass window was etched in large manuscript writing, “Wender's Publishing Company- Mr. Peter Wenders and Associates.” ‘This is my chance’ thought the man with the prominent nose and round glasses. ‘This is my chance to finally share my stories with the world.” Once inside the office, the man introduced himself to the receptionist as Harris Burdick and explained that he had an appointment. The receptionist led Mr. Burdick down a long hallway to the large oaken door that read, “Peter Wenders.” Inside an older man with a white beard smiled and introduced himself as Peter Wenders, children’s book publisher. Eager to get to finally show his work, Harris Burdick produced from beneath his raincoat a large brown portfolio. From within it, Harris Burdick produced fifteen beautifully illustrated pictures. Each picture bore a hand‐drawn charcoal image, a title, and the first line of a story. As Mr. Wenders reviewed the pictures his smile grew with every new image. In a manner, which did not hide his enthusiasm, Mr. Wenders firmly shook Mr. Burdick’s hand and begged to see the stories that accompanied these marvelous works of art. Excited to have a publishing deal, Mr. Burdick promised to return the next day with the fifteen stories and would then be able to talk business with Mr. Wenders. Because of the torrential downpour of rain, Harris Burdick asked to keep the images there with Wenders and promised to return the next day first thing in the morning. As morning of the next day approached, Mr. Burdick did not show. By noon there was still no appearance of the man in the oval glasses nor were there stories to accompany the charcoal drawings which sat proudly on Peter Wender’s desk. By 2:00 pm Mr. Wenders approached his secretary to see if perhaps there were any messages from Mr. Burdick. There were none. And as the day faded into night and Mr. Harris Burdick did not show up, so it was with next day and the next and the next. Weeks passed, and then months. As the years went by the mystery of Harris Burdick remained. Whatever happened to that imaginary young man whose pictures were of such delight and intrigue? Why would a man who had fame and fortune at his fingertips vanish into the night? And what of his images, possessing a title and first introductory line? What were the heroic, amusing, creative, and scary stories that were meant to join these pictures? Therein lies the true mystery of Harris Burdick... After reading the introduction, I shared each illustration with the class. Homework: None Warm Up:
There is a tense error in the following sentence.
Lesson: Today the students took an assessment about verbs. k PowerSchool later this week to see their grades.ChecWhen they finished, they worked on homework and missing work. If they did not have any missing work, the could choose from the following grammar games.
Warm Up: What two things must a sentence have to be considered a complete sentence?
Lesson: Today the students completed a review study guide about verbs. The students will have an assessment tomorrow that will cover several grammar concepts, including action verbs, helping verbs, subject noun and verb, incomplete sentences/fragments, and verb tense. The students will need to know these definitions and how to use these grammar concepts correctly in their writing. We completed this review guide as a class. Homework: Study for the verb assessment.
Warm Up:
Lesson: Today, the students responded to the following quick write: Then the students highlighted the nouns and verbs in their story. After highlighting, they completed the noun and verb sort below: Homework: None
Warm Up:
Lesson: Today the students did an activity to review verb tenses. We discussed how good writers use the same tense throughout an entire story, which is called maintaining a consistent tense. I shared a short paragraph where the writer did not maintain a consistent tense, and the students had to spot the errors. Then they read The Three Little Pigs in three different tenses. For a copy of the stories, click here. The students marked up the stories with evidence of what tense was being used in each story. On a half sheet, they had to explain which tense was used in each story. For a copy of the half sheet, click here. Homework: None |
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