Monday, December 10, 2012
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Ms. Jennings' Children's book
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4-4lU_P0OgjWlZ5cjFKMkY2OWc
These are a work in progress. I am afraid that learning to operate our new scanner/copier may be beyond me. Hoping to get this right very soon!
I have one or two more coming in, slowly but surely we're getting it done. I think that once we realized what our work looked like scanned, our work ethic and techniques changed. Those who finished quickly guided others in peer editing. This helped immensely, as we didn't have to take another couple of days to work on editing.
Pre-writing:
We began with a list of values, personal values. I asked everyone to fins the ten that were the most important to them. Then we narrowed it down to five, then three, then two and finally one value that really meant the most to them personally.
Then we did a quickwrite explaining what that value meant to them and how they would explain explain it to someone else. Next, we chose an animal or character we could write about.
On the next step, we worked in our journals by coming up with a beginning, middle and an end.
Final step in pre-writing was taking a regular sheet of paper and folding it into fourths, this gave us eight pages. The brainstormed what their character would do to SHOW a young reader what their value meant.
Drafting and editing:
Students were allowed five days to work their way through the book. I began by saying that we had to have 20 pages, but soon reduced the goal to cover the story. I allowed them lots of creativity and we printed off many coloring sheets to help with the art work.
Wins: Students were challenged to create based on their own understanding of a word, I did not help them in the choosing or in the defining.
Challenges: Many of us were more worried about the art work and less worried about the words. I wanted this whole project to be based on maximizing word choices, guess I will plan for longer to help in the art process and be more specific.
Many of us were more worried about the art work and less worried about the words.
Overall, it was great fun to get away from the multiple essays we've been working on.
These are a work in progress. I am afraid that learning to operate our new scanner/copier may be beyond me. Hoping to get this right very soon!
I have one or two more coming in, slowly but surely we're getting it done. I think that once we realized what our work looked like scanned, our work ethic and techniques changed. Those who finished quickly guided others in peer editing. This helped immensely, as we didn't have to take another couple of days to work on editing.
Pre-writing:
We began with a list of values, personal values. I asked everyone to fins the ten that were the most important to them. Then we narrowed it down to five, then three, then two and finally one value that really meant the most to them personally.
Then we did a quickwrite explaining what that value meant to them and how they would explain explain it to someone else. Next, we chose an animal or character we could write about.
On the next step, we worked in our journals by coming up with a beginning, middle and an end.
Final step in pre-writing was taking a regular sheet of paper and folding it into fourths, this gave us eight pages. The brainstormed what their character would do to SHOW a young reader what their value meant.
Drafting and editing:
Students were allowed five days to work their way through the book. I began by saying that we had to have 20 pages, but soon reduced the goal to cover the story. I allowed them lots of creativity and we printed off many coloring sheets to help with the art work.
Wins: Students were challenged to create based on their own understanding of a word, I did not help them in the choosing or in the defining.
Challenges: Many of us were more worried about the art work and less worried about the words. I wanted this whole project to be based on maximizing word choices, guess I will plan for longer to help in the art process and be more specific.
Many of us were more worried about the art work and less worried about the words.
Overall, it was great fun to get away from the multiple essays we've been working on.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Justice's Children's book
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4-4lU_P0OgjZjZ1b0ZGU2hmaWM
Here is the link to Justice's awesome Children's book for Christmas.
Leave comments and be kind. We are super excited to begin this new online adventure!
Here is the link to Justice's awesome Children's book for Christmas.
Leave comments and be kind. We are super excited to begin this new online adventure!
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Magazine first attempt
We began working on this project five weeks ago and we were met with many obstacles. We had desktops that didn't work, laptops that didn't work, movie reviews and pictures that were blocked, student absences, but nothing compared to not really knowing how to write expository texts. The students in this class are Juniors and have not really been exposed to much besides personal narratives. This year, that has changed.
We began by learning what is required in expository writing, by reading some examples. Then, we made an outline of the basic and looked back at our examples. Finally, we discussed what we would like to write about and what format it could take.
Personally, I learned a great deal and I hope that the students did as well. https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4-4lU_P0OgjRWZhSzI4MHdkRlU
I will provide the link to an accessible Google Doc that holds our magazine. We have moved into creating children's books and I have promised to scan their creations and publish them here. I also want to add in some of their other essays, as we have already accumulated several other that we can share.
Glad you have joined us! Write on!!
We began by learning what is required in expository writing, by reading some examples. Then, we made an outline of the basic and looked back at our examples. Finally, we discussed what we would like to write about and what format it could take.
Personally, I learned a great deal and I hope that the students did as well. https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4-4lU_P0OgjRWZhSzI4MHdkRlU
I will provide the link to an accessible Google Doc that holds our magazine. We have moved into creating children's books and I have promised to scan their creations and publish them here. I also want to add in some of their other essays, as we have already accumulated several other that we can share.
Glad you have joined us! Write on!!
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