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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

3/19 Tuesday

1. Warm-up-Creative Writing


Look at the following picture. Write a quick short story about the picture. Be creative and try to include some of your weekly vocabulary words.
 
 

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Take a few minutes to review your weekly vocabulary words. You can also take some time to work on your 3-2-1's.

3. Weekly Project-You will be creating a book cover for your independent reading book. This should be creative and colorful. It should contain what you consider to be the most important elements of your book. It should NOT look like the cover your book already has. On the back of your cover, write a short essay explaining why you chose the images you did.

4. Poetry- One last assignment for our poetry lesson.

5. Theme-You are going to be learning all about the subject of theme in literature. Here are the steps for your assignment. Read all of the steps before starting.
     1. Watch the following video






2. Go to the following links:
         Here
         Here
         Here
3. As you are watching the video and viewing your links you need to be taking notes. Using
your notes, the video, and the links you are to create a list with what you think are the
7 best ways to find a story's theme. Make sure you explain why you picked your list.

6. Bronx Masquerade-Let's read!


 


 

 

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