Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Announcements and Reminders: Calendar:   March 28 -- Fieldtrip to Interview March 30 -- Begin Storyboards April 10 -- Storyboards due -- Ms. Dorsey will check them.   April 12 -- Lab to work on creating books April 14 -- Lab to work on creating books April 18  --Lab to work on creating books Share your document with Ms. Dorsey. Mrs. Hansen will print them in color.  They will be bound.  Let me know if you wish to do yours in a different way. _________ -- Share books in class.  _________  -- Deliver books to First Graders

Targets for Today:  I can write an effective,  brief personal narrative.   I can prepare for the book-for-a-first-grader project.

Today’s  Agenda: 1. Scribble:    Get started on this as soon as you sit down.  Pick a prompt (suggested by Gale Carson Levine, author of Ella Enchanted): I have one green eye and one brown eye.  The green eye sees truth, but the brown eye sees much, much more.  The ghost was eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.  "Be nice," my father said.  "After all, he's your brother." I am the most famous twelve-year-old (or thirteen-year-old) in the United States. If somebody didn't do something soon, they were going to have a catastrophe on their hands. Jason (or another name) had never felt so foolish before, and he hoped he'd never feel so foolish again. Write for ten minutes.  Rules for Writing from Gale Carson Levine:  1. The best way to write better is to write more. 2. The best way to write better is to write more. 3. The best way to write better is to write more. 4.  The best way to write more is to write whenever you have have five minutes and whenever you find a chair and a pen and paper or your computer. 5.  Read!  Most likely you don't need this rule.  If you enjoy writing, you probably enjoy reading.  The payoff for this pleasure is that reading books shows you how to write them. 6.  Reread!  There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.  When you do, the words get inside you, become part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't. 7.  Save everything you write, even if you don't like it, even if you hate it.  Save it for a minimum of fifteen years.  I'm serious.  At that time, if you want to, you can throw it out, but even then don't discard your writing lightly.    (fromWriting Magic, page 5) Do you have your storyboard paper, your rubric, and your interview paper?  Storyboard for Child’s Book by.docx 2. Computer lab 202 to work on Children's books.  Create your book on a Google Doc.  I have sent most of you your photo from our visit to Legacy.  Check your email when we get into the lab.  Don't forget to edit CAREFULLY!

If You Were Absent: See above.  Complete the scribble, and work on creating a storyboard for your children's book story. Storyboard for Child’s Book by.docx

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