October 8, 2010

Bell-Ringer:  Work more on the brief story you are writing based on words from the word bank.
Use wonderful words and eliminate dead words!

Another scary story model.

The Boogeyman?

Sensory details using wonderful words.

Other words for orange:

apricot, bittersweet, cantaloupe, carrot, coral, peach, red-yellow, salmon, tangerine, titian Something You May Not Have Known About Ms. Dorsey   Try this out if you get a chance, and let me know if you like it.  Acrostic Poems

Scary Stories

Your scary stories -- finished, revised, edited-- ready to share -- are due by October 22.  We will be able to use the computer lab October 12 and 20 to get these done. 

October 31, 2007

October 31, 2007
Happy Halloween!
Students wrote a description of the Haunted Mansion Ride, and a description of a candy corn.
We spent the rest of the period finishing typing scary stories and sharing them.

Next time: Sharing more student-written scary stories.

October 25, 2007

October 25, 2007

The self-starter was writing a poem or brief story in response to a painting, using effective description.
Students could again hand in their short stories for Ms. DaRonche (last day).
We read more of The Old Manor by Roni DaRonche.

This is the last day to hand in the three poems.
Writer's workshop to work on mounting the three poems
and to work on our Halloween stories.

October 23, 2007

October 23, 2007
Students described thoroughly the objects they received (jelly bellys) -- sight, smell, taste, touch/texture, sound

Story share
Students turned in their stories for Ms. DaRonche.
We read part of Ms. DaRonche's book.
Ms. Dorsey read a "scary" story about our class.
Writers' Workshop: 3 poems
Scary story to type October 29

For Short Stories consider:
Is the lead effective?
Is the main character well enough developed?
Is there an interesting conflict?
Is the setting clear and described well?
(Does it include suspense?)
Is the ending effective?

October 17, 2007

October 17, 2007
Students wrote brief scary stories in response to black and white photos.

We discussed what makes it easy to write bad fiction --so we need to avoid those problems if we want to write good fiction!

We also discussed basic story structure.

We read a very short story called "Heading Home."

Students had a little time to work on their scary stories which are due by the end of the period on October 29. We will be in the computer lab that day.

Reminder -- the three typed poems are due by October 23. Make sure they are ready to mount and display.

Our special guest will be coming on Friday, October 19.