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My Real Life Hero
Walt: Explain and describe a real life hero
Success Criteria (WILF):
Can write detailed paragraphs and use personal voice to retell Paul Martin's visit
Can use interesting words in our writing
Our writing makes sense
Instructions:
Plan your ideas in the box on the doc
Think about who your real life hero is going to be
Explain in detail why they are a hero
Make sure your writing has been checked by Miss Lavakula before posting to your blogs.
Activity: My Real Life Hero
Paul Martin
Walt: Recount our experience of Paul Martin's visit to Team 4
Success Criteria (WILF):
Can write detailed paragraphs and use personal voice to retell Paul Martin's visit
Can use interesting words in our writing
Our writing makes sense
Instructions: You can listen to instructions here
Make a copy of your doc and file it into your writing folder
Keep your ideas in the planning section brief, this is to help you with your writing
(Your planning part does not get copied into your blog post)
Listen carefully during discussion in class to gain ideas
Use any co-constructed sentences that are gifted in discussion
Re-read your writing to yourself to check it make sense
Activity: Paul Martin writing
Check out a Room 8 blog post here that tells people briefly of Paul Martin's visit to Pt England
Editing: Speech Marks
Walt: use speech marks and other punctuation marks correctly
Instructions:
Make a copy of your activity
Think about where speech marks go
Activity: Fullstops
Narrative Writing
Walt: write a narrative story about a superhero
Instructions:
Use the image to tell a story.
A narrative is a story that has an orientation, an event and a conclusion.
What could happen in the story?
Who is involved?
Where does the story take place?
Remember to be as detailed as possible in each paragraph.
WALT: add speech marks into our writing
WILF: show speech marks around words that are being spoken
show dialogue in my writing
Similes and Metaphors
Walt: use figures of speech in our writing (personification, metaphors and similes)
SIMILES -
Similes are a figure of speech. They are sentences that compare one object or idea to another. For example: Quick like lightning. Attribute each image.
METAPHORS
A metaphor is a way of describing something to something else. It is a comparison between two different things that have an important characteristic in common. For example, "Freddie is a pig when he eats," both Freddie and a pig are sloppy eaters.
Character Description: Wonder Woman
Figurative Language
Walt: use figures of speech in our writing (personification, metaphors and similes)
Personification: is when you give human qualities and characteristics to an object or animal. See examples here
Metaphors is a way of comparing two different things that have common characteristics. See examples here
Similes are ideas that compare one object or idea to another using 'like' or 'as'. See examples here
Instructions:
1. Make a copy of your google doc
2. Read through each line
3. Think carefully about your ideas and answers
4. Re-read your sentences to yourself again
5. Fix up or make any necessary changes
Similes and Metaphors
Images tell a story
Walt: use images to tell a story (comic strip)
Instructions:
1. Make a copy of your activity
2. In each picture, add speech (dialogue), thoughts and onomatopoeia where necessary (use word add)
3. Use the pictures to describe what characters could be saying or thinking
4. Check by reading back to yourself that what have you done makes sense
5. Add transitions to words and slides
6. Compare your images with a buddy
7. Make any changes necessary
8. Publish this to your blog
All images have attributions
Comic Strip
Walt: Tell a story using pictures (comic strip)
Instructions:
1. Make a copy of your activity
2. Write in each speech bubble what each character could say
3. Use the pictures as an indication of what to say
4. Check your story flows and makes sense
5. Share you story with a buddy
6. Publish this to your blog
All drawings from Dover Publications
Dictation is written straight into your blogs from now on. Listen carefully to each sentence the teacher is saying out loud. You are not to use voice spelling on google docs. If you are stuck with spelling sound it out, chunk it up and write down the sounds you can hear.
Onomatopoeia
WALT: match sound words with pictures and pictures with sounds
Holiday Highlight/ Immersion Assembly
Walt: Recount our experience of our holiday or Immersion Assembly
Instructions:
Choose whether you are going to write a recount about your Holidays or Immersion Assembly.
Holiday Highlights: You should have 4-5 detailed paragraphs that explain your holidays.
Immersion Assembly: You should have 3-4 detailed paragraphs that explain to your audience what happened during our special assembly.
Paragraph Rubric: Use this rubric to check your paragraphs
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