The Bissinger Beacon
March 10, 2017
S.S.
Writers Workshop
Authors gathered writing by studying a chosen character's traits, motivations, changes, struggles and relationships. We drafted our thesis statements and three supporting reasons. Literary essayists have been very busy finding evidence for topic sentences. We are able to angle our stories to highlight the way they support our thesis statements. Before adding quotes to our essays, we asked ourselves:
Can I point to specific words or actions that support my reason?
Can I explain exactly how these words or actions support my reason?
Students had a blast writing lists in a parallel structure as another way to gain evidence for our essays. Parallelism refers to similar structure, phrases, and grammar. After listening and analyzing the lyrics in "My Favorite Things" by Julie Andrews we understand songs and poems are written for both the ear and the heart. They need to sound good and mean a lot. 4B writers say them aloud as they write to make them sound good. Try it out with your child
Poetry
Science
Reader's Workshop
Readers can also identify the main idea in scientific or technical texts by analyzing the title, studying the photographs, identifying clue words which repeat in the text and lastly by re-reading the first and last sentence in a text.
3D Printing
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3/31 Talent Show