Twelfth Day of School

 We began our narrative writing unit. The memorable moments lists reviewed so far have been very well done and will be very helpful moving forward with the unit. One list was sent back home for some revisions with notes.

On Monday we took our pretest to gage where we need to begin in narrative instruction.

Today, we analyzed text for the narrative elements of character and setting. As you review your lists with your child, ask them to tell you the characters and the setting. 

Example: Meeting Micky at Disneyland

Setting and character statement: Last summer I went to Disneyland with my family.

Back-to-School Information

This is the Zoom meeting code for Room 11 Back-to-School following the segment hosted by Mr. Brooks.

 https://lausd.zoom.us/j/84813562133?pwd=S0Jya2FOemtmN1FYYmpmQlRpeWNsdz09

meeting code: 848 1356 2133

passcode: clc

Parent Assignment #2

 The Memorable Moment

Over the course of the next few weeks, we will be working on the genre of personal narratives.

Your Task:

With input from your child, over the course of the next few days, construct a list of memorable events. These individual events should be about moments which occurred across a time span of approximately 20 minutes maximum in length. Each event should have an identifiable emotion (or two) attached to it (fear, happiness, surprise).


Examples of events which will not work:
My Day at Disneyland
Christmas Morning
My Birthday Party
The Winning Game

Examples of events which will work:
Meeting Cinderella
Opening My Favorite Gift
Breaking the Pinata at My Party
Scoring the Winning Goal

Try to make a list of at least 10 memorable moments. Make a copy of the list for you to keep at home. Send one copy of the list to school with your child by Wednesday, September 1st  (sooner than that is fine if not better). We will refer to this list as our list of Memorable Moments. Hopefully your child will be able to construct at least 3 narratives from events in the list. They will eventually be choosing from among those narratives one or two which they focus on for elaboration, revising, and editing for publication.

For your child's homework over the next few weeks, choose one event from the list each day and have your child tell the story to you orally. Listen for the following characteristics/items in their speech:

Complete sentences (not run-on sentences or phrases)
A beginning, middle, and closure to the story
Details or examples of dialogue


 Again, if you have any questions regarding this important assignment feel free to post in the comment section. If you would like to post an example for comment I will be glad to review with my thoughts.

Parent Assignment #1

 Please find the yellow folder sent home with your child today. Your task:

With your child's input, decorate all surfaces of your child's folder (inside and out) with some or all of the following items:

• Pictures of memorable events from your child's life
• Pictures or advertisements of your child's interests

Pictures of topics which particularly interest your child (your child may have an interest in machines, space, dinosaurs, soccer, etc.)

Before placing something on the folder consider: how will this lend itself to a dicussion between your child and their teacher, or how will this help your child to brainstorm topics for writing?

 Return the decorated folder to school with your child by Tuesday, August 24.

You might notice that the folders are not very substantial in quality. After the folder is decorated you may want to consider adding a bit of clear packing tape over the items which you have attached. We will be using these folder the entire year.

Please post any questions you may have in the comment section below.

Welcome

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