Short and Sweet

It was a short week with no school for students on Wednesday and Friday and we also had a powerful assembly from the folks at Get Real on Tuesday that was sponsored by the MDHS GSA. Students shared their challenges in both life and school and also thought about all the things that they were grateful for. The assembly finished with sharing ideas about what we could do to make MDHS a better place. 
                                                             Link to Get Real website

We continued to work on reading like writers as students keep their eyes peeled for examples of literary devices and new vocabulary in their independent novels. We have also been playing different games to boost our understanding of similes, metaphors, hyperbole, personification, imagery, allusions, oxymorons and onomatopoeia just to name a few.

Both classes were putting the finishing touches on their narrative scene writing assignment.  We are working on the concept of showing instead of telling in narrative writing as well as mastering the inclusion of dialogue in stories. There are so many important dialogue punctuation and formatting rules to remember when writing stories and students demonstrated their understanding of this in this last assignment. We will be moving on to the co-creation of our last narrative writing assignment next week and this time we are getting digital!

We discussed the road map for digital storytelling so the kids have an idea of where we will be going. Those that finished their narrative scene writing began to explore and refresh their memories about iMovie, the powerful video editing tool that we will become experts in over the next few weeks.  Stay tuned for the next assignment and assessment tool!