It's Been Too Long!

I know that it has been a while since my last blog but surgery prior to the break and job action has kept me from my Saturday morning writing sessions. We have been busy in room 109 these last few weeks.

The kids are all in the middle of working on their digital stories. Their task is to take what they have learned about narrative writing and create a digital story using the format of their choice (animation, live film, stop motion, digital book, comic). Their final products are due on January 30th.

Learning Goals:

• We are learning how to generate ideas for the purpose of creating a digital story for a specific audience.
• We are learning to draft and revise writing to include literary devices and smiley-face tricks
• We are learning tools and apps to create a variety of media texts for the purpose of entertaining a specific audience.
• We are learning the media convention of storyboarding so that we can create better digital stories.

We had a great day of drama with activities around the Chris Van Allsburg story the Wretched Stone. This is a great story that leaves the readers questioning the role of screens in their lives. We are going to be jumping into some reader's theatre where the kiddos will be exposed to a bunch of classic literature (Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Dr. Jeckell and Mr. Hyde, and The Portrait of Dorian Gray just to name a few). They will be working in groups to present their work.