Today we began our day with singing! What a pleasure it is to worship God together in chapel! Mr. Brad Stolman, our leader in chapel, encouraged to love one another and to "fix our eyes on Jesus" when times are tough. Good advice for all of us!
Our work began with a lesson on main characters. We noted that a main character is present in every book, and students suggested many ways that we know a character is the main character: the story follows and is focused on the character, we hear the character's point of view, we learn the thoughts, ideas, and personality of the character, and we see the character face a problem or experience a change. Students then wrote descriptions of the main characters in the books they are reading.
We took class time to read and to write in Reading Response Journals (RRJ). I suggested to students that writing about characters--what you learn about them, what you like or don't like, who they remind you of, what you think they'll do--is good subject matter for a RRJ entry.
We continued our work on our narrative paragraphs by looking at different ways to describe an experience. An event can be described and explained by a narrator, but using dialogue, action, or reaction adds excitement and interest. Students read examples of these types of writing, and we talked about the things in each sample that made it work well. Students then took a few minutes to try to find places in their own writing where they could use these types of description.
Our routine homework: READ!
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