Today we tried to appreciate God's gift of language! We took a look at what books do. Students came up with many purposes for books: books entertain, they teach us, and they help us to appreciate beauty were just a few of them. We spent some time talking about God's great book, the Bible, and noting that God uses it for some of those very same purposes! What a gift that book is!
We touched again on the concept of theme. We noted that the theme of a book is what is shown to us about life and living through what happens to the people in the story. Students thought about the books they are currently reading, and each student came up with a possible theme for the story.
Writers need to use conventions correctly, and we worked today on the homonyms there, their, and they're. We took notes on their uses, and students practiced using the correct "there" in sentences. They then checked their narrative paragraphs to see if they had any "there" errors to fix.
We continued to work on revising on our narrative paragraphs. Students were encouraged to try to read their paragraphs as if for the first time, and to try to find anything they would like their readers to see better or understand more deeply.
Student homework for Friday: Final drafts of narrative paragraphs due
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