Our week began with chapel this morning, and we were encouraged today to think about how it is that we "one-another". We heard from our speaker that we need to focus on others, and by helping and loving others, we will find ourselves taken care of, too.
We began our classroom time by writing about Christmas. Students thought about how they would focus their topic, spent a little time planning, and wrote at least 125 words on the topic. Having the students practice these skills helps to prepare them for written response questions which will come in classes and tests they will encounter in the future! A few students shared their responses with the class, and we recognized what a special time Christmas is for all of us!
We reviewed the work that we did last week in our Write Source books and talked about the various revision strategies we had learned. Students could see how these strategies proved effective in the examples in the book. It's challenging to effectively apply these strategies to our own writing, and that's what we'll work at this week.
We talked about the voice of the narrator in literature, and we learned the difference between first, second, and third person narration. We discovered that most of the books we're currently reading use a third person point of view, and a few use the first person. We learned that omniscient narrators can tell us everything!
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