While students are busy at home revising and finalizing their poems and creating projects that represent themselves and their writing, we are embarking on an exploration of the elements of fiction in numerous short stories. Mid-week we will read Ray Bradbury's All Summer in a Day and examine the language he uses to create setting; as well we will determine the character traits of the protagonists to understand how the conflict between them arises. Students will work in groups to analyze these elements and answer plot/theme related in questions, and then we will do a carousel rotation for all to read and add to each other's work.
I look forward to meeting family members at our team breakfast social--hope you will attend!
Homework:
Monday--Wednesday: final draft of poem due Thursday; work on projects
Thursday, Friday: work on project
Projects (with poem incorporated into them) due by 9/27.
I Am From project instructions
