Bly 5 LA

The students will be working on a new project.  I will be walking them through each step and provided examples and class time. Here is a copy of the project: When developing characters, authors avoid the stick figure.    Rather, they work to create rich, complex characters that experience both inner and outer conflicts with their environment.   For this assignment , your task is to analyze one complex character from your choice book, movie or story .   First, you must analyze your characters’ indirect characterization .   Second, you must choose a creative project to express who this character is.   You must include all of elements of indirect characterization—what the character does, feels, looks, and says. Character Project Guidelines : ~You may choose any creative approach for this assignment.   You are given a few suggestions on the back of this paper.   Feel free to see me with other ideas. ~Your goal is to ANALYZE a character...

We have been looking at Character analysis in class and connecting it to the Olympic athlete stories. The students wanted the link for the online video  Olympic stories/videos CBC Olympics - kids

On Thursday the students will have a reading test.  This will be on finding the main idea in a text which we have been working on for a few weeks.  There will be a section that the students will have to read that they have not seen before. There will also be a comprehension section on a short story we have been studying together all week. Here is a link to the story if they would like to review and discuss it at home:  GRade 5 short story for test

The students have been working on finding and communicating the main idea through a variety of texts.  They had a small assignment to create their own comic that represented one main commentary, message, lesson or theme. Here is the rubric for this assignment, which will be marked on Thursday, January 25 Comic 4 3 2 1 Main idea/Style The comic contains a thoughtful lesson style of humour is effective The main idea is present yet predictable Style is mostly maintained Main idea is present but difficult to identify or stated explicitly Attempt at maintaining the style Does not contain a main idea no attempt at a consistent style Representation The main idea can be clearly understood the visual allow the reader to interpret the comic easily The main idea is generally understood ...

ELA is currently working on reading strategies.  The first one we are concentrating on is summary/finding the main idea. Here are a few videos that provide clues to help with this strategy Main idea video -1 Main idea video - 2

Editing checklist: - capital letters - spelling - variety of vocabulary - paragraph structure - style (informative/formal) - punctuation - transition words

Example: In conclusion, turtles are very interesting creatures of the sea due to their unique physical characteristics, habitat and long life.  I hope you have a chance to experience a turtle in the wild one day!