Day number 4, wow. This week has flown by! Today wasn't as energetic or exciting as yesterday, but the responses from the students in their reflection cards were really positive anyway. Today we talked about author's purpose, audience, and motifs.
For homeroom we had the students write "warm fuzzies" about the person sitting to their left on Burger King crowns. They wrote some very nice things and then got to wear the crowns for the rest of the class period.
We reviewed the ingredients of a fairy tale--to get their minds in the right place for writing their own fairy tales later in the class--and we talked about motifs. It was great to see how they were able to understand something new to them and identify common motifs in fairy tales. I was impressed at how detailed the discussion got. We used many of the items from our ingredients list to start us off with motifs and expanded upon them, for example: magic motifs include curses, spontaneous, karma related, animal/human magical helpers; characters include damsels, heroes, helpers, villains, magical creatures; setting is often medieval, in kingdom, far away, summer; and plot usually involves a journey, magical obstacles, traveling from home to dark place, etc. It was great!
It took a while for them to really get author's purpose and audience, but we thought about some stories we had already read together and brainstormed reasons for why the author might have written that particular version of LRRH. Then they broke up into small groups and read a fractured fairy tale, determining the audience and author's purpose. Mary really understood the idea, as well as a few other students, and I think they all have some idea of how they can think about author'sProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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0purpose. Again, they were completely absorbed in reading and on their reflection cards asked for more time to read! Yay!
Today we had a bit of a teacher, not power-struggle, but discrepancy in teaching strategies. I told kids that I was fine with them doodling during our discussion--I do it when I am in class and I know that it can help students focus. While another teacher, soon after told them to stop. I felt bad for letting them doodle and then having them get be reprimanded and told something different by another teacher.
The rest of the class was spent creating their fairy tales and that went really well. Many of them were really excited to take their work home tonight--completely based on their own prerogative. Another good day Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
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d the kids are SUPER excited to act out their skits and tell their sto
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