The Life and Times of a Fourth Grade Class at the Dalton School in New York City
Today you are going to begin to write comments. First we will look at some comments on this post on Ms. Edinger’s blog and make a list of characteristics of good comments.
Here they are:
good comments agree or disagree with ideas
good topics generate good comments
good comments generate a real conversation
good comments ask [...]
So, you’ve finished your book. Bravo! Now you are going to collect information and then use it to write a great post showing us just how the book you read is a good example of historical fiction.
First of all, I will model for you how to collect the information with a book called [...]
Today Ms. Nickles and I will show you how it is possible to develop a conversational thread in the comment section of a blog post. Some of you have done this already, but most of you have not. To give you an idea of how it works go here. As you will [...]
1. Look in your book for good examples of historical research and literary devices and mark those places with post-its
2. Choose the best ones and write them on your worksheet (3 for each)
3. Get a laptop and in MS Word, write a rough draft paragraph explaining why your book is a good example of historical [...]
Here is the rough draft of a paragraph that we wrote together using our examples of historical research and figurative language:
Amistad Rising by Veronica Chambers is a historical fiction book about Mende captives from Sierra Leone who rebelled against the slave traders to win their freedom. Veronica Chambers uses lots of good descriptions and figurative [...]
Here is an example from the book we read together, Amistad Rising:
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