WW Sharing

It seemed sharing my creative kids' writings was a hit, so I thought I'd quickly share the happenings of today.

In writing there are 6 traits that must be present in your writing. These 6 traits are what teachers look for in grading an essay. They include: Idea, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency & Conventions (which is grammar and such).

Now, ordinarily a teacher would lecture each trait individually and then combine later. However, as I am not ever the norm, I decided that by throwing creative juice at it I could make it fun (which, I'm sure you are thinking is impossible), creative and informative.

Today the students were given a project where they had to create a character who had a dilemma that would need to go through all these traits or setbacks in order to conclude the dilemma. After the shocked, frustrated, unknowing, sad faces I decided that in order for my lovely, creative seat-fillers to grasp this project correctly I was going to have to give a good example. So, together, as a class, we created this lovely layout of a story...
A flying horse named Sir Prize has had his teeny, tiny pony, Brocco Lee, stolen. He must save him. He plans and has the 'Idea' to gather an Army to attack the pony-nappers. He 'Organizes' a 100 man Smurf (trademark) Army. The defense this Smurf Army uses is their sing-song high-pitched 'Voice's, which they use to kill off (or, make their enemies pass out as we are a Christian school) their opponents. Their 'Word Choice' for these sing-song killings is Justin Bieber songs. Now, as our Smurfs trek through a forest land to save Brocco Lee they'll come upon a river (which is where our 'Sentence Fluency' comes in...get it, flow...like a river?) which they'll have to cross. Each stepping stone they jump on to cross is a word part of a sentence. As they prepare for a singing duel, they are armed with 'Conventions' (aka weaponry). They throw punctuation marks at their opponents and have exclamation and question mark swords and armory.

I really wish 1) I would have had decent writing to have been able to take a picture and show you the map we created and 2) Been able to remember all the other ideas those weirdos threw at me. Ultimately, the highlights we hit were not necessary the best out of the ones thrown, but helped the story move along and made it easier to connect our story with the 6 Traits.

Thursday I have a separate WW class...we'll see what they create.
Love you all! Pray for tomorrow as it's Meet the Teacher for Parents and I'm nervous. Luckily each period has only 7 minutes with parents so it won't be too long me fumbling for words.

Que te vaya bien.