Friday, June 28, 2013
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Saturday, June 22, 2013
3 Icons/3 Minutes, sample sentence
Plain sentence:
The woman walked into the store.
Sentence with icons added:
A
bell at the front of the store clanged as the swiftly opening door crashed into
it. In walked a woman straight out of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Her hair
was slicked back into an impossibly neat bun. She marched authoritatively to
the front counter and dropped a purse, nearly bigger than she was, to the glass
with a jangling fwump.
"One
pair of overalls please," she demanded. The please was an afterthought.
-contributed by Whitney Emeigh
Short story kernel: Pedro the Mariachi
Text Structure: A completely made up story
Kernel Essay:
- Pedro, a mariachi trumpet player, was playing his first professional gig at a Mexican restaurant.
- Suddenly, someone in the audience asked for a song he didn’t know how to play.
- He tried to ask the director how to play his part, but the director only knew his particular part.
- He asked the other trumpet player next to him and the man agreed to hum the harmony to Pedro.
- Thanks to his great ear, Pedro was able to pick up the harmony and play it perfectly.
By Melina Ocampo, Mariachi
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Weinstein Mat on Steroids
It is 11 x 17 and copy front/back on card stock and laminate.Heather Dollins, M.S. HEATHER.DOLLINS@granburyisd.org
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Friday, June 14, 2013
For an On-Demand Short Story
Kernel Essay
Sam’s Dilemma
Sam looked over, and to his dismay, found the toilet paper
roll exhausted.
Beginning to sweat, he searched frantically all about him.
He reached out, straining, to the cabinet under the sink,
but his arms were too short.
Sam left defeated, missing a sock.
Joseph Thiemeyer
jthiesmeyer@lfcisd.net
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Monday, June 10, 2013
Fishing with Grandpa, Color It Up!
We read the essay, "Fishing with Grandpa," from the new book, Fun-Size Academic Writing for Serious Learning, (coming from Corwin at the end of the summer) and did the activity, using colors to find the four kinds of text. That resulted in four icons, four kinds of text, to begin a "writer's tools" list in the classroom. As they learn more, students can add to their own personal copy of icons in their journals .
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