Our class has started to dive into texts in order to determine the theme, or message, of the story. We learned that theme is not specific to one text, but can be applied to more than one text. It also is a lesson that can be taken and applied to ones own life.
Today we read the book Sheila Rae, The Brave and determined the theme. Students also provided evidence in support of their answer.
In writing we are working on creating a descriptive setting. We learned that this description could either be the location or story takes place in, or a description of a story critical character. Most recently student's discovered that a word referent is another way to refer to a noun without using that specific noun. For example, some word referents for tiger might be: animal, predator, menace, carnivore, hunter, stalker, creature, etc. I was impressed by the amount of word referents the students came up with and I'm excited to see how they use word referents to make their writing more interesting!
Miss Leifer
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