Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Day I: Expanding Setting


Day 1
Scribes: Cata, Eduardo
Mr. Robayo explained where we will collect our stories in our notebooks.
Setting is important because it sets the tone for the story.
Blurbs on the backs of books tell us something is happening in the book.

Symbols
An owl can be a symbol for wisdom.
Snakes can be power.
Fox can be tricky.
Mouse can be lovely.

Mr. Robayo explained story elements like the setting, character, and problem.
Mr. Robayo got us ready for reading by talking about the cover, illustrations, title
Students identified what the setting is so we can have a better idea of how to create our own settings in our fantasy stories.

It is fantasy because animals talk and Gruffalos don’t exist.

The story has a sequence or repetition.  This story has events that repeat.  
The setting is in the woods.  The setting was explained by the illustrations and the words.

Then we moved back to our desks to work on expanding the setting of the story.  We highlighted where we found the setting.

Note:  for tomorrow, download photoshop, twitter, and start google document of what people are doing and saying

The students are sharing their ideas and thinking. They are trying to expand their thinking while listening to Mr. Robayo’s feedback.  (see examples below)

“Swampy, horribly quite, cold, deep, dark woods.”
Mrs. Robayo is saying that these are lists of adjectives but we are trying to get more into showing and not telling.  The challenge is to expand the setting, not just string together a list of adjectives.  Our goal is a paragraph.
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