Ongoing Homework: Students should remember to read for thirty minutes each evening. Remember there are no restrictions on what you choose to read, but please remember to record the date, the title of what you read, and how many pages you read on your Reading Journal entry form. Please turn in your entry forms on Friday, so that I can review how your reading is going. I will return them to you on Monday. I would encourage you to keep up with your reading over the weekend.
Today we spent most of the school day enjoying a great field trip at 826 Valencia in San Francisco.
The 6th graders were quite excited and engaged as they worked with the workshop leader, Vickie Vertiz. Ms. Vertiz introduced the students to the main elements that go into writing a screenplay. She then announced that the class was going to co-create the beginning and middle of their very own screenplay. She focused on setting, character, and dialogue.
The 6th graders were quite excited and engaged as they worked with the workshop leader, Vickie Vertiz. Ms. Vertiz introduced the students to the main elements that go into writing a screenplay. She then announced that the class was going to co-create the beginning and middle of their very own screenplay. She focused on setting, character, and dialogue.
Taking ideas from many excited contributors we were eventually able to create a movie set in a parallel universe, with a rock named JOE as a main character, a dodo bird named JULIET as a love interest, a pebble named BOBBI as a faithful sidekick, and a lawnmower named DYLAN as the dastardly villain.
For the final part of the workshop, each student worked alone to create his or her own ending. By the end of the class we had twenty bound copies of their mini-screenplay!
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