The Bear That Wasn't

In Language Arts today, focusing on grammar, we continued our identification of words that represent "things and stuff," as opposed to words that are describers. We then developed a way of diagramming a sentence by putting an N over all nouns, and drawing arrows from the describer to the noun being described.

In the sentence;
Bobby bit Barry's burger. 
We would put an N over Bobby and burger, and then we would draw arrows from Barry's to burger, showing that Barry's is a describer that is describing burger.


The goal of this work is get the students to look at grammar and parts of speech as something that changes depending on context.


In Cultural Studies, the class worked on bio poems that asked them to explore how they thought about themselves. When asked why they thought we were focusing on their own sense of identity one of the students answered,
     "Individuals make up communities and cultures so we have to start by looking at individuals."


We finished the class by watching the 10 minute video of The Bear That Wasn't, and then talking about what the video said about how we see ourselves versus how we are seen by others.


Homework:
Reading: ongoing. Read for 30 minutes and record your reading in the reading at home
Literature: Please complete this survey about your summer reading by Thursday, September 16th. section of your reading journal.
Cultural Studies:  Please finish your bio-poem and bring it to class tomorrow.