Research real world examples of how kids around your age or grade level have helped to improve their community. You might choose to stick to local news stories, or expand your search to a national, or even global level! Share an article, program/organization website, or video that you found particularly inspiring or thought provoking. Summarize the content of the your web source briefly, highlight an excerpt or two that you found surprising or interesting and explain why.
In both your post and comments, share your reactions to the community improvement project and try to make connections to your own community and what might be done to improve it.
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11/13/2017 57 Comments Setting the SceneThis week, we will begin our exploration of fiction elements. As we prepare to study setting, we will stretch our creative writing muscles and bring a setting to life. Start by finding an image online that depicts a given setting. The image can be a photograph of a real place that you’ve visited, or a picture of any environment that inspires a story. Write a 8-10 sentence description of this setting. Write your description as it were an excerpt from a longer narrative that provides exposition to establish setting. Include details that help your reader visualize the setting clearly.
Provide a link to the image that inspired your story. The link cannot be to any social media site or other website that would be blocked on school computers. The content should be school appropriate. There are three examples below: https://ak2.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/1037482/thumb/2.jpg https://s3.amazonaws.com/plugpolo/poloup/up/7/7d3/7d3dc95d2a82465bb2fe3ccfc71b01fd/img1.jpg http://cdn.costaricaexperts.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Most-Popular-Costa-Rica-Beaches.jpg To make comments this week, you will select two setting descriptions to read. DO NOT LOOK AT THE PHOTOGRAPH UNTIL AFTER YOU READ THE SETTING DESCRIPTION. Read your peer’s description, then look at the picture, and in response, compare how you visualized the setting with the real thing. Discuss what details in their description helped you visualize the image in a way that was similar too or different from the actual image. Add any ideas you had that could help develop this into a full story! 11/6/2017 77 Comments The writers we love...Over the course of this unit, we will be studying narratives and plot. Start by thinking about your favorite fiction author. State who they are and what they've written, and then provide a brief analysis of what techniques they use as a story teller that make their plots, characters, tone, or writing style so intriguing to you. Discuss at least one specific example. Provide a link to a sample of their writing that you cited in your response, an article analyzing their writing style that you have summarized or referenced in your response, or a biographical article that you referenced that provides relevant insight to something that has influenced their writing style.
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