Learning Log For November 22nd ( Yes there was school today )

What We Did
Today we did something that is called a heart map. What we had to do was write down all the things that are important to us like our family, friends, hopes and dreams, etc.

We also looked over how to make a good narrative paragraph. WE talked about transitions, significant details,  not starting with "today I'm going to write about _______", and topic and conclusion sentences.

Learning Intention
Heart Map: We did this because it really made us think what was more important to us, even the sad memories. We will be going back to these throughout the year and write different kinds of paragraphs about these ideas so we can expand our writing skills as much as we can.

Paragraphs: We worked on these because we will have to know how to write proper paragraphs. We had to find the topic and conclusion sentences, and any key words, or significant details. We did this so that we can read a paragraph and be able to see if it's proper or not and be able to write our own.

Connections


If any of us want to be an author, and english teacher, or any other job that you have to use english, we will have to know how to write different kinds of proper paragraphs. Not even just for jobs, but in years ahead we will have to use this knowledge  in our english classes. 


Homework:

The homework for today was to write one of our own narrative paragraphs using one of the ideas on our heart maps, or one of the ideas she gave us which were, winning the lottery, the haircut, or Christmas morning.

Tips

I would suggest using an idea from your heart map since for a narrating is explaining a story.

Well I hope this was useful! (I hope I didn't accidentally use any computer language)

~ Hannah