Picture This: Our School In Words and Images

The Brooklyn Bridge

 

Photo credit:
AP/Kathy Willens 

Students,

This week's blog post is inspired by a post from the Edublog Student Blogging Challenge. Using the skills we've been working on in writing our This I Believe Essays (word choice, including juicy details, using vivid modifiers and verbs) I'd like you to describe the five most important images you think best represent ICS.  Use this week's Achieve3000 article: "Here's My City: A Walking Tour" as a model.  The images you describe could be specific places, people, or objects: pretend you are holding a camera and take a picture for the reader.

We won't be including the actual snapshots you describe in your post, so try your best to include details to help your reader picture each of these scenes.  Think about what images would help someone outside of our school get to know our community and what we're all about.

**Remember to compose in a google document to back up your work and proofread for CUPS (Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, and Spelling before posting**

ABC Story

Human crafted typeface, found on Hijack Your Life and courtesy of Brand Flakes for Breakfast.

Students,

For this week's blog post you will be publishing the "ABC" stories some of you began before winter break. The purpose of an "ABC" story is to help us move away from the same old sentences that we typically use, and use new sentence patterns to make our writing more interesting to read.

The rules are simple: each sentence of an ABC story must begin with each letter in the alphabet IN ORDER. For example, the first sentence of your story must start with the letter A, and the second sentence must start with the letter B, and the third the letter C...you get the picture.

For your story, consider writing about a family anecdote. Your story could be about your winter break, a family tradition, or a favorite memory. HINT: If you get stuck on a sentence, try using dialogue to begin your sentence! Don't forget to skip a line in your dialogue to indicate a new speaker.

Teacher Lacey's example:

Armed with flour, a bag of sugar, and more butter than I cared to consider, I began to examine the index cards each written out in Nan’s careful, spindly handwriting.  Beside each recipe, Nan had jotted down a few words for the inexperienced baker: Forgotten Cookies, “they’re worth the trouble.”   

Christmas, from as far back as I can remember, has not only been about family, but about...cookies. Deliciously sugary, buttery, morsels of sweetness.  Everyone in my family had a favorite: Sand Tarts, Molasses, Chocolate Drops, Ginger, and of course, forgotten cookies: the cloud-like meringue castles that concealed chocolate chips.  From Thanksgiving on, Nan and my Grandmother would head to the kitchen, churning out tub after tub of old family favorites.  

(To be continued...)