Week 7 IEW

I am so glad everyone wants to read their papers. I enjoy watching them try out the things they have learned each week.

Today we are going to be making up our own story, but borrowing a conflict from another and learning alliteration and the www.asia.wub clause.

Alliteration
Before we get started on our story, let's talk about our dress-ups.
Can anyone tell me what alliteration is? Two or more words that start with the same sound.
Give me an example.
Thunder and tornado start with t but not the same sound, so they wouldn't qualify as alliteration.
Let's play a game. Divide into teams. I will give you a sentence and a sound and you are to come up with examples using the sentence. You will receive one point per word that qualifies as alliteration.
Example: Young rabbits hop. (B)
Baby bunnies bounce behind buggies because blueberries bobbed on bushes.

The wind swept through the city. (T)
The warriors saw the enemy walk away. (S)

www.asia.wub clause
Can anyone tell me what this stands for? When, while, where, as, since, if, although, whereas, until, because
Can anyone tell me what part of speech these words are? Adverbs!
We just talked about those. When we make a phrase using these words it is an adverbial clause.
Can anyone give me an example?
Are there any in the sentences that we made?

Borrowing a conflict
A good example of this in our USHBW book on page 228. This story take the conflict from "The Ugly Duckling," changes the characters and setting and creates a whole new story. It's actually pretty good.

So in our USHBW book using lesson 13 as a guideline, we can start brainstorming some ideas for our story. They list 'The Tortoise and the Hare,' 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf,' 'Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer,' and 'The Three Bears' as all good places to start.

If you'd like to challenge your student, get them thinking about putting this story in the setting of pre-revolution America with characters that could be from that time. But no worries if that doesn't get them fired up.

Let's pick a conflict from one story, change the characters and setting and rewrite it.

Remember to use the Story Sequence Chart
I. Setting, Characters and Background
II.Conflict-what do they want/need
III. Climax and Resolution

Homework:
Choose a conflict from any story (any Aesop fable works) and rewrite it with your own characters and setting.