My Philosophy of Tech‐enhanced Teaching

Tech-Enhanced Teaching helps teachers to promote a new literacy; a literacy that is relevant to students today. I believe it is important to allow students the opportunity to engage with and learn from technology.

A Note to Parents...

We're Writing Myths!

To work on reading and writing various text forms, we're using our knowledge of myths to develop our own mythological creation stories! 

How did the iPod come into being?

Why do we have toes?

How was snow created?

We're using our writing skills--and our imaginations!--to answer the unanswerable questions!

Expectations we're covering:

Overall:

Language: Reading 1, 2

Language: Writing 1, 3

Specific:

Language: Reading 1.6 (Extending Understanding), 2.4 (Elements of Style) 

Language: Writing 1.1 (Purpose and Audience), 3.3 (Vocabulary), 3.5 (Grammar) 

Take a look at the curriculum document:

Click Here!

Myths!

Grade 5 Students... It's time to write our own myths!

Remember the characteristics of myths while you...

(check your Language Arts notebooks) 

Brainstorm and plan your own creation story!

Think of something that you cannot explain and use the genre of myth to creatively explain how it came into being! 
iedesign

Videos we watched in class:

Ojibway Creation Myth (Click Here)

Hindu Creation Myth (Click Here)

Iedesign. (2014, February 3). Hindu Creation Story. [Still from YouTube Video].Retrieved From http://bit.ly/1n7kf7w

Remember to reference your rubric!
and
Remember the parts of plot!

Part of Plot. (2014. February 3). Plot Graph. [Online Image]. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/1dmkciX