Sunday, March 25, 2012

The second video of our movement presentations is now complete.  I did not have the correct cable at home to be able to complete the final video.

We actually got to watching a portion of the video which relates to the documentary, A Class Divided which I posted last Wednesday.  The link for the full video, on Google Videos can be found at this link http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6189991712636113875#docid=3351681512113100754

We will probably look at the video a little more but I wanted the class to get a sense of how the Grade 3 students grappled with some of the issues of Racism and discrimination.  I want to continue the conversation with the students on the importance of not discriminating against others based on Race, Class, Gender, or Sexuality.

As the week came to a close, the class learned more about the possible ways of creating topic sentences.  Using a lesson from the SMARTBoard, we had volunteers come to the the board to create possible sentences.  Here is a photo of George.  He created a topic sentence by using an interesting fact:

While there are many ways to create an effective topic sentence, we discussed the importance of capturing the attention of the audience.  The items circled are the ones we used during the lesson.  This will be continued on Monday.

 

HOMEWORK:  Journal on working to end Racism