In Language Arts today the students continued to practice analyzing a folktale by looking at the story, Rumplestiltskin. I have attached the video we watched to this blog post. The students were also assigned a folktale project. Over the next week and a half, the students will be working in groups of three or four to to analyze a folktale for its literary elements as well as determine which elements make it a folktale. This project will have two parts, a powerpoint presentation and a scrapbook page focusing on the theme. They will be provided with scrapbook paper for the theme component. We will be presenting these projects in class on Wednesday, April 24th. They will be given time in class every day between now and then to work on their project. For homework tonight, the students were asked to form groups and select which story they would like their project to focus on. Here are the book options:
- O’Sullivan Stew
- Paul Bunyan: The Giant Lumberjack
- Why the Sky is Far Away
- The Three Billy Goats Gruff
- The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
- The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
- Tallulah: Mermaid of the Great Lakes
- The Legend of Mackinac Island
- The Legend of the Petoskey Stone
- The Legend of Michigan
- The Legend of Sleeping Bear
- The Toll Bridge Troll
- I Am Tama, Lucky Cat
- Apollo’s Tree: The Story of Daphne and Apollo
- Arachne
- Uncle Septimus’s Beard
- Yeh-Shen
- Sootface
Tonight is Math and Literacy Night from 6:00-7:30. This is a fun event for Bryant students and their families and I encourage you to attend if you are available! One of the stations is a Read Aloud station. Sixth grade students can sign up outside of Mrs. Dailing’s room to come and read their personal narrative for five summative extra credit points that will be added to their Language Arts grade. Students must be signed up in advance in order to read.
Have a wonderful Wednesday!
Homework:
- Read for 20 minutes
- Be ready to pick your group and the folktale you would like to study tomorrow in class!
- Read Theory due Friday
- Moby Max: Punctuation due Friday
Folktale Project Checklist 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWU38XE8dnQ