Writing

Goals

  • generate ideas and present them in a meaningful way

The Learning Task

Watch the 2-minute video of women displaying their stunning Sarees as a way to lift their spirits and others during this time of social distancing. Think of other ways you have experienced or witnessed individuals or groups of people trying to raise each other’s morale during the time of COVID19 (i.e, positive sidewalk chalk messages).

Write a recipe, or set of instructions, with the title: “Good Spirits in the Time of Social Distancing”. What would your recipe include? A dash of hope? A cup of laughter? Or, create a mind map with “Good Spirits in the Time of Social Distancing” in the centre and branch out ideas. Don’t forget to share your thinking with someone at home or electronically with someone who is not!

Example of a Mind Map

Daily task! Don’t forget to engage with your Writer’s Notebook: Creating a Place for Reflection

Note: please see the information in this lesson for guidance. But, fill out today’s form with your response! (Wednesday March 25, 2020 form is no longer accepting responses.)

We don’t have any Writer’s Notebook entries to share with you today! Please complete your journal entry and share with us; your words might be what someone needs to read.

If you would like to share your thinking, thoughts and wonderings with other students in the Waterloo Region District School Board as above, please share your journal entry using this form. Your entry may be chosen to share within our system. This is NOT a requirement and it is your personal choice to share.

Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks

by Jason Reynolds, Alexander Nabaum (Illustrator)

From National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a novel told in ten blocks, showing all the different directions a walk home can take.

This story was going to begin like all the best stories. With a school bus falling from the sky. But no one saw it happen. They were all too busy: talking about boogers, stealing pocket change, skateboarding, wiping out, braving up, executing complicated handshakes, planning an escape, making jokes, lotioning up, finding comfort, but mostly too busy walking home.

Jason Reynolds conjures ten tales (one per block) about what happens after the dismissal bell rings, and brilliantly weaves them into one wickedly funny, piercingly poignant look at the detours we face on the walk home, and in life.