Purpose of myth, mythology project, mad libs & Journalism and sentence structure projects!

6th: Today we began class with some Mad Libs work in order to practice our parts of speech. We learned that later this week, students will be starting a Mad Libs creation of their own! From there, students had more time to work on figuring out the purpose of the myth they read yesterday in their group. They created their posters and presented their findings to the class and we revealed the 6 purposes of myth:

1. To explain natural phenomena or an occurrence.
2. To explain the creation of the world.
3. To teach people moral lessons.
4. To explain some historical event.
5. To explain some ancient religious practices.
6. To reveal the common hopes and fears of mankind.

From there, we discussed the upcoming Mythology reading project and Ms. Devine told students their groups, the title of their myth and named team captains, or material keepers. From there, we visited Mr. Fine's class museum on the Aztec and Inca. Thanks for sharing with us!
Homework: Read and record on bookmark.

7th: Today we began class by talking about journalism. We got our Analyzing Journalism reading project and began to discuss different types of journalism including: news, columns, feature and lifestyle. We did a "centers" activity where students bounced around the room looking at different articles and trying to figure out what type of journalism the articles represented. Then, we shared out. We also reviewed the other types of journalism that we did not get to view today: investigative, reviews, celebrity, sports, business/finance and photojournalism. From there we discussed WHAT students would have to do for the project: annotate, summarize and analyze 3 different articles that represented 3 different types of journalism. We will begin this process tomorrow. At the end of class, we responded to a writing prompt and wrote all in ALL COMPOUND sentences, for our sentence structure project. Then, we met with peers to double-check to be sure that we wrote only in compound sentences and reflected on the difficulty of this activity.
Homework: Read and record on bookmark. Bring in at least 1 article for your journalism project.