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Strategy
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Deb Weissman
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- After identifying several stories or poems which exhibit unique voice (Dr Seuss, Shel Silverstein, etc.) and discussing the individual author's voice, have students rewrite one of the examples using another author's voice.
- Students brainstorm a list of well-known characters (fictional, real-life, tv, movie, etc.) Discuss the identifying hallmarks of some of the characters, things that immediately identify that character.
- Working with a partner (or individually), students choose a character. Give them a situation (same situation for all) and ask them to develop their character's response to the situation. They can either write or act out their character's response.
Discuss how each character's response to the same situation was
different.
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Deb Weissman
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- Read the Maya folktale called The Bird Bride. It's written from a 3rd person narrator point of view.
- Students choose one of the characters in the tale and rewrite the tale from that character's point of view.
- An extension is to rewrite the tale using a modern character's point of view - put the story in our town or a city for example.
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Dottie Kissell
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In our poetry unit, we start to list different emotions. Once we have a very complete list they write an emotion poem. Anger is... Jealousy is... Happiness is.... and describe it using colors and concrete examples.
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