Students have been working really hard on a Powtoon assignment.
The premise of this assignment was to identify the theme in one of my son, Elliott's, books and then find three places in the text where I could stop and discuss this theme with him.
So, in other words, we are identifying theme and finding evidence in the text to support our thinking!
Once students put this into the "Some people think…." structure, they were ready to share their thinking using Powtoon.
"Some people think…" structure = a prompt that helps us to organize our thinking. See prompt below.
Some people think the book _____________ is just about ____________, but it is about SO much more than that. It is actually about _______________. I know this because ____________. Also, _____________. Finally, _______________.
Powtoon = a really cool app through google that allows us to put animation and sound to image and text!
Below are a few images of us hard a work!
This work will really help us eventually move into writing thesis statements (for literary essays, personal essays…) and supporting them with evidence.
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