The Eaglet Writing Workshop: Recent Episodes
Belen Zugazaga
While the natives had long called the area of Nevada home, the Europeans thought that the land was theirs for the taking.
There were several mountain men that have significantly contributed to the westward movement of settlers across North America.
Storytelling was an important way for native people to pass on information about the past.
There is more to the life of Native Americans than just gathering food and building houses.
Before Nevada became what we know it to be today, there were 5 major Native American tribes that resided here.
The Desert Archaic People lived in the area we now know as the state of Nevada and it’s surrounding states.
We will use two stories today to write about how the stories explain force and motion. This is your writing assignment that you will be turning in today.
Today we look at how the author uses real life examples to explain complex ideas like gravity and friction.
In this episode we are going to identify the author’s purpose using evidence from the text.
Today we reread “The Big Race” and reflect on what we know about forces, gravity and friction.
On today’s episode we are making connections between what we are learning about and ourselves, the world around us and other texts.
On today’s episode we take a little text feature walk to discuss how these features help us better understand the text.
Today we are looking at the sequence of our stories! Every story needs to follow a well organized beginning, middle and end sequence!
Today we listen to a couple more twisted fairytales and start brainstorming for your own twisted tales.
Today we listen to a twisted fairytale and brainstorm how the point of view in this story is different from the story in episode 2. Who’s our mystery reader?!
Today we discuss the common characteristics of fairytales and what is point of view. Includes the story “The Three Little Pigs”.