Delving into the Carnival theme!

Today's classes were rewarding as we dug deeper into personal writing as well as the carnival theme. In the ESL class, we focused on how good storytelling answers the "who, what, when, where, why" questions. The students paired up to tell each other funny, scary, or exciting stories that will appear on their personal blogs tonight! Coco shared her experience driving a motorboat and George described (apparently without remorse!) an instance when he and his brother threw dirty snowballs at their teacher, who was wearing a white coat.

In the content class, we brainstormed about how carnivals appeal to all five sentences and practiced speaking at length about photographs of carnivals. We then talked about the qualities of good descriptive writing. The students read and analyzed the description of Bilbo's hobbit hole from Tolkien's The Hobbit. Tomorrow they will write their own descriptions of carnivals, referring back to the sensory language we talked about today.