How We Express Ourselves
The first written text we talked about was the newspaper. A newspaper is used to report facts about a topic. Newspapers can be fiction or nonfiction. A writer for the paper is telling their audience about an event that has happened, or report on a specific topic. We used the newspaper to report about an event from Cinderella after we saw how to do it with the story, Little Red Riding Hood.
A blog is a place to write about you opinion of something. A lot of people use blogs to post reviews about things that they have seen, read, or done. Blogs can be used as written to text to give your opinion, share your feelings, and tell others about yourself. We each posted to our blogs about what we thought of Cinderella, either the play or the book. I read the book, The Little Mermaid and modeled how to write a review. Before actually posting to our blogs we drafted a plan of what to write in our IB Journals.
The last written text we talked about was using Social Media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Before getting started with Facebook however, we made sure to discuss how to use the internet safely! We watched a good video and then worked together to discuss different ways that we can be safe online.