by newschoolsyr | Jan 18, 2021 | 2020-2021, affective education, grades 7-8, language arts, writing workshop
A group of older students studied speech writing in a 5-session, online class. We listened to speeches written by Abraham Lincoln, Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass, and watched Martin Luther King deliver his “I have a dream” speech. We also discussed techniques...
by newschoolsyr | Jan 5, 2021 | 2020-2021, grade 4, grade 5, grade 7, writing workshop
Poetry Unit Kenneth Koch’s Wishes, Lies and Dreams, published in 1970, has long been considered a classic in its field. Herbert Kohl wrote that this is “perhaps the best book I have read portraying the joy and excitement young people experience when writing...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 17, 2020 | 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017 - 2018, 2018 - 2019, 2019 - 2020, 2020-2021, affective education, After School, alumni, Community, Community events, field trips, Fundraising Opportunities, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, grade 7, Grades 3 - 5, grades 3 - 6, grades 4 - 6, grades 4 - 8, Grades 5 - 8, grades 6-8, grades 7-8, gross/fine motor, Individualized Curriculum, investigations, Kindergarten, Kindergarten and 1st grade, l, language arts, language arts grade 2, language arts grades 4 - 8, language arts grades K-2, language arts phonemic awareness, Lemoyne Student teacher, math, middle school, mystery guest, Outdoor Play, Physical Education, Press Clippings, School Events, science, science grade 2, science grades K-2, science K-1, Social Studies, Social Studies 3rd grade students, Social Studies grades K-2, Uncategorized, Unique paragraphs, visual arts, whole school, whole school music, writing workshop, youngest students
Our children, our students, live in a world that has developed all kinds of media and ways to transmit information, disinformation, ideas, and images. They hear the media, adults, other peers talking about events and opinions as they move through their days. Some of...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 10, 2020 | 2019 - 2020, grade 3, grade 4, writing workshop
Students over the past sever weeks have been studying how perspective is used within writing. Examining how a writer uses perspective to inform and persuade the reader, students then used these techniques within their own work. Our 3rd and 4th grade students have done...
by newschoolsyr | Jun 8, 2020 | 2019 - 2020, grade 3, writing workshop
Jiyong, Stuart, Pearson, Theo and Paul were part of a class called Writing Skills. In this class they were introduced to and/or reviewed various aspects of writing and grammar. We have discussed the sentence, subjects, nouns, pronouns articles, singular and plural,...
by newschoolsyr | Dec 29, 2019 | 2019 - 2020, grades 7-8, language arts, middle school, writing workshop
Our four oldest students participated in a four-session writing short course on persuasive essays. The students read and listened to examples of persuasive writing. They learned how writing is only persuasive when there is an audience the author seeks to move. They...
