Writing

In Writing, we have been talking about commentaries. We read a story and highlighted examples of how the author wrote it. We also wrote commentaries about whatever we wanted. Some examples of those choices are: MCAS, Politics, school lunches, life skills, and fast food.
We made word books and boxes in the books we write a word that describes our day. We saw these videos that people submitted for three words that describe their day. We have just finished our second small moments 2 they came out beautifully. We wrote 5-6 color poems, made mini binder shaped books, and put the poems in them.
We read a book called Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco. It was about a 15 year-old boy who was shot in the Civil War. He was saved by a black boy about his age. They went to the black boy’s house named Pink to help the white boy named Say to get better. Once Say got better, they then went out to try to find their troops again. They got caught by the Confederate soldiers (Pink and Say were on the Union’s side). They were taken to a prison. Pink got killed, but Say survived
Say had touched Abraham Lincoln’s hand, and he told Pink that he could touch the hand that touched Abraham Lincoln’s hand. Pink wanted to touch his hand because Abraham Lincoln symbolized freedom, and that was Pink’s dream.
This story was a memoir for Pink.
We wrote down questions that we had about the book, and then Ms.S chose some of the questions we had. We had to pick 3 of them, and make inferences for what we thought the answer was. Ms.S told us we will interview our grandparents about some family stories, so we could try to write a memoir ourselves like Patricia Polacco.


By Jonathan & Lily