Finished Our First Week

On Friday we began writing stories about our worst (or Best) day at school. We talked about the role of the narrator in a story and how the narrator must draw us into the story. We also began reading The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. In this novel, the Narrator warns the reader not to read any further if the reader cannot take strong ideas and difficult circumstances. We discussed how the author has used this “warning” as a “hook” to make the reader want to read on.  In history, we looked at the geography of Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas. We began to learn about why the late 15th and 16th centuries saw an explosion of exploration and colonization of Europeans in the Americas.