Writing About Space

Students will pick three of the following writing projects to complete this week:

Poetry

-Write a haiku expressing your emotions about, or a description of, space:

 
Illustrate your haiku once it is complete. Poems will be published outside our classroom.

Research

- Pick a planet we've studied and use the internet, the library, and classroom resources to research it in depth. Write a 4-6 paragraph essay explaining the planet's size, position to earth and the sun, orbit, and other characteristics. Make sure to include and explain direct quotes from your sources to support your research. Essays will be published to the class website. Please follow this rubric.

Narrative 

In the fourth lesson of our unit, students will synthesize what they've learned about space through ELA, writing in response to the following prompt: 
-"Imagine that you are in the first group of people to colonize space. Write a narrative about your adventure, including what resources you would need, who else is in your party, what planet you would settle, and how life would be there." 


This narrative should be at least 4-6 paragraphs in length. It may be typed or handwritten in cursive. Please follow this rubric. This activity will be used to demonstrate mastery of GSE ELACC4W3.

Georgia Performance Standards: 
ELACC4W3 Text Types and Purposes: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. 

Space song/Rap

Using what they've learned about space, students will create an original song about the order of the planets from the sun. This song or rap should contain accurate details from our studies. Songs will be recorded using the class camera and set to background music. Songs/raps should be 1-2 minutes in length and follow this rubric. Finished songs will be played at the next Title I parent night. See these examples. This activity satisfies the following GSE ELACC4SL5 S4E2. 


Georgia Performance Standards: 
S4E2 Students will model the position and motion of the earth in the solar system and will explain the role of relative position and motion in determining sequence of the phases of the moon.
d. Demonstrate the relative size and order from the sun of the planets in the solar system.

ELACC4SL5 Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.