Body Biographies

Today Mrs. Golden's 6th grade ELA classes came to the MC to begin work on body biographies. Students were instructed about the importance of characters to a story and how to analyze characters. Each student chose a character from one of five stories the class had read. They then drew a full body portrait of that character. They included symbolic elements for the heart, backbone, hands, and feet to represent the things that were important to the character. They also drew a background and added quotes from the character to complete the drawing. On their next visit, the students will construct a narrative to explain why those chose to represent the various elements the way they did.