It is a good week in the forest
for Division II. We have the pleasure of welcoming a local author in
to our classrooms to share with us some of his wisdom of good story writing.
The author that is teaching us this week is Marty Chan.I believe that it is such
a good experience to have professional come into that classroom to teach a
specific aspect of writing. Marty will come into our classroom four times this
week.I am sure during these times we will enjoy his stories and learn some new techniques.
Do you think it is beneficial to have guest speakers
come into the classroom and help out or do you think it is a distraction?
Please Comment!
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ReplyDeleteHaving witnessed Marty Chan's fun and easy-going style of teaching was a privilege. He has taught my students many simple techniques to create a captivating story.
Inviting writers-in-residence, artists-in-residence or special programs into the classroom is a wonderful idea and it exposes students to a variety of experiences.
I remember one of the best projects we did last year was the Director's Cut animation. Everyone, and I do mean EVERY student from my class, thoroughly enjoyed the project from beginning to end.
~The Big HAM
I thought that having Marty Chan come to the school was a great idea as he had many good ideas/story's that had suspense and a funny ending!
ReplyDeleteI personally wished that he would stay with the school for the whole year even though it is clear that he is a busy author!
He worked great with the classrooms and had some really good activity's that were fun and helped the classrooms write a fun story while having fun!
I don't know what he did with the other classrooms but, when he tought in our classroom he did an absolutely fantastic job! He got very into the story's he was telling and he would do actions to go along with story's that made them more interesting!
~spaghetti strap dude
when marty chan came to are class it was awsome we made are own scary storyes.I dont relly like righting but when marty came he made righting fun.
ReplyDeleteI also loved when he played alot of cool games with us like giltey or not.It was relly fun we also talked about when he was a kid and all the scary cindes of things.
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When mary chan came to are school i had a lot of fun marty chan helped us with writing a scary story on thing i really liked is that he didnt just read he did activites he is a very smart writer you can tell he knows what he is doing.he makes it so we have fun and he told us stories from when he was a kid
ReplyDeleteYou said Mary not Marty. You need to capitalize some other stuff too.
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Oh, and you need spelling fixed and punctuation ssstuff.
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Ya you did say Mary Chan.
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I had a lot of fun with marty chan i liked when we played the games and he told us about his books
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DeleteI liked Marty because he was really intelligent and very comical. Marty was a nice gentlemen like person. He was really cool and I was so lucky to have a chance to meet a writer and learn and talk to him. He taught us how a juicy, descriptive piece of writing looks like. He also taught us that just because you’re done doesn’t make you finished. He talked to us on how many times he had to edit and edit his work. On his first draft of Graffiti Ghoul, He had to check it and fix it and make seven more drafts of the piece of writing to make it perfect. He also helped us on our own scary story and taught us about how to make it a lot better by telling us to write more or how can you have a better ending or how can you do that and all. He was really nice to us and had a very comical story about his life when he was a youngster or younger than that. Marty was so amazing! It was sad because he had to leave so soon. Marty was definitely not a distraction to me. He was really helpful.
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P.S.- before the comment above, the fourth comment has a lot of spelling and capitalization problems. You also spelled Marty wrong. You said Mary!
I love comments about spelling and proper sentence structure.
DeleteWell i think having Marty in our room was very interesting because i loved when we wrote our scary story's and we got to read one of his books and we got to do all the cool writing stuff!!
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Deletewhen marty chan came to our school i had a lot of fun he told us some stories about when he was a kid and when he told us stories he made activites to.we started to work on are stories that was one thing i really liked.when sombody comes in and workes with us i think it helps us.
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capitalization capitalize your "I's"
DeleteIt was nice having Marty Chan visiting our school. I honestly think that It would be a distraction for students because students would be asking the guest speaker questions and then they wouldn't be able to finish there work because they will be asking to many questions.
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good job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DeleteI like Marty Chan because he teach us about writing and how to improve it and I like writing. He is great at our class and other class at Forest heights. I really like Marty.
ReplyDeleteWhen Marty came to our school, we were all excited
ReplyDeletereally excited because read all of Marty's books including frozen brains, and were also reading the mad science teacher and graffiti gool write now.Marty teaches us to make juicy and longer words to make our story better also, we play some games about details that recognized person (or thing) and Marty also told us a story that was so scary all of us jump when he yell and that's all.
-CloudHound-
Yeah I think its beneficial to have someone with as much skill as Marty chan did telling us how to write.
ReplyDeletethat week was allot of fun.
he told us some hilarious story's and we played some really fun games.
then he told us we were going to write a suspense story.
youll know me as kpuey on this blog and on forest14.blogspot.ca
-kpuey
you spelled alot rong you pot allot but other wise good
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DeleteIt was fun with marty chan
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Deletetoday we had a meeting on rememberenc day we read a story about a girl that was to remember.
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its about marty chan not rememberence day just thought i would tell you because you did not no
DeleteI thought when marty came it was fun. We did a lot of things we did stories, poems, and he read us one of his stories. I wish he could come again with the last weeks that the grade 6 are still here.
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The time with marty was fun and I wish that he could come back and we could learn more from him so we could become better writers. I wont marty to come back so that I can learn more from him so I could be a better writer and be just like him when I am older.
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