Thursday, October 18, 2012

Informational Text - How to Build a Tower of Cards

Before next week's final, we'd like to shift our focus to a special type of nonfiction writing called informational text.  As you may have guessed from its name, the purpose of informational text is to inform the reader about something -- like a schedule of movie showtimes, a menu, a scientific article, or instructions for how to perform a task.

For Friday's class, we will be exploring informational text by following the instructions linked below:

How to Build a Tower of Cards: 7 steps (with pictures) - wikiHow

After you've followed the directions and built your tower of cards, take a picture of it and email it to us at collinsrouch@gmail.com so we can see how well you've done.  The house with the tallest tower will get 50 bonus beans -- but you must have the picture to prove it!

4 comments:

  1. Do you have to be in the picture?

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  2. No, as long as you leave your name and house in the email!

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  3. Do we do this at home?

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  4. You only need to do this at home if you were not in class the day we built them.

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