Show the Rule

Since the start of the school year each week students have the opportunity to “Show The Rule”.  Each Monday students are introduced to a new writing convention or “rule.” As a class we discuss the meaning of the rule and discover how it is applied in literature. We then write our own piece as a group using the rule. Students then get to apply their knowledge of the rule through creative writing. In their writing, students must use the rule five times. Before students hand in their writing they go over the piece and highlight or underline all the places where they have used the rule. Students then look for the “rule” in their writing and read over the course of the week.  This week we learned that collective nouns are words that name a group of people, animals or things.  Below is a list of all the collective nouns we brainstormed.