Morning Demos

Scenic Sounds: Using Sounds to Enhance Setting Descriptions by Anna Roark
This activity shared various ways to enhance setting. One of the main ways was to allow students to listen to different sounds and write/draw what they had visualized.

Emotional Revelations: Evoking Emotions through Reflective Writing in History by Mindy Watson
This thought-provoking activity set the stage for evoking various emotions: Pride, Sadness, and Anger (I only had one M&M after The King's M&M's activity :)
Next we had to write about an historical event that had taken place during our lifetime.

Here's my response:
It was September 11, 2001. I was in my classroom when the principal came to my room and told me the horrible news. A plane has just crashed into the World Trade center. Then another plane hit the other building. At first, I did not quite grasp what had happened. Several other teachers and I believed it was an accident then as news developed throughout the day, we came to the painful conclusion that this attack on our country had been spitefully planned. We were horrified.