Story Elements

STORY ELEMENTS

STORY STRUCTURE

Beginning, Middle & the End

Students were read an age-old fable; ‘the lion and the mouse’, then they placed the story defining the BEGINNING, MIDDLE and the END using a simple graphic organiser.

 Describing words or Adjectives for Characters

Students used their listening skills by listening to an English folktale; ‘Jack and the Bean stalk’ at the children’s BBC website. They will then completed a task-sheet writing appealing adjectives to describe Jack. This activity encouraged students to learn that fiction stories describe their main characters with describing words/adjectives. 

Students using listening skills ~

‘Jack and the Bean stalk’

STORY MAPPING

A story map is a strategy that uses a graphic organizer to help students learn the elements of a book or story. By identifying story characters, plot, setting, problem and solution, students read carefully to learn the details. There are many different types of story map graphic organizers.

Why use story maps?

·         They improve students' comprehension

·         They provide students with a framework for identifying the elements of a story.

·         They help students of varying abilities organize information and ideas efficiently.

After watching a ppt on ‘Use of story maps’, students were read a story based on MYSTERY; ‘the three feathers’. Students in a group will then share their story mapping ideas about the mystery story and then individually completed a task-sheet based on it.

Grace in Defeat!!

Grace in Defeat

A real life-story in our class about “loosing” has prompted me to write few words about 
‘grace in defeat’.

Today I felt an urge to take some time away from our busy schedule and have a talk with my students about this. Its’ actually a very important quality for competitors to cultivate because then they take responsibility for their loss rather than generating anger or hurt at external factors.

Needless to say that we had an emotional time and each and every child gave their complete support to this particular student who was going through this devastating time.

My students amazed me with some profound thinking and encouraging words they spoke.

Here are just couple of those snippets: 

Sometimes I win

Sometimes I loose

Sometimes I am in the middle

Just in between.

Poetic words by Ishani Patil

It doesn’t matter

Whether you loose or win

It only matters 
when you participate in.

Words by Devansh Kumar

Extensive Research on GENRES.

What does the term genre really mean when it's used in the field of literature?

A Definition

Here's where The Muse Of Literature rushes in where angels fear to tread. According to The Muse, in literature a genre is:

A distinctive class, category, or type of literary composition that possesses a particular theme or subject. Sometimes a combination of theme or subject, literary technique, linguistic or language properties, literary conventions, or style is intrinsic to the genre.

For a genre to exist, there must be a sizeable body of works that belong to it and a sizeable number of authors who are or have been contributors. Works written in the genre must make enough of an impression on readership to receive wide notice. The genre must be recognized by a large number of literary professionals or scholars and must be accepted as valid and important by the reading public at large.

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As a last weekend Prep, students were asked to choose one of the genres from the six selected Genres of our class. They were asked to do an extensive research on the genre they’ve chosen. Our researchers did a splendid job by digging deep in to the study of genres and came with some amazing facts. Well done kids!!

After sharing their presentations, as a group activity students compiled their information on all six genres chosen by our class; ADVENTURE, MYSTERY, FABLES, FAIRY TALES, EPICS and SCIENCE FICTION.

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The Joy of Giving Week (JGW) is a "festival of philanthropy" that aims to become a part of the Indian ethos, with the Week being celebrated every year covering Gandhi Jayanti by engaging people through "acts of giving".

At Pathways, the students of Primary school are very proud to be a part of this nationwide campaign. Each student of the Primary School had an opportunity to contribute a gift to be shared with friends in the NGO Navjyoti at Bhondsi and other schools in the neighbourhood.

We must be the change 

we wish to see.

Mahatma Gandhi

Primary School had a group of International UN peacekeepers from the Indian army, ready to set sail for a Peace Mission to the Republic of Sudan. The team that visited the school was from the Blue Beret Commandos that have an impeccable record in spreading peace by way of strategic deployment amongst warring neighbors, cultural exchange in ethnic violent states, ensuring territorial integrity in regional disputes and humanitarian aid in internally unstable states. 

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous. 

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Students were in awe to look at the heroes of UN Peace keeping force in real. Their message was to encourage and motivate students to ‘Be part of the solution’. Students got the opportunity to interact and ask questions to the team of visitors.

As our token of gift, students handed a long PEACE scroll made by the primary school students, to spread the message of peace to the wider community of the world. Every single student of the Primary school had made a contribution by writing a peace message on the scroll.

PEACE DAY

Celebrating Gandhi Jayanti

Peace is a state of harmony 

characterized by the lack of

violent conflict and 

the freedom from fear of violence.  

A dance performance by Grade 3.

Celebrating the ‘Joy of Giving Week’ at Pathways, the Primary school students performed a colourful show today to mark the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti. The function started with the Tabla performance by Chandan of Grade 5, an inspirational song by Grade 2 followed by the message of peace and non-violence by 5^th Grade. Grade 3 signed off with an excellent dance performance in memory of Gandhiji and his famous televised character Munnabhai’s song on the same stage. A peace message shared by few students through a Power Point presentation was to create a peaceful world that inspires, cultivates and models the experience of peace from the inside out and makes the world a better place to live in.

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A Prayer by 

St. Francis of Assisi

Make me a channel of your peace
Where there is hatred let me bring love
Where there is injury, your pardon Lord
And where there is doubt, true faith in You.

Make me a channel of your peace
Where there's despair in life let me bring hope
Where there is darkness, only light
And where there's sadness ever joy.

Oh, Master grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console
To be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love with all my soul.

Make me a channel of your peace
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned
It is in giving to all man that we receive
And in dying that we're born to eternal life.

(Oh, Master grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console)
To be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love with all my soul.

Make me a channel of your peace
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned
It is in giving to all man that we receive
And in dying that we're born to eternal life.

Make me a channel of your peace.
Make me a channel of your peace...

Happy Birthday to Chehak

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

to

Chehak

On the 30^th of Sep 2012

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