The ten summer camp kids I'm teaching are seated around a weathered-gray wood picnic table in Woodland Park, paper squares at the
ready. I explain to them that Japanese paper folding, or origami, is an art, a skill, a tradition. I say that our fingers know more than our eyes, and that
there must always be balance-a fold this way and then that, on both sides. It's the folding and unfolding in the metaphorical sense as well as the
actual sense, if you really put your heart and hands into it, that causes your square of paper to transform into a bird or a fish.
Michelle wants her next paragraph to establish the narrator's point of view.
Which paragraph will most effectively achieve this goal?
O 1.
Origami is an ancient art form. Still, I'd never even heard of it before last year. The first origami object I made was a boat, and
after that I made a swan.
0 2.
Some kids just stare up at me. Others seem to have ignored what I've just said about origami and are already busy folding
their squares into paper airplanes.
O 3.
I am trying hard to sound like an expert. Yet, I feel like a fraud. The sum total of my knowledge about origami came from a
book I bought at a neighbor's garage sale.
4.
I imagine that some kids will probably be better at origami than others. It's too early to tell which kids will struggle with
Origami and which kids will just instinctively understand it.