HW from 9/28/10

Due on 9/30/10:
* Continue to do assigned reading and mark your Reading Log. You are aiming for 20 minutes daily. Your current Reading Log is due next class period!  Be sure it is signed daily by your parent!
* Quiz Thursday on methods for enhancing descriptive writing and using figurative language.
* Make a chart (like we did in class, using the example "school room") with your five senses across the top.  Choose a place you would like to write about, and put three descriptive phrases about that place under each heading, focusing on describing the place using that sense.  Then write one good, descriptive introductory sentence for this setting.

HW from 9/23/10

Due on 9/28/10:
* Continue to do assigned reading and mark your Reading Log. You are aiming for 20 minutes daily. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed daily by your parent, on the last class period of this month, 9/30/10.
* Complete the handout identifying examples of similes, metaphors, and personification.

HW from 9/21/10

Due on 9/23/10:
* Continue to do assigned reading and mark your Reading Log. You are aiming for 20 minutes daily. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed daily by your parent, on the last class period of this month, 9/30/10.
* Copywork #3.
* Make a list of any figurative language you can identify in the poem.  Tell what two items are being compared,a and which kind of figurative language is being used (simile or metaphor).

HW from 9/16/10

Due on 9/21/10:
* Continue to do assigned reading and mark your Reading Log. You are aiming for 20 minutes daily. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed daily by your parent, on the last class period of this month, 9/30/10.
* Copywork #2.
* Find one (or create three) examples of a plural, possessive, or contraction error.
* Recite the list of five senses (linking verbs) in one second or less.

HW from 9/14/10

Due on 9/16/10:

* Continue to do assigned reading and mark your Reading Log. You are aiming for 20 minutes daily.  Your current Reading Log will be due, signed daily by your parent, on the last class period of this month, 9/30/10.

* Do your copywork.  Remember to write down how long it took you.

* Memorize the list of linking verbs that represents your five senses, using these exact words in this exact order:
        LOOK
        SMELL
        TASTE
        SOUND
        FEEL

HW from 9/9/10

Due on 9/14/10:

* Return your signed paper, along with a check made out to Laurie Sitterding for the $20 library fee and $5 book rental (if applicable).

* Go to the class website and send me an email from within it, using the "Contact Mrs. Sitterding" link.

* Together with your parents, choose a book for your Reading Log reading. Mark your Reading Log for any reading you have done since last class. Remember that you are aiming for 20 minutes daily. Your current Reading Log will be due, signed daily by your parent, on the last class period of this month (Thursday, 9/30).