HW from 10/20

Due on 10/25/11:

* Reading for Reading Log: 30 minutes daily. Write it down on your Reading Log!

* If you have not yet done so, be sure to review rules in your Writer's Inc. book for correctly punctuating dialogue. Read and study sections 468.3, 469.1, and 469.3. If you have never studied how to correctly punctuate dialogue, be sure you do so with your parents at this time.

* Write a dialogue between two speakers. Each person must speak at least four sentences' worth of dialogue. Please remember to have them speak good sentences--meaning that they are about as many words long as you are years old--not short, choppy ones. There is a place for short, choppy sentences in dialogue, of course, but not for this assignment. Be sure your dialogue is punctuated correctly! You do not have to type this dialogue.

* Choose the person you would like to write about for your next paper, which will be a character sketch. This should be a real person you know well. For Tuesday, please write a good, descriptive paragraph or two (at least 150 words) concerning this person's characteristics and appearance. Please remember not to give me a "weather report" list of attributes and characteristics, but rather to write an interesting, engaging description using some of the seven ways we've learned about how to enhance description.

* Please type your paragraphs and email them to me as a Word attachment. As always, if you hear back from me that I've printed it, you don't have to do so for class on Tuesday. If you don't hear back from me, please print a copy and bring it to class with you. Please make sure it is double-spaced, 12-point font.

* I have typed a sample character sketch for you. It is about my grandmother, who had a stroke this past Tuesday. It is purely imaginary, as I have not been there to visit her myself, and it has been pieced together from descriptions that my father and daughter--who are there--have given me. Remember, you are not writing your entire character sketch this weekend. You are just beginning to think about it by deciding who you want to write about and writing about that person's physical appearance. I am including a link to my character sketch so you can see an example of what your finished product might be like, and begin with the final goal in mind. Don't try to copy mine. Just use it to give you some ideas as you begin to write. I'm excited to read what you come up with!

* After you have read my sample character sketch, email me a note giving me one example each of personification, simile, and metaphor used in my description of my grandmother.  Tell me what was being compared and why it is an example of personification, simile, or metaphor.

------- OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):

For Tu, 10/25: David
For Th, 10/27: Jayce

For Tu, 11/1: Jacob
For Th, 11/3: Dylan

For Tu, 11/8: Elanore
For Th, 11/10: Will

For Tu, 11/15: Caitlyn
For Th, 11/17: TBD
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NOTE: Reading Log is due, signed by parent, on the last class period of the month.