HW from 1/26/12

Due on 1/31/12:

* Read your (approved) book for pleasure 30 minutes daily. Your signed Reading Log is due on Tuesday!!

* Be prepared to recite your third Scripture memory verse (either Titus 2:11-14 or Ephesians 4:29-32) at any time! Keep reviewing your first two verses (I Chronicles 29:11-14 and Philippians 4:4-8) as well. You will be expected to keep all memorized verses in your mind all year! Review one verse each day.

* Complete the chart of your plot line, identifying all key elements on the handout. You must fill this out entirely for Tuesday, whether your story is finished or not. Decide the main events that will be part of your rising action, plan what your climax/crisis will be, and think through your plan for the falling action. Identify all on the handout, to be turned in Tuesday.

* Proofread your paper! Consider carefully the suggestions made by your peer editor--your classmate is not a teacher and may have made incorrect suggestions! If you're not sure about something they suggested, check with your parent. Also, feel free to call me!

* Review the rules for correctly punctuating dialogue. (See pp. 468-469 in Writers Inc.) Many of you are still having trouble with this! Check all dialogue in your story to be sure it is correctly punctuated.

* From now on you will continue with your mystery story--adding two more full typed pages per homework day--until your story is completed satisfactorily. Your final story may end up being five pages long, or it may be fifteen or more. There is no specific length requirement, as long as it is correctly formatted, according to the criteria listed below, and the plot line is satisfying to the reader.

* This means you must add four pages to your story--or finish it--for Tuesday. (You have two homework days--Friday and Monday--between now and then.)

* When your story is complete and as perfect as you know how to make it (proofread carefully!) email it to me as an attachment entitled "Your name's mystery story D2" (ex. Laurie's mystery story D2).


CORRECT FORMAT FOR MYSTERY STORY:

+ Create a header that will put your name and the title of your story on the right top corner of each page. Do not skip any lines in this header.

+ Create a footer that will automatically number your pages in the center of the bottom of each page. Do not skip any lines in the footer.

+ Be sure your paper is in a word processing program and that it is double-spaced, with one-inch margins, using 12-point Times New Roman font. Do not have any sections of your paper written any larger or smaller than 12-point font.

+ On the blank line between scenarios, put three dashes, like this: ---

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

For Tu, 1/31: David
For Th, 2/2: Dylan

For Tu, 2/7: Caitlyn
For Th, 2/9: Will

For Tu, 2/14: Hope
For Th, 2/16: Ben
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For Tu, 2/21: David
For Th, 2/23: Elizabeth T.

For Tu, 2/28: Shayla
For Th, 3/1: Zoe

For Tu, 3/6: Elanore
For Th, 3/8: Jayce

For Tu, 3/13: Dylan
For Th, 3/15: Lily

For Tu, 3/20: Charity
For Th, 3/22: Gabrielle

For Tu, 3/27: Luke
For Th, 3/29: Elizabeth L.

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NOTE: The Reading Log is due, signed by a parent, on the last class period of the month.