HW from 10/4/12

Due on 10/11/12:

* Write a paper describing a place you like.  (You will likely use the place you have brainstormed ideas about, but it must be one of the three places listed on the sheet you submitted for homework.)  

Your description must utilize each of the ways we have discussed for enhancing description:
+ the five senses
+ specific, descriptive nouns
+ exciting verbs
+ adjectives
+ adverbs
+ phrases
+ figurative language (at least one example each of simile, metaphor, and personification)

Please do NOT give me a "weather report" about your place.  Please also do NOT tell a story.  This is just to be a wonderful description of a place.  (I will be emailing you a document containing many of the good descriptions of places which your classmates found.  You may also refer to CW#1 for E.B. White's description of the barn.)

The paper is to be between one and two typewritten pages long when formatted as follows:
+ standard 1-inch margins
+ header containing your name and the assignment (called "setting paper")
+ footer containing a page number in the middle of the page
+ 12-point font (Times New Roman or Arial)
+ double-spaced
+ standard 5-space indentions for paragraphs
+ no extra space between paragraphs 
In other words: your paper must be long enough to go onto the second page from the first, but it may not be so long as to go onto a third page.

When you turn in the paper on Tuesday, you must turn in:
+ the homework you submitted with the three places on it (already graded and returned)
+ the homework chart you made, along with the five sentences you wrote (already graded and returned)
+ a handwritten (or typed) very-rough draft, which you should have one other person read over
+ a second, typed rough draft of your paper, incorporating the suggestions of your "editor"

* Please email me as soon as you have read over this assignment, indicating that you understand that you are to have two drafts of your paper when you turn it in on Tuesday.

ALSO:
* Reading for Reading Log: 30 minutes daily. (Reading Log is due, signed by parent, at the end of the month.  This month it will be due on Tuesday, October 30.)

* Look for and find one of the following (in print--bring the print material with you):
+ a description you like of a place, OR
+ an example each of both a simile and a metaphor.
We only read the place descriptions in class on Thursday.  Please be sure to have your simile/metaphor examples with you next week, if that's what you chose.

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

For Tu, 10/9: Josh C.
For Th, 10/11: Hardy A.

For Tu, 10/16: Emily T.
For Th, 10/18: Sam W.

For Tu, 10/23: Caitlyn B.
For Th, 10/25: Mariah S.

For Tu, 10/30: Joel S.
For Th, 11/1: Hannah D.

For Tu, 11/6: Em W.
For Th, 11/8: Joshua H.

For Tu, 11/13: Luke M.
For Th, 11/15: David H.

For Tu, 11/27: Seth Q.
For Th, 11/29: Gloria M.

For Tu, 12/4 Micah M.
For Th, 12/6: Emily Q.

For Tu, 12/11: Claire M.
For Th, 12/13: Jake J.

For Tu, 12/18: Josh C.