Due on Thursday, 9/29/16
1) Decide on the place you'd like to write your descriptive paper about. Think about it in terms of your five senses, and for each sense, write up to, but no more than, three descriptive sentences, for a total of ten. You do not have to write a sentence for taste if your place doesn't lend itself to that. But feel free to, if it does. See * below and email sent at 9 a.m. Wednesday for clarification.
2) Using the "Writing Techniques" and "Writing Terms" sections of your Writer's Inc book, look up the following terms and write the definitions: simile, metaphor, personification, sensory details, figurative language, hyperbole, exaggeration, idiom.
3) Bring your Gratitude Journal to class with you on Thursday.
4) Your signed Reading Log is due on Thursday—the last class day of the month! (See details below.)
Also, daily:
+ Read your (approved) book for pleasure, aiming for 30 minutes daily. Mark the number of minutes on your Reading Log (in multiples of five, rounded down) as you go along.
+ Write in your Gratitude Journal, aiming for three things but listing at least one thing you are thankful for daily. When you have done so, place a check mark in the top corner of your Reading Log calendar for that day.
The September Reading Log is due, signed by a parent, on Thursday, September 29.
NOTE: If you still need to make up your low quiz grade, please plan to meet me Thursday in our classroom at 8:00 a.m., or in The Hub at 10:30 a.m. If you absolutely cannot make either of those two times, send me a text or email to schedule a meeting at another time.
* Copy of email sent at 9 a.m. Wednesday:
Hello, creative writers!
1) Decide on the place you'd like to write your descriptive paper about. Think about it in terms of your five senses, and for each sense, write up to, but no more than, three descriptive sentences, for a total of ten. You do not have to write a sentence for taste if your place doesn't lend itself to that. But feel free to, if it does. See * below and email sent at 9 a.m. Wednesday for clarification.
2) Using the "Writing Techniques" and "Writing Terms" sections of your Writer's Inc book, look up the following terms and write the definitions: simile, metaphor, personification, sensory details, figurative language, hyperbole, exaggeration, idiom.
3) Bring your Gratitude Journal to class with you on Thursday.
4) Your signed Reading Log is due on Thursday—the last class day of the month! (See details below.)
Also, daily:
+ Read your (approved) book for pleasure, aiming for 30 minutes daily. Mark the number of minutes on your Reading Log (in multiples of five, rounded down) as you go along.
+ Write in your Gratitude Journal, aiming for three things but listing at least one thing you are thankful for daily. When you have done so, place a check mark in the top corner of your Reading Log calendar for that day.
The September Reading Log is due, signed by a parent, on Thursday, September 29.
NOTE: If you still need to make up your low quiz grade, please plan to meet me Thursday in our classroom at 8:00 a.m., or in The Hub at 10:30 a.m. If you absolutely cannot make either of those two times, send me a text or email to schedule a meeting at another time.
* Copy of email sent at 9 a.m. Wednesday:
Hello, creative writers!
I just want to send the following clarification regarding your homework sentences, as there has been some confusion.
You don’t need to use the words for the five senses in your sentences! It’s okay if you happen to, but don’t try to! Just write descriptive sentences while thinking of each of those ares so that you include sensory details in your descriptive sentences.
Some example sentences:
LOOK: The sunlight filters through the clouds and casts a magical, golden hue on the pine straw floor.
SMELL: The pungent scent of pine and earth wafts through the air, deepening wth each step I take into the forest.
TASTE (though not mandatory): The smell of manure and mulch is so strong that it lingers in my mouth as an earthy taste.
SOUND: All sorts of chirps and tweets and rattles and rustles rise from the trees with each passing step.
FEEL: The tickle of pine needles brushing against my skin causes the hair on my arms to stand straight on end, and I look down to see tiny dots of sticky sap all over my wrist and fingers.
Have fun! I can’t wait to read what you come up with!
LS
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