HW from Thursday, 10/27/16

Due on and before Tuesday, 11/1/16

1) Make all final corrections to your descriptive setting. Save a new version,  which is single-spaced and labeled "Descriptive Setting – Final Draft." 

(Notice that en dash there! It serves as a graphic separator and has spaces around it.)

2) Give your paper a creative title and center it on the line between your header and start of your paper. The top of your paper will look something like this—with this student having chosen "Whispering Pines" as her creative title for the final published copy.

(Notice that em dash there! It serves as an interrupter within the sentence, and does not have any spaces around it.)

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Mary Jones, CWA

11/1/16

Descriptive Setting, Final Draft

Whispering Pines

     The fragrant boughs reached out their mangled fingers and brushed...

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3) Email that single-spaced final draft to my regular email before Saturday afternoon,10/29, at 3 p.m. (If there are extenuating family circumstances that would prevent you from keeping this deadline, please contact me ASAP to let me know. I need the time to get the posts up so that you will be able to read all of them and do your additional work on Monday.)

(Notice that hyphen there! The word single-spaced needs a hyphen, which is smaller than both an en dash and an em dash, and which has no spaces around it within the word.)

4) Visit the Student Writing Samples blog and read your classmates' descriptive settings. (I will be posting them just as soon as I receive them, but it may take awhile for all of them to appear there. If they're not all there, check back often, especially after Saturday's 3 p.m. deadline.) As you read each one, write down the title, and give at least one example of figurative language found in it. Write down the example of personification, simile, or metaphor, then label it as such. You will make a list, with each entry having three lines, like this: 

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Your Name, CWA (or B)

11/1/16

Homework – Figurative Language in Classmates' Descriptive Settings

1. "Whispering Pines" by M.J.

"The fragrant boughs reached out their mangled fingers..." 

Personification

2. 

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Continue your list, numbering each in the order that the paragraphs are posted on the blog. There will be 18 of them. 

Also, daily:

+ Read your (approved) book for pleasure, aiming for at least 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 October Reading Log is due, signed by a parent, THIS Tuesday, November 1.
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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):

For Tu, 11/1: Joshua (CWA); Nicholas (CWB)

For Th, 11/3: Logan (CWA); Daniel (CWB)

For Tu, 11/8: Zach (CWA); Katie (CWB)

For Th, 11/10: John (CWA); Josiah (CWB)

For Tu, 11/15: Chase (CWA); Leena (CWB)

For Th, 11/17: Zayden (CWA); Haddon (CWB)

Happy Thanksgiving! No KEYS on 11/22, 11/24

For Tu, 11/29: Caelie (CWA); Caleb (CWB)

For Th, 12/1: Victoria (CWA); Gabrielle (CWB)

For Tu, 12/6: Logan (CWA); Luke (CWB)

For Th, 12/8: Joshua (CWA); Michael (CWB)

For Tu, 12/13: John (CWA); Daniel (CWB)

For Th, 12/15: Zach (CWA); Katie (CWB)

Merry Christmas! No KEYS on 12/20, 12/22, 12/27, 12/29

For Tu, 1/3: Zayden (CWA); Nicholas (CWB)

For Th, 1/5: Chase (CWA); Josiah (CWB)