Due on and before Tuesday, 9/26/17
1) Make a list of at least five idioms that you think of on your own—do not use a parent, a friend, or the internet!—and type them into a Word document. Email me the document as an attachment to the email address on this blog. Be sure your name is in the subject line of your email and is also on the top of the paper that is your attachment. Send me this email before the weekend.
2) In your Writer's Inc. book, read the following pages. As you read, jot down a few notes about anything that strikes you as important or useful on that page:
p. 1 – Why Write?
p. 3 – Writing Is A Process
p. 45 – Freewriting Tips (Think about writing in your writer's notebook as you read this.)
p. 85 – Writing Sentences
pp. 87-88 – Writing Complete Sentences
p. 95 – Combining Sentences
For p. 95, don't worry at all about learning or memorizing the names of the techniques they say you can use to combine sentences. Just carefully read each of the examples sentences they give about tornados, noting the different ways they were able to say things differently by combining the ideas from the choppy, little sentences at the top into the nicer, longer ones at the bottom.
1) Make a list of at least five idioms that you think of on your own—do not use a parent, a friend, or the internet!—and type them into a Word document. Email me the document as an attachment to the email address on this blog. Be sure your name is in the subject line of your email and is also on the top of the paper that is your attachment. Send me this email before the weekend.
2) In your Writer's Inc. book, read the following pages. As you read, jot down a few notes about anything that strikes you as important or useful on that page:
p. 1 – Why Write?
p. 3 – Writing Is A Process
p. 45 – Freewriting Tips (Think about writing in your writer's notebook as you read this.)
p. 85 – Writing Sentences
pp. 87-88 – Writing Complete Sentences
p. 95 – Combining Sentences
For p. 95, don't worry at all about learning or memorizing the names of the techniques they say you can use to combine sentences. Just carefully read each of the examples sentences they give about tornados, noting the different ways they were able to say things differently by combining the ideas from the choppy, little sentences at the top into the nicer, longer ones at the bottom.
3) Locate a written passage—from a book or a magazine, but not online—that describes either a place or a weather event. Make a copy. (Please scan and print it if at all possible. If not, you may type or write it out as long as you give all the copyright information about the source—including the title and author—and your parent double-checks that you made no errors in your transcription.) Bring it to class on Tuesday.
4) Be prepared for a quiz at any time on everything we've discussed so far in class. Pay particular attention to our writing lessons, where we've discussed six ways to enhance description in your writing, (We've started to add a seventh—use figurative language—but you are not yet responsible for that one.)
Also, daily:
+ Read your (approved) book for pleasure, aiming for 30 minutes daily. Mark the number of minutes on your Reading Log as you go along—in multiples of five, rounded down—and have a parent initial it in the box each day. The September Reading Log is due on Thursday, 9/28/17.
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