HW from Thursday, 9/28/17

Due on Tuesday, 10/3/17

1) Decide on the place about which you'd like to write your descriptive paper. Think about it in terms of your five senses, and for each sense, write three descriptive sentences. You do not have to write sentences for “taste” if your place doesn't lend itself to that, but please do try to think of ways that it might, and do it if you can.

NOTE: 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 areas 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 with 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!

2) After you have written all of your sentences on your sideways-notebook-paper chart, type them up into a Word document as follows: type the name of the sense that you were focused on, then number each of the three sentences beneath it that you wrote for that sense. Repeat for all five senses, in the exact order that we learned them. Attach your handwritten chart to the back of your typed copy and prepare to turn both in on Tuesday.

3) Click here to print your October Reading Log. Put your name on it and begin to record your minutes as you read. If you read tonight, tomorrow, or over the weekend, you will need to mark those minutes in the blank squares at the bottom of the calendar. Just put the September date in the box and write the minutes there.

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 October Reading Log will be due on Tuesday, 10/31/17. 

+ Make your bed! :)