HW from Thursday, 10/12/17

Due on Tuesday, 10/17/17

1) Using your completed Essay Planning Worksheet, write your first creative essay on your chosen season.

You may loosely follow the directions on the handout I gave you today, but the parameters listed here are correct when the two conflict. (The handout was typed up as a totally independent assignment, for those who were not able to have the lesson about essay writing we did on Tuesday.)

Write your essay using the following parameters:

* Thoroughly complete your Essay Planning Worksheet before you begin writing your essay. You will be required to turn in both it and your brainstorming sheet (where you figured out your three categories) for full credit.

* Revisit the three aspects of the season that you chose for your three paragraph topics, and plan out the descriptive phrases you might like to use to enhance the images you will be creating of this season. Plan for the adjectives and adverbs and exciting verbs and nouns. What sensory details will you include?

* Figure out at least one instance of figurative language (simile, metaphor, or personification) that you can put into your paper. Plan it out ahead of time! You will be required to have at least one in your essay.

* Although you may use first person pronouns (“I,” “me,” “my,” “mine,” “we,” “us,” “our,” and/or “ours”), please do not tell me a story about something the happened to you or something you did, but rather give me a good description of the season itself, using sensory details and all the other ways we’ve learned to make your writing descriptive.  (And do not give me a “weather report,” either!)

* You do not have to handwrite any part of the essay itself if you do not want to. If your Essay Planning Worksheet is complete, you may sit down at the computer and use the Essay Planning Worksheet to write your essay from scratch directly on the computer if you would like to.

* Follow the Guidelines for Typed Compositions listed on the right-hand side of the blog. Your completed essay should work out to be around 200 words.

NOTE: On Tuesday, you will turn in the following items, stapled in order from bottom to top. Your beautiful, corrected draft will be on top. Do not fold your stack of papers.

1) Your brainstorming sheet—completed in class if you were there, or on your own if you were absent—from which you gleaned your three topics for your three paragraphs

2) Your completed Essay Planning Worksheet

3) Your D1 (first draft), in which you’ve highlighted your figurative language example and which you have proofread yourself, then had proofread and signed by a parent and one other

4) Your D2 (second draft), in which you corrected your D1 based on the suggestions of your two proofreaders

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! :)

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OPENING (oral presentation of Bible verse and prayer):

Please be ready to give your opening on any day!

For Tu, 10/17: Evan (CWA); Ivy (CWB)

For Th, 10/19: Maddie (CWA); Carissa (CWB)

For Tu, 10/24: Robertson (CWA); Caitlin (CWB)

For Th, 10/26: Cassie (CWA); Luke (CWB)

For Tu, 10/31: Ashley (CWA); Alexa (CWB)

For Th, 11/2: Caleb (CWA); Lillianna (CWB)

For Tu, 11/7: Evan (CWA); Grace (CWB)

For Th, 11/9: Maddie (CWA); Wiliam (CWB)

For Tu, 11/14: Robertson (CWA); Ivy (CWB)

For Th, 11/16: Cassie (CWA); Carissa (CWB)

Happy Thanksgiving! No KEYS on 11/21, 11/23

For Tu, 11/28: Caleb (CWA); Caitlin (CWB)

For Th, 11/30: Ashley (CWA); Luke (CWB)

For Tu, 12/5: Evan (CWA); Alexa (CWB)

For Th, 12/7: Maddie (CWA); Lillianna (CWB)

For Tu, 12/12: Robertson (CWA); Grace (CWB)

For Th, 12/14: Cassie (CWA); William (CWB)

Merry Christmas! No KEYS on 12/19, 12/21, 12/26, 12/28