HW from Thursday, 3/1/18

Due on Tuesday, 3/6/18

1) CWB only, set a timer for 5 minutes and write in your writer’s notebook, as we discussed in class. You are to write descriptively, in first person, of walking through the woods, eventually meeting up with some others. Remember, we’re practicing blending writing descriptively with having some plot elements happen. Be sure you include both. (5 minutes. Use a timer, just like in class!)

2) Read the following verses from the poem “My Evening Prayer” by Charles Gabriel. (See below.)

Complete the following:

* Copy and paste the verses into a Word document.

* Determine the rhyme scheme and write it next to the title, in proper form.

* List whatever other patterns would be necessary to continue this poem with another stanza.

* Finally, write another stanza of this poem, continuing with the same theme and the same rhyme scheme and poetry pattern.

* Print a copy of the poem—with your verse as the third stanza—and bring it to class on Tuesday.

My Evening Prayer

By Charles Gabriel

If I have wounded any soul to-day,

If I have caused one foot to go astray,

If I have walked in my own willful way—

Good Lord, forgive!

If I have uttered idle words or vain,

If I have turned aside from want or pain,

Lest I myself should suffer through the strain—

Good Lord, forgive!

3) Write your next meaningful verse essay, which you will turn in to me on Tuesday.

4) Be “dreaming and scheming” about your final story you’ll write this year, the “theme” story we began discussing today. You will be creating the setting (when and where) and the characters (who, and what are they like) and the plot (what happens) as well as determining the theme (the message you want to convey to your audience). Don’t worry yet about what theme you want to portray (we’ll be studying all about this in coming weeks), but do be giving thought to all the other elements of narration as relates to the story you will be writing.

5) Be prepared for your Scripture memory quiz on the other two verses. It will be the same format as the one you took today.

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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 February Reading Log will be due on Thursday, 3/1/18.

+ Review your four memorized Scripture memory verses (Titus 2:11-14, Ephesians 4:29-32, Philippians 4:4-8, 1 Chronicles 29:11-13) daily.

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OPENING (oral presentation of Bible verse and prayer):

Please be ready to do the opening on any day! I will have your verse essay available for you.                                                          

For Tu, 3/6: Evan (CWA); Luke (CWB)

For Th, 3/8: Maddie (CWA); Ivy (CWB)

For Tu, 3/13: Caleb (CWA); Caitlin (CWB)
For Th, 3/15: Cassie (CWA); William (CWB)