Due on Tuesday, 10/16/18
1) Your "Descriptive Setting" paper is due on Tuesday, 10/16. You will write a descriptive composition about a favorite place. Do not tell a story, although you may insert yourself into the description if you wish. Follow all directions and instructions below.
Remember:
* Be descriptive (i.e. don't give a "weather report") without being “flowery” (i.e. don't overdo it and make it excessive and silly).
* Incorporate at least one example of each type of good figurative language in your description—simile, metaphor, and personification—as we have learned in class. Underline these in your handwritten draft (if you have one) and then label what kind of figurative language it is.
* Be descriptive (i.e. don't give a "weather report") without being “flowery” (i.e. don't overdo it and make it excessive and silly).
* Incorporate at least one example of each type of good figurative language in your description—simile, metaphor, and personification—as we have learned in class. Underline these in your handwritten draft (if you have one) and then label what kind of figurative language it is.
* Highlight them with a colored highlighter on Draft 1 (the first typed draft) so I can find them easily. (If you didn’t have a handwritten draft, you will underline, label, and highlight them all on your typed Draft 1.) Do not highlight them on Draft 2.
NOTE: If you have any questions about how to do any of these things in your word processor, check with your parents or an older sibling or friend. If you still need help after trying that, feel free to call me. I am happy to help.
Please observe the following parameters for your paper:
* Length: at least 200 words but no more than 300 words
* Format: 1-inch margins, automatic double-spacing, no extra lines, 12-point Times New Roman font
* Header set to automatically show up on top left of each page, with 3 single-spaced lines as follows:
Full name (First Last)
Date due (October 16, 2018)
Title: Descriptive Setting—Draft 1 (or Draft 2, whichever is appropriate)
* Footer set to automatically show up on bottom center of each page, with the page number
Date due (October 16, 2018)
Title: Descriptive Setting—Draft 1 (or Draft 2, whichever is appropriate)
* Footer set to automatically show up on bottom center of each page, with the page number
* Two typed drafts (in addition to the fifteen numbered descriptive sentences you wrote for homework last week, which I returned today, and your handwritten draft, if you did one)
===> Draft 1 must be proofread first by you, then by a parent or other trusted adult. (Have them mark right on your Draft 1 then sign it. If they do not make any suggested corrections, have them write, “I believe this paper is perfect” and then sign it.)
===> Draft 2 should be the corrected one, based on the feedback and suggested corrections from the person who proofread your paper.
===> Draft 2 should be the corrected one, based on the feedback and suggested corrections from the person who proofread your paper.
This means that once you've typed Draft 1 of your paper, you will proofread it carefully to make sure it makes sense and you've caught all the errors you can find. Only then will you have a parent or other person read over it—making suggestions for improvement or marking errors they see—and then sign it.
DO NOT EVER ASK SOMEONE TO PROOFREAD A PAPER YOU HAVE NOT YOURSELF CAREFULLY PROOFREAD FIRST!
For Draft 2, you will revise and correct the proofread Draft 1 paper based on your proofreader’s suggestions.
After this, staple the three (or four) papers together: Put the homework sentences on the bottom, then your handwritten draft (if you had one), then Draft 1 (with signatures and highlighting of figurative language), then Draft 2 (the beautiful, corrected copy) on top. Do not fold your papers.
Just to clarify:
The fifteen descriptive sentences you wrote were intended to give you a head start on your paper in that it got you thinking (and writing creatively) about the place you had chosen for your paper. Feel free to use any of those sentences in your paper as you write your first draft! That said, if you have changed your mind and would like to write your paper about a different place or would rather not use some of those sentences you already wrote for some reason, that's fine, too. Feel free. It's up to you.
Do not simply string those fifteen sentences disjointedly together and call it a descriptive setting!
I can’t wait to read what you come up with!
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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 October Reading log is due on Thursday, November 1.
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OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For Tu, 10/16: TBD (CWA); TBD (CWB)
For Th, 10/18: TBD (CWA); TBD (CWB)
OPENING (Bible verse and prayer):
For Tu, 10/16: TBD (CWA); TBD (CWB)
For Th, 10/18: TBD (CWA); TBD (CWB)
I will fill this part in later, when I’m looking at my grade book at home. Check back on Friday or over the weekend to see who is doing the opening when.
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