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

HW from Tuesday, 10/10/17

Due on Thursday, 10/12/17

Thoroughly complete the Essay Planning Worksheet we started today in class. Follow my example (see the back of your blank sheet) and complete the worksheet completely for your chosen season (any season besides fall).

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):

For Th, 10/12: Ashley (CWA); William (CWB)

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: Caleb (CWA); Alexa (CWB)

For Th, 11/2: Ashley (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

HW from Thursday, 10/5/17

Due on Tuesday, 10/10/17

1) Your "Descriptive Setting" paper is due on Tuesday, 10/10.  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 good figurative language in your description—simile, metaphor, or personification—as discussed Tuesday in class, but you should not use the practice sentence that you wrote in class on Tuesday. 

* Highlight it with a colored highlighter in Draft 1 so I can find it easily. Do not highlight it in 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 and no more than 300 words

* Format: 1-inch margins, automatic double-spacing, no extra lines, 12-point font (Times New Roman or Garamond)

* 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 10, 2017)
Title: (Descriptive Setting—Draft 1 (or Draft 2, whichever is appropriate)

* Footer set to automatically show up on bottom center of each page, with page number

* Two drafts (in addition to the ten numbered descriptive sentences you wrote for homework last Tuesday):

===> Draft 1 must be proofread first by you, then by a parent and one other person (get signatures).  

===> Draft 2 should be the corrected one, based on your feedback from the two who proofread your paper.  

This means that once you've written 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 AND one 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!

For Draft 2, you will revise and correct the proofread Draft 1 paper based on your proofreaders' suggestions.

After this, staple the three papers together: Put the homework sentences on the bottom, 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 ten 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.

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):

For Tu, 10/10: Caleb (CWA); Grace (CWB)

For Th, 10/12: Ashley (CWA); William (CWB)

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: Caleb (CWA); Alexa (CWB)

For Th, 11/2: Ashley (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