Friday, October 21, 2011

Friday, October 21, periods 8 & 9

Objective: By the end of class, students will practice grammar and vocabulary skills and apply them in creative writing.

DO NOW

Subject Verb Agreement Quiz

TURN IN HOMEWORK FOR CREDIT IF YOU HAVE IT!!!

1. Creative Writing. Use the graphic organizer to outline an original, creative story. choose one of the following prompts below or create your own. Then complete graphic organizer.

a. You have won a DREAM HOUSE for your family. It is just perfect but it is in the mid-western part of the country. Do you go? Consider where you live now, your school, friends, family, parents' jobs, lifestyle, etc. before you start.

b. What is the most boring day you have ever had? Then write so that it is not boring.

c. Write about the worst or best meal you have ever had but write it in present tense as if it is happening right now.


2. USE your graphic organizer to write your story in four paragraphs. Be sure to use your best grammar and vocabulary. Be sure that you include the:

SETTING and BASIC SITUATION in 1st paragraph
PLOT in 2nd paragraph.
CONFLICT in 3rd paragraph.
RESOLUTION AND THEME in 4th paragraph.

Closure

Quiz review

Exit pass - What is the hardest thing about writing an essay?



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