Monday, May 17, 2010

Composition Book

We will correct your composition books on May 20/21.  You must have your composition book in class that day.  If you are planning to be absent, place your book in your class's top wire basket to be graded.

Composition Book Grading for Term 4  (See Class Blog for more details if you were absent.)

1. _____/5  subject-verb agreement exercise taped in and corrected  (Boy in the Striped Pajamas)
 “Inspired By” exercises – Imitate the poems, writing about a different subject – March 24/25  posts
2. _____5 The Red Wheelbarrow
3. _____5 Tiger, Tiger
4. _____5 Stopping by Woods
5. _____5 List sounds for a place you know well
6. _____5 Words and phrases to describe a pet or other animal when performing an action
7. _____5 Love That Boy

Three paragraphs for Internal Text Structure
8. _____5 Chronological
9. _____5 Sequence
10. _____5 Descriptive

11. _____/5  Facing  a  Bully Quickwrite
12. _____/5  subject-verb agreement sentences copied and corrected  April 30 post
13. _____/5 Notes on “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”
14. _____5  Three  similes from page 13  -- “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”
15. _____/5  QuickWrite from page 46 in literature textbook  -- An Underdog
16. _____/5  Copy and correct subject-verb agreement sentences  May  4/5 post
17. _____/5  Quickwrite for “Three Skeleton Key” – Details for a horror story
18. _____/5 Copy and correct subject-verb agreement sentences   May 6/7 post
19. _____/5  Figurative Language in “Three Skeleton Key”
20. _____/5  Listing similes and other figurative language
21. _____/5  Poem – four stanzas of “I Know Three Skeleton Key.”
22. _____/5 Friendship Quickwrite
23. _____/5  Noticing Things  Quickwrite   (Before listening to the essay)
24  _____/5    A story about noticing things   (After listening to the essay)
25. _____/5  Fairy Tales -- anything and then finish the one I read or tell how you would set another in modern times..