1. iRead and Reading Log -- Your choice of materials to read
If you have been absent and need to finish writing your plot map and rough draft for your short story, do that now.
If you would like one, pick up a book order, and you may study it for part of your reading time.
2. iWriteRight -- Simple Sentences and Sentence Combining
Simple Sentences and Sentence Combining
If you are absent, do this exercise on a piece of paper to tape into your composition book.
3. Computer Lab to finish short story, revise, and edit
You are able to do this at home on MyAccess if you have the internet. Log in uses your Skyward user name and your student number.
If you do not finish your story today, with at about a 4.5 or above, finish it as homework as soon as possible.
When you have finished, hand in your plot map, rough draft, and grading sheet. Do this as soon as possible.
Make sure you have
- carefully revised and edited,
- read and used Ms. Dorsey's comments,
- labeled the parts of the plot,
- and highlighted or underlined the three instances of figurative language.
- Do not forget to use Figurative Language at least three times in your story.
- simile: The rumors spread like wildfire
- “My legs ached and my neck was stiff. But with each defeated kite, hope grew in my heart, like snow collecting on a wall, one flake at a time.” (Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, page 64)
- metaphor: That test was a piece of cake.
- Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys.” (Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, page 30)
- "I dive into the stream of fourth-period lunch students and swim down the hall to the cafeteria." (Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, page 7.)
- idiom: Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
- The way Jeri toots her own horn all the time is so irritating! (Link to idioms: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/idiom-examples-of-idioms.html
- personification: The brown grass is hoping for rain.
- "Whoever invented these boots should be shot because once the boots got ahold of your shoes they wouldn't let them go for anything." (Christopher Paul Curtis-The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963, p. 48)
- hyperbole: I will die if he asks me to speak in front of the class.
- "I started throwing up a ton of water and food. If there was a forest fire somewhere all they would have to do is hold me over it and I would have put it out! I threw up and coughed and choked and vomited about a million times, and all this just because I'd breathed in some air!"
(Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963, p. 178)
More examples:
Some Figurative Language Collected from Literature
- Do not forget to label the parts of the plot.
Everyone should get at least a 4.0 on the essay.
Aim for 4.5 or above.
When you have finished, hand in your plot map, rough draft, and grading sheet. Do this as soon as possible.
When you have finished, hand in your plot map, rough draft, and grading sheet. Do this as soon as possible.
Make sure you have
- carefully revised and edited,
- read and used Ms. Dorsey's comments,
- labeled the parts of the plot,
- and highlighted or underlined the three instances of figurative language.
4. While you are in computer lab, log into Edmodo and join your New Edmodo class.
