Composition Book -- Term 4

Composition Book -- Term 4
1. Editing Self-Starter: 
Subject-Verb Agreement exercise taped into composition books, edited carefully, and corrected together

2. We imitated several of these poems.  You should have your imitations written in your composition book.

Poems to Imitate, to be INSPIRED BY

Love That Dog assignments in your composition book:
Write a poem imitating "The Red Wheelbarrow."
Write a poem imitating "Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright."
Write a stanza imitating "Stopping By Woods":  "Whose woods these are, I think I know. . . "
List sounds you would hear in a place you know well. (Based on "Street Music.") 
Collect words and phrases you could use to describe a pet or another animal when it is sitting, running, sleeping, or performing some other action.
Write a poem imitating "Love That Boy."

3. Writing paragraphs: (You should have written an example of each.)

Chronological

Sequence (not list)

Descriptive

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Self-Starter for “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”:

1. Write in your composition book.  Respond to this prompt (under writing) : (If you were absent, you may write these responses on lined paper and tape that into your composition book when you return.)

            If you were facing a bully, would you

§       run the other way?

§       get help from your friends and/or family?

§       face your opponent and fight?

§       try to use logic and reasoning to reach an agreement?

§       use a strategy other than the ones listed above?

Explain what you would probably do and why?  Or, if you have faced a bully in the past, write about what you did.

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2.  In your composition book (under writing), copy and correct these sentences from a student book-of-the-month project:

Underline the subject(s) in each sentence.

           

a. There is so many different creature’s.

b. There is 2 main characters.

c. The boys name is Marcus and the girls name is kyja.

3.  Notes on "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" and 3 similes from page 13 (column 2) 
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Self-Starter: ("The Smallest Dragon Boy")
A.  In your textbook, on page 46, read "Make a Connection" and "Quickwrite."  Write the quickwrite in your composition book.

B.  Subject-Verb Agreement exercise: Copy these sentences into your composition book, and make corrections.
1. That make Percy a target to monsters.
2. There's magic item's in the book.
3. Ares ask them to go and retreive his sword.
4. Grover get approval to become a searcher to search for Pan


May 6/7, 2010
 

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Self-Starter for “Three Skeleton Key” by George C. Toudouze

Step 1.  Look at the title and illustration on page 65.

Step 2.  Silently read page 64.

Step 3.  Do the quickwrite on page 64.   Write it in your composition book.

Step 4.  Exercise for subject-verb agreement:  Copy the following sentences into your composition book,  and then make needed corrections:  (Do not change verb tense.)

1)  There is also magical creatures.

2) The characters was another thing I liked. 

3)  Each of the characters are completely different.  

4) They decides to go to the new candy store that just opened down the street form there school.

Step 5a.  In your  composition book, write this heading:

Figurative Language in “Three Skeleton Key.”

 When you find a metaphor, simile, or other figurative language in the story, write it down, as well as the page number and column where you found it. 

May 10/11
In your composition book, list as many similes and other figures of speech as you can.  


Students worked on writing a poem -- "I Know Three Skeleton Key"
Your poem has four stanzas -- Each begins --  "I Know Three Skeleton Key"


"I Know Three Skeleton Key"
Briefly and powerfully describe four things you see.

"I Know Three Skeleton Key"
Briefly and powerfully describe four things you see.


"I Know Three Skeleton Key"
Briefly and powerfully describe four things you see.


"I Know Three Skeleton Key"
Briefly and powerfully describe four things you see.


May 12/13: In your composition book label entry "Friendship."  Tell what friendship means to you, and/or describe a true friend.

May 14/17, 2010
1. Write in your composition book based on this prompt: We will read an essay about noticing things.  This can also be called "being observant."  How good are you at noticing things?  What sorts of things do you notice and not notice?  If you know anyone who is good at noticing things, tell us about him or her. Is being observant good or bad?  Why?  Also, what do you notice in our classroom that is new or different?

See more in a later post:

Composition Book