Newspaper is due at the end of class on Friday, Jan. 9th.

Writing for 6 Specific Audiences and Assessing a Web Page are due the final week of classes.

Welcome to our class page. I will post documents and assignments here so that you can always keep up to date with writing and due dates.

Journals were collected on Thursday, December 4th!

JOURNALS:

Dec. 2- acrostic poem using your name

Dec. 9- Write 6 onomatopoeia sounds of your own.

Dec. 11- write a negative or positively slanted report

Dec. 12- letter to the editor

Dec. 16- Write a news article with headline, and a strong lead. ( 150-200 words)

Dec. 17- Write a movie review following the 7 steps handout

Jan. 5- analogies and Write a human interest story (about 200 words)

Jan. 6 Two ads (national or local) and 2 classified ads

Jan. 12-Write at least 10 items of advice for grade 9 students.

Due Dates:

Writing for 6 Specific audiences due Wed. Jan 21.

Final week of classes-assessing web pages handout

End Task due January 19th.

Newspaper assignment- Friday, Jan. 9th.

Poetry Folders- Thursday, Dec. 11th

Third and final draft of Chapter One on Monday, December 1.

Journals were collected Thursday, January 4th.

A huge list of adjectives

Transitions This is a sheet of transitions that will be useful in your writing.

Planning on including dialogue/conversation between characters in your stories? Then click below on Punctuating Conversation and Punctuating Dialogue!

Punctuating Conversation

A short powerpoint presentation on dialogue.

Punctuating Dialogue