MAGNUM OPUS DUE JANUARY 19Newspaper 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