Tuesday, September 11, 2012

English 8

Everyday Editing: Combine the sentences below using a serial comma.
The sky is clear blue.

A light breeze blows from the west.

 Pale green water sloshes against the side of the rickety old rowboat that brought us here.
 
SSR (Keep reading at home too!)
 
Quick Write: Share writer's notebooks (By the way, you get a grade for decorating your writer's notebook.)
 
Lesson and Homework:
Read "The House on the Hill" and mark up the text looking for the following items:
 
1.      Where do you see showing vs. telling details.

2.      What are some sensory details?

3.      How does the author control time in this story? (How does time flow? How does the author move through time periods to tell her story?)

4.      Note anything you notice that the author did!
 
 
** Please take home note to parents and return by Friday!
 
What we've learned so far in our narrative writing unit:
Narrative Writing is telling a story and scenes from the story connect in a complex way!
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  1. UnknownSeptember 11, 2012 at 5:22 PM

    What note are we suppost to have signed? I don't really understand what excatly you mean by saying 'show not describe it', because they have to describe it, in there writing! There is no way the author could not write the discription without telling the details.(pictures are the exception) thanks,
    Maggie Thom

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