• Read chapters 3 & 4 of Under the Persimmon tree
• Do your activities according to your role.
Devoirs pour le mardi 8, le jeudi 10 et le lundi 14
• 7th graders need to think of their writing assignment for OAKS.
• The entire class needs to review / finish the first three assignments that we worked on (personal event / fiction / practice OAKS).
• The entire class needs to review / finish the first three assignments that we worked on (personal event / fiction / practice OAKS).
Devoirs pour mercredi 2 février
• Review correct usage of commas (booklet) + finish adding commas to the reading given in class.
• Continue working on your 3rd essay (prompt your chose from the training site of OAKS). Rough draft is due on Wednesday.
• Continue working on your 3rd essay (prompt your chose from the training site of OAKS). Rough draft is due on Wednesday.
Devoirs pour jeudi 13 janvier
• Continue working on your story. Final version due on Wednesday 19th.
Devoirs pour vendredi 7 janvier
Think of a possible story (2 pages) and create an outline for your next writing assignment: a narrative (fiction). If you don’t have any ideas, you can use one of the following prompts (sentence to be included in the text):
1. She rolled over and felt her body push up against something hard and solid.
2. My sister disappeared on August 28, 1998.
3. Sonny jumped up against the chain link, wagging his tail furiously.
4. Mom says it happens to all girls, but I think she’s just trying to make me feel normal.
5. I’ve been to nine planets in twelve years and it’s starting to show.
6. They say Old Weezie’s been reading palms out of her run-down shack for a hundred years or more.
7. The ball dislodged a stone in the wall and revealed an old looking letter.
8. Ashley stared at the fruit, so lost in amazement she didn’t comment on its size.
Your outline needs to follow the organization presented in class:
• Exposition (setting / characters / basic situation)
• Rising actions (events that introduce the conflict/struggle and increase the tension)
• Climax (story high point, at which outcome becomes clear)
• Falling out (events that follow the climax)
• Resolution (Final outcome + tying up all lose ends)
As we studied with From Barrio boy, outline can be just titles of your future paragraphs, followed by a topic sentence or two to indicate the main content of each paragraphs.
• Exposition (setting / characters / basic situation)
• Rising actions (events that introduce the conflict/struggle and increase the tension)
• Climax (story high point, at which outcome becomes clear)
• Falling out (events that follow the climax)
• Resolution (Final outcome + tying up all lose ends)
As we studied with From Barrio boy, outline can be just titles of your future paragraphs, followed by a topic sentence or two to indicate the main content of each paragraphs.
Also, think of the "culture" of your story, and how you will insert cultural annotations. Culture can describe a specific generation / a group of people (rappers / skaters / teenagers), a time period (Middle ages, 60’s, futuristic,..), a place (school, Eugene, France, somewhere in Africa, etc....).
Devoirs pour mercredi 15 décembre et mardi 4 janvier
• In view of your first writing assignment, choose the one personal event you want to write about.
• Write the titles of each of your future paragraphs (if not titles, write the purpose of each paragraph). You should have at least 5 paragraphs, not all need to be of the same length.
• For each paragraphs, list 4 specific words that you will try to use in it. You need to find words that are important for the specific paragraph (emotions, technical terms, geographical terms, etc...).
• Write the titles of each of your future paragraphs (if not titles, write the purpose of each paragraph). You should have at least 5 paragraphs, not all need to be of the same length.
• For each paragraphs, list 4 specific words that you will try to use in it. You need to find words that are important for the specific paragraph (emotions, technical terms, geographical terms, etc...).
• The first draft of this assignment is due on Tuesday January 4th, 2011. Please type using 12pts font, and 1.5 spacing.
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