Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Today's Menu

Shhhh...Silent Sustained Reading in progress.

Click here to read today's announcements.

WRITER's Notebook:
  1. Develop a theme for this photo. List two details from your life to support this theme.

TODAY's LITERARY TERMS:

  1. Acrostic: Create an acrostic for your novel's main character and email to me at mrsg.homework@gmail.com
  2. From the EOL Released Item: mood, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, nonfiction, biography, narrative, limerick.

GRAMMAR TIME:

  1. Review Hosseini's syntacital style. Now, go here. Open the blog after yours on this list. Check to determine of this author mocked Hosseini's style: short sentence followed by a series of participials or phrases.

  2. Participials: Let's get even more descriptive!

HOMEWORK: Read, read, and read! AND be sure your civil war blog post is posted by Monday evening!

Have a great three-day weekend!




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