Critiquing Stories

Cut out and study the vocabulary cards for Lesson 19.  Remember to find some synonyms to add to the back of the card for study also.

Using pages 132 - 133, write outlines for parts that contain the Introduction, Characters, and the Conflict.  Then write the Rough Drafts for these paragraphs.  We will continue working on this project in class on Friday.

The Polished Notebooks will be due for grading on Tuesday, March 20.  You may now take the Sword and the Stone papers you received today and make a Polished Copy for this notebook, but I will only be checking it along with all other polished copies on March 20.  You will want to be working on all other graded papers that were not polished to add those to the notebook as well.

Final Draft for Narratives

Write your Final Draft for your Narrative story.  Remember to follow and attach your Final Checklist and to mark the required elements within your paper.

The Borrowed Conflict Rough Draft

Complete page 125 and write the remainder of your story.  If you are at all confused about how your story should be playing out, please refer back to page 123 which instructs you in borrowing the plot line from another familiar story.  This is the Rough Draft form that is due on Friday, so the more inclusive you are to use all the elements and follow the instructions, the less clean-up work you will have to do for the Final Draft.

Review all your vocabulary cards thoughtfully.  In fact, that would be good to do before your writing so the words are readily to your mind.

Narrative Stories

In Lesson 18, the adverb clause, called the "because clause," jumps into the list of dress-ups for your writing.

Using the outline on page 125, think through the development of the setting, characters, and background for your narrative story, and then write the rough draft of paragraph 1.

Cut out and study the vocabulary words for Lesson 18; don't forget, Level B students, to add synonyms to the back of the cards.

The Sword and the Stone

Now it is time for finalizing this paper!  We should all be together in this now ~ so everyone bring in your Final Draft for The Sword and the Stone (although you may change the title if you wish - based on your Final Clincher of course!).

Be sure that your paper has the correct Checklist attached.

Please note the changes about markings for this paper:

1) You do not have to mark every single adjective, strong verb, etc.  Just mark the minimum of each element for each part of the paper.  (It's okay if you have already marked more than the minimum.)  The Checklist is quite specific regarding what should be highlighted, so please refer faithfully to the Checklist.

2) I will now be taking off points for grammar and spelling errors where I had not so much been doing before, even if the checklist does not tell me to take off for them.

Finally ~ Happy Writing!

Vocab Quiz 3

Take the weekend to really know the vocabulary from lessons 1 - 16!  Whew ~ Can you believe we have made it this far!?  Don't forget to study your similar words as those are an important part of the quiz.

Take Quiz 3 and bring it back to class on Tuesday!