ENGLISH 7

QW: Describe a toy you loved. Think of all its good points. Use as much sensory description as possible. Sensory details call on your five senses: touch, smell, see, hear, taste.

Discussed and trade/graded"The  Man Who Could Fly," questions, p.801

Discussed Personal Narrative Assignment. Read example personal narratives. Your topic choice due Wednesday.
HW: Weds: Planner check; Topic choice for personal narrative
Thurs: Graphic outline for personal narrative; Mugshot week 7 and grammar packet #6
Fri: Spelling exercises, p. 49, 1-20, Unit 9 and post test

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ENGLISH 8

QW:  The mood of a story or passage is the general feeling it conveys. A story's mood might be tense in one passage and light in another. Use the sentence below as the first line of a story, and then create six different second sentences, each of which creates a different MOOD.
                                     Pierre sat quietly and stared out the window.

Reviewed Grammar Packet # 3, on pronouns, prepositions, adjectives.

Homework catch-up. Work-and-earn points day. 

Final draft significant impact paragraph, grammar deck, spelling. You choose.
HW: Weds: Final draft significant impact, typed, stapled, with RD, peer edit, and assignment sheet on top. Also, bring work with you for grammar deck class worktime
Thurs: Spelling exercises and test, Unit 9, p. 49, 1-20.

Fri: Grammar Deck, no late passes.

Tues 10/26: First response biography. Be a quarter through your book.