November 15

Homework

• Any late or missing work. (You can check the gradebook online. Let me know if I need to resend your link!)

 

November 8

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (What would you do with an empty town?)
• Turn your outline into a 3-paragraph summary of your book.  (Remember your dress-ups and openers!  Here is a grading checklist to help you. :-) )

November 1

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (There was a flash of shiny red ribbon.)
• Use your plot diagram to create an outline for a three paragraph summary of the book of your choice.  Only the outline is due this week.  The most difficult part of this week's assignment is to focus on main events and leave out the details, even though those details might be the part we like best about the story!  Our example is below.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

I.

   1.  4 children / WW2 / country / mansion

   2.  playing / wardrobe / hide / Narnia

   3.  Mr. Tumnus / fawn / winter / Christmas

   4.  Edmund / Narnia / witch / enchanted

   5.  hiding / wardrobe / find / Narnia

II.

   1.  Mr. & Mrs. Beaver / prophecy / Ed / disappears

   2.  Ed / witch / children / find / Aslan

   3.  Santa / gifts / children

   4.  find / Aslan / deal / witch

   5.  witch / kills / Aslan / Ed / free

   6.  Peter / Narnians / prepare / battle

III.

   1.  morning / battle / begins

   2.  Aslan / alive / frees / stone / people

   3.  Aslan / kills / witch / Narnia / free

   4.  children / kings / queens / years

   5.  lamppost / wardrobe / home / children

   6.  tell / professor / believes