Students--
Today was such fun. You are so talented and creative! Please check out this hilarious website: Similes and Metaphors
I'm pretty sure that the teachers who submitted these student descriptive samples never expected them. Enjoy them for a laugh and have a great weekend!
Hope to see some of you at the high school football game tonight!
:) Miss D.
Friday, September 28, 2012
Descriptive Writing Lesson Inspiration
Jack Vettriano's "The Singing Butler"
Haha: Check out this wedding picture, which they call "The Singing Best Man":
Haha: Check out this wedding picture, which they call "The Singing Best Man":
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Freedom Write: Due Nov. 2
Free
Yourself. Free Write.
“Freedom Writers” is an inspiring movie to
anyone who sees it. Regardless of what
race you are, where you come from, or how much money you have, we all have
stories to tell.
The Freedom Write is designed for you to tell
your stories. Your poems. Your dreams.
Your past. Your present. Your future.
Your imagination.
School. Sports. Friends.
TV. Songs. Family.
Likes. Dislikes. Books.
Reflections. Remarks. Plays.
Poems.
It’s not a diary; it’s a collection of your
life experiences. This marking
period, we would like you to reflect/address one or all of the following
first marking period words:
Human Freedoms Unlock
Discovery Self-Expression Family
Unity American Dream
You’re a teenager. You matter.
Make this assignment matter.
Get to it.
PS-
You’ll be graded for doing the work, but not for the contents of it. All you are asked to do is to do all of it by
the deadline.
Your
first entries are due on Friday,
November 2 as a Writing grade. You are responsible for turning in a minimum
of seven handwritten full composition
pages or five double-spaced
typed pages. Make sure you NUMBER
and DATE each of your entries!!!
RUBRIC: COMPLETION
·
(4/4) Complete (all full
pages)
·
(3/4) mostly (short 1-2 pages)
·
(2/4) somewhat (short two
pages)
·
(1/4) barely (short more than
two pages)
·
(0/4)nothing turned in
Monday, September 17, 2012
Thursday, September 13, 2012
"Freedom Writers" Response: Due date to follow in class
On August 29, Condoleezza Rice spoke at the Republican National Convention.
She said,
And your greatest ally in controlling your response to your circumstances has been a quality education. But today, today, when I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, can I honestly say it does not matter where you came from, it matters where you are going? The crisis in K-12 education is a threat to the very fabric of who we are. And we need to give parents greater choice, particularly, particularly poor parents whose kids, very often minorities, are trapped in failing neighborhood schools. This is the civil rights issue of our day.
Paragraph response:
Relate Ms. Rice's quote to the movie we are watching in class, "Freedom Writers."
She said,
And your greatest ally in controlling your response to your circumstances has been a quality education. But today, today, when I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, can I honestly say it does not matter where you came from, it matters where you are going? The crisis in K-12 education is a threat to the very fabric of who we are. And we need to give parents greater choice, particularly, particularly poor parents whose kids, very often minorities, are trapped in failing neighborhood schools. This is the civil rights issue of our day.
Paragraph response:
Relate Ms. Rice's quote to the movie we are watching in class, "Freedom Writers."
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