Students handed in their Character Charts today. I still need them from Jade, Chase, Brandon, Kalei, Stef, Katie.
We continued our work on descriptive or 'showing' paragraphs. Students wrote a descriptive paragraph based on this sentence: It was a cold wet night, but we were warm inside our house.
Students were reminded of the four writing tips (1. don't use small words, 2. use a simile or metaphor to describe something. 3 focus on senses OTHER than sight (like smell or taste 4. Don't use too much dialogue in description). Then I gave students a 5th writing tip: use connecting words. -- I handed out a yellow sheet of connecting words they can use. We finished class by watching a modern version of The Tell Tale heart.
