NEW HOMEWORK ADDED! THURSDAY 9/29

Students! Remember to study the elements of a story tonight for the test tomorrow!
Study your practice quiz!!!!

Also, the Family Treasure paragraph is not due until Monday.

Bring your Personification poems and reading logs to class tomorrow!
I send out 5 week grades tomorrow night!!

September 26 through 30th

This week we will continue to identify elements of a story, theme, and figurative language in writing!
Our story is The Treasure of Lemon Brown by Walter Dean Myers

You will be asked to write a description of a treasure in your family. Something that represents pride, love,
faith, family connection, inspiration.

You will also write a personification poem about the weather.

READ 20 minutes in your AR books EACH NIGHT and have your parents initial the contract.

Hello returning students! I am finally getting the hang of this posting thing now.
It's been such fun getting to know all of you! Your "feet" project and Life Poems are fantastic!

HOMEWORK FOR WEEK 4: DUE FRIDAY, SEPT. 23RD
1. Simile poem about 1 to 3 family members
2. Reading Contract filled out correctly with parent initials
3. Study for quiz on elements of a narrative (see below)

Exposition (exposes the characters, setting, conflict)
Setting (place)
Characters
Plot (the events unfolding)
Conflict
Rising action
Climax (highest point of tension, suspense)
Resolution
Falling action

Point of View (1st, 2nd person)
Theme (message, moral, lesson)