October 29

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (Snow White raced by me....)
• Finish Ancient Rome essay (If necessary)
• Begin 5 Paragraph essay on the topic of your choice.  The rough draft will be due November 12.  (Use your writing steps!)
• Dress-ups:  Strong verb, Quality adjective, and Adverb
• Openers:  Subject and Prepositional

October 22

Homework

• Writing Mintues
• Freewriting (Trapped in the Great Pyramid!)
• Ancient Rome Essay
• Add an introductory and concluding paragraph (your essay will now be a total of 5 paragraphs--1 introductory paragraph, 3 body paragraphs, and 1 concluding paragraph.  (See below for help and your grading sheet)

October 15

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (I was a WWI flying ace)
• Begin writing process for Ancient Rome (You will have two weeks to complete a finished essay)
• Remember your dress-ups (strong verb and quality adjective) and openers (subject and prepositional)
• Include a topic and a conclusion sentence in each paragraph.

October 1

Homework

• Writing Minutes
• Freewriting (Science experiment)
• Use your outline to compose three paragraphs about Gettysburg.  Remember to underline a strong verb and a quality adjective, and to mark one sentence with a subject opener and one with a prepositional opener in each paragraph.  

Subject Openers
Subject openers are probably the easiest opener to use. This just means that the subject (and any modifying adjectives) comes first in the sentence. Subject openers are marked at the start of the sentence with a number 1. This helps you keep track of which openers you have used, and let’s me know as I grade what openers were intentional. Examples of subject openers are,
David shivered under the tree.
The six brown mice shivered under the tree
Both of these sentences have a subject opener because the sentence begins with the subject or its modifying adjectives.



Prepositional Openers

Like its name, a sentence with a prepositional opener begins with a prepositional phrase. Use the accompanying list of prepositions to help you. Here are some examples of prepositional openers:
In the late afternoon, David shivered under the tree.
Up above the village, Peter sat and wondered how to relieve his boredom.



This is the grading checklist for this assignment :-)