NaNoWriMo!!!We are writing novels for the month of November!!!!!! Keep up the
great work.
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1. Jumble Story/Confess a Secret/Red Riding Hood due today
2. Star sentences!!! Teacher's choice
3. Word study: imbroglio, fisticuffs, slugfest, donnybrook, brouhaha
4. Beginnings- Did you begin your last piece in the beginning, in the middle
or at the end of the jumble story? Why?
5. Intro persuasive- Great beginnings (6.7.8)
6. Limericks-Ongoing assignment for the 6th and 7th graders Keep working on
them until you have ten really good ones.
I thought of this one during the night, and revised it later. I'm still
working on it.
There once was a man named Peppard
Who inherited ten gallons of lard
He slipped and he slid
Into cars! Yes he did!
And that was the end of Peppard.
Wednesday Sept. 16, 2009
1. Grammar Grill Prentice Hall Writer's Companion
Developing your Style pages 293-303
1. Adverbs
2. apostrophe
3. Appositives
4. Article
5. Capitalization
Thursday
1. Word Study: persnickety, jirble, triage, abattoir, aberrant
2. Organization of a paper-persuasive pages 23-26
3. How to open a paper 28-36
Two groups will present
