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Students are are working on a detective story activity where students will be working on a lengthy prewrite and then they write their story. Students may elect to save their drafts to complete later in the school year. If they want to finish them during this trimester for an extra credit grade, they may. All manuscripts must be turned in by November 11th. There will be very little time in class to complete the stories.
Awesome Writing Idea Generator:
Places to go to help you find names for your characters:
Last names: http://www.last-names.net/ http://mizian.com.ne.kr/englishwiz/libra... Unique first names: http://pregnancychildbirth.suite101.com/... http://www.babynamesdirectory.com/old-fa... http://www.how-to-choose-baby-names.com/... For checking how popular a name is, was or will be: http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/ For browsing lists of names: http://www.thinkbabynames.com/ http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com... http://new.babynameindex.com/ http://www.babynames.com/ For finding the perfect middle name to match the first name, or vice versa; also helpful as you can enter the last name you have chosen and receive some names that fit: http://www.babynamegenie.com/ Here's an article from eHow on how to name characters: http://www.ehow.com/how_2079598_name-cha... Poetry -
The criteria for poems is: poems do not have to rhyme but they must have a sense of rhythm (remember the song lyrics that we worked with). Poems must have a minimum of three stanzas with four lines in each. All poems must be typed centered using any font and clip and word art as desired. Students are encouraged to play with various rhyme schemes that they were taught in class. Submit poetry for revisions/edit to Ms. Moon at any time during the week. When you have your final ready for publishing, turn in one copy to Ms. Moon for a grade and color a border on another draft for publishing. Extra Credit Students who love to write my submit "manuscripts" at any time for extra credit. ( Remember that all drafts and revision papers MUST be stapled to the back of your best copy. You may turn work in earlier than the timeline, but NOT later! All papers must be one page minimum, typed, double spaced. Use Times Roman, Arial or Comic Sans MS fonts only. No Word Art or Clip Art is allowed on essays and stories, but students may make a cover sheet with Word Art or Clip Art and they may use any font or word art. Grading Criteria: Essays, stories and poetry will be graded on the point system. 50 points for creativity, great ideas and use of language and 50 points on grammar, punctuation and spelling, for a total of 100 points. The points will be added together to make a grade. 90-100 points = A 80-89 points = B 70-79 points = C 60-69 points = D 59 and below = F
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