Thursday, April 26, 2012

Brit Lit:

Today:

We completed journal prompt #12:  Describe an object that you find of interest in my classroom using 25 adjectives.  Do not list what the object is.  1 page.

We exchanged these and tried to guess what people wrote about.  20 points on the quiz today if you could guess correctly. Thanks for the lifted journal prompt Ms. Willard....

We looked at the basics needed for a short story:  Setting, character development, time, conflict, resolution.  We completed writing a short story based on randomly assigned parts in class:

Character (pick 2)


a new mother

a photographer

a recent high school graduate

a restaurant owner or manager

an alien from outer space

a homeless child

a 93-year-old woman

an environmentalist

a college student

a jazz musician


Setting (pick 1)

near a National Forest

a wedding reception

a celebration party

an expensive restaurant

a shopping mall

a city park

the porch of an old farmhouse

a polluted stream

a college library

a concert hall


Time (pick 1)

during a forest fire

after a fight

the night of high school graduation

after a big meal

sometime in December

late at night

after a big thunderstorm has passed

in early spring

first week of the school year

during a concert


Situation/Challenge (pick 2)

an important decision needs to be made

a secret needs to be confessed to someone else

someone's pride has been injured

a death has occurred

someone has found or lost something

someone has accused someone else of doing something wrong

reminiscing on how things have changed

someone feels like giving up

something embarrassing has just happened

someone has just reached an important goal





I collected your HW from last night:  Pg. 971, questions 1-4.  This counts as a quiz- so please make sure that you complete it and pass in. 

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