Reading maketh a full man . . . . . Speaking maketh a ready man . . . . . Writing maketh an exact man.

~~Sir Francis Bacon

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Due Friday, October 11, 2013 (FI#6 & Nursery Rhyme)

Assignment Details: 
Staple these first four things together:
1) Nursery Rhyme Essay
2) KWO
3) Rough Draft
4) Checklist

5) Fix It #6
6) Vocabulary Words


HEAD'S UP! Vocabulary Test on Friday, October 11, 2013

I have sent an email to every family with 4 attachments.
1) Tom Sawyer Fix Its (a pdf file)
Parents, this will allow you to stay on top of upcoming FIX ITs and vocab. Move ahead or review, as you deem appropriate. THIS week’s FIX IT is “week 6.” I just like to refer to it as #6 because the “weeks” do not correspond to our co-op weeks. 
2) Formatting I advise you to print this and place it in the appropriate place in your student’s 3-ring binder.
3) Indicators with examples I advise you to print this and place it in the appropriate place in your student’s 3-ring binder.
4) Checklist Print multiple copies. Students are now required to submit one with each essay.

REMINDER: Vocabulary Test on Friday, October 11, 2013

Essay Assignment: Nursery Rhymes with a Twist
Start with a nursery rhyme, (KWO it)
Let your imagination run wild!
Who, What, When, Where, How  . . . . and, Why?
 . . . . . remember, you can ask yourself these Qs many more than once.

Elaborate and re-create  (KWO it) . . . . . Your essay should tell us a version of the nursery rhyme we never would have guessed. You may decide to tell it from a different perspective.

• Include one of each dress-up (properly indicated) in every paragraph. 1 paragraph minimum.
ww,  -ly,  b/c,  QA,  SV

• No banned words*
• No contractions
• Avoid dialogue as much as possible.
• Highlight vocabulary words

Each paragraph must have at least 10 sentences
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REMINDER: Vocabulary Test on Friday, October 11, 2013
Parents, I have included a copy of ALL the nursery rhymes for your reading pleasure!  
Each student has been given a different nursery rhyme.

The Itsy Bitsy Spider climbed up the waterspout.
Down came the rain, and washed the spider out.
Out came the sun, and dried up all the rain,
And the Itsy Bitsy Spider climbed up the spout again.


Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey;
Along came a spider,
Who sat down beside her
And frightened Miss Muffet away
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Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn,
The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn;
Where is that boy who looks after the sheep?
Under the haystack fast asleep.


Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.[


Oh where, oh where has my little dog gone?
Oh where, oh where can he be?
With his ears cut short, and his tail cut long,
Oh where, oh where can he be?


Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross,
To see a fine lady upon a white horse;
Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,
And she shall have music wherever she goes.


Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.


Hickory, dickory, dock,
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
And down he’d run,
Hickory, dickory, dock.


Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
And doesn't know where to find them;
Leave them alone, And they'll come home,
Wagging their tails behind them.


Little Jack Horner sat in the corner,
Eating a Christmas pie;
He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum,
And said, “What a good boy am I!”


Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold,
Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old;
Some like it hot, some like it cold,
Some like it in the pot, nine days old.


Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells, and cockle shells,
And pretty maids all in a row.


Star light, star bright,
The first star I see tonight;
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.


Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard,
To give the poor dog a bone;
When she came there, the cupboard was bare,
And so the poor dog had none.

BANNED WORDS
These words (and any form of these words) are banned:


eat/ate
come/came
give/gave
get/got
go/went
say/said
see/saw
big
pretty/nice
look
like

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