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,
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
Include at least one of each dress-up and each opener
(#2, #3, and #6) in each paragraph. Start a new paragraph when you switch
topics. Make sure each paragraph has at least 6 to 7 sentences minimum.
