Due April 5 (5P Country Essay & Fix Its 3&4 & Red Pony)

INTRIGUING TITLE REQUIRED  You will be subtly referring to it in your conclusion!

INTRODUCTION (T/C not required)

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--> Your first sentence should be an grab attention & hook the audience’s interest.

--> The middle of the intro gives background, general, and/or basic information about your following paragraphs. It introduces the body of your essay.  

--> The last part of your introduction is your THESIS STATEMENT  This tells your audience what your three topics are.

       

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Three BODY PARAGRAPHS 

These are the three "topic paragraphs" you have already written about your country.

Each one requires T/C

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CONCLUSION (special clincher rule - last 2 sentences)

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--> Briefly recall the three topics. You can elaborate (slightly) on the significance of your topics. 

--> The last paragraph helps your reader appreciate your country and feel happy that they read your essay.

REMEMBER THE RULE FOR THE LAST TWO SENTENCES.

--> One of the sentences should tell the reader, "the most significant topic in your essay.

--> One of the sentences should reflect, or restate @ least part of your TITLE. 

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The Little Mermaid part 3

Correct any punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and general grammatical errors. Special notes for these sentences:

• Run-on sentences have two main clauses that sometimes need to be joined with something stronger than a comma (a comma splice). 
• Check for correct usage of like & as. Like is a preposition and should be followed by an object to create a prepositional phrase (she sings like a bird). As is a conjunction and should be followed by a clause with a subject and a verb (she sings as a bird does). 
• Note: Hung refers to having suspended something. Hanged means to have executed someone. If you look up “irregular verbs,” you can find all sorts of lists of verbs with their tense forms. 
  

Part 3

to each of the young princesses the sea king bequeathed a little garden plot where they might dig and plant as they pleased, one princess arranged her flowerbed as a whale, another as a mermaid, that of the youngest contained flowers as red as the suns ray’s at sunset.

She was a singular child quiet and thoughtful, whereas her sisters would be thrilled with the marvelous things they obtained from the wrecks of vessels’ the younger princess cherished nothing, but her lovely flowers—except one thing a marble statue

Carved out of pure white stone the statue was the rendering of a handsome boy which had fallen to the bottom of the sea from a wreck, beside the statue, the youngest mermaid had planted a rose-colored, weeping willow

Splendidly it had grown, and soon hanged it’s fresh branches over the statue, enchanted by any information she might gain about the world above the sea the little mermaid made her venerable grandmother tell her all she new of the ships and towns.

The Little Mermaid part 4

Correct any punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and general grammatical errors. Special notes for these sentences:

• Spell out ordinal numbers (first, second, third, etc.).
• Go over the rules of commas and quotes as they pertain to conversation. 
• Several other comma rules are tested. Fix errors and be ready to explain as needed.
  
  Part 4
  To her, it seemed most amazing that flowers of the land should have fragrance, and that fish among the tree’s could sing so sweetly, when you have reached your 15th year said the grandmother. You will have our sanction to rise up out of the sea. [quotation continues]
  
  you may sit on the rocks in the luminous moonlight while the great ships are sailing by in the following year, one of the sister’s would be 15 since each mermaid was a year younger then the next the youngest would have to endure 5 years before her turn came.
  
  However each promised to tell the others’ what they discovered on their impending visit, and what they thought the most pleasing, because there grandmother could not tell them as much as they wanted to know.
  
  None of them yearned so much for their turn to come as the younger. She who had the longest time to wait, and who was so quiet and thoughtful

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Read John Steinbeck's book,  The Red Pony

We will discuss it and have a writing assignment about the book on April 19.

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Due March 22 (Fix-Its & Portfolio)

1) Correct two parts of The Little Mermaid Fix-Its (below).

• Make a copy of the Fix-Its.
• Correct your copy in red pencil or ink so that you can remember the corrections you made & contribute to class discussion when we review this work.
• Rewrite the corrected passage in your notebook. Be sure to double-space.
• Vocabulary: Find the bolded vocabulary words. Look each word up in a dictionary, and then write the definition that best fits the context. Include part of speech and a sentence for each word.

2) Update your portfolio and bring it to class.

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Fix-It: The Little Mermaid Student Editing Checklist   

•  Vocabulary: Find the bolded vocabulary word. Look it up in a dictionary, and then write the definition that best fits the context.
•  Indent? Decide if each passage needs to be indented.
•  Capitalization: Check for proper capitalization.
•  Punctuation: Check for proper quotation marks and end marks.
•  Fragments: Watch for incomplete sentences.
•  Correct use of coordinating conjunctions (cc): avoid using cc’s to string together sentences; avoid starting sentences with a cc.
•  Correct use of who/which and who/whom
•  Commas: Correct comma errors. Some are missing; some are not needed.
•  Apostrophes: Correct apostrophe (’) errors.
•  Agreement: Check for subject/verb or noun/pronoun agreement.
•  Verb Tense: Check for consistency in verb tense (past or present).
•  Numbers: Spell out numbers written as one or two words.
•  Spelling: Watch for the correct spelling of common words.
•  Tricky words: Correct misuse of tricky words, homophones, contractions, and possessives.
•  Underline Dress-ups: “-ly” adverb, quality adjective, strong verb, adverb clause (www.asia.buwu: when, while, where, as, since, if, although, because, until, whereas, unless), who/which.
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  Mark Sentence Openers with numbers: 
  [2] Prepositional openers
  [3] “-ly” adverbial openers
  [4] “-ing” openers
  [5] adverb clause AKA: asia openers
  [6] V.S.S., or Very Short Sentence
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  The Little Mermaid part 1
  Correct any punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and general grammatical errors. Special notes for these sentences:
  
  
  

  • Be sure the subject and verb agree. Review singular and plural verbs (Jon loves; they love) and explain how it can be tricky sometimes to choose the correct one.
    
  • Watch out when using superlatives (-er, -est, most). It is appropriate to use most when the next word is three syllables (i.e., beautiful). However, for shorter words such as pretty or nice, use –er or –est instead of most. Never combine most with an –er or –est.
    
    Part 1
    Far out in the ocean where the water is as blue as the most stunning cornflower and as clear as crystal it is very deep—so deep indeed that no cable could fathom it.
    
    Many, church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath too the surface of the water above, in that place, dwells the Sea King, and his aquatic subjects.
    
    We must not imagine that there is nothing at the bottom of the sea but bare, yellow sand no indeed the most remarkable plants grow their. The leaves and stems of which are so pliant that the most slight agitation of the water causes them to stir like they had life
    
    Fish both large and small glide between the branches, as birds fly between the trees here upon land. In the most deepest spot of all stands the castle of the sea king, and it’s walls are built of coral and the long gothic windows are of the clearest amber.
    
    
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    The Little Mermaid part 2

    Correct any punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and general grammatical errors. Special notes for these sentences:

    • Go here to learn how to use lie versus lay. Lay is something you do to something else: Lay the book on the table. Lie is something you do to yourself: Lie down on the couch. It gets tricky with the past tenses: the past tense of lay is laid; the past tense of lie is lay! 
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  Splendidly the roof is formed of shells which open and close as the water flows over them, there appearance is magnificent because in each lays a glittering pearl fit for the diadem of a queen.
  
  
  For many years the sea king had been a widower so his aged mother kept house for him she deserved very great praise especially for her nurturance of the little sea-princess’s her granddaughters.
  
  
  Although, all six were comely children the younger were the most striking of them all her skin was as delicate as a rose leaf, and her eyes as blue as the deepest sea, like all the others she had no feet and her body ended in a fish’s tail.
  
  
  throughout the day they frolicked in the palatial halls of the castle, fish swam in threw the large amber windows right up to the princess’s where they nibbled from the mermaids hands, and allowed themselves to be stroked.
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Due March 8, 2017 (Nursery Rhyme & Vocabulary Test)

Assignment Details: 

1) Nursery Rhyme Essay

2) KWO

3) Rough Draft

4) Checklist

5) Include the original nursery rhyme 

6) Study Vocabulary Words

A picture of your ROUGH DRAFT is due Friday (Saturday @ the latest). Send it to 832 766 2172

HEAD'S UP! Vocabulary Test on Wednesday, March 8, 2017

anthropomorphism

alliteration

assonance

chiasmus

personification

simile

haiku

hyperbole

oxymoron

metaphor

Be able to define and give an example of each literary device.

Extra credit: be able to spell Czechoslovakia  :-)

Essay Assignment: Nursery Rhymes with a Twist

Choose a nursery rhyme and then let your imagination run wild! 

Who, What, When, Where, How  . . . . and, Why?

Use these questions to spark your imagination. 

Elaborate, re-create, and KWO it. 

You may even decide to tell your story from a different perspective. 

• 1 paragraph minimum

JV & VARSITY: every Dress-Up and remember T/C

JV:  Openers 2, 3, and 6(vss)

VARSITY: Openers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6(vss), 7

JV & VARSITY: DECs at your discretion

• No banned words*

• No contractions

• Avoid dialogue as much as possible. 

• Highlight vocabulary words

NURSERY RHYMES for those who asked for some ideas.  :-)

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 her tuffet,

Eating her curds and whey; 

Along came a spider,

And 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.

Wee Willie Winky runs through the town.

Upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown,

Rapping at the windows, peeking through the locks,

Are the children all in bed, for it is 8:00?

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.

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.

Hey diddle, diddle,

The cat and the fiddle,

the cow jumped over the moon;

The little dog laughed 

To see such sport,

And the dish ran away with the spoon.

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

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.

Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie,

Kissed the girls and made them cry;

When the boys came out to play,

Georgie Porgie ran away.

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.

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.

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!”

Dickery, dickery dare,

The pig flew up in the air.

The man in brown

Soon brought him down.

Dickery, dickery dare.

JackSprat could eat no fat.

His wife could eat no lean.

And so between them both, you see,

They licked the platter clean. 1639

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man.

Bake me a cake as fast as you can;

Roll it and pat it, and mark it with a B

Put it in the oven for baby and me. 1698

Handy Dandy Jack-a-Spandy 

Loved plum cake and sugar candy;

He bought some a t a grocery shop,

And out he came, hop, hop, hop!

Ky-me-Nay-mo

Kilt-a ky-mo

Ky-me Nay-mo

Ky-me

Rim strip stram-a-diddle

Laura-bum-a-ring ting

Rig-num bulletin a-ky-mo!

Ky-me Nay-mo

One, two, buckle my shoe.

Three, four, shut the door.

Five, six, pick up sticks.

Seven, eight, lay them straight.

Nine, ten, a big fat hen.

Ring around the rosie

A pocket full of poise.

Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.

artist: Joseph Christian Leyendecker
(March 23, 1874 – July 25, 1951) 

Molly, my sister, a

And I fell out.

And what do you think 

It was all about?

She loved coffee 

And I loved tea.

And that was the reason 

We couldn't agree.

There was a little girl

Who had a little curl

Right in the middle of her forehead.

And when she was good,

She was very good indeed.

But when she was bad

She was horrid!  by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There was an old man with a beard

who said, "It's just as I feared! 

"Two owls and a hen, 

Four larks and a wren, 

Have all built their nests 

in my beard!" *EDWARD LEAR - b1812 London, England--d.1888, Italy 

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LAGNIAPPE for my students. This is a long nursery rhyme just for your reading pleasure. It is not for the assignment. I liked this one when I was a just a lass. I still like it.

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

artist: Donna Lacey-Destine **

The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea        

In a beautiful pea-green boat:

They took some honey, and plenty of money

Wrapped in a five-pound note.

The Owl looked up to the stars above,

And sang to a small guitar,

"O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love,

What a beautiful Pussy you are,

You are, you are!

What a beautiful Pussy you are!"

Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl,

How charmingly sweet you sing!

Oh! let us be married;

too long we have tarried:

But what shall we do for a ring?"

They sailed away, for a year and a day,

To the land where the bong-tree grows;

artist: Sally Anne Lambert

And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood

With a ring at the end of his nose,

His nose

His nose,

With a ring at the end of his nose.

"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling

So they took it away, and were married next day

By the Turkey who lives on the hill.

They dines on mince and slices of quince,

Which they ate with a runcible spoon;

And hand in hand on the edge of the sand

They danced by the light of the moon,

The moon, the moon,

They danced by the light of the moon

author: EDWARD LEAR - b1812 London, England--d.1888, Italy Edward was the twentieth child of Jeremiah Lear, a London stockbroker, and his wife Ann. Edward grew up to become a prolific writer as well as a talented artist of both landscapes and birds. He also gave drawing lessons to Queen Victoria of England. Edward Lear was particularly enchanted with nonsense poetry, and devoted a number of his books to collections of such poems.artist: Donna Lacey-Destine **(1959-)  "Painter in the American Primitive Style"  She grew up in rural Buck's County, Pennsylvania