Due November 7 (2nd Poetry Recitation will be assigned today & Letter due)

Our assignment is simple. Write a letter to a loved one. Please include all dress-ups

JV requirements              Varsity requirements
all dress-ups                      all dress-ups
#3                                    #2            allit
#6vss                               #3            sim or met
                                        #6 vss
DO NOT INDICATE THEM! 

Bring your finished letter, along with your addressed and stamped envelope. 
DO not seal the envelope. I will mail them for you.

REMEMBER
• Write a letter to someone you love or someone who is special to you.

• Your letter must be to a real person.

Brainstorming Notes & KWO, Rough Draft, and Checklist are required as always.

Be sure to use a proper letter writing format. Please check the guidelines below for help.

No Banned Words (see side bar for the list)
No Contractions

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Personal letters, also known as friendly letters, and social notes normally have five parts.

1. The Heading. This is where you write the date. It can also include the return address.

Skip a line after the heading. 

2. The Greeting. The greeting always ends with a comma. 

Dear Uncle David,

3. The body. Also known as the main text. This includes the message you want to write. 

Normally in a friendly letter, the beginning of paragraphs is indented. 

If it is not indented, be sure to skip a space between paragraphs. 

Skip a line after the greeting. AND Skip a line before the close.

4. The complimentary close. This short expression is always a few words on a single line. It ends in a comma.  Skip one to three spaces (two is usual) for the signature line.

5. The signature line. Type or print your name. 

Postscript. Although there is no postscript in our example above, it is quite common.
If your letter contains a postscript, begin it with P.S.
Skip a line after the signature line to begin the postscript.

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Brainstorming Notes-- example. 

Letter to GRANDMOM

Aug. - Nov. trip 6000 miles

Desmond  Astros

Homeschool updates

Speech & Debate     P & C     Duo

Dogsittting adventures w/ Simba

Stuffy       sick       better

Nativity    Ninja     Night

Neighborhood       Decorations      & Contest

Max       Birthday        Bucca

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                                                        KWO Letter to GRANDMOM

P1)

Aug. - Nov. trip 6000 miles

TX, Mississippi, TN, NC, NCFCA intensive, VA, PA, VT, B&B, IN, 

Speech & Debate     P & C     Duo

P2)

Dogsittting adventures w/ Simba

Stuffy       sick       better

P3)

Nativity    Ninja     Night

Neighborhood       Decorations      &Contest

Max       Birthday        Bucca

Desmond  Astros

Homeschool updates

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FIX ITs weeks 10 & 11

Week 10  --  Sentence Openers: #1 Subject, #2 Prepositional Phrase

The dress-ups are one part of IEW style. The five dress-ups are -ly adverb, who-which clause, strong verb, quality adjective, and www.asia words (clause starters). The dress- ups help you use stronger vocabulary and more complex sentence structure.

Now that you are familiar with all the dress-ups, you can learn some sentence openers. Since you have learned about clauses and phrases, these will be easy.

#1 Subject Opener

You have already learned that main clauses usually start with a subject or with an article (a, an, the)and/or adjectives plus subject. You also learned that sometimes the subject-verb will be switched. Examples: [There gathered around him displaced countrymen]. [Up rose his Merry Men].

We call the sentences that start with this pattern subject openers.. When you see a sentence starting with a main clause, it is a subject opener.

#2 Prepositional

This is another kind of sentence opener. When a sentence begins with a prepositional phrase, mark it a #2 prep.

Be sure the #2 follows this pattern: preposition + noun/pronoun (no verb). These openers are not clauses; they are phrases. A clause must have a subject and a verb. Prepositional phrases have no verb.

Continue to underline all prepositional phrases, including #2 openers. Do not include #2 openers with the main clauses after them when adding brackets.

Example: In the tree [Robin safely hid].

Week 10

the yeomen vowed that they would in return rob there/their/they’re oppressors as they

themselves had been robbed

if possessions were plundered by even the most powerful baron abbot knight or squire, the yeomen would recapture the goods and return them to the poor

to those in need, these brave and upright men would offer succor

besides this, they earnestly swore never to harm a child or to wrong a woman whether she was a maid wife or widow

Week 11  --  Sentence Openers: #3 -ly Adverb, Combining Sentences w/ a Who-Which

This week you will learn the next sentence opener.

#3 -ly Adverb Opener

The difference between an -ly adverb dress-up and an -ly adverb sentence opener is simply where the word appears: It will be the first word in the sentence if it is an opener; it will be later than the first word if it is a dress-up.

Continue to label all the -ly adverbs with an ly. If it is the first word of a sentence, mark it with a #3 ly.

Do not include the #3 opener in the MC brackets. It is just tacked onto the front of the sentence. 

Example:Regularly [the common folk came to praise Robin and his Merry Men].

When you decide on the strongest dress-ups, choose from one of the -ly dress-ups if there are any that week, not an opener.

Combining Sentences

Who-which clauses are handy because they can often be used to combine sentences. This week and on occasion in the future, you will be asked to create your own sentence by combining the two sentences provided with a who-which. Combine the sentences as instructed. Complete the labeling and brackets using the new sentence.

Week 11

in times of desperation, these yeomen transferred money or food from the pockets of

the corrupt nobility into the hands of impoverished families

First, combine the two sentences by starting a new who clause after folk.The new sentence should have two verbs,

one that goes with who and one that goes with folk. Use the new sentence for the rest of your Fix It work.

regularly the common folk came to praise robin and his merry men. they related many tales of his audacious escapades

naturally, because of robin hood’s magnanimous work in sherwood forest, people felt that he was like them

in a sense, robin had therefore returned to the town he had left, living vicariouslythrough the town folk whom he was forced to leave