Writers Mark SSJ Homework DUE Wednesday, September 2, 2020 (4 parts)

Welcome to the IEW Writer's Mark Class!

• basic formatting - Merriweather 12.5
• DOUBLE SPACE YOUR ESSAY
• correct name & date stamps on upper left  (1.15 spacing)
• correct title blocks (centered and 1.15 spacing)
• NO banned words
make sentences better by getting rid of banned words and re- writing the sentences
• NO dialogue
• NO contractions

Homework:
1) Re-write the following sentences TWO different ways. Make sure you do NOT use banned words. Make the sentences better!
1) He stole the big bag of cookies and gave them to the hungry kids.
2) My mom went to town to buy some alligator bait.
3) She saw a beehive and ran away as fast as she could.
4) My dad gives great advice and I get to be the first to hear it.
5) Not only is she a pretty dog, but I think she understands what I am thinking.

2) Pick one of your sentences to be the writing prompt for a ONE paragraph essay. 

NO BANNED WORDS 
NO CONTRACTIONS 
NO DIALOGUE

Varsity only: indicate 1 of each dress up, 1 of each opener, 1M3, 1DEC, and 1OWL

3) Write ten sentences properly using the first ten SAT vocabulary words.

4) Start memorizing our first poem. The first four lines should be memorized by Wednesday, September 8, 2020.

It Couldn’t Be Done

BY EDGAR ALBERT GUEST

Somebody said that it couldn’t be done

      But he with a chuckle replied

That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one

      Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.

So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin

      On his face. If he worried he hid it.

He started to sing as he tackled the thing

      That couldn’t be done, and he did it!

Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that;

      At least no one ever has done it;”

But he took off his coat and he took off his hat

      And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.

With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,

      Without any doubting or quiddit,

He started to sing as he tackled the thing

      That couldn’t be done, and he did it.

There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,

      There are thousands to prophesy failure,

There are thousands to point out to you one by one,

      The dangers that wait to assail you.

But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,

      Just take off your coat and go to it;

Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing

      That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it.