We graded W-R’s N for homework entries and the use of craft in our own writing. It was a great day in English today.
We had a free write as our QW in English today. I love free writes, because I can write about anything I want. Besides, doing a free write in the response section of our W-Rs’ N gives me more writing to practice my craft in. Remember, tomorrow we have to turn in our W-R’s N with at least 10 different examples of craft highlighted in the response section. We have to label the craft correctly. We have been doing two or three different forms of craft every day for the last two weeks. Each day we looked at a few forms of craft, found the definition of the craft, found examples of the craft in the books we are reading, and found in or add the craft to our own writing in the response section of our W-R’s N. The different forms of craft we have reviewed include:
o Simile and Metaphor
o Personification, Alliteration, and Onomatopoeia
o Sensory Detail, Connecting Ands, and Magic 3 (Parallelism)
o Striking Verbs and Proper Nouns
o Whispering Parenthesis, Ellipsis, Colon
o Hyphenated Words
o Commentary Dash
We also have to have 3 homework entries, labeled with an H and the date to get our homework points for this week.
We read yesterday’s blog out loud as a class and discussed again the requirements for something being Expository Writing: it was informative, gave us the most important information that was covered yesterday in class, and even anticipated some of the questions the reader might have. Next week we have to start writing the logs for classroom participation points.
Our root word today was bio and means life. It is another Greek root word and the three example words were:
Biology :BIO logy (bie ol’ o jee) n. The study of living organisms (life). We haven’t had the root log yet but Mrs. Scales told us it means the study of.
Biography :BIO graphy (bie og’ ra fee) n. The written story of the life of a particular person. Remember that graph means something written.
Biopsy :BIO psy (bie’ op see) n. Examination of diseased tissue removed from a body or form of life.
Tomorrow we have our first ROOT WORD TEST. It will cover all 10 of the root words we have had so far this year.
Tele – far away
Phono – sound, voice
Peri – around, near, about
Graph or gram – to write or something written
Scope – watch, view, examine
Micro – small, tiny
Thermo or therm – heat
Meter, metry – measure
Geo – earth, soil, ground
Bio – life