Cause and Effect

Respond to this post by clicking on comment and then click on annonymous. For your response I would like you to type a sentence that includes a cause and effect relationship. It should have correct punctuation and capitalization. Example: Scooter ate a bag of chocolate chips because he found the bag that was left on the table. The cause is finding the bag and the effect is eating the chocolate chips.

Appositives

An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that immediately follows another noun. An appositive explains or defines the noun it follows and is set off by commas.
Example: Scooter, the best dog in the world, ate a whole bag of chocolate chips.
Now you try! Write a sentence about yourself or a friend using an appositive and commas.

Quotation Marks

Write a silly sentence using quotation marks. Rememeber to put who said it.
Example: "Scooter is cutest dog in the world!" yelled Mrs. Boozer.

The Struggle of Freak the Mighty

We have learned that in stories the main character will usually experience a conflict. The conflict is the struggle the character has to solve.

In class we are reading Freak the Mighty. What is Maxwell's main conflict and how do you think it will be resolved? Respond to this question by clicking on the comment button.

Picture taken from rodmanphilbrick.com.

Word for Word

We recently learned about the difference between a dictionary and a thesaurus. We also reviewed how to use these resources properly. Find a word that you are unfamiliar with as you are reading your current AR book. Look that word up in the dictionary and find its definition. For this post I would like you to include the word and definition. Click comment when you are ready.

Online Dictionary

Fiction is Fake

In class we are going to be writing a fictional narrative. This will be our first larger writing assignment. A fictional narrative is a made-up story. The story can be scary, humorous, historical, or any other ideas you might have. Respond to this post and give two to five ideas of what your fictional narrative could be about. Read some of the comments to help you get some ideas for your own paper.

Yesterday we learned about story elements using the Interactive Cinderella Web site. Write one story element you learned about and explain what it is. Click on comment when you are ready to answer. You will select anonymous.
Please include your first name.