February 6, 2009

Continue to work on Biography Projects. Due: February 17th

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February 5, 2009

Personification


Personification is the technique of giving a non-human thing human qualities such as hearing, feeling, talking, or making decisions. Writers use personification to emphasize something or make it stand out. Personification makes the material more interesting and creates a new way to look at every day things.

Read the poem "Summer Grass" by Carl Sandburg and think about how personification is used to make the poem more descriptive.

"Summer Grass" by Carl Sandburg

Summer grass aches and whispers

It wants something: it calls and sings; it pours

out wishes to the overhead stars.

The rain hears; the rain answers; the rain is slow

coming; the rain wets the face of the grass.

On a separate sheet of paper, write each sentence and underline the non-human thing and circle the human quality.

1. The winter wrapped its icy claws around Northeast Pennsylvania.

2. The alarm clock screeched that it was time to get up.

3. Fear grabbed me as I heard footsteps behind me.

4. The washer sputtered and groaned as it removed the mud

from the knees of my old jeans.

5. The printer spit out more copies than I needed.

6. The branches of the tree pointed to the old dirt road.

7. The flood waters swallowed the trees in one big gulp.

8. The stars winked at us from the night sky.

9. Listening to the piano sing its happy tune made me want to

dance.

10. That carrot cake with the cream cheese icing is calling my name.

February 4, 2009

Spelling Sentences - Elaborate!

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February 3, 2009

Journal Writing: Congratulations! You have won the opportunity to direct a scene in a movie featuring your favorite celebrity. Whom would you choose? Describe the scene.


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February 2, 2009

Lesson 18 – Verb Suffixes *Definitions and Parts of Speech

celebrate

realize

advertise

analyze

organize

cooperate

congratulate

exercise

calculate

illustrate

recognize

compromise

memorize

paralyze

criticize

inaugurate

*To help you study, you may want to try: http://www.scholastic.com/kids/homework/flashcards.htm

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January 30, 2009

None, but you can always READ, awesome, great books!

Continue your research on your famous person....


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January 29, 2009

On January 26th, 1875, George F. Green patented the electric dental drill. Write a make-believe letter to Mr. Green telling him what you think of his invention.

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January 28, 2009

Spelling Sentences - One (1) word per sentence; long, elaborate sentences.


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January 27, 2009

Definitions and Parts of Speech


Lesson 17 Latin Roots

judges

fortune

doubt

doubtless

doubtful

specialist

misfortune

fortunate

unfortunate

especially

specific

specifications

judicial

judgment

prejudice

undoubtedly


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Bibliography

Link:

http://myt4l.com/index.php?v=pl&page_ac=view&type=tools&tool=bibliographymaker

http://web07.mohonasen.org/staffdev/bibmake/bibmakercitations.htm