Wednesday, 9/9/15: Spelling Warm Up, Show-not-Tell Practice, Outsiders

Tomorrow: Please meet in the G2 Computer lab next door to the library. Be sure to know (or have with you) your school username and password.

“Warm Up, 9/9/15.” Copy 1-6! The answers will be spelling words. Write the answers for 7 and 8. For 9 and 10, list the adjectives you find in each sentence (if any).

  1. refusal : cooperation :: childishness : _____
  2. painful : pleasurable :: together : _____
  3. rewrite : revision :: story : ______ 
  4. locker : storage :: _____ : security
  5. house : stationary :: trailer : _____
  6. soldier : obedient :: artist : _____
  7. The reason we drop the last e from a word like narrate  before we add an ending like ive,  is that… a) Narrate ends with a consonant sound.  b) The ending ive  also ends with an e.  c) The ending ive  begins with a consonant  d) The ending ive  makes it an adjective.  e) The ending ive  begins with a vowel.
  8. The reason we don’t drop the last e from a word like separate before we add an ending like -ly, is that…  a) Separate ends with a consonant sound.  b) The ending -ly ends with an y.  c) The ending -ly  begins with a consonant  d) The ending -ly  makes it an adjective.  e) NOTA
  9. My pink llama swam smoothly across the calm seas to his hidden lair.
  10. I climbed Mt. Cheese only to find that the view was disappointing.

 

Show-not-Tell Practice.
Use a separate sheet. Do not put your name on it.
Joey was…

  1. afraid
  2. excited
  3. bored
  4. happy
  5. sad
  6. angry
  7. silly

You have 5 minutes to write 3+ sentences that SHOW what Joey LOOKS/SOUNDS like. You can’t state any opinions. Just show what he’s doing  and what he looks/sounds like as clearly as you can.  You are trying to SHOW how Joey is feeling, not tell us.
Then I mix them up and we read them and the rest of us try to decide which Joey you had. REMEMBER: NO TELLING.

Example: You can’t say, “He was starting to get sleepy…” It has to be something like, “His eyelids drooped for a second and then snapped open again. His head sagged to the side…”

 

The Outsiders…