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Course Description: Students will amend their writing skills by a variety of methods. They will be producing written piece of work in a diverseness of forms. Students will regularly write both creative fiction and researched not-fiction, while practicing poetic and literary devices. Writing assignments include poetry, a book review, a personal response, an expository essay, a compare and contrast essay, betoken of view, brusque stories, descriptions, and a novel. Students besides will develop their spelling and grammar skills through their writing assignments besides as through the use of online resources.

* PLEASE Notation * We would encourage you to find a peer editing partner. On Lesson 40, they will be encouraged to requite their essay to someone else to read in guild to get feedback. Ideally, this would exist someone in their same grade that they could reciprocate with, simply they should have someone who tin read it and provide feedback.

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Lesson 1

Welcome to your first day of school! I wanted to give you one important reminder before you begin. Many of your lessons below have an internet link for you lot to click on. When you get to the different internet pages for your lessons, delight DO NOT click on anything else on that page except what the directions tell y'all to. Practice NOT click on any advertisements or games. Practice Not click on anything that takes yous to a unlike website. But stay focused on your lesson and so close that window and y'all should be right dorsum hither for the next lesson. Okay?

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Writing

  1. Look at this listing of the 100 well-nigh beautiful words.
  2. Write a motto or catch phrase for the year using at least one of them.
    • Imbue gratefulness
    • Pay attention to the quintessential
    • First a ripple
  3. Note: Curlicue up for information on worksheets for this course or for buying books to work offline.
  4. This is the end of your work for this course for your first twenty-four hour period. You are immune to motility at your own pace (this is homeschooling), but it's intended y'all complete ane lesson a day.

Lesson 2

Writing

  1. Look for rhyming words in this poem:"Promise Is a Affair with Feathers."
  2. At that place is rhyming, only it isn't a strict rhyme.
  3. Look for rhythm in the poem (count syllables).
  4. There is rhythm, just once more, it isn't a strict pattern.
  5. Choose a feeling to write a poem nigh.
  6. Think of an image to describe information technology (similar the bird in the poem describes promise).
  7. Write a poem in the style of this poem. Utilize her rhyme and rhythm patterns.

Lesson three

Writing

  1. Write a poem that imitates this one: "A Thanksgiving to God." Await for its rhythm and rhyming patterns.
  2. Choose a point you want to make.
  3. Make it! Write a poem in the fashion of this poem.

Lesson 4

Writing

  1. Write a psalm.
  2. Use at to the lowest degree one simile.  Demand a reminder?

Lesson 5

Writing

  1. Tell a story in couplets. Your story tin be as simple as waking upwardly and eating breakfast, but you accept to write at least two couplets.
  2. What'south a couplet? A couplet is a pair of rhyming lines of same length. Here is an example from a Keats poem: "Of the wood'south whispering fleeces, Since men knew nor rent nor leases."

Lesson half dozen

Spelling

  1. Do this intro spelling lesson. Click on each word. Then look abroad and try to spell information technology out loud, or open a word processing document and type each word.

Lesson 7

Spelling

  1. Observe the words.

Lesson eight

Spelling

  1. Lucifer the words.

Lesson 10

Spelling

  1. Tin can you spell the words?

Lesson 11

Spelling

  1. Do this intro spelling lesson. Click on each give-and-take. So look abroad and try to spell it out loud, or open a word processing document and type each give-and-take.

Lesson 12

Spelling

  1. Find the words.

Lesson thirteen

Spelling

  1. Match the words.

Lesson xv

Spelling

  1. Can y'all spell the words?

Lesson 16

Spelling

  1. Do this intro spelling lesson. Click on each word. Then await away and endeavour to spell it out loud, or open a give-and-take processing document and blazon each word.

Lesson 17

Spelling

  1. Find the words.

Lesson 18

Spelling

  1. Lucifer the words.

Lesson 22* (Note that an asterisk * indicates that there is a worksheet on this lesson)

Grammar*

  1. *Print this page and find the mistakes in these paragraphs. In that location are a total of ten mistakes. (Answers)
  2. Make sure y'all sympathize why if you got something incorrect. If you don't understand, ask a parent. If no i knows why, write and ask me.

Lesson 23*

Grammer*

  1. *Print this page and detect the mistakes in these paragraphs. There are a total of ten mistakes. (Answers)
  2. Brand sure yous understand why if you got something wrong. If y'all don't understand, ask a parent. If no one knows why, write and ask me.

Lesson 24*

Grammar*

  1. *Print this page and find the mistakes in these paragraphs. At that place are a total of ten mistakes. (Answers)
  2. Brand sure you empathise why if yous got something wrong. If you don't understand, enquire a parent. If no ane knows why, write and ask me.

Lesson 25

Writing

  1. If you could pick someone you know to exist president, who would y'all pick and why?

Lesson 26

Writing

  1. Write a dialogue betwixt the chief grapheme in the book you lot are reading and someone else, such equally a friend, his mother, his instructor…
  2. Here are some dialogue reminders. The punctuation e'er comes before the quotation marks. Each new speaker must brainstorm on a new line.
    • "I can't," he said.  (comma inside the quote and lowercase he)
    • He said, "You can."  (comma before the quote and uppercase You)
    • "I won't!" he yelled.  (lowercase he)
    • "You volition!" He pointed firmly across the room.  (uppercase He, no speech tag "said")
  3. While part of the point is to practice proper dialogue form, another part of the point is to push yous creatively. You tin practice creativity just like you practice anything else in order to get improve at it.

Lesson 27*

Grammar*

  1. *Print this page and find the mistakes in these paragraphs. There are a total of x mistakes. (Answers)
  2. Make certain you sympathize why if yous got something wrong. If you don't empathize, inquire a parent. If no one knows why, write and ask me.

Lesson 28

Writing

  1. Write an advertisement for the paper. You've lost a pet, or you are looking to buy an quondam _____ if someone has ane to offering. What would you lot say? What would you ask for? What would you be willing to pay?

Lesson 29*

Grammer*

  1. *Print this page and observe the mistakes in this paragraph (at the tiptop of the page). In that location are a total of five mistakes. (Answers)
  2. Make sure you empathize why if yous got something wrong. If you lot don't understand, inquire a parent. If no one knows why, write and enquire me.
  3. Play word invasion. Leave everything checked. You tin can become extra practice on the bottom of your worksheet if yous'd like.

Lesson thirty*

Grammar*

  1. *Impress this folio and find the mistakes in these paragraphs. In that location are a full of ten mistakes. (Answers)
  2. Make sure you understand why if you got something wrong. If you don't empathize, ask a parent. If no one knows why, write and ask me.

Lesson 31

Writing

  1. Yous've only been elected president of the globe. What will you do first? Why? How will you become nigh it?

Lesson 32*

Grammar*

  1. *Impress this page and find the mistakes in these paragraphs. At that place are a total of 10 mistakes. (Answers)
  2. Make sure you understand why if y'all got something wrong. If you don't sympathise, ask a parent. If no one knows why, write and enquire me.

Lesson 33*

Grammar*

  1. *Print this page and find the mistakes in these paragraphs. There are a total of x mistakes. (Answers)
  2. Make sure y'all understand why if you got something incorrect. If you don't understand, ask a parent. If no one knows why, write and ask me.

Lesson 34

Writing

  1. Write "a model letter to a friend on some subject of full general interest."
  2. Hither'south a how-to reminder on the form of a friendly letter.

Lesson 35*

Spelling

  1. Play this spelling activity. You tin build the words in all directions.

Grammar*

  1. *Print this page and discover the mistakes in this paragraph (at the acme of the page). There are a total of five mistakes.(Answers)
  2. Make sure you lot understand why if you got something incorrect. If you don't sympathize, ask a parent. If no i knows why, write and ask me.

Lesson 36*

Writing*

  1. *Impress out this graphic organizer. Today you are going to plan out a five-paragraph essay on a subject area you are learning about or take only learned about for school.
  2. Write in your proper noun, date and topic. Don't choose a huge topic, like ancient Egypt. Choose something specific, like how the pyramids were made.
  3. Start with the "main idea" boxes. What are three main points y'all tin make well-nigh your topic?
  4. Today you are going to list facts in the "supporting facts" boxes. Fill up in equally many as you can with at least 2 filled in for each column. The facts should be listed under the appropriate main idea.
  5. Do a little more research if you take to.

Lesson 37

Writing

  1. Today write the introduction for your essay. Typing information technology will make it easier to edit later.
  2. Your get-go judgement should get your reader'due south attending. Showtime with a question, an interesting quote, or a strange or amazing fact. Tell more than about your topic, only don't give away your facts however. Then, finish the paragraph with yourthesis statement, the sentence that tells what your essay is about. Make sure your thesis is what your "chief ideas" from Lesson 36 will tell about.
  3. Your first paragraph needs to exist 3-five sentences long. My instance below…
  • You've seen pictures of pyramids, right? Did you lot know that each stone in a pyramid weighed as much every bit a car? The pyramids were built with a lot of hard piece of work, merely also with a lot of intelligence. The pyramids were an amazing feat of engineering.

Lesson 38

Writing

  1. Today write the first two of your paragraphs for the body of your essay. Brand sure you order your middle paragraphs so they flow with the nigh sense. Besides make certain you utilise different types of sentences of unlike lengths.
  2. Watch this presentation on calculation the details to the body of your paragraphs.
  3. The first sentence of each paragraph will exist the topic judgement for that paragraph; it will tell what that paragraph is about. Then you will state the facts and any commentary you have. The last sentence is not just the concluding sentence for the paragraph merely also the transition to the next paragraph. Here's an example. What was the transition judgement I used to get from "workers" to the "inclined aeroplane"? How does it make the transition?  (Answers)
  • (topic sentence) You might imagine that the pyramids were made by slaves, merely really they were built by paid workers. (Then some facts…) Non just did the workers get paid plenty to pb comfortable lives, but new applied science made their work easier as well.
  • (topic judgement for the next paragraph) The inclined plane was, at the time, an ingenious way to get the incredibly heavy stones upwards the pyramid.

Lesson 39

Writing

  1. Write the third paragraph for the trunk of your essay. Make sure information technology transitions smoothly from the one before it. Utilise the instructions from Lesson 38.
  2. Write the conclusion to your essay. Theget-gosentence of your conclusion should recapitulate your t hesis. Do Not use the same wording.
  3. Sum upwards what you accept shared in your essay. Give some commentary on the subject. This needs to be 1 to 3 sentences.
  4. The concluding sentence of the paragraph should tell usa why you wrote virtually it, what's so important nigh this, why should nosotros care about this…make some sort of statement. Here's my example.
  • I recall the pyramids bear witness that God was right when he decided to confuse the languages of the people on earth. "Nothing they program to do will be impossible for them." (Genesis 11:6b, NIV 1984)

Lesson 40*

Writing*

  1. Edit your essay.
  2. *Here is an editing checklist.
  3. Give your essay to your peer editing partner, or at least to someone who can read it and give feedback. You tin send the checklist forth with it.
    • Ideally, your peer editing partner is someone in your same course. They don't have to apply EP. If y'all can't find someone like that amidst your family unit friends, then inquire someone older than y'all to read your essay and requite helpful feedback.
  4. Fix upwardly your essay ane more than time based on their feedback.
  5. Impress your essay when you are sure it'due south your best. Inquire a parent to add it to your portfolio.

Lesson 41

Writing

  1. Design a t-shirt for yourself, one that you would vesture every twenty-four hour period for a week and so that everyone would see what it says and what'southward on it. What would it await similar? What would information technology say? What would wearing it say nearly yous?

Lesson 42

Writing

  1. You are going to be writing a book review.Choose a book you've recently read.
  2. Read this example of a book review.
  3. Today you are going to write your introduction. Read the comments on the side of the instance and brand sure you lot follow all of those as instructions.

Lesson 43

Grammer

  1. Accept this parts of speech quiz.

Writing

  1. Today you are going to write the book summary and the following paragraph. Make sure you are following the example and using the side comments every bit instructions for your writing. Your writing should exist about the same length as the case. Brand certain you apply a variety of judgement types and lengths.

Lesson 44

Writing

  1. Today you lot will write another paragraph and your conclusion. Make sure yous are following the example and using the side comments as instructions for your writing. Your writing should be about the same length as the example. Make certain you use a diversity of judgement types and lengths.

Grammer

  1. Take this parts of speech quiz.  They have the respond to number fifteen incorrectly listed as a pronoun. What is the right answer? (Verb)

Lesson 45

Writing

  1. Reread the example. Read your book review and use the side comments on the example as a checklist to see if your review has those things. If you are missing something, edit your review and add it.
  2. Read your review out loud. Edit anything that sounds awkward.
  3. Bank check your spelling, punctuation, etc. Make sure the title of the book is underlined or written in italics.

Lesson 47*

Grammar*

  1. *Print this folio and detect the mistakes in these paragraphs. At that place are ten total mistakes. (Answers)
  2. Make certain you understand if y'all got something incorrect. If you don't sympathise, enquire a parent. If no one knows why, write and enquire me.

Lesson 48*

Writing

  1. Write a summary of the story of Little Ruddy Riding Hood. You can use the top of the worksheet from the side by side section if you'd similar.

Grammar*

  1. *Print this page and find the mistakes in this paragraph (at the bottom of the page). In that location are five full mistakes. (Answers)
  2. Make certain you lot empathize if you got something wrong. If you don't understand, inquire a parent. If no one knows why, write and enquire me.

Lesson 49*

Grammar*

  1. *Print this page and notice the mistakes in these paragraphs. There are ten total mistakes. (Answers)
  2. Make sure you lot understand if you got something wrong. If you don't sympathize, enquire a parent. If no one knows why, write and ask me.

Lesson 50

Writing

  1. Write what happens next in a favorite volume of yours. What happens after the story ends?

Lesson 51

Spelling

  1. Consummate the crossword online activeness (made with words from chapter 2 of Call of the Wild ).

Lesson 52

Grammar

  1. Copy this sentence (or re-create and paste it):
    He took Buck by the scruff of the neck, and though the dog growled threateningly, dragged him to one side and replaced Sol-leks.
  2. Marker the part of speech for each word in the sentence you copied.
  3. Then cheque your answers. (Call of the Wild parts of speech)
  4. What'south the bailiwick of the first part of this sentence?Time was flight, and they should have been on the trail an hr gone. (answer: Time)
  5. What's the subject of this sentence?The full general tone of the team picked upwardly immediately.(reply: The general tone of the squad)
  6. Tin y'all figure out the elementary subject? Which word is the real subject (the rest is decoration)? (respond:tone)
  7. What is the predicate of the tone sentence? (reply: picked up immediately —  It'southward whatever is non the subject.)

Lesson 53

Spelling

  1. Consummate the online wordsearch. (This tin exist printed if you prefer to do information technology offline.)

Lesson 54

Grammer

  1. What is the subject of this sentence?Thirty days from the fourth dimension it left Dawson, the Salt Water Postal service, with Buck and his mates at the fore, arrived at Skaguay.  (Answers)
  2. What is one prepositional phrase in the sentence? (Answers)
  3. What is the field of study of this judgement?   ReadingThe Telephone call of the Wild is i of my favorite parts of the twenty-four hours.
  4. What'southward the sentence about? What'southward the subject? Don't await until you've decided on your answer.  (answer: readingThe Call of the Wild )
  5. It looks similar a verb but it is the subject; in fact, "reading" is a noun in this judgement. It's a special kind of noun chosen agerund.Gerunds are –ing words that function equally nouns.
  6. Here's another example:  Finding the treasure would exist amazing!
  7. "Finding the treasure" is the bailiwick and "finding" is the gerund, a noun.
  8. Write iii sentences usinggerunds.

Lesson 55

Writing

  1. Write for at least xv minutes. Go!
  • Write the end of a affiliate or
  • write a short story or
  • write as the "I" graphic symbol in your story.

Lesson 57

Spelling

  1. Complete the discussion search. (This can exist printed if you adopt to do information technology offline.)

Lesson 58

Grammar

  1. Which of these contains agerund? Write how each –ing word is used. Reminder:Gerunds are –ing words that function equally nouns.  (Answers)
  • Smashing against rocks and snags, they veered into the bank.
  • Whining was his only response.
  • Writhing muscles strained at the load.

Lesson 59

Grammar

  1. Write v gerund sentences.

Lesson 60

Writing

  1. Write for at to the lowest degree fifteen minutes. Go! Merely write!

Lesson 61

Writing

  1. Rewrite the ending of a book you've recently read. What would accept made a meliorate ending?

Lesson 62

Writing

  1. This week you'll be writing a personal response to a book y'all accept recently finished for school. If y'all haven't recently finished one, you'll accept to choose a novel y'all've read to write nigh. You will exist following the example.
  2. Read the instance. You may have seen this before. Read all of the side notes equally well.
  3. Today make up one's mind on your thesis, 2 central points and look for textual evidence.

Lesson 63

Writing

  1. Write your introduction and get-go key point section.

Lesson 64

Writing

  1. Write your 2nd key point and conclusion.

Lesson 65

Writing

  1. Edit your report. Read it out loud. Make sure it is spelled correctly and punctuated correctly. Brand sure y'all use a diversity of sentence structures. Use long and short sentences. Alter some words to make better choices.
  2. When you are pleased with your work, print it out and share information technology.
  3. This might be something you want to add to your portfolio.

Lesson 66

Spelling

  1. Complete this spelling crossword. All of the words follow the spelling dominion: I earlier Eastward except after C.
  2. Impress out your crossword puzzle when y'all finish and enquire a parent to add information technology to your portfolio to show spelling.

Lesson 68

Grammar

  1. Some other type of judgement can commencement with an -ing verb, but in this instance, information technology is used as an adjective. It is called a participle. Your task is to make certain your participles don't dangle. Here'due south what I hateful.
  2. Tying his shoe, the boy was very proud of his accomplishment.
  3. Tying his shoe is the participle; well, technicallytying is the participle andtying his shoe is theparticiple phrase.
  4. Theparticiple is describingthe boy. Theparticiple phrase is ever followed by a comma and then the thing information technology is describing. If the next word/words don't tell you lot what the participle is describing, then we phone call that a dangling participle. Information technology's just hanging out in that location all by itself. That's a no-no. Don't exercise it.
  5. Here are some more examples:
  • Getting home on fourth dimension, she raced inside to make certain she didn't miss anything.
  • Finishing the last lap, he raised his arms in victory.
  • Panting, the domestic dog circled his bed and flopped downwards.
  • What are the participle phrases in the examples above and what practise they modify (describe)?  (Answers)

Lesson 69

Grammar

  1. Write three sentences with participle phrases.
  2. Here are the Lesson 68 examples:
    • Getting home on time, she raced within to make certain she didn't miss annihilation.
    • Finishing the last lap, he raised his arms in victory.
    • Panting, the dog circled his bed and flopped down.
  3. Now I'thou going to rewrite the first one as agerund:Getting home on time was important to her.
  4. Rewrite the other two sentences. Change theparticiple into agerund.

Lesson lxx

Writing

  1. Write a brusk story using at least one gerund and one participle. If you utilize more of any of those, get a high 5 and/or hug.

Lesson 71

Grammar

  1. Can you lot reply these questions about nouns?
  2. It's okay if you don't know it all. You can learn from what you get wrong!

Lesson 72

Writing

  1. You lot are going to begin writing a descriptive piece. Read this example.
  2. Cull what you are going to describe.
  3. Your goal should exist for your descriptive essay to be as long every bit this example.

Lesson 73

Writing

  1. Today write two similes and two metaphors that describe aspects of your topic.
  2. You can refer to the example for examples. Recall: similes and metaphors compare two unlike things. Metaphors call one thing the other. Similes employ like or as.

Lesson 74

Writing

  1. Reread the last paragraph on the first folio and the ii paragraphs that follow.
  2. Write a paragraph of Vivid description.
  3. Write a listing of specific verbs and great adjectives that can be used to depict your topic. Then list words that draw the smell, taste, audio, and feel of your topic.

Lesson 75

Writing

  1. Reread the first two paragraphs.
  2. Now write your first 2 paragraphs. Make certain you have a clearly stated topic judgement.

Lesson 76

Spelling

  1. Do this give-and-take search.

Writing

  1. Read the starting time page of the instance of descriptive writing.
  2. Write another paragraph. Think to use similes, metaphors, and vivid descriptions. Yous could employ the ones you've already written on your topic.

Lesson 77*

Grammer*

  1. *Impress this page and find the mistakes in these paragraphs. In that location are ten total mistakes. (Answers)
  2. Make sure you empathize if you lot got something wrong. If you don't sympathize, enquire a parent. If no i knows why, write and ask me.

Writing

  1. Reread the offset page of the example of descriptive writing.
  2. Write some other paragraph. Recollect to utilize similes, metaphors, and vivid descriptions. You could utilise the ones yous've already written on your topic.

Lesson 78*

Grammar*

  1. *Print this page and find the mistakes in these paragraphs. At that place are ten total mistakes. (Answers)
  2. Make sure you lot understand if you got something wrong. If you don't understand, ask a parent. If no i knows why, write and ask me.

Writing

  1. Read the second page of the example of descriptive writing.
  2. Write some other paragraph. Retrieve to use similes, metaphors, and bright descriptions.

Lesson 79*

Grammar*

  1. *Print this page and find the mistakes in these paragraphs. There are ten full mistakes. (Answers)
  2. Make sure you sympathise if you got something wrong. If y'all don't sympathize, enquire a parent. If no one knows why, write and enquire me.

Writing

  1. Read the second page of the example of descriptive writing.
  2. Write another paragraph. Remember to utilize similes, metaphors and vivid descriptions.

Lesson lxxx

Writing

  1. Read the terminal paragraph of the example of descriptive writing.
  2. Write your decision.
  3. How long is your essay? Is it at to the lowest degree two pages, like the instance?
  4. Print out your typhoon. That means impress out the descriptive writing you've been working on. A draft means that it'due south not in its concluding form.

Lesson 81

Writing

  1. Read this lesson on word choice.
  2. Read through your descriptive newspaper and brand changes in your word choice.

Grammar

  1. Await at this judgement. I left a bare intentionally.
    • Eating certain foods ________ make us "unclean", unholy.
  2. What is the discipline?  (Answers)
  3. What should the verb be: don't or doesn't?  (Answers)
  4. What kind of noun is the subject field of this sentence?  (Answers)

Lesson 82

Writing

  1. Read this lesson on sentences.
  2. Read through your descriptive paper. Underline all of your first words. Circle all of your connector words.
  3. Practise y'all have any interrogative, imperative or exclamatory sentences? If not, you should effort to add at to the lowest degree i of each. You don't have to add new sentences. You lot can modify what you accept.
  4. Practice yous take any really curt sentences? Exercise yous have any really long sentences? You should have both. Add them. Brand changes.
  5. Make sure your sentence length varies throughout your paper. Practise you utilise while, as, when, since…?

Lesson 83

Writing

  1. Read the page on conventions.
  2. Apply the strategies listed to read through your paper and wait for corrections.

Lesson 84

Writing

  1. Read through these writing techniques to keep in listen.
  2. What changes tin you make and then that your paper would get a perfect score?
  3. Add your name, date, and title to the top of your newspaper.

Lesson 85*

Writing*

  1. *Read through this rubric.
  2. Would your newspaper become a perfect score? If not, make changes.
  3. When you lot are entirely pleased, print it out.
  4. Give it to a parent to add to your portfolio.

Lesson 86

Spelling

  1. Practise yous recall these words?

Writing

  1. This week y'all are going to beginning working on an essay comparison and contrasting two things.
  2. Read about using transition words. Take note of the suggested words. They will exist useful in your essay to show contrast and comparison.

Lesson 87*

Grammar

  1. Play word invasion. Leave everything checked.

Writing*

  1. Your new writing assignment volition be to compare and contrast two things.
  2. Today you will read the instance I linked to and choose your topic. I advise using something from your science or history studies and so that you already accept the information you demand. You lot could compare and contrast the Romans and Greeks, two inventors, two elements, ii countries, two presidents…
  3. *Fill in this canvass (Compare and Contrast) with equally many ideas as you can come with. You don't have to use them all in your essay. Merely brainstorm and write equally many things as you can.

Lesson 88

Writing

  1. Today you lot need to figure out the iii main points you are going to make. These will be your three middle paragraphs.
  2. For these three things y'all will show how they are the same and where they differ.
    • If you lot were doing two countries, you could say, "Fifty-fifty though they are both in South America, they have very different climates." "While both countries use Spanish as an official language, their native languages are very different." "Some foods are eaten in both regions, but other dishes are unique to each locale."
    • These are just some ideas off the top of my head to bear witness yous. I didn't have any specific countries in mind. I was simply making it up.
  3. Use your sheet from Lesson 87 and pair upwards iii similarities and differences and write out three sentences like I just did.

Lesson 89

Grammar

  1. Read the directions earlier you lot offset! Identify the blazon of noun.

Writing

  1. Today you will write your introduction.
  2. Read the sample essay introduction.
  3. Your introduction should first with an interesting quote, question or comment. Then, provide background information on your two topics. Finally, conclude with your thesis statement. Your thesis statement will include the 3 things you are going to contrast, your three points. Listing these three points in the social club you are going to talk about them in your essay.
  4. Use the sample as a guide.

Lesson ninety

Grammar

  1. Read the lesson and  find the correct plurals.

Writing

  1. Read the second paragraph of the sample essay.
  2. Write your second paragraph. It should be on the point you list first in your thesis statement.
  3. Brand sure to include examples. Y'all tin't just say what is unlike; yous have to bear witness what is different.

Lesson 91

Writing

  1. Read the sample essay.
  2. Write your third paragraph. It should be on the 2d betoken you list in your thesis statement.
  3. Make sure your first sentence is your topic sentence for the paragraph.
  4. Brand sure to include examples. You lot can't just say what is different; you take to show what is different.

Lesson 92

Grammar

  1. Correct the paragraphs.

Writing

  1. Reread the 2d page of the sample essay.
  2. Write the last paragraph for the body of your essay. Information technology should exist on the last betoken you listing in your thesis statement.
  3. Make sure to include examples. You tin't simply say what is dissimilar; you have to testify what is dissimilar.

Lesson 93*

Grammer*

  1. *Correct the paragraphs. (Answers)

Writing

  1. Reread the 2d folio of the sample essay.
  2. Write your decision. What elements does a decision have? Make sure you stop with a good closing statement that wraps upwards the essay. Don't just let it end. You know how in a lot of movies they brand certain you know what happens to each character? They know people like things tied up neatly in a pretty bow. Don't leave loose ends. Tie upwardly your essay in a pretty bow. Write a closing statement that will go out usa with a skilful feeling inside, only like those movies.

Lesson 94*

Grammer

  1. Complete this pronoun do.

Writing*

  1. *Use the editing checklist to edit your essay.
  2. Read your essay out loud and change anything that doesn't sound right.
  3. Make changes! Make sure yous take long and short sentences that start in different ways. Do whatever of your sentences start with participles? They should. Do you use words similar since and however? Y'all should.

Lesson 95*

Grammar

  1. Complete this pronoun exercise.

Writing*

  1. *Use this scoring rubric to edit your essay.
  2. Edit your essay until it would get a perfect score.
  3. When you are ready, print out your essay.

Lesson 100*

Grammar

  1. Try this dissimilar sort of pronoun exercise.
  2. A pronoun reference error is when the pronoun is referring to the wrong matter or y'all can't tell what the pronoun is referring to.

Writing*

  1. *Consummate the exercises on sentences.
  2. Brand certain to follow the directions. (Yous can use your compare and contrast essay or descriptive slice.)

Lesson 101

Writing

  1. Choose a book you have recently finished reading or one you know well. You lot are going to be writing a book report on it today and on Lesson 102.
  2. Follow the directions and write the introduction and the next two paragraphs of the torso. They should include the following:
    • Introduction should include the title and author, when the book was published, how long it is, what genre of book information technology is (comedy, fantasy, non-fiction, mystery…), the author's purpose or theme, and a master thought sentence introducing your book written report.
    • Describe the setting and characters and mood of the story.
    • Summarize the story briefly.

Lesson 102

Writing

  1. Terminate writing your book report. You are going to write at least one paragraph explaining your analysis of the book. And then you lot'll end with a conclusion.
    • Did the writing make an impact?
    • What were the strengths and weaknesses of the book?
    • What did you recall nearly the volume? Was information technology exciting? Was information technology inspiring?
    • Would you recommend it? Explicate why or why not.
    • Conclude with your thoughts on the book, what yous are taking abroad from reading information technology, and what yous want your reader to know about it.
  2. Read your book report out loud and brand corrections.
  3. Make sure it covers what is required.

Lesson 103

Spelling

  1. Read the lesson and continue with the exercises on plurals.

Lesson 104

Grammer

  1. Write in the possessives.
    • plurals: dog –> dogs
    • possessive: canis familiaris's
    • plural possessive: dogs'
  2. Learn from your mistakes!

Lesson 105

Grammar

  1. Play possessives Battleship.
  2. If you are using touchscreen and find that difficult to use, you can do the same questions as a quiz.

Lesson 106

Spelling

  1. Take a quiz.

Lesson 107

Grammer

  1. Have the apostrophe quiz.

Writing

  1. You're sailing the 7 seas (every bit they say). Write a day's entry from the ship's log.
  2. Information technology doesn't have to be long, just make information technology exciting! You lot'll be continuing with this.

Lesson 108

Grammer

  1. What'south the difference between loose and lose?
    • Lose is a verb talking about something being lost.
    • Loose is an adjective describing something not being tight.
  2. Take the word pick quiz.

Writing

  1. Write a day'due south log from the ship. Make it fascinating!
  2. Continue the story from Lesson 107.

Lesson 109

Grammar

  1. Take the word selection quiz.
  2. Who is the subject. Whom is an object.
    • I should give information technology to whom?  Adjacent to whom volition I be sitting?

Writing

  1. Y'all've landed on an island. Describe the setting of the island.
  2. Continue the story

Lesson 110

Writing

  1. Turns out there are mutinous pirates on the island. What are you lot going to do?
  2. Stop the story.
  3. Yous could save this every bit a artistic writing sample.

Lesson 113

Writing

  1. Here'southward a listing of topics if you need an thought for something to write about.
  2. Start this timer. Go on resetting it until you accept your starting time judgement written.
  3. Then write for 10 minutes. Go!

Lesson 115

Writing

  1. Here's a list of topics if you demand an idea for something to write about.
  2. Commencement this timer. Proceed resetting information technology until you take your first sentence written.
  3. Then write for ten minutes. Become!

Lesson 117

Writing

  1. Y'all are going to write a point of view story. Actually, two. Actually, one. 🙂
  2. Yous are going to write a curt story, a page or less. Yous volition write the same story two times, each time from a different betoken of view. Each time your "I" will be a dissimilar character in the story.
  3. Your story could have two people who experience the same day, but one is having a expert and one a bad mean solar day.
  4. You could write most Paul Revere's ride, and 1 graphic symbol could be Paul Revere, and the other character could exist his equus caballus.
  5. Exist artistic. See how different you tin can make the 2 stories while keeping them theaforementioned story.
  6. Today come up up with your plan. Know what your story is going to exist. Describe your two characters and how the story will differ.

Lesson 118

Writing

  1. Write your start story.

Lesson 119

Writing

  1. Write your second story.

Lesson 120

Writing

  1. Finish your stories. Edit them thoroughly. Make sure you lot have varied types of sentences and judgement lengths. Make sure you lot have at to the lowest degree 1 simile or metaphor. Brand sure you lot use good descriptive words, strong verbs and specific nouns. Bank check your capitalization and punctuation.
  2. Read your stories aloud to an audience.
  3. Add together your name, appointment and title, "Point of View 1″ and "Indicate of View 2″ to them and impress them out. Requite them to a parent to add to your portfolio.

Lesson 121

Spelling

  1. Do this intro spelling lesson. Click on each discussion. So look away and endeavour to spell it out loud, or open a give-and-take processing certificate and blazon each word.

Lesson 122

Spelling

  1. Find the words.

Lesson 123

Spelling

  1. Match the words.

Lesson 127

Spelling

  1. Find the words.

Lesson 131

Grammar

  1. At that place is 1 more type of phrase I desire you to learn. I remember it'due south the easiest. You've learned gerunds, participles, and nowinfinitives. Theinfinitiveof a verb is when it is combined with "to."To eat dinner is an infinitive phrase. We're headed abodeto eat dinner. The "to" goes next to the verb; otherwise, yous have "split the infinitive."
  2. How many infinitives can you find in my reading directions for today? (Answer: 3)
    • To the verb is a prepositional phrase, non an infinitive phrase. An infinitive phrase is "to" plus an actual verb.

Lesson 133

Spelling

  1. Do you remember your words?

Lesson 134

Grammar

  1. Do this practise on gerunds and infinitives.
  2. Write in the infinitive grade or the gerund class (east.grand., to read or reading).

Lesson 135

Writing

  1. Write a song.
  2. It can exist short. It can exist just a chorus.

Lesson 136

Writing

  1. Write one of each blazon of sentence.
    • declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative, simple, compound, circuitous, using "withal," using a semicolon
  2. Get a high v and/or hug if you put them all into a story instead of writing isolated sentences.

Lesson 137

Grammer

  1. Exercise this exercise on participle phrases and dangling modifiers.
  2. Yous should learn from your mistakes.

Lesson 138

Grammar

  1. Practise this practice on participle phrases and dangling modifiers.
  2. You don't take to keep runway of your answers, only you should learn from your mistakes.

Lesson 139

Grammar

  1. Try some other exercise.
  2. You lot don't have to keep runway of your answers, but you should learn from your mistakes.

Lesson 140

Writing

  1. If you lot could heal 12 people, and just 12, whom would you heal and why?

Lesson 150

  1. Every day exercise 5 questions. Today do questions 41-45.
  2. Yous tin can bank check your answers at the stop.

Lesson 151*

Spelling

  1. *Find the misspelled words. (Answers)
  2. Spelling review: long vowels
    • a –> ai, ay, a_e
    • e –> e, y, ie, ee, ea, i_e, e_e
    • i –> igh, y, i_e
    • u–> ue, european union, ew, u_e
    • o–> ow, ough, oe, o_e
  3. Tin you think of an case of each spelling?

Lesson 153*

Writing*

  1. *Do the sentence structure worksheet. (Answers)
  2. Every story has a protagonist,the principal character, our hero. Every story exists in theconflict between the protagonist and the adversary.
  3. The antagonist doesn't have to be the "bad guy." Information technology could be the weather or terrain in a story almost pioneers traveling west.
  4. There must beconflict,or you have no story.
  5. Decide on your chief characters. Y'all need aprotagonist and antagonist.
  6. Draw them in every bit much particular every bit possible. You should be able to picture them. Yous should know their strengths and weaknesses; they should both have both. Practice they have a bad addiction? Something they say all the time? Are they funny, serious, a loner, a friend to everyone?

Lesson 154

Writing

  1. You should exist thinking nigh your story. Y'all should know yourantagonist and protagonist. You should know whatconflict will ascend betwixt them.
  2. If you lot are reading The King Volition Make a Style, what's the conflict?  (respond: Vulpine wants the male monarch dead and so he can rule. Gabe knows the King is alive, and he wants Him to rule the village.)
  3. At that place needs to be an incident in the beginning of your novel that sets off the conflict.
  4. If you are reading The Rex Will Make a Mode,what sets off the conflict? (respond: Gabe reads the Book of Law which makes him believe the King is alive.)
  5. The beginning of your novel needs to pose a question that's not going to be answered until the end.
  6. If yous are reading The King Will Brand a Fashion,what'southward the question?  (answer: Who will be king of the village?)
  7. What volition ready off your story?
  8. What is the big question in your book?
  9. What is the answer going to be?

Lesson 155*

Writing*

  1. I'grand trying to get y'all started on your novel as before long as possible, but we demand to visit characters one more time.
  2. Consider giving your protagonist and antagonist each a sidekick, a best friend, a helper, a tag-along-er.
  3. If you are reading The King Will Brand a Way,who is Gabe's "sidekick"?  (answer: Angela) Who is Vulpine'south "sidekick"?  (answer: Phineas)
  4. Choose your supporting characters. Describe them in item but like your chief characters. You should be able to describe a motion-picture show of them. You should know just what they look like and deed like. What are their strengths and weaknesses? Quirks? Personalities?
  5. Exist thinking most your story. How is it going to be begin? What's information technology going to be called? How is it going to finish?
  6. *Do the descriptive writing assignment.
  7. Write your descriptions (they don't have to make full the folio.) Read them to someone and see if they know what yous are describing.

Lesson 156*

Writing*

  1. You have characters. They are in disharmonize. Your story is set up, only…
  2. Where is it going to take place?
  3. You lot need to decide on your setting, the time and place of your story. You need a main setting. Is it in the hereafter? present twenty-four hours? historical? Is it at your business firm, in your town, in Bharat, in outer infinite, in a fictional land?
  4. Write a description. Draw a picture. Know everything nigh your setting.
  5. *Do the sentence blazon worksheet. (Answers)

Lesson 157*

Writing*

  1. Today, write descriptions and draw pictures for different pocket-size settings in your novel: a room, a field, a treehouse, a ship…
  2. Add as many details as possible. Flick it. The more details, the better your book will be.
  3. What virtually those locations will help or hinder your protagonist, your antagonist?
  4. Is in that location a secret hiding spot somewhere? Is at that place an object lying around in that location that volition help out one of your characters?
  5. *Consummate the parallel sentences worksheet.

Lesson 158

Writing

  1. Brand a list of 5 objects that yous could put into your story. If you get stuck, become back and await at the list and maybe yous'll get an idea.
  2. Brand a list of complications that could arise for your protagonist and for your adversary.
  3. If everything went right all the time for your protagonist, it would be boring. There have to be ups and downs. It has to wait like the answer to your question volition yes, then no, then yes, then no…

Lesson 159

Writing

  1. Your story volition first with the "exposition." That's the background of the story. It sets the scene.
  2. Then there volition be an incident that sets of the action of the story and raises the large question.
  3. Then there is the conflict, the activity as the story progresses. This is called the "rise action."
  4. Then you are going to get to the heady role, the climax. The respond to the question hangs in the residual. We are in suspense. What's going to happen? This tin play out over a few chapters.
  5. Then the answer comes. This is the "falling action."
  6. And so the end comes, the "resolution." Nosotros find out what happens to everyone and we end with a good, happy, warm and fuzzy feeling.
  7. Write out each of these steps for your story.

Lesson 160

Writing

  1. Brand a list of affiliate titles.
  2. Each chapter is its ain picayune story.
  3. Old-fashioned books used to have as chapter titles such equally "In Which Winnie the Pooh Gets Stuck in a Jar of Dearest."
  4. Write titles like that. You don't accept to utilize them in the book. It'south like making an outline.
  5. You need to set the background, gear up off your story, take conflict and complications, ups and downs, gear up up your climax, have lots of excitement and tension, respond the question, and tie everything upwards with a neat, pretty bow.

Lesson 161*

Writing*

  1. *Do this worksheet on oxymoron and irony.
  2. Often books useforeshadowing. Information technology tells you something that is going to happen. Foreshadowing makes y'all curious about what'due south going to happen. It often makes you say, "What!? Why?"
  3. Y'all tin can employ it at the finish of a chapter to get your audience to turn the page and read on!
  4. If you are reading The King Volition Make a Way,detect an example of foreshadowing on theshowtimepage of affiliate nine. (Answers)
  5. Look over your descriptions and everything you've written in training.
  6. Now get started. Write at least your first page. Getting started is the hardest. Once you start, keep upward the momentum and keep going!

Lesson+ 162

Writing

  1. Write. Write for at least thirty minutes. Don't become stuck. Only keep writing. You tin always edit it later.

Lesson 163*

Writing*

  1. When yous write, picture your story in your listen. It should play like a movie in your mind.
  2. *Complete dialogue lesson worksheet (Answers) and dialogue writing consignment, or write a dialogue in your novel.

Lesson 164*

Writing*

  1. When y'all write dialogue, brand sure the dialogue plays a part in the story. It shouldn't be meaningless. It should reveal to us more about the characters or motility the story along.
  2. *Complete the uncommon punctuation lesson. (Answers) Do the writing assignment or exercise information technology every bit role of your novel.

Lesson 165*

Writing*

  1. Write, write, write!
  2. *Complete this metaphor worksheet. If you aren't readingThe Rex Volition Make a Mode, discover any metaphor instance in a book yous are reading or accept recently read for school.

Lesson 168

Writing

  1. Write for 30 minutes.
  2. Accept you finished your book besides soon? Add more bug! More excitement!

Lesson 169

Writing

  1. Spend thirty minutes writing.

Lesson 170

Writing

  1. STOP! Go back and read your story out loud. Picture it as a movie in your mind. Hear the characters talk. Change anything that doesn't flow or make sense. Have you used all of your characters' characteristics? What is it they say all the time? Are they acting shy, funny, etc.? Have you shown their bad habits and other weaknesses? Accept yous described the setting so that everyone volition movie the aforementioned thing?
  2. Practise some editing today before you move on.

Lesson 171*

Writing*

  1. *Exercise the personification worksheet. If y'all write personification into your book today, yous can skip the writing assignment.
  2. Write for 30 minutes.

Lesson 172

Writing

  1. Write for 30 minutes.

Lesson 173

Writing

  1. Write for thirty minutes.

Lesson 174

Writing

  1. Write for xxx minutes.

Lesson 175

Writing

  1. Write for thirty minutes.

Lesson 176

Writing

  1. Write for thirty minutes.

Lesson 177*

Writing*

  1. Where are you in your novel? Have you figured out how to set up your climax? How information technology is all going to play out and resolve?
  2. Keep writing.
  3. *Do this worksheet on alliteration. If you aren't reading The King Will Brand a Way, find an example in a book you are reading or come upwards with your own examples. You don't take to make full out the worksheet if you lot write alliteration into your novel today.

Lesson 178*

Writing*

  1. *Exercise this worksheet on onomatopoeia. If you aren't reading The Male monarch Will Brand a Way, discover an example in a book you lot are reading or come up with your own examples. You lot don't have to do the writing portion if you add together onomatopoeia into your writing today.
  2. Write for 30 minutes.

Lesson 179

Writing

  1. Read your novel. Make sure you are watching the moving picture of your book in your mind. What needs irresolute? What doesn't make sense? What doesn't sound right? What needs more than clarification? How tin you add longer sentences, similes, metaphors, foreshadowing?
  2. Keep writing.

Lesson 180

Writing

  1. You made it to the terminal 24-hour interval of school. I don't know where you lot are in your novel.
  2. Continue writing if you have more to go.
  3. If you lot got to the stop, spend lots of fourth dimension reading your novel and making it meliorate. Writers spend as much time editing as they exercise writing.
  4. Choose better words, alter the lengths of your sentences. Add to your descriptions.
  5. If yous desire to turn information technology into a real volume, y'all can employ a gratuitous service chosen KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) through Amazon.com. Follow their directions and you tin can publish your volume for costless. It will assist you make a comprehend and everything. So your friends and family unit can buy your book!

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