Summer Reading 2019

In a five sentence paragraph tell me what book you are reading, what was exciting about your book, and whether you liked your book or not.  Describe your main character, if there is more than one character in the story describe at least two Write the title of your book, plus the minutes you read today. 

Write the title of your book, plus the minutes you read today? Tell me a little bit more about your book, what have you found interesting?

Write the title of your book, plus the minutes that your read today. I would like for your to look at the poems from yesterday, you can guess what your peers wrote about in the comment. 

Write the title of your book, plus the minutes that your read today. Today we will be working with personification. After looking at some of your author's examples of figurative of speech. I would like for you to write a poem using personification.  Personification is when you give "things" human like qualities. \  Instructions are in the handout posted. * Do not state what the object is like the title states, instead leave it for us to guess on Friday* Remember the words that you can describe are in the handout.  Only use one for your poem It would not be fair if I did not write a poem myself, here is my example. I get crumbled and cracked when the warm sun rises. I feel the wind blowing in my cheek. I fall, fall, fall, gently to floor. Hoping that I do not break any of my chlorophyll bones. What am I?

Write the title of your book, plus the minutes you read today. As you may have noticed, this week we will be working on how authors use different figurative of speech to make their book more interesting for the reader. Author's also appeal to the reader's senses.  Have you ever read a book, where you can clearly imagine the cake sitting on the table.  Author's do that on purpose, so you can sink in to the story. Today, I would like for you to pay close attention to how your author writes the story and what senses are being triggered while reading the book. Quote 3 examples, plus the page number where you found it.

Write the Title of your book plus the minutes you read today. Looking at the Poetry Tool handout that is posted, see if you can find any of these writing tools being used in your book. Although this are poetry tools, author's use them a lot in books. What tools did you find. Quote at least two examples, plus the page number you found the example Ex.  "Her cheeks were rosy red like a fine wine being served on the thanksgiving table(45)"