Spend 20 minutes working on your outline for your suspense story.
You must have bullet point ideas for:
1) Characters problems (list 4- 6 small things that go bad)
2) Setting - time/place
3) Names of characters
4) 2 or 3 things you will describe
5) Aspect of suspense e.g. twist ending - NO 'DREAM' endings!
Make a copy of this file: Suspense unit Digital notebook
Make a copy of this file: Opening and Delayed Adjectives and Adverbs
Grammar Recap
Speaking Recap
suspense stories student samples
Coming this Quarter:
- Ethos, pathos, logos
- Research based arguments
- Opening and Delayed adjectives and adverbs
- Parallelism, comparative, and superlatives
- Reading: techniques for text interpretation
Shadows, dark and long, follow you as you walk down the icy cold streets.
ReplyDeleteI try to stand up from where I am right now but the ground, dusty like an old and abandoned room, seems to be pulling me in like a wave driving you farther and farther from the shore.
ReplyDeleteI feel the pounding rain/ thundering against my face/,cold and harsh
ReplyDelete. I could not use the electricity, so the hallways and rooms were always pitch black.
ReplyDeletehis relief was an apple, bright round, and plump, hanging over a tree, what he didn’t know was there blood on the apple
ReplyDeleteAs I stared at the castle gate, strong but yet withered.
ReplyDeleteTrees, standing tall were everywhere.
ReplyDeleteI could hear the horrible sounds coming through the trees this felt like I was in a horror film except, this was real.
ReplyDeleteThe fire, not too dim and yet not too bright, was waiting there for someone to warm up to.
ReplyDeleteI kept walking, my face, as pale as a ghost.
ReplyDeletehe one thing you could make out/ was the single chair,ocking back and forth
ReplyDeleteI sat there for what seemed like an eternity, waiting patiently, for the principal to return to the room, dark lifeless.
ReplyDeleteA sudden wind, fierce and unanticipated, drifts right past you.
ReplyDeleteA thunderstorm/, violent and vicious/, hit the /little house /that a kid/ was in it.
ReplyDeleteThe thunder echoed through the night, calling to all the creatures, lonely, forlorn and dead.
ReplyDeleteThe diver feels a water hit him in the side, fast cold.
ReplyDeleteHer arms flailed, psychotic desperate, to shove my hand away.
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