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Sunday, October 25, 2015

Suspense Writing: Day 1

Homework CD and EF classes only. 
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

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  1. Shadows, dark and long, follow you as you walk down the icy cold streets.

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  2. I 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.

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  3. I feel the pounding rain/ thundering against my face/,cold and harsh

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  4. . I could not use the electricity, so the hallways and rooms were always pitch black.

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  5. his relief was an apple, bright round, and plump, hanging over a tree, what he didn’t know was there blood on the apple

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  6. As I stared at the castle gate, strong but yet withered.

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  7. Trees, standing tall were everywhere.

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  8. I could hear the horrible sounds coming through the trees this felt like I was in a horror film except, this was real.

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  9. The fire, not too dim and yet not too bright, was waiting there for someone to warm up to.

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  10. I kept walking, my face, as pale as a ghost.

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  11. he one thing you could make out/ was the single chair,ocking back and forth

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  12. I sat there for what seemed like an eternity, waiting patiently, for the principal to return to the room, dark lifeless.

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  13. A sudden wind, fierce and unanticipated, drifts right past you.

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  14. A thunderstorm/, violent and vicious/, hit the /little house /that a kid/ was in it.

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  15. The thunder echoed through the night, calling to all the creatures, lonely, forlorn and dead.

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  16. The diver feels a water hit him in the side, fast cold.

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  17. Her arms flailed, psychotic desperate, to shove my hand away.

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