Coming 'After' Thanksgiving and before Holidays

• Midwest Region
• GRAAB Non-fiction WritingTechniques
• Poetry Unit-Introduction
• Nouns Test (Make sure you have tackled all the exercises on the blog on Nouns)
• Figurative and Sensory Writing (in class writing assessment)
• Figurative and Sensory Reading Test (simile, metaphor, hyperbole, alliteriation, personification, onomatopoeia, sensory language)
• Selection of States for State Report

Personal Narratives

Feel free to share some of your best sentence (s) that you create in your narratives on the blog.  State what type of sentence your are sharing e.g. sensory, figurative, action,  emotion, use of proper nouns, quotes etc... Other students are encouraged to give  polite, respectful constructive feedback where possible.

Narrative Writing - Time Shift (Past Perfect)Sentences

Use these exercises to practice creating 'time shift' sentences in narrative writing.
Who said 'time travel' was impossible?

http://www.english-zone.com/verbs/pstperf1.html
http://odl.vwv.at/english/odlres/res8/Grammar/grammar_exercises/tenses/past_perfect/pastperf3.htm
http://odl.vwv.at/english/odlres/res8/Grammar/grammar_exercises/tenses/past_perfect/pastperf1.htm
http://www.learnenglish.de/Games/Tenses/PastPerfectTest.htm
http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/grammar/tense/3.1.xml
http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/140.html

This is a 'challenge' exercise that only a few of you will understand. +2 if you can do these questions!!!
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs11.htm

Enjoy these videos to see the 'time shift' sentences, more commonly known as past perfect sentences, used in real context.

H/W Clarification

For tonight's h/w activity... you only need to get 'sensory' words from one of the following five topics that appear on the video (video choice number 2):

• The lagoon
• Helicopter landing
• Snowboarder falling
• Pizza eating
• Ocean waves

You should have sensory words/phrases under the five sense categories (between 12-20) for just one of the above topics.

If you have already done this H/W differently, that don't worry...that is fine.

Figurative language Practice Exercises

SENSORY LANGUAGE WORD BANK

Use this link to get ideas for your ‘sensory language’ sentence constructions

http://www.yoakumisd.net/junior_high/bartosh/bartosh2.html  

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE EXERCISES AND PRACTICE

Simile

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/similepractice.html

http://www.worsleyschool.net/socialarts/simile/page2.html

Personification Practice

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/personificationpractice.html

Metaphor

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/metaphorpractice.html

http://www.quia.com/quiz/234882.html

Examples of Figurative Language

http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/jacob_wismer/leahy/2006/flb/flb.htm

Research the word ‘hyperbole’. What type of figurative language is it?

http://www.quia.com/rr/397508.html

This activity contains questions on content we haven’t covered yet, but it is a fun game to play.

http://www.newton.k12.ks.us/tech/fling3.html