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Grade Description: Students will meliorate their writing skills past a diverseness of methods. They will exist producing written piece of work in a diverseness of forms. Students will regularly write both creative fiction and researched non-fiction, while practicing poetic and literary devices. Writing assignments include poetry, a book review, a personal response, an expository essay, a compare and dissimilarity essay, point of view, short stories, descriptions, and a novel. Students too will develop their spelling and grammar skills through their writing assignments likewise as through the use of online resources.

* PLEASE Note * We would encourage you to find a peer editing partner. On Lesson 40, they volition be encouraged to requite their essay to someone else to read in social club to get feedback. Ideally, this would exist someone in their aforementioned form that they could reciprocate with, but they should have someone who can read it and provide feedback.

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Lesson 1

Welcome to your commencement day of schoolhouse! I wanted to give you ane of import reminder before you brainstorm. Many of your lessons below take an internet link for you to click on. When you go to the different internet pages for your lessons, please DO NOT click on anything else on that page except what the directions tell yous to. DO Not click on any advertisements or games. Practice Not click on anything that takes you to a different website. Just stay focused on your lesson and then close that window and y'all should exist right back here for the next lesson. Okay?

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Parents: Please decide about buying books or printing out the worksheet packets for the year. You'll want those worksheets available when they come up in the curriculum. Ringlet upwards to a higher place Lesson 1 to run into the book options.

Writing

  1. Expect at this list of the 100 near beautiful words.
  2. Write a motto or catch phrase for the year using at least one of them.
    • Imbue gratefulness
    • Pay attending to the quintessential
    • Start a ripple
  3. Annotation: Scroll 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 allowed to move at your own pace (this is homeschooling), simply information technology's intended y'all consummate one lesson a day.

Lesson 2

Writing

  1. Look for rhyming words in this verse form:"Hope Is a Matter with Feathers."
  2. There is rhyming, but it isn't a strict rhyme.
  3. Look for rhythm in the verse form (count syllables).
  4. In that location is rhythm, simply again, information technology isn't a strict pattern.
  5. Choose a feeling to write a poem virtually.
  6. Recall of an epitome to describe it (like the bird in the poem describes hope).
  7. Write a verse form in the way of this verse form. Use her rhyme and rhythm patterns.

Lesson 3

Writing

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

Lesson 4

Writing

  1. Write a psalm.
  2. Employ at least 1 simile.  Demand a reminder?

Lesson v

Writing

  1. Tell a story in couplets. Your story tin can be equally simple as waking upwards and eating breakfast, merely yous have to write at least two couplets.
  2. What'due south a couplet? A couplet is a pair of rhyming lines of same length. Here is an example from a Keats poem: "Of the forest's whispering fleeces, Since men knew nor rent nor leases."

Lesson 6

Spelling

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

Lesson vii

Spelling

  1. Find the words.

Lesson eight

Spelling

  1. Match the words.

Lesson 11

Spelling

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

Lesson 12

Spelling

  1. Find the words.

Lesson xiii

Spelling

  1. Friction match the words.

Lesson sixteen

Spelling

  1. Do this intro spelling lesson. Click on each word. Then look abroad and attempt to spell it out loud, or open a word processing certificate and blazon each word.

Lesson 17

Spelling

  1. Find the words.

Lesson xviii

Spelling

  1. Lucifer the words.

Lesson 22* (Annotation that an asterisk * indicates that at that place is a worksheet on this lesson)

Grammar*

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

Lesson 23*

Grammer*

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

Lesson 25

Writing

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

Lesson 26

Writing

  1. Write a dialogue between the primary character in the book you are reading and someone else, such every bit a friend, his mother, his instructor…
  2. Here are some dialogue reminders. The punctuation always comes before the quotation marks. Each new speaker must begin on a new line.
    • "I can't," he said.  (comma within the quote and lowercase he)
    • He said, "Y'all can."  (comma before the quote and capital You)
    • "I won't!" he yelled.  (lowercase he)
    • "Yous volition!" He pointed firmly across the room.  (capital letter He, no speech tag "said")
  3. While function of the bespeak is to practice proper dialogue form, another part of the point is to push you creatively. You can practice creativity just like you practise anything else in order to become better at it.

Lesson 27*

Grammar*

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

Lesson 28

Writing

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

Lesson 29*

Grammar*

  1. *Impress this page and find the mistakes in this paragraph (at the top of the folio). There are a total of v mistakes. (Answers)
  2. Make sure you understand why if you lot got something wrong. If you don't sympathize, inquire a parent. If no one knows why, write and ask me.
  3. Play word invasion. Go out everything checked. You can get extra practice on the bottom of your worksheet if you'd like.

Lesson 30*

Grammar*

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

Lesson 31

Writing

  1. You've but been elected president of the world. What will you lot do first? Why? How will you become about it?

Lesson 32*

Grammar*

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

Lesson 33*

Grammar*

  1. *Print this folio and find the mistakes in these paragraphs. In that location are a full of x mistakes. (Answers)
  2. Make certain yous understand why if you got something incorrect. If you don't understand, inquire a parent. If no i knows why, write and inquire me.

Lesson 34

Writing

  1. Write "a model letter to a friend on some subject area of general interest."
  2. Here's a how-to reminder on the form of a friendly letter.

Lesson 35*

Spelling

  1. Play this spelling activeness. You can build the words in all directions.

Grammar*

  1. *Print this folio and find the mistakes in this paragraph (at the top of the page). There are a total of 5 mistakes.(Answers)
  2. Make sure you sympathise why if you lot got something wrong. If you don't empathize, inquire a parent. If no 1 knows why, write and enquire me.

Lesson 36*

Writing*

  1. *Print out this graphic organizer. Today you lot are going to program out a five-paragraph essay on a subject yous are learning about or have just learned virtually for school.
  2. Write in your name, engagement and topic. Don't choose a huge topic, like aboriginal Arab republic of egypt. Choose something specific, similar how the pyramids were made.
  3. Offset with the "main thought" boxes. What are iii main points you tin can brand about your topic?
  4. Today yous are going to list facts in the "supporting facts" boxes. Fill in as many as you can with at least two filled in for each column. The facts should exist listed under the appropriate main thought.
  5. Do a niggling more research if you have to.

Lesson 37

Writing

  1. Today write the introduction for your essay. Typing it will go far easier to edit later.
  2. Your first judgement should get your reader'due south attention. Get-go with a question, an interesting quote, or a strange or amazing fact. Tell more about your topic, merely don't requite abroad your facts yet. Then, finish the paragraph with yourthesis statement, the sentence that tells what your essay is about. Brand sure your thesis is what your "main ideas" from Lesson 36 will tell about.
  3. Your commencement paragraph needs to be three-5 sentences long. My example below…
  • Y'all've seen pictures of pyramids, right? Did you know that each stone in a pyramid weighed as much every bit a auto? The pyramids were congenital with a lot of hard work, but also with a lot of intelligence. The pyramids were an amazing feat of engineering.

Lesson 38

Writing

  1. Today write the offset two of your paragraphs for the torso of your essay. Make sure you club your middle paragraphs then they flow with the most sense. Too make certain you use different types of sentences of different lengths.
  2. Watch this presentation on adding 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 nearly. Then you will state the facts and any commentary you take. The concluding sentence is not merely the concluding sentence for the paragraph but likewise the transition to the adjacent paragraph. Here'south an instance. What was the transition judgement I used to become from "workers" to the "inclined airplane"? How does it make the transition?  (Answers)
  • (topic sentence) You lot might imagine that the pyramids were made by slaves, but really they were built by paid workers. (So some facts…) Not only did the workers get paid enough to lead comfortable lives, merely new technology made their work easier too.
  • (topic judgement for the next paragraph) The inclined plane was, at the time, an ingenious way to become the incredibly heavy stones up the pyramid.

Lesson 39

Writing

  1. Write the third paragraph for the body of your essay. Make sure it transitions smoothly from the one before it. Use the instructions from Lesson 38.
  2. Write the conclusion to your essay. Thebeginningsentence of your decision should restate your t hesis. Do Not use the same diction.
  3. Sum up what you take shared in your essay. Give some commentary on the subject. This needs to be 1 to 3 sentences.
  4. The last sentence of the paragraph should tell us why you lot wrote about information technology, what's so important nigh this, why should we intendance well-nigh this…brand some sort of statement. Here's my case.
  • I think the pyramids testify that God was right when he decided to confuse the languages of the people on earth. "Nothing they plan to practice will be incommunicable for them." (Genesis 11:6b, NIV 1984)

Lesson xl*

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 tin can read information technology and give feedback. You tin send the checklist forth with it.
    • Ideally, your peer editing partner is someone in your same grade. They don't have to use EP. If yous can't find someone like that among your family friends, then ask someone older than y'all to read your essay and requite helpful feedback.
  4. Prepare up your essay one more time based on their feedback.
  5. Print your essay when you are sure it'due south your all-time. Inquire a parent to add it to your portfolio.

Lesson 41

Writing

  1. Design a t-shirt for yourself, one that you lot would article of clothing every 24-hour interval for a week so that everyone would encounter what it says and what'south on information technology. What would it look similar? What would it say? What would wearing it say about you?

Lesson 42

Writing

  1. You are going to exist writing a volume review.Choose a book yous've recently read.
  2. Read this case of a book review.
  3. Today you lot are going to write your introduction. Read the comments on the side of the example and make certain you lot follow all of those as instructions.

Lesson 43

Grammar

  1. Take this parts of speech quiz.

Writing

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

Lesson 44

Writing

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

Grammar

  1. Accept this parts of speech quiz.  They have the answer to number 15 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 run across 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. Check your spelling, punctuation, etc. Make sure the title of the book is underlined or written in italics.

Lesson 47*

Grammar*

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

Lesson 48*

Writing

  1. Write a summary of the story of Petty Red Riding Hood. You can utilize the summit of the worksheet from the next department if you lot'd like.

Grammar*

  1. *Print this page and find the mistakes in this paragraph (at the bottom of the page). In that location are 5 full mistakes. (Answers)
  2. Make sure you lot sympathise if you got something wrong. If you don't understand, ask a parent. If no 1 knows why, write and enquire me.

Lesson 49*

Grammar*

  1. *Impress this page and find the mistakes in these paragraphs. There are ten full mistakes. (Answers)
  2. Make sure y'all understand if you got something incorrect. If you don't understand, ask 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. Complete the crossword online activity (made with words from affiliate 2 of Call of the Wild ).

Lesson 52

Grammar

  1. Copy this sentence (or copy 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. Mark the lexical category for each word in the sentence you lot copied.
  3. So bank check your answers. (Call of the Wild parts of speech)
  4. What'southward the field of study of the first part of this judgement?Time was flying, and they should have been on the trail an 60 minutes gone. (reply: Time)
  5. What's the subject of this sentence?The full general tone of the team picked upward immediately.(reply: The full general tone of the squad)
  6. Can you effigy out the simple subject? Which word is the real bailiwick (the rest is decoration)? (reply:tone)
  7. What is the predicate of the tone sentence? (answer: picked upwards immediately —  It'south whatever is non the subject area.)

Lesson 53

Spelling

  1. Consummate the online wordsearch. (This tin be printed if y'all prefer to practise it offline.)

Lesson 54

Grammar

  1. What is the subject of this sentence?Thirty days from the time it left Dawson, the Salt H2o Mail, with Buck and his mates at the fore, arrived at Skaguay.  (Answers)
  2. What is i prepositional phrase in the sentence? (Answers)
  3. What is the subject of this sentence?   ReadingThe Call of the Wild is ane of my favorite parts of the solar day.
  4. What's the judgement nearly? What'southward the subject area? Don't await until you've decided on your answer.  (answer: readingThe Call of the Wild )
  5. It looks like a verb but it is the subject; in fact, "reading" is a noun in this sentence. It'southward a special kind of noun chosen agerund.Gerunds are –ing words that function as nouns.
  6. Here's some other instance:  Finding the treasure would be amazing!
  7. "Finding the treasure" is the field of study and "finding" is the gerund, a substantive.
  8. Write three sentences usinggerunds.

Lesson 55

Writing

  1. Write for at least fifteen minutes. Go!
  • Write the end of a chapter or
  • write a short story or
  • write as the "I" character in your story.

Lesson 57

Spelling

  1. Complete the word search. (This can exist printed if you prefer to practice it offline.)

Lesson 58

Grammer

  1. Which of these contains agerund? Write how each –ing word is used. Reminder:Gerunds are –ing words that function as nouns.  (Answers)
  • Peachy 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 5 gerund sentences.

Lesson 60

Writing

  1. Write for at to the lowest degree fifteen minutes. Become! Simply write!

Lesson 61

Writing

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

Lesson 62

Writing

  1. This calendar week yous'll be writing a personal response to a book you take recently finished for school. If y'all oasis't recently finished ane, y'all'll accept to choose a novel you've read to write almost. You will exist following the example.
  2. Read the example. You may have seen this before. Read all of the side notes as well.
  3. Today decide on your thesis, two key points and look for textual testify.

Lesson 63

Writing

  1. Write your introduction and commencement primal point section.

Lesson 64

Writing

  1. Write your second key point and conclusion.

Lesson 65

Writing

  1. Edit your study. Read it out loud. Brand sure it is spelled correctly and punctuated correctly. Make sure you apply a variety of sentence structures. Use long and brusk sentences. Modify some words to make improve choices.
  2. When you are pleased with your work, print it out and share it.
  3. This might exist something you want to add to your portfolio.

Lesson 66

Spelling

  1. Complete this spelling crossword. All of the words follow the spelling rule: I earlier E except after C.
  2. Print out your crossword puzzle when y'all stop and ask a parent to add it to your portfolio to show spelling.

Lesson 68

Grammar

  1. Another type of sentence tin start with an -ing verb, merely in this case, it is used as an adjective. It is called a participle. Your job is to make sure your participles don't dangle. Here's what I mean.
  2. Tying his shoe, the male child 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 always followed by a comma and then the thing it is describing. If the side by side word/words don't tell you lot what the participle is describing, then we call that a dangling participle. It's just hanging out there all by itself. That's a no-no. Don't do it.
  5. Here are some more examples:
  • Getting home on time, she raced within to make sure she didn't miss anything.
  • Finishing the last lap, he raised his arms in victory.
  • Panting, the domestic dog circled his bed and flopped down.
  • What are the participle phrases in the examples above and what do they alter (describe)?  (Answers)

Lesson 69

Grammar

  1. Write three sentences with participle phrases.
  2. Here are the Lesson 68 examples:
    • Getting abode on time, she raced inside to make sure she didn't miss anything.
    • Finishing the last lap, he raised his arms in victory.
    • Panting, the dog circled his bed and flopped downward.
  3. Now I'thou going to rewrite the first one as agerund:Getting dwelling house on time was important to her.
  4. Rewrite the other ii sentences. Modify theparticiple into agerund.

Lesson lxx

Writing

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

Lesson 71

Grammar

  1. Tin you lot reply these questions about nouns?
  2. It'due south okay if yous don't know it all. Yous can learn from what you get wrong!

Lesson 72

Writing

  1. You are going to brainstorm writing a descriptive slice. Read this example.
  2. Choose what you are going to depict.
  3. Your goal should be for your descriptive essay to be as long equally this example.

Lesson 73

Writing

  1. Today write two similes and two metaphors that draw aspects of your topic.
  2. You can refer to the instance for examples. Remember: similes and metaphors compare two different things. Metaphors call one matter the other. Similes utilize like or every bit.

Lesson 74

Writing

  1. Reread the last paragraph on the outset page and the two paragraphs that follow.
  2. Write a paragraph of Bright description.
  3. Write a list of specific verbs and great adjectives that can be used to draw your topic. So list words that describe the odour, taste, audio, and feel of your topic.

Lesson 75

Writing

  1. Reread the first two paragraphs.
  2. Now write your outset two paragraphs. Make certain you take a clearly stated topic sentence.

Lesson 76

Spelling

  1. Practice this word search.

Writing

  1. Read the start folio of the example of descriptive writing.
  2. Write another paragraph. Call up to utilise similes, metaphors, and vivid descriptions. You could utilize the ones you've already written on your topic.

Lesson 77*

Grammar*

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

Writing

  1. Reread the first page of the example of descriptive writing.
  2. Write another paragraph. Remember to utilize similes, metaphors, and vivid descriptions. You could use the ones you've already written on your topic.

Lesson 78*

Grammar*

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

Writing

  1. Read the second folio of the example of descriptive writing.
  2. Write some other paragraph. Remember to use similes, metaphors, and vivid descriptions.

Lesson 79*

Grammar*

  1. *Print this folio and find the mistakes in these paragraphs. At that place are 10 total mistakes. (Answers)
  2. Make sure yous sympathise if yous got something incorrect. If y'all don't understand, inquire a parent. If no ane knows why, write and ask me.

Writing

  1. Read the 2d page of the instance of descriptive writing.
  2. Write another paragraph. Remember to use similes, metaphors and brilliant descriptions.

Lesson 80

Writing

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

Lesson 81

Writing

  1. Read this lesson on word option.
  2. Read through your descriptive paper and make changes in your word option.

Grammar

  1. Await at this sentence. I left a blank intentionally.
    • Eating certain foods ________ make us "unclean", unholy.
  2. What is the field of study?  (Answers)
  3. What should the verb be: don't or doesn't?  (Answers)
  4. What kind of noun is the bailiwick 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. Circumvolve all of your connector words.
  3. Practise you lot accept whatsoever interrogative, imperative or exclamatory sentences? If non, you should try to add together at least one of each. Y'all don't have to add together new sentences. You tin change what yous have.
  4. Exercise you have whatever really brusque sentences? Do you have any really long sentences? You should have both. Add them. Make changes.
  5. Make certain your sentence length varies throughout your paper. Do yous use while, every bit, when, since…?

Lesson 83

Writing

  1. Read the page on conventions.
  2. Use the strategies listed to read through your newspaper and expect for corrections.

Lesson 84

Writing

  1. Read through these writing techniques to keep in heed.
  2. What changes can y'all make so that your paper would become a perfect score?
  3. Add your proper name, date, and title to the top of your paper.

Lesson 85*

Writing*

  1. *Read through this rubric.
  2. Would your paper go a perfect score? If not, make changes.
  3. When y'all are entirely pleased, print it out.
  4. Requite it to a parent to add to your portfolio.

Lesson 86

Spelling

  1. Do you recall these words?

Writing

  1. This week you are going to beginning working on an essay comparing and contrasting two things.
  2. Read nearly using transition words. Accept note of the suggested words. They will be useful in your essay to bear witness contrast and comparison.

Lesson 87*

Grammar

  1. Play word invasion. Leave everything checked.

Writing*

  1. Your new writing assignment will be to compare and contrast two things.
  2. Today you will read the case I linked to and cull your topic. I suggest using something from your science or history studies so that you lot already have the information you need. You could compare and dissimilarity the Romans and Greeks, two inventors, 2 elements, two countries, ii presidents…
  3. *Make full in this canvass (Compare and Contrast) with as many ideas every bit you can come up with. You don't take to use them all in your essay. But brainstorm and write as many things equally yous tin can.

Lesson 88

Writing

  1. Today you need to figure out the three primary points you are going to make. These will be your three eye paragraphs.
  2. For these iii things yous volition show how they are the aforementioned and where they differ.
    • If yous were doing two countries, you could say, "Even though they are both in Southward America, they have very dissimilar climates." "While both countries use Spanish every bit an official language, their native languages are very dissimilar." "Some foods are eaten in both regions, but other dishes are unique to each locale."
    • These are simply some ideas off the elevation of my head to prove you. I didn't have any specific countries in mind. I was but making information technology upwards.
  3. Employ your canvas from Lesson 87 and pair up 3 similarities and differences and write out 3 sentences like I merely did.

Lesson 89

Grammar

  1. Read the directions before you outset! Identify the type of substantive.

Writing

  1. Today yous will write your introduction.
  2. Read the sample essay introduction.
  3. Your introduction should start with an interesting quote, question or comment. Then, provide background data on your two topics. Finally, conclude with your thesis statement. Your thesis statement will include the iii things you are going to contrast, your iii points. List these three points in the order y'all are going to talk about them in your essay.
  4. Utilise the sample as a guide.

Lesson 90

Grammar

  1. Read the lesson and  notice the right plurals.

Writing

  1. Read the 2d paragraph of the sample essay.
  2. Write your second paragraph. It should exist on the betoken you list outset in your thesis argument.
  3. Make sure to include examples. You can't just say what is unlike; y'all have to prove what is different.

Lesson 91

Writing

  1. Read the sample essay.
  2. Write your tertiary paragraph. It should be on the 2d point you list in your thesis statement.
  3. Brand sure your first judgement is your topic sentence for the paragraph.
  4. Brand sure to include examples. You lot can't only say what is different; you have to bear witness what is unlike.

Lesson 92

Grammer

  1. Correct the paragraphs.

Writing

  1. Reread the second page of the sample essay.
  2. Write the concluding paragraph for the torso of your essay. It should be on the concluding point y'all list in your thesis statement.
  3. Brand sure to include examples. You can't only say what is unlike; you lot have to show what is different.

Lesson 93*

Grammar*

  1. *Correct the paragraphs. (Answers)

Writing

  1. Reread the 2nd page of the sample essay.
  2. Write your decision. What elements does a conclusion have? Brand sure you end with a proficient closing argument that wraps up the essay. Don't but allow information technology end. You know how in a lot of movies they brand sure you know what happens to each graphic symbol? They know people like things tied up neatly in a pretty bow. Don't get out loose ends. Necktie up your essay in a pretty bow. Write a closing statement that will leave usa with a good feeling inside, merely like those movies.

Lesson 94*

Grammar

  1. Complete this pronoun exercise.

Writing*

  1. *Utilize the editing checklist to edit your essay.
  2. Read your essay out loud and modify anything that doesn't sound right.
  3. Brand changes! Brand sure you have long and short sentences that offset in unlike ways. Do whatever of your sentences start with participles? They should. Exercise you utilise words like since and however? Yous should.

Lesson 95*

Grammar

  1. Consummate this pronoun exercise.

Writing*

  1. *Use this scoring rubric to edit your essay.
  2. Edit your essay until information technology would go a perfect score.
  3. When you lot are set, print out your essay.

Lesson 100*

Grammar

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

Writing*

  1. *Complete the exercises on sentences.
  2. Make certain to follow the directions. (You tin can employ your compare and contrast essay or descriptive piece.)

Lesson 101

Writing

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

Lesson 102

Writing

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

Lesson 103

Spelling

  1. Read the lesson and go along with the exercises on plurals.

Lesson 104

Grammar

  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 utilize, you can do the same questions equally a quiz.

Lesson 106

Spelling

  1. Accept a quiz.

Lesson 107

Grammar

  1. Take the apostrophe quiz.

Writing

  1. You're sailing the seven seas (as they say). Write a day'southward entry from the ship's log.
  2. It doesn't have to be long, but make it exciting! You'll be continuing with this.

Lesson 108

Grammar

  1. What'due south the deviation betwixt loose and lose?
    • Lose is a verb talking nearly something beingness lost.
    • Loose is an adjective describing something not being tight.
  2. Take the word choice quiz.

Writing

  1. Write a twenty-four hour period's log from the ship. Make it fascinating!
  2. Continue the story from Lesson 107.

Lesson 109

Grammer

  1. Take the discussion choice quiz.
  2. Who is the subject. Whom is an object.
    • I should give it to whom?  Next to whom will I exist sitting?

Writing

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

Lesson 110

Writing

  1. Turns out at that place are mutinous pirates on the island. What are y'all going to do?
  2. Finish the story.
  3. You lot could save this every bit a creative writing sample.

Lesson 113

Writing

  1. Here's a listing of topics if you need an thought for something to write about.
  2. Start this timer. Keep resetting it until you lot have your first judgement written.
  3. Then write for ten minutes. Go!

Lesson 115

Writing

  1. Hither's a listing of topics if you need an idea for something to write near.
  2. Offset this timer. Proceed resetting information technology until you accept your first sentence written.
  3. So write for ten minutes. Go!

Lesson 117

Writing

  1. Y'all are going to write a point of view story. Actually, 2. Really, one. 🙂
  2. You are going to write a brusque story, a page or less. Yous volition write the aforementioned story two times, each time from a different point of view. Each fourth dimension your "I" will exist a different character in the story.
  3. Your story could have two people who experience the same day, simply 1 is having a expert and ane a bad twenty-four hour period.
  4. You could write almost Paul Revere'south ride, and one character could exist Paul Revere, and the other grapheme could exist his equus caballus.
  5. Exist creative. Run into how different you tin can make the two stories while keeping them thesame story.
  6. Today come up with your plan. Know what your story is going to be. Describe your two characters and how the story will differ.

Lesson 118

Writing

  1. Write your outset story.

Lesson 119

Writing

  1. Write your second story.

Lesson 120

Writing

  1. Finish your stories. Edit them thoroughly. Make certain you take varied types of sentences and sentence lengths. Brand sure you accept at to the lowest degree 1 simile or metaphor. Make sure you utilise expert descriptive words, strong verbs and specific nouns. Check your capitalization and punctuation.
  2. Read your stories aloud to an audience.
  3. Add your name, date and title, "Point of View 1″ and "Indicate of View 2″ to them and print them out. Give them to a parent to add to your portfolio.

Lesson 121

Spelling

  1. Exercise this intro spelling lesson. Click on each word. Then wait away and try to spell information technology out loud, or open up a word processing document and type 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

Grammer

  1. In that location is i more blazon of phrase I desire you to learn. I think it's 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 hometo consume dinner. The "to" goes adjacent to the verb; otherwise, you have "split the infinitive."
  2. How many infinitives tin can you lot find in my reading directions for today? (Answer: three)
    • 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 lot retrieve your words?

Lesson 134

Grammar

  1. Practice this do on gerunds and infinitives.
  2. Write in the infinitive form or the gerund class (east.g., to read or reading).

Lesson 135

Writing

  1. Write a song.
  2. It can be short. Information technology tin can be just a chorus.

Lesson 136

Writing

  1. Write one of each type of sentence.
    • declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, imperative, elementary, compound, circuitous, using "however," using a semicolon
  2. Become a high five 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. Y'all should larn from your mistakes.

Lesson 138

Grammer

  1. Do this exercise on participle phrases and dangling modifiers.
  2. Y'all don't take to go along track of your answers, merely y'all should learn from your mistakes.

Lesson 139

Grammer

  1. Endeavor another exercise.
  2. Yous don't accept to go on rails of your answers, but you should larn from your mistakes.

Lesson 140

Writing

  1. If y'all could heal 12 people, and only 12, whom would you lot heal and why?

Lesson 150

  1. Every day practise v questions. Today practise questions 41-45.
  2. You lot can check your answers at the finish.

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, eu, 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 main character, our hero. Every story exists in theconflict between the protagonist and the antagonist.
  3. The adversary doesn't take to be the "bad guy." It could be the weather or terrain in a story well-nigh pioneers traveling w.
  4. There must existconflict,or yous have no story.
  5. Decide on your chief characters. Y'all demand aprotagonist and antagonist.
  6. Describe them in as much item equally possible. Yous should be able to picture them. You should know their strengths and weaknesses; they should both have both. Exercise they take a bad habit? Something they say all the time? Are they funny, serious, a loner, a friend to everyone?

Lesson 154

Writing

  1. You should exist thinking most your story. Y'all should know yourantagonist and protagonist. You should know whatdisharmonize will arise between them.
  2. If you are reading The King Will Make a Way, what'due south the conflict?  (reply: Vulpine wants the king dead so he can rule. Gabe knows the Male monarch is alive, and he wants Him to dominion the village.)
  3. There needs to be an incident in the beginning of your novel that sets off the conflict.
  4. If you are reading The King Will Brand a Way,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 cease.
  6. If you are reading The King Will Make a Way,what'south the question?  (reply: Who will exist king of the village?)
  7. What will set up off your story?
  8. What is the big question in your book?
  9. What is the respond going to be?

Lesson 155*

Writing*

  1. I'k trying to go you lot started on your novel as soon every bit possible, but we need to visit characters one more fourth dimension.
  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 Rex Will Make a Style,who is Gabe'due south "sidekick"?  (reply: Angela) Who is Vulpine'southward "sidekick"?  (respond: Phineas)
  4. Cull your supporting characters. Depict them in particular just like your main characters. You should be able to draw a picture show of them. You should know merely what they look like and act similar. What are their strengths and weaknesses? Quirks? Personalities?
  5. Be thinking virtually your story. How is it going to be begin? What'southward it going to be called? How is it going to end?
  6. *Do the descriptive writing assignment.
  7. Write your descriptions (they don't have to fill the folio.) Read them to someone and see if they know what you lot are describing.

Lesson 156*

Writing*

  1. Y'all have characters. They are in conflict. Your story is set upwards, but…
  2. Where is it going to take place?
  3. You need to decide on your setting, the time and place of your story. Yous need a chief setting. Is it in the hereafter? present day? historical? Is it at your house, in your town, in Bharat, in outer infinite, in a fictional country?
  4. Write a clarification. Depict a flick. Know everything about your setting.
  5. *Exercise 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 send…
  2. Add as many details equally possible. Picture it. The more than details, the meliorate your book will be.
  3. What virtually those locations volition help or hinder your protagonist, your antagonist?
  4. Is there a secret hiding spot somewhere? Is there an object lying around there that will aid out 1 of your characters?
  5. *Consummate the parallel sentences worksheet.

Lesson 158

Writing

  1. Brand a list of five objects that you could put into your story. If you lot become stuck, go back and look at the list and perchance yous'll get an idea.
  2. Make a list of complications that could arise for your protagonist and for your antagonist.
  3. If everything went right all the fourth dimension for your protagonist, it would be dull. In that location have to be ups and downs. Information technology has to await similar the answer to your question will aye, then no, then yes, and then no…

Lesson 159

Writing

  1. Your story will start with the "exposition." That's the background of the story. It sets the scene.
  2. Then at that place will be an incident that sets of the activity of the story and raises the big question.
  3. Then there is the conflict, the activity every bit the story progresses. This is chosen the "rising action."
  4. Then you are going to become to the exciting part, the climax. The answer to the question hangs in the balance. Nosotros are in suspense. What'south going to happen? This can play out over a few chapters.
  5. Then the reply comes. This is the "falling activity."
  6. And then the end comes, the "resolution." We detect out what happens to anybody and nosotros cease with a good, happy, warm and fuzzy feeling.
  7. Write out each of these steps for your story.

Lesson 160

Writing

  1. Make a listing of chapter titles.
  2. Each affiliate is its own little story.
  3. Sometime-fashioned books used to have as chapter titles such equally "In Which Winnie the Pooh Gets Stuck in a Jar of Honey."
  4. Write titles like that. Y'all don't have to use them in the book. Information technology's like making an outline.
  5. You demand to set the background, fix off your story, have conflict and complications, ups and downs, ready upwardly your climax, have lots of excitement and tension, answer the question, and tie everything up with a neat, pretty bow.

Lesson 161*

Writing*

  1. *Do this worksheet on oxymoron and irony.
  2. Oftentimes books useforeshadowing. It tells you something that is going to happen. Foreshadowing makes you curious almost what'south going to happen. It often makes you say, "What!? Why?"
  3. You can use information technology at the end of a chapter to get your audience to turn the folio and read on!
  4. If you are reading The King Will Brand a Way,find an example of foreshadowing on theoffsetpage of chapter nine. (Answers)
  5. Look over your descriptions and everything you've written in preparation.
  6. At present go started. Write at to the lowest degree your starting time folio. Getting started is the hardest. One time you start, keep up the momentum and keep going!

Lesson+ 162

Writing

  1. Write. Write for at least thirty minutes. Don't get stuck. Merely keep writing. Y'all can always edit it afterward.

Lesson 163*

Writing*

  1. When y'all write, picture your story in your mind. It should play like a film in your heed.
  2. *Consummate dialogue lesson worksheet (Answers) and dialogue writing assignment, or write a dialogue in your novel.

Lesson 164*

Writing*

  1. When you 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 move the story along.
  2. *Complete the uncommon punctuation lesson. (Answers) Do the writing assignment or do it equally office of your novel.

Lesson 165*

Writing*

  1. Write, write, write!
  2. *Complete this metaphor worksheet. If you aren't readingThe King Volition Make a Way, find whatever metaphor case in a book you are reading or have recently read for school.

Lesson 168

Writing

  1. Write for thirty minutes.
  2. Take y'all finished your book too soon? Add more problems! More excitement!

Lesson 169

Writing

  1. Spend xxx minutes writing.

Lesson 170

Writing

  1. STOP! Go dorsum and read your story out loud. Moving-picture show it as a motion picture in your heed. Hear the characters talk. Change anything that doesn't catamenia or make sense. Take yous used all of your characters' characteristics? What is it they say all the time? Are they interim shy, funny, etc.? Have you shown their bad habits and other weaknesses? Have you described the setting and then that everyone will film the same thing?
  2. Practise some editing today before y'all move on.

Lesson 171*

Writing*

  1. *Do the personification worksheet. If yous write personification into your book today, you can skip the writing assignment.
  2. Write for 30 minutes.

Lesson 172

Writing

  1. Write for thirty minutes.

Lesson 173

Writing

  1. Write for xxx minutes.

Lesson 174

Writing

  1. Write for thirty 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 prepare your climax? How it 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 Style, find an instance in a volume you lot are reading or come up up with your ain examples. You don't take to make full out the worksheet if you write alliteration into your novel today.

Lesson 178*

Writing*

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

Lesson 179

Writing

  1. Read your novel. Brand sure you are watching the moving-picture show of your book in your mind. What needs changing? What doesn't make sense? What doesn't sound correct? What needs more description? How tin can you add longer sentences, similes, metaphors, foreshadowing?
  2. Proceed writing.

Lesson 180

Writing

  1. You lot fabricated it to the last mean solar day of school. I don't know where you are in your novel.
  2. Keep writing if you accept more to go.
  3. If yous got to the cease, spend lots of fourth dimension reading your novel and making it better. Writers spend as much time editing as they practise writing.
  4. Choose ameliorate words, change the lengths of your sentences. Add to your descriptions.
  5. If you want to turn information technology into a existent volume, you can use a free service called KDP (Kindle Straight Publishing) through Amazon.com. Follow their directions and you can publish your volume for complimentary. It volition help you lot make a embrace and everything. Then your friends and family can buy your book!

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