Monday, October 27

HW: J: Write opening paragraph for

narrative
Class: Florence the last chapter!
Brainstorm narrative
Room 112 tomorrow
Be not solitary,
Be not idle
Metaphor something described as if it
were something else
Nora gardening a soap opera growing
out of the ground.
Simile using like or as to compare
two unlike ideas
Wendell leaves shaped like spades in a
deck of cards.
Florence the garden was back, and last
years leaves like a bookmark showing
where you left off.
Metaphor something described as if it
were something else
Nora gardening a soap opera growing
out of the ground.
Simile using like or as to compare
two unlike ideas
Wendell leaves shaped like spades in a
deck of cards.
Florence the garden was back, and last
years leaves like a bookmark showing
where you left off.
Personification non-human subject
given human characteristics
Empty windows stared at me.
Hyperbole exaggeration for effect
Maricela try to keep us from eating our
babies alive.
Interests running, biking, skiing, reading, cooking
Writing from your unique perspective!
Metaphor:
The garden is a recipe for peace and comfort.
Simile:
That first year of gardening was like training for a
half-marathon, and the lack of rain and bright
sunlight was like a torn ligament.
Personification:
The asparagus stalks raced to the sky!
Hyperbole:
My mind boiled with anger.
Tuesday, October 28
HW: Figurative Language
Class: Set up formal heading
Type rough draft
beginning
middle
end
Wednesday, October 29
HW: WS R/E Content 5, 6, 7, 8
Class:
1. R/E WS Focus
2. Finish rough draft
3. MUST print rough draft end
of class today.
Urban Gardens
in Cleveland and
Philadelphia
Remind you of Gibb Street?
Around Philadelphia
Thursday, October 29
HW: Revise paper using revision WS
Style 1, Conventions 1 and 2, Challenge
Narrative due Monday, 11/3
Class: Finish rough draft make
corrections
PRINT OUT END OF CLASS!
Friday, October 31
HW: Have a booootiful weekend!
Class: Revision inspiration!
1. EE 93 and Drive Thru Editing
2. EE 33 Narrative Writing
3. Show, Dont Tell!
Narrative Writing
Writing that tells a story
Remember to:
Develop character, setting, and plot
SHOW, dont TELL
Tell I was mad.
Show My heart thumped and my fists
clenched when I saw the crushed lettuce that I
had so carefully nurtured.
Start a new paragraph when
time changes
place changes
a new idea is presented
a new character speaks
change of topic introduction,
conclusion
By the time I am nearing the end of a
story, the first part will have been reread
and altered and corrected at least one
hundred and fifty times. Good writing is
essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.
Roald Dahl
The beautiful part of writing is that you
dont have to get it right the first time,
unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can
always do it better, find the exact word,
the apt phrase, the leaping simile.
Robert Cormier
TELL
I was on my bicycle. I got lost
and was worried so I stopped
at a neighborhood garden.
Even though it was evening,
there were people in the
garden who I thought could
help me.
Weaving through tired streets in a
Cleveland neighborhood, I realized that I
had totally lost my way. Old newspapers
hung against curbs and empty windows
stared at me as I pedaled by. The
darkening evening skies and raw spring air
made me clench my handlebars and quicken
my pace. As I searched for something
familiar on a street named Gibb, a patch of
green in the middle of the block beckoned
me. The tension in my hands and back of my
neck disappeared as I entered the oasis.