Feb. 14

Brief History on Valentine’s Day

A Good Short Clip

Task – Come up with your best Valentine’s Day Card.  It can be romantic, funny, poetic, or whatever, but it must be original.

Personalizing Your Blog

Step 1: Go to www.myriverside.sd43.bc.ca

Step 2: Login to your blog

Step 3: Customize your theme, title, and design

Step 4: Go to your All About Me page and personalize it:

• use some of the information you wrote in your autobiographies to introduce yourself
• include images, videos, and/or quotes you like

Here is a list of resources to help you personalize your blog.

http://help.edublogs.org/user-guide/

Edublogs – Complete Manual

Edublogs – Creating Menu’s, Categories, and Pages

Feb 7

Task # 1 – Correct the following sentences to make them grammatically correct.

Sentence Correction

1. My daughter like dress beautiful when go the school.

2. They’re parents make positive that there childs worked extreme hard every school day.

3. First Nations people believes Spirit bear is a respect animal.

4. If student don’t work hardly in Mr. Thies class he banish they to a island.

5. On track and field, peoples need strengthfully throw the javelin.

6. You got to go class cause if you dont you like fail.

7. A boat arrive on shore to dropped teacher off.

8. An handshake presents respectufully in between too people.

9. Suzie most scared nightmare was of her drown.

10. Jimmy does not fearful drive fast cause he thinked he is invisible.

Feb. 6

Before you begin, please open Guide for creative writing

Write a short story about one of the images below as the inspiration for your story.  Please give your story a title and be as descriptive as possible.  Your draft will be due for tomorrow’s class.  Please make sure it is done to the best of your ability as it will be edited in class tomorrow.  Have fun!

Feb. 3

Task #1 – Each student should select their best sentence transformation (both their simple and descriptive) and write them down on the board one at a time

Task #2 – Once everyone has had a turn,  complete the comprehension quiz: Sleep

Task #3 – Edit the rest of the sentences and save them.  We will post them next week.

Feb. 2

Task#1 – Read your descriptive pieces to a partner and try to guess what each other is describing.  Provide one piece of feedback.

Task #2 –  Look at Parts of a Sentence

Task #3 – Creating & transforming the simple sentences. Please create 8 simple sentences (each should have a subject, object, and action) and transform them into well-written descriptive sentences such as the example below.  Be sure to answer the questions: who, what, where, when, why, and how.

Example:

He walked the dog.

On Sunday morning, Steve happily walked his tiny black poodle through Stanley park with girlfriend while enjoying their Starbucks coffee they bought on Granville Street before they set out on their perfect Autumn date together.

Other examples of simple sentences are:

1. She played soccer
2. He liked her
3. The food was good
4. He loves basketball
5. I love the rain

Attached are two word banks that will be of use to you:

Adjective Word Bank

Sensory Words

Feb. 1

Task #1 – Read aloud your completed sentences

Task #2 – Look at the example below and guess what it is that is being described.

Example:

The bright ball blinds you as it emerges; it rises like a yellow lollipop on the distant horizon.  Crashing against the shore, small waves wash the night’s debris onto the land.  Untouched golden sand covers the floor as far as your eyes can see.  Soothing, a gentle sea breeze rustles through your hair.

Task #3 – Complete the activity below for tomorrow’s class

What Am I?

Your task is to be as descriptive as possible to describe 3 different things (person, place, object, scene, scenario, ect.) without directly stating what it is.  You cannot have more than one of each thing (1 person, 1 place, 1 object, etc.) Your detailed description should allow the reader to know what it is you are writing about based on the detailed descriptions you provide.

Jan. 31

Task #1 – Two Truths & A Lie

Watch the following video and then come up with two things that are true about yourself and one lie about yourself.  Your goal is to trick your classmates so they are unsure which statements are true and which are not.

Task #2 – Complete the following sentences being as descriptive as possible for tomorrow’s class:

My name is …

Last semester was …

My biggest pet peeve is …

School is …

My favourite subject is …

When I get nervous I …

The best way to describe the city I’m from is …

So far I think Riverside is …

My favourite thing to do is …

My least favourite thing to do is …

The thing I am looking forward to most this year is …

The thing I am looking forward to least this year is …