Review - preparation for 1st assignment

Review of preparation for 1st assignment:

On Monday 3rd November you will be getting the correction code along with your personalised writing for the final draft of your work:

This is how we got here, we have looked at:

READING
Cherries for my Grandma, My Grandfather, Love Orange, Cat in the Rain
Various poems

LANGUAGE
Habitual past. p. 42/53
Adjective clauses p. 40 and complex sentence structures
Parallel structures and repetition
As/like
Descriptive language
Show don’t tell writing techniques
Metaphor, personification, similes

EDITING SKILLS
Protocol peer review
Correction code

WRITING.
Various drafts of your assignment
Organizing your writing: thesis statement and hooks p. 35, 66 (see p 38 and 39 as a checklist for final draft)
Summaries - as an introduction to a piece of writing p. 37 and Love Orange
Interpretations of a story – Love Orange
Creative writing

SPEAKING
Lots of discussion and sharing ideas etc
Enactment of Cat in the Rain ( make sure you have read it for Monday3rd November)

Next: We will be working from unit 1: Summary Response writing, and collecting cartoons!