Compare and Contrast

Find the differences between these two pictures of Frosty the Snowman. Write complete sentences for each difference.

Comparative and Superlative Review

 Review 1

                                                                                                          Review 2

Fun with Feelings

Click on the links. Complete the exercises and post your scores.

Exercise 1

Exercise 2






Exercise 3

Exercise 4

Exercise 5

Reading More Faces

Click on the link and complete the exercises.  Then post your score.

Emotions

More Practice with Comparatives and Superlatives

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Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Comparative and Superlative

Click on the link and test your knowledge of  Comparatives and Superlatives.  Don't forget to post your score.

Online Exercises

Furniture Games

Have fun!

Furniture Hangman

Furniture Memory

Furniture

Click on the links and complete the online exercises.  Then you will post your score.

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

How are you feeling today?

You are the voice for each character.  Write what you are thinking.  Why do you feel this way?

Reading Faces

Look at each clip art.  Write the emotion that is being presented.

Take it or Leave it

Game

Dialogue

Write a dialogue about a hospital scene.
Use the listening exercise from English Discoveries as a guide.
The dialogue should have 3 or more characters.  Each character should have at least 3 lines.

Interactive Cell Phone Novels

Now that you have finished your cell phone novel:

1. Read the other cell phone novels posted on the blog.
2. Post a comment about the story.
3. Post a change you would make to the story.
4. Go to your cell phone novel and post a reply to the comments made by your classmates.

Your Cell Phone Novel

After reading the story Write a Best Seller...   on Your Cell Phone? on pages 28 and 29, begin your cell phone novel.
Use the characteristics of the cell phone novel (page 29) to create your text.

Your novel should be at least 15 sentences long.

Read This

Click on the link. Read the article and answer the questions using complete sentences.
Cell Novels

1. How long have cell phone novels been around?
2. What things do cell phones do?
3. What were these novels originally about?
4. Why are these types of novels interactive?
5. Where was this genre born?
6. Who were mostly the authors of these novels?

Journal 3

The 3rd assignment for your Work Outside of the Classroom will be:
You will write a short story. Minimum 15 sentences.
Imagine you are alone sitting on a sail boat in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
First of all, you will explain: Why you are there.
Next, you will describe:
  What do you see?
  What do you hear?
  What do you smell?
  What do you touch?
  What do you taste?
   How do you feel?
Finally, Explain how or when will you get back home.

Scramble

Instructions: Rearrange the words to create the correct sentences. Write the sentences in the spaces below.  Post the unscrambled sentences. If you have doubts with the exercise go down to the HINTS.  I'm sure it will help you.

Capitalize the first letter of the first word in each sentence, and end with the appropriate punctuation marks.

1. borrow/I/may/that book/you/from

2. going to/he/Saturday/is/the shopping mall/on

3. the airport/him/will/at/Linda/meet/noon/at

4. 'sunny and warm'/for/the forecast/tomorrow/is

5. bring/to/will/the birthday cake/I/the party

6. out/take/I'll/tomorrow/the trash

7. off/please/the lights/turn

8. a day/teeth/your/twice/at least/brush

9. far/the theater/how/the school/from/is

10. Amanda/because/room/her/small/like/doesn't/too/it's

Hints

Just for this quiz, here are some hints:

• Apart from questions 1 and  9, do not make any of the sentences questions.
• In sentence 2, Saturday is the last word.
• In sentence 7, please is the first word.
• In sentence 9, theater comes before school.

What were you thinking??????????

Today, I presented this image to my colleagues in class.  Boy did I get some interesting responses.  Please look at the ape and post 4-5 sentences about what is on his mind.  You will be the voice of the ape.  Use first person "I".  Example: I was just thinking about what I did last summer....

Save Our Planet Comic Strip

The assignment for today will be to create a comic strip about saving our planet.
  You will first watch the tutorial on how to use comic create. Click on the link below:

Tutorial: How to use Comic Creator
Steps

1. write comic name   example:  Yuki
2. write subtitle of the comic    example:  Goes to the mall
3. select 6 panels format
4. select a background
5. select one or more characters for slide 1
6. select text bubble and click on them to write what the characters are saying
7. select props for your scene
8. press next to go to the next slide
9. repeat steps 4-8
10. when you are finished with slide #6 click on finished  or you can start a new comic
11. press print and I will check it when I get back
12. text me if you have trouble.
13. Have fun

Then you will click on the link and complete the process of creating your comic about saving our planet.


Now create your comic strip

If you have any questions about this assignment please let me know, so I can help you.

Acrostic Poem

Instructions: Create your own ACROSTIC Poem about Theater
Click on the link and follow instructions.
Print out the Acrostic Poem.


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