SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW! Do your BEST!

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Take the reading benchmark test.  Login with your first and last name + 537 and enter your normal password  (marenbanwell537).  Click here to begin.  Save your progress – we’ll finish Thursday.

Thursday after you do awesome on your test, study for your vocabulary test by playing this game.  Show me when you beat it.

Then try nonfiction features game and nonfiction structures game.

You’re about to finish your narrative! Follow the directions below.

1.  Finish your narrative.

2.   Highlight the ENTIRE narrative and choose         Screen Shot 2013-12-12 at 10.45.33 AM   and 1.0 or back to single spacing (saves paper)

3.  KEEP IT ALL HIGHLIGHTED

Hit  the apple key and C at the same time to COPY

Open Microsoft Word (big blue W in dock)

Paste your story by hitting the apple key and V at the same time

Go up to TOOLS  and choose SPELLING and GRAMMAR to edit your narrative

Have someone else read it – do they have a lead, theme, dialogue, good description?  If not, remind them to add it.

4.  Go to FILE and choose PRINT.  TURN IN YOUR NARRATIVE!

5.  Click here to review for you vocabulary quiz – unit 5

6. Click below to watch videos/play games about figurative language.

Figurative language in movies video

Figurative language Fling the teacher game

 

 

 

FRIDAY!

Click here to take your vocabulary quiz.  Login with your first and last name + 537 and your normal password (marenbanwell537)

When finished, log out and raise your hand to revise your word choice in your narrative.

Compare/Contrast Essay – Use Transitions!

Comparing:

Comparing:

One way ______________ and ____________ are alike is….

Another thing they have in common is…..

They also both….

For example,

Likewise,

Similarly,

Finally,

 

Contrasting:

_____________ is _______________.  On the other hand, __________ is ___________.

_____________ is _______________.  However, _____________ is _______________.

Unlike _____________,  _________________ is….

Conversely, _____________ is….

Another way _____________ and _____________ differ is….

Thirdly,

 

Compare/contrast essay – USE TRANSITIONS!

Comparing:

One way ______________ and ____________ are alike is….

Another thing they have in common is…..

They also both….

For example,

Likewise,

Similarly,

Finally,

 

Contrasting:

_____________ is _______________.  On the other hand, __________ is ___________.

_____________ is _______________.  However, _____________ is _______________.

Unlike _____________,  _________________ is….

Conversely, _____________ is….

Another way _____________ and _____________ differ is….

Thirdly,