9.22.16 Writing Focus

Use your Google blog to respond to the following response.

1.     Writing Focus: Constructed Response: Choose one of the following prompts and respond accordingly.

b.     DAY #4 9.22.16

                                                             i.      Opinion/Argument:

1.     Pick something that matters to you and use an analogy or figure of speech to try to get other people to care about it too.

                                                           ii.      Personal/Nonfiction Narrative:

1.     Pick something you know a lot about and use an analogy to explain it to other people (ex. the human brain is like a computer; DNA is like a secret code; playing the piano/changing a tire/dancing salsa/beating this video game is like….)

                                                        iii.      Fiction Narrative:

1.     What is an issue/message that is important to you? Try to write a short story where the characters/plot/setting ARE an analogy to explain this message.

9.21.16 Writing Focus

1.     Writing Focus: Constructed Response: Choose one of the following prompts and respond accordingly.

a.      DAY#3 9.21.16

                                                             i.      Personal/Nonfiction Narrative:

1.      I am most like a …../but I WISH I were most like a…….

2.     My mother/father/brother/aunt is like a …..

3.     So far the best analogy for my life is……..

                                                           ii.      Fiction Narrative: Write a scene where something awful has just happened to the character. See if you can use figurative language to make your reader share his/her emotions.

9.20.16 Writing Focus

Use your Google blog to respond to the following response.

1.     Writing Focus: Constructed Response: Choose one of the following prompts and respond accordingly.

a.      Opinion/Argument: The author’s use of _______ (specific example of figurative language)__ was effective/ ineffective because……..

b.     Fiction Narrative: Pick a setting you might want to use for a story (real or imagined). Describe it using figurative language that will make the reader FEEL like s/he is there. 

9.19.16 Writing Prompt

Use your google blog to respond to the following response.

1.     Writing Focus: Constructed Response: Choose one of the following prompts and respond accordingly.

a.      Opinion/Argument: The author chose this phrase to…..

                b.  Personal/Nonfiction Narrative: What place is important/special to you?                      Describe it using figurative language that helps the reader understand not                      only what it is like but how it makes you feel.

9.16.16 Figure of Speech

Writing Focus: Constructed Response:
Which figure of speech was the most important word choice the author made? Why? Use evidence from the text to support your answer. 

Practice 9.20.16

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