Creative Writing

Open Your Mind

Write a journal entry about your most exciting, terrifying, or entertaining experience.

Be sure to make it an 8th-grade quality response with lots of details.

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Avoiding Plagiarism by SUMMARIZING

1) List as many steps to avoid plagiarism by summarizing as you can remember. 2) Summarize the following paragraph: I n the movies, quicksand looks pretty scary, but in real-life it is rarely more than a few feet deep. If you are ever caught in a pool of quicksand, don’t panic and kick around. The best thing you can do is to lay back with your arms spread. Then you will float on top of the sand instead of being sucked down. by Sandy Sanderson; New York Times

Impact of Setting

Using the ACE method we learned about in class, write an 8th-grade quality response to the following blog prompt: Thinking about what we learned recently in your opinion, how can changing the setting of a story impact its characters or the actions and events in the story?

Compound vs. Complex Sentences

1) what is a: compound sentence? 2) What type of conjunctions are used in compound sentences? 3) Give me 4 examples. 4) Write an example of a compound sentence. 5) what is a: complex sentence? 6) What type of conjunctions are used in complex sentences? 7) Give me 4 examples. 8) Write an example of a complex sentence.

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