due Feb. 28

Read Introduction to unit three.

Read “An Old-Fashioned Iowa Christmas” and “Snow in the Suburbs.” Answer questions 1-4 pg 73
Write a short essay, at least two paragraphs, on one of your own past Christmases, telling some unique family tradition or an unusual incident. Use imaginative comparisons, sentence openers, and dress-ups. (If these are not clear in the writing, then we will go back to attaching checklists and marking everything.)
Remember
(If you do not have something interesting to write about, make it up, but it must be believable.)
Indicate what type of organization you are using. (chronological?)

assignments

Due Feb. 14

CLEP students: Metrical Study
Non-clep Fiction pretest

Bible Character Sketch worksheet
(Just answer questions - you do not have to write as a paper.)

Turn in Imaginative Comparison Worksheet (We completed most of it in class.)

Read either Fruits of Toil or The Leak and answer questions for that story.

The Leak pg 42 questions 1-3 or pg 53 questions 3-5.

Quiz in class Tuesday

Assignments

Write a sentence for each of the imaginative comparisons we studied in class. Use at least two in a narrative writing. Use your checklist from first semester. You do not have to mark everything - just as long as you are using the dress-ups and sentence openers.

Get creative!

Hopefully everyone will have a book Tuesday.