On 1/31/07 in L.A. we reviewed our poems using personification. As said before, personification is giving inanimate objects, human qualities. We also practiced finding better sentence starters, and our homework was to re-write a poorly written pargraph about gym class. In that paragraph, we had to use more sentence starters and insert two golden bricks. […]
Today in L.A. (1.30.07) we studied more about personification. Personification is when you give an inanimate object qualities of a human. We used our L.A. CMT coach books to help us understand the concept. Our homework for the night was to write a poem using at least 5 examples of personification.
Our Assignment today was to summarize the article that we read about the worlds oil supply. It explained that without some help, it could run out very soon. It told us that oil drilling is very expensive, and so when half of the oil is drilled, the other half turns hard and is very hard […]
2 days ago in LA class, we discussed our books that we are reading with others. Everyone had a job, IE: illustrator, discussion leader, chapter review and they helped us communicate about the pages that were assigned to us to read by a certain due date. The next discussion will be on January 22, 2007.
Today (1/10/07) in LA, we reviewed and revised our paragraphs on planting our own vegetables. First we added sentence starters, and soon, we included transitions to make 2 sentences flow together like they were one. For example….
One of my favorite hobbies is planting vegetables. In a similar way, most people garden their own vegetables […]
Dear Jesse,
Did you know that our first president here in Turkey was Mustafa Kemal Ataturk? He took rule on October 29th, 1923, until Ismet Inonu succeeded him on November 10th, 1938. Mr. Ataturk also helped Turkey modernize itself. He thought that if men changed what they wore on their heads, it would change what […]
