Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Language arts- Colby O'Neal
Anmerkungen:
- I enjoyed this semester. We did everything from writing research papers to making elevators out of cardboard. I enjoyed GT language arts.
- Poetry
- Found poem
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- We made a collage, that was actually a poem! It was fun, and I learned a lot about poetry.
- Figurative language
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- We factored in figurative language, like similes and metaphors, into our found poem.
- Blackout Poem
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- We also made a blackout poem: we read and annotated a story, then we blacked out the words we didn't want, making a poem.
- Poetry Annotations
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- While we were doing poetry, we annotated lots of stories. It helped me understand poetry better.
- Metaphoranges
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- We ate oranges and learned about metaphors.
- Where I'm From Poem
- Expository
- Research paper
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- Over the course of a few weeks, we researched a decade and wrote an enticing paper on it.
- Persuasive
- School reform project
Anmerkungen:
- We all created a project on how we would like our school to be reformed, and they were all very good ideas.
- Persuasive essay
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- In our persuasive essay, we persuaded an audience to do or think about something. It could be whatever we wanted to write about, as long as it was from out memoir.
- DIDLS
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- DIDLS was a way of annotating expository stories. it ended up giving me a lot of grief, but it is a good way to annotate.
- Ratiocination
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- We edited all of our stories with ratiocination. It included making sentences more proportional, and editing adjectives.
- Fiction
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- We read and annotated a few fiction stories over the semester, and we wrote a couple as well.
- The Elevator
- The elevator project
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- After we read 'The Elevator,' we did a project, and made our own elevator, including characters and settings from the book.
- The fat lady
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- Plot structure
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- We wrote down a plot structure for 'The Elevator'. It was a little weird, as the story had nothing after the climax.
- A Tell Tale Heart
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- This was an odd story. It was the story of a confession of a murder.
- Mock court
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- After reading 'A Tell Tale Heart', we did mock court, to find out if Edgar Allen Poe was guilty of murder.
- Martian Chronicles Story
- Sci-Fi Story
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- We wrote a sci-fi story that reflected the Martian Chronicles story.
- Outside Reading
- Annotations
Anmerkungen:
- We have annotated tons of different things, from poetry to books.
- Memoir
- Jim Elliot
Anmerkungen:
- For my memoir, I read a book about Jim Elliot, an American missionary. He died in Ecuador at the end of the book.
- Science Fiction
- Martian Chronicles
Anmerkungen:
- In the 2nd six weeks we read The Martian Chronicles, which was a book with different tales documenting how we colonized Mars, and eventually ruined it.
- Mystery
- Hound of the Baskervilles
Anmerkungen:
- For a mystery book, I read The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was a very interesting and mysterious book, telling how Mr. Stapleton was caught with the hound, and died later.
- Hound of the Baskervilles game
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- After we read Hound of the Baskervilles, I made a game, and it reflected The Hound of the Baskervilles very well.
- A mind map story
- Created by Colby