Block Day, November 17 & 18 ~ Happy Thanksgiving!

Calling "Awkward" on people is
just mean, but I'm fine with
saying it about animals.

Roots

• Review 
• Quiz

A Wee Kindness

• When you finish, take a minute to think of someone that you are thankful for. Write an old fashioned letter to let that person know why s/he came to mind when your cheesy English teacher assigned you the letter. If your person is on campus, I'd be happy to deliver it to his/her mail box. 

Short Stories

• Click here to view the Christmas Blessing Short Story Assignment.
• Take notes on POV here. Know the following:
  • First-person p.ov.
  • Third-person p.o.v.
  • limited
  • objective or dramatic
  • omniscient
  • unreliable
• Journal 31: Short Story Start Up
• Create a character sketch 100-200 word character sketch for your protagonist. Consider all the bits of the Indirect Characterization acronym, STEAL: How will you communicate to the reader how your protagonist speaks, sounds, thinks, interacts with others, acts and looks?
• Write a few ideas of the lesson or truth you'd like the reader to gain from your story.
• (You are welcome to type this if that is easier. Just do the STEAL chart in your notebook)

Journal Checks

• I will check these while you are working on J31.

Thank God Christmas is coming!