Tuesday, November 28th




Finish your funny review from yesterday.

 We will play with sentence structure by imitating some mentor sentences.
Today's sentences will focus on hyperbole
“It would have taken a lumberjack ten minutes to cut down all the trees in Kansas.”
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote pg 12
"I started throwing up a ton of water and food. If there was a forest fire somewhere all they would have to do is hold me over it and I would have put it out! I threw up and coughed and choked and vomited about a million times, and all this just because I'd breathed in some air!"


Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963, p. 178
“Well, when Pap’s full, you might take and belt him over the head with a church and you couldn't faze him.

Tom Sawyer page 65

 Post your TWO favorite Sentences to THIS PADLET
Odes We will look at this slideshow. (If we have time) 

Think of an everyday object

What are the objects best qualities?

How does the object look, feel, sound, smell?

Pay tribute to this object in your ode

How could you use figurative language to compare this object?

Write an ode or two.  Consider using Storybird.  


TO DO 

 Print something for writing group on Thursday. Bring enough copies for everyone. :)

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