5th Grade Composition (Period 7) Assignments
- Instructors
- Term
- 2019-2020
- Department
- Schools - Peoria // Main
- Description
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In this class students will build their foundational writing skills. As they expand their repertoire of writing techniques students will apply them to larger prompts, and journal entries. This will be done by using the Write Source composition curriculum.
Upcoming Assignments
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Past Assignments
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Compose your imagery poem using todays brainstorm and examples to help you.
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Create a timeline prewrite to plan out your response to the writing prompt below.
Midterm Writing Prompt
Some of our richest experiences take place when we travel.
Some of our richest experiences take place when we travel.
Write about a memorable experience you had when you were traveling, or create a fictional narrative about a trip to an interesting place in the world that you want to visit.
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Midterm Practice Test – 20 multiple Choice questions
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Using the feedback from your partner and teacher, complete a final draft of your narrative. Focus on correcting the one or two traits that either your partner, or Mr. Schumacher, recommended revising.
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Complete the outline of your narrative writing assignment using your ELA notebook. Include dialogue between at least 2 characters.
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Create a timeline for your narrative about a moment of success in your life.
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Read The News ELA Opinion Article - "Lowering the Voting Age will Help Establish Good Habits in Teens" . Complete the multiple choice questions on the back of the second page. Then, using a topic sentence that states your opinion, choose whether or not you agree with the author's opinion. Explain your answer using details from the article.
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Write Source: Compound Sentence Review
Write 10 different compound sentences, and practice each of the different common conjunctions. (and, or, but, so)
Write 10 different compound sentences, and practice each of the different common conjunctions. (and, or, but, so)
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Read your NewsELA article and create an acronym that summarizes the central idea and supporting details of the article in your own words. (Review example in notes for help.)
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Write an expository paragraph explaining how to make your favorite food. Please include transition words, and at least 2 compound sentences.
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Write a sentence using each of your vocabulary words for this week.
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Find or create a visual aid for subtopic 2 of your Informative Writing project.
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Print or create a visual aid for Subtopic #1 of your informative writing project.
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Students will be researching for an informative essay in class this week. There will be no composition homework.
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read for 30 min. parent initial
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Write Source Handout: Use of Nouns - Expanding sentences through the use of a subject noun and a predicate noun.