http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k70847&pageid=icb.page363226
"The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at times strangely wills and works for itself."
Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Thursday, February 26, 2015
When do I italicize?
http://www.kcitraining.com/styleguide/book/itals.html
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k70847&pageid=icb.page363226


http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k70847&pageid=icb.page363226
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Sentence Modeling
"The moon was a thin, bright machete cutting its way through patches of clouds."
- In the Time of the Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez, Page 89.
- In the Time of the Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez, Page 89.
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Thursday, February 5, 2015
A week in the life....
Diary Entry for a Main Character
Imagine you are the main character in your book. Write a diary entry for 7 days. Each entry must be at least one page long with 5-7 sentences per paragraph.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Sentence Modelling
Subsitute the words in red. Write your new sentence(s) in your notebook. Post your favourite one.
With a grin and a giggle, a hug and a whistle, we'd slap our knees and Mama would say: 'Bless the world it feels like a tip-tapping song-singing finger-snapping kind of day. Let's celebrate!' And so we did.
Libba Moore, My Mama had a Dancing Heart, p.2

With a grin and a giggle, a hug and a whistle, we'd slap our knees and Mama would say: 'Bless the world it feels like a tip-tapping song-singing finger-snapping kind of day. Let's celebrate!' And so we did.
Libba Moore, My Mama had a Dancing Heart, p.2
Monday, January 12, 2015
Sentence Modelling
"My name is India Opal Buloni, and last summer my daddy, the preacher, sent me to the store for a box of macaroni-and-cheese, some white rice, and two tomatoes and I came back with a dog."
Opening sentence to Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Opening sentence to Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Monday, January 5, 2015
Sentence Modelling
“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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