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

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

David's Spelling and Vocabulary Prep

https://www.vocabtest.com/vocabulary_word_test.php?tid=230086

 Truth

Sticks and stones may break my bones,

but words can also hurt me.

Stones and sticks break only skin,

while words are ghosts that haunt me.

Slant and curved the word-swords fall

to pierce and stick inside me.

Bats and bricks may ache through bones,

but words can mortify me.

Pain from words has left its scar

on mind and heart that’s tender.

Cuts and bruises now have healed;

it’s words that I remember.

By Barrie Wade

Pick a phrase from the poem - for example..."words are 
ghosts that haunt me" and explain what it means to you. Write your own stanza that would fit this poem.

Monsters In A Jar - Newspaper Article

Song for National Bullying Awareness Week

What is the big idea in the song? Post your response.

Sentence Modelling

It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.
                                  Frankenstein - Mary Shelley